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"Unleashed" lab notes

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Project 709 - Exploration 16

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The Images:

Pages from Walter’s old note book, a beaker containing Trichloromide and another strange grainy photo, similar to the ones seen in the lab notes for Ability and Inner Child.

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The Note:

Nietzsche - is a reference to Frederick Wilhelm Nietzsche a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist.

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There are old notes from Exploration 1 and Exploration 7, although they are partially covered and cannot be fully read. It seems as though something interrupted Walter as he was typing his notes…because it ends during the middle of a word.

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The newest note appears to have been typed with the same typewriter that the ZFT manuscript was typed with.  The image below is from the ZFT manuscript…

Note: the raised 'y'

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In Walter’s lab notes this week, he mentions several mnemonics.  After some quick Googling, I was able to find the meaning of some of them…

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- Every good boy does fine.

music; mnemonic for the lines of the treble clef - (FACE!) - spaces

- Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.

Order of Operations: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division,Addition, Subtraction.

- Three point one four, pick your clothes off the floor.

3.14 is Pi

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Unfortunately, I had no luck finding any meaning for the others.  Does anyone have any ideas for these ones…

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- Always floss between your toes.

- See the dog jump around in a circle.

- My goodness but eating hot nachos causes pain.

- Water, earth, air & fire, only three in a funeral pyre.

Thanks to Di for suggesting that the blurry photos in Walter’s lab notes might fit together like a puzzle.  After a little manipulation, you can clearly see that they do fit together.  Good eye Di !!

from lab notes 114 & 115

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I have inverted it so we can see the possible shapes that this might be turning into.  I have no doubt that there will be more pieces to this puzzle.  Anybody have any theories as to what it might be?

"Inner Child" lab notes.

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Project 773 - Exploration 14

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The Images:

include the orange vinyl record of Al Green’s ‘Love & Happiness‘, The fax that “The Artist” send to the FBI.

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There are also some yellow M&M’s, a book containing information about Marie-Angelique Memmie LeBlanc, and a strange grainy photo, similar to the one seen in the lab notes for Ability.

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The Note:

The notes appear to have been typed using the same typewriter from Ability with the elevated ‘Y’.
The note paper has been crumbled, opened and smoothed for presentation.
Walter refers to Lethe. In Greek mythology, Lethe is a river in Hades. Those who drink from it experience complete forgetfulness.
Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc featured in the book in the notes, was a genuine feral child.

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Source: Fringepedia

"Ability" lab notes

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Project 1097 - Exploration 1

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The Images:

include the ZFT manuscript, and some various parts of David Robert Jones’ tests.

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The Note:

Ribosomal S6 Kinase - is a protein involved in signal transduction, i.e. cell conversion
Keloiding - is a type of scarring, noted for overgrowing the original scar area
Hatfields & McCoy’s were two 19th century families involved in a bitter feud
Al Capone & Bugs Moran were rival mob bosses involved in the St. Valentines Day Massacre
York & Lancaster were two Houses of England that fought each other in the War Of The Roses.
Adenine, Guanine, Thymine, Cytosin are the four components that make up DNA
King Canute - was an 11 century ruler that (unsucessfully) commanded the tide to halt.

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Source: Fringe Television

"The Transformation" lab notes

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Project 269 - Exploration 20

This is the fourth set of notes, along with those from Pilot, In Which We Meet Mr. Jones and The Dreamscape, that features Project 269 (Explorations 17, 18, 19 and 20). Project 269 deals with the transfer of thoughts.

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The Images:

Photograph of Marshall Bowman after he transformed, a vial of the reverse-mutator for Conrad’s deadly virus, and a plumbing-inspired diagram of how the neural system works.

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The Note:

"The No-Brainer" lab notes

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Project 1091 - Exploration 1

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The Images:

Photograph of the victims.

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The Note:

“Once more into the breech…” is from Henry V by Shakespeare

"Bound" lab notes

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Project 1087 - Exploration 1

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The Images:

A photograph of one of the slugs and what looks like a singe cell.  There is also a half eaten Philly steak sandwich.

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The Note:

Ouranos and Cronos are from Greek Mythology:

Ouranos (Uranus) - or Father Sky, is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth

Cronos - is the wily, youngest and most terrible of the children of Uranus, whom he hated. He castrated his father and became ruler of the universe, but was later overthrown by his own son Zeus.

Norse

Buri, Bor and Wotan are from Norse Mythology:

Buri (Bori) - Progenitor of gods; father of Bor.  Said, in the Eddas, to have been
brought forth from when the cosmic bovine, Auðhumbla, licked the salty rime-ice to free him

Bor - father of Wotan.  Not much is known about him.

Wotan (Odin) - the chief God.  Defeated the giant Ymir and helped make the worlds from the body parts of Ymir.  He is a god who encompasses many functions and powers. God of the storm winds, God of the runes, a war God, God of the battle-slain, and a God of wisdom.  He also usedherbs to revive the severed head of his uncle Mímir to gain wisdom.

Snorri

Snorri is in reference to Snorri Sturluson - author of ‘Prose Edda’ a book about mythology.

Quote

In the quote:

“Squashes that will squash the county fair records? In class mammalia, order rodentia, the rise of the ROUS’s? Even we hominids might take part. More than a few females might wish to grow thier assets; men, too.”

ROUS is a acronym from ‘Princess Bride’ meaning Rodents Of Unusual Size.

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Betsy is what Walter named the slug.

In Walter’s lab notes for the “Pilot” episode, there was a diagram, that I presumed to be a rough sketch of the lab.  It looks like it could be the lab with the layout of all the equipment, and Walter’s comments pushed me to that faulty assumption.

“It gives me so much joy to turn the lights on and off at my own whim — and to resume the explorations I began so long ago, in this very laboratory.  The ratio of floor dimensions is the key.  How can I be expected to make true progress without understanding the properties of my space?”

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In Walter’s lab notes for this week he notes:

“I know the rule: ‘cannot build phallic puzzles inside the lab.’  I still know the numbers, too — well I damn well should, it’s a simple second-order recursive algorithm — but a mnemonic is worthless without it’s contents.”

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