GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC

[WeHadNormality]

Has anyone been down this road yet?

Nuclear dawn. Trinity, the first nuclear test in Nevada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29

I've been away for a few hours and don't have time to back track through the pages.

[ClarityMoment]

We're back on the New Clear Dawn bit again, eh?

[Twoist]

The whole NCD thing is a dead end..sure of it.

[vanlorne]

The whole NCD thing is a dead end..sure of it.

I sure hope so

[LeoHmr]

Well, even if NCD is a fake, the nuclear theme might still be something to consider since BoCs artistbanner on warp is a photo of a nuclear explosion. So maybe the numbers has something to do with old nuclear tests? I don't know if the numbers stations was used during the nuclear arms race but according to wikipedia they appeared shortly after WW2.

But I really got nothing, just wide speculations...just wanted to try to contribute since this is a brilliant move from BoC.

[MindElevation]

shit is going to go down tonight.

[tubolcane]

Triangular numbers might imply triangulation. I think we have to figure out the last clue, then pair them up somehow to find coordinates. The gallery video seems to be a hint for the next clue. I'd love it if those locations matched. I stayed up watching CE3K and in the film, the five tones when transmitted resulted in a string of numbers being transmitted back, which wound up being the location for first contact. Maybe we only get five messages plus one location.
Now someone says they've found the place in a California ghost town. I have no idea how they made that leap unless they have the numbers, or obsessed over image searches until it looked close. If someone gets to Yermo we'll know. Of course its hard to know when we're being helped or hindered.

I have a feeling that 'contact' is so important/inevitable that someone will shepherd us there eventually if they aren't already.

[tubolcane]

Several redditors are headed for that gas station right now. It might be about two hours. I do wonder if there's any signal out there:)

Anyone else notice the NCD images end in a hand shake?

[Treefingers]

Been at a Taekwondo tournament today. WHAT I MISSD?

[WeHadNormality]

Comparing location of Yermo Gas Station and White Sands (snow?) Proving Ground where Trinity was tested.

http://i.imgur.com/xu2y4jN.jpg?1

[nsputnik]

I have hosted a few So Cal Boards of Canada meetups. I just made Yermo an official meetup for today. I don't know that I will personally make it out there. http://www.meetup.com/SoCal-Boards-of-C ... 116475662/

[Impossible Geometry]

Several redditors are headed for that gas station right now. It might be about two hours. I do wonder if there's any signal out there:)

Anyone else notice the NCD images end in a hand shake?

holy shit, if there really is something there I would absolutely LOVE to be the people who find it. what a feeling.

[tubolcane]

I don't know how current this information is, but this locale has been reported as a dead zone for wireless communication.

[depechedaz]

Even Serafinowicz is asking.....
Peter Serafinowicz ‏@serafinowicz 9m
Who knows if something #BoardsofCanada is happening tonight?

[RSwessem]

Nah, I'm just kidding, I do enjoy this mysterious affair. Game on!
But seriously, they better release an album soon after this teasing.

[thegirlinblack]

Long time fan, first time poster.

I found something interesting, but possibly/likely irrelevant.

Did a little research, discovered that Yermo, CA was evacuated in 2005 because of a Trident nuclear missile being compromised. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421971/posts

I mean, this is a REALLY obscure story, but I found it intriguing nonetheless. The town/locale in the Rough Trade video is populated by 2k people, is situated next to the Calico ghost town, is a communication dead zone, and has a brush with nuclear history. It wouldn't be crazy to think this could be a place of interest to BOC. This is pure conjecture on my end, of course.

[Treefingers]

While you wait, pick up your BoC Y-fronts.

[annoying first time poste]

I just think the nuclear/cold war angle is so much fun to play with.

There was a theory that some numbers stations were in fact part of a soviet dead man's hand system, designed to launch missiles in the event of a surprise attack that resulted in all the commanders being wiped out. in the event of a large strike, radiation would mean the transmission was broken....

It just seems like a very BOC theme - the innocence of an entire generation wiped out by being constantly, forcibly, graphically reminded of the imminent possibility of Armageddon. The irony is that in the end (excluding indirect wars such as Nicaragua) I think less than a hundred soldiers died due to hostilities. The location I pointed to yesterday fits in nicely here - the international date line passes exactly halfway between this town and Siberia. We talk of east versus west, and Europeans always imagine themselves caught between the two (then) superpowers, but in reality the USSR and the US were separated by no more than 35 miles....

In 1955, shortly after the formation of the Warsaw pact, shortly before the heads of state met at the Geneva convention, a US patrol aircraft was shot down by Russians, and crash landed on this remote island, which had a population of less than a thousand, nearly all Eskimo whaling families. The papers relating to the incident tell of them heading out to the incidents on hunting sleds, offering immediate assistance before, to their reported astonishment, a rescue plane arrived. No-one died during the incident. It's perhaps most notable because it was the only time during the entire cold war that the Soviets admitted responsibility.

The other claim to fame of Gambell is detailed in a book called 'The Kids From Nowhere'. As wiki puts it, 'In 1984, two teams of Gambell students -- one team of junior high students and one team of 9th through 12th grade -- stunned American education by winning two national championships in Future Problem Solving, one of the nation's most difficult academic competitions. Most of the Gambell students had never been off the island, ridden in elevators or on escalators, or stayed in a hotel. They had to compete against students from schools and programs for the gifted on subjects, such as genetic engineering and nuclear waste disposal, of which the Gambell students had never before heard.' Let's put that in perspective, these were 12 kids from a school of 41, on an island with a population of something like 500, who had lived their entire lives over two hundred miles from the nearest city. There was no internet. They were the sons of Eskimo whalers. True outsiders, whose own idea of their identity was tribal, rooted to their location first and foremost, a location that ended up as the dividing line at the heart of a global conflict between the two greatest superpowers the world had ever seen, a conflict they had absolutely no interest in whatsoever.

There is a neat parallel here with the image of BOC - isolation allowing creativity to flourish.

Finally it's nice to note that scientists are convinced that at several points during the last 10,000 years (the oldest evidence of inhabitation of these areas), the sea level would have been such that humans would have been able to walk across this stretch of the Bering sea.

[tvsr]

Long time fan, first time poster.

I found something interesting, but possibly/likely irrelevant.

Did a little research, discovered that Yermo, CA was evacuated in 2005 because of a Trident nuclear missile being compromised. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421971/posts

I mean, this is a REALLY obscure story, but I found it intriguing nonetheless. The town/locale in the Rough Trade video is populated by 2k people, is situated next to the Calico ghost town, is a communication dead zone, and has a brush with nuclear history. It wouldn't be crazy to think this could be a place of interest to BOC. This is pure conjecture on my end, of course.

thanks for the info!
anything is a possible lead at this point.

[Torn n Frayed]

Warren Robinett.