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Cracked by: Shashank , jayanth , Shreyas , udupendra , BiGFooT , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , nishansolo , Arjun Chennu , yaksha , cas , prasanth , sidsen , rajeshvj , Rohan , arbitguy , bobo , nishas thambi and Tathagata Chatterjee.
Shashank, jayanth, Shreyas, udupendra, BiGFooT, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, nishansolo, Arjun Chennu, yaksha, cas, prasanth, sidsen, rajeshvj, Rohan, arbitguy, bobo, nishas thambi and Tathagata Chatterjee
It was first described thirty years before Armstrong’s famous line, and updated with the latest tech ten years after its first description, to the form you see it in below.
One of the members of the design team was this guy, who’s more famous for other things.
Identify the device, and name the chap.
Cracked by only udupendra and Dibyo. Great work guys!
udupendra and Dibyo
In 1939 (thirty years before the Apollo moon landing), the British Interplanetary Society set forth its designs for a Lunar Lander. With plans to have a 1000 tonne rocket, powered by 2490 rockets, this BIS moon ship was a mammoth of a device. The plans were updated in 1949 with the latest tech, to look similar to what you see in the first picture.
Connect to a popular internet company.
Hint: The building you see in 2 is where the company runs from.
Cracked by: Dibyo and nishas thambi :) (and udupendra, on email)
Dibyo, nishas thambi and udupendra
Connect (Identification optional):
Clue:
Cracked by : udupendra , nishas thambi , Dibyo , Ranjana Ninan , jayanth and bobo.
udupendra, nishas thambi, Dibyo, Ranjana Ninan, jayanth and bobo
The seven people at the top are the seven directors of the nine short films that make up the Animatrix series. The clue is, of course, a picture of the ultra-weird Wachowski brothers(siblings now?) who managed to make one awesome movie, then went on to create two piece-of-crap sequels, and, somehow, produced these mind-blowingly brilliant short films.
Greetings, fellow time-travelers! Arbitrary as all conventions may be, we’re quite attached to them. And, in the spirit of the season, here’s wishing you a very happy new year! We hope you’ve enjoyed the ride so far in the 4th dimension, and will continue to do so over this notch on the time axis.
We’ve had a blast racking our brains (and Wikipedia :-) for those crazy little details that make things so much more interesting. From music to sci-fi, we’ve managed to land on quite a few strange lands and plan to touch on many more in 2008. We’ve barely scratched the surface of geekery.
Now, on to the regular schedule.
Today is another interesting occasion. Udupendra has scored a 100 points on BoiledBeans! Congratulations! This occasion definitely deserves a w00t. To celebrate this century, here’s a perfectly-formed guest question from this King of Nerds - all hail! (The Q came to us complete with post-title clue… Guess you’ve been spending lots of time here dude :-).
Identify this scientist (who has a unit named after him):
And connect him to this album cover:
Cracked by: madhur, bs, bobo, Dibyo, Keerthi Kiran M, Rohan, gammafunction, Ranjana Ninan, jayanth, prasanth, Prasad, nishas thambi, Tathagata Chatterjee, nishansolo and shashank.
madhur, bs, bobo, Dibyo, Keerthi Kiran M, Rohan, gammafunction, Ranjana Ninan, jayanth, prasanth, Prasad, nishas thambi, Tathagata Chatterjee, nishansolo, shashank and udupendra
The scientist in the picture is Emile Baudot (of “Baud rate” fame) . The second picture is the cover of Coldplay’s album X&Y. The strange glyphs on the cover are, supposedly, the values X&Y written in Baudot Code.
This map lead to a conjecture in graph theory in 19th century which till now has not been proved “properly”. Although computerized exhaustive search proofs exist, mathemeticians reject it by calling it a “telephone directory” and they want the proof to be a “poem”.
Identify the conjecture/theorem/problem.
Happy New Year!
Cracked by: udupendra(Congratulations on scoring a century!) , jayanth , madhur , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , sumanth , sidsen , Ranjana Ninan , Shreyas , Keerthi , VikraM , piezocake , BiGFooT , nishas thambi , Gammafunction , prasanth , yaksha , Poornima , bobo , shashank and Arjun Chennu.
udupendra, jayanth, madhur, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, sumanth, sidsen, Ranjana Ninan, Shreyas, Keerthi, VikraM, piezocake, BiGFooT, nishas thambi, Gammafunction, prasanth, yaksha, Poornima, bobo, shashank and Arjun Chennu
What was the function of the structures you see at the three points marked on the map at this link?
(Your browser will have to be able to handle Google maps if you want to get this one)
Here’s another clue:
Cracked by: udupendra , jayanth , madhur , vaibhav008 , Dibyo , nishas thambi , prasanth , nishansolo , shenoyvarun86 , bs and sidsen.
udupendra, jayanth, madhur, vaibhav008, Dibyo, nishas thambi, prasanth, nishansolo, shenoyvarun86, bs and sidsen
Is Acoustic Mirrors. Japanese War Tuba is the clue.
This audio clip is a reconstruction (errors and all) of the playback of a famous British war march
[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/17d3934178bc86ed1d71613c7852c9f7.mp3 ]
Who or what is playing this, and why is it noteworthy?
Fairly low-scoring question, this; Cracked by: jayanth , Dibyo and nishas thambi.
jayanth, Dibyo and nishas thambi
This is the tune of Colonel Bogey March, as played by CSIRAC earlier called the CSIR Mk1. First ever muic played by a computer, supposedly :)
What is happening here?
2. 
Cracked by: udupendra , jayanth , madhur , Dibyo , yaksha , shashank , nishas thambi , sidsen and Tathagata Chatterjee.
udupendra, jayanth, madhur, Dibyo, yaksha, shashank, nishas thambi, sidsen and Tathagata Chatterjee
Connect this image:
with this audio clip:
[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/7dd72530a1ec7b23f1f7ddb99f823c6d.mp3] (Link for the flash-less)
Cracked by: jayanth , udupendra , nishas thambi , Dibyo , prasanth , VikraM , shashank , and Tathagata Chatterjee
jayanth, udupendra, nishas thambi, Dibyo, prasanth, VikraM, shashank and Tathagata Chatterjee
A star (ID’d as BPM 37093) in the Centaurus constellation (1) was found to consist of 90% crystallized carbon in a BCC lattice structure, similar to that of diamonds. Astronomers promptly named it Lucy, after the famous Beatles song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” (2)