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− | Expedition leader Oscar Talbot speaks about the remarkable discovery by the Maxwell Group of Oceanic Flight 815 in the Sunda Trench. |
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The link sends you to [http://www.uclaradio.com/2008/01/31/oscar-talbot-on-a-deep-sea-discovery/ UCLAradio.com] |
The link sends you to [http://www.uclaradio.com/2008/01/31/oscar-talbot-on-a-deep-sea-discovery/ UCLAradio.com] |
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The Maxwell Group is a company to which reference is made in the second Lost alternate reality game Find 815. It is a division of Widmore Industries. (Find 815 clues/January 14)
The-Maxwell-Group.com Website
The URL for The-Maxwell-Group.com was discovered in an email to Sam Thomas from a unknown sender. The page features username and password login boxes placed over a picture of a horizontally inverted compass. On the compass, east is in the position for west and west is in the position for east. Upon login with no username or password, the following text is displayed:
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Authentication Server Temporarily Down |
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As of January 31, 2008 a media release was announced on The-Maxwell-Group.com:
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Media Release: |
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The link sends you to UCLAradio.com
Salvage
The Maxwell Group is funding a project to salvage the Black Rock shipwreck. Project supervisor on the Christiane I is Oscar Talbot. (Find 815 clues/January 14)
James Maxwell
On Sam's desktop, a website dealing with the Sunda Trench originally also pictured a bearded man that was soon after removed. (Find 815 clues/January 2) Gamers discovered this was a picture of James Clerk Maxwell.
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James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was aggregating a set of equations in electricity, magnetism and inductance—Maxwell's equations—including an important modification of Ampère's Circuital Law. It was the most unified model of electromagnetism yet. It is famous for introducing to the physics community a detailed model of light as an electromagnetic phenomenon, building upon the earlier hypothesis advanced by Faraday (Faraday Effect). |
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(James Clerk Maxwell at Wikipedia)
Sam later researched this name further via answermyquestions.org. (Find 815 clues/January 17). A day later the same picture appeared gain, scrambled in Sam's Video diary. (Find 815 clues/January 18)
Trivia
- In the background compass logo, under the number 2, there should be 60°, but there is 75°.
- The inner compass is reversed. East and west are switched, as are all of the ordinal points and other principal points (SE, SW, NNE, etc).
- On astronomical maps, east and west are reversed, since one's viewing perspective is mirrored, i.e. looking up instead of down.
- There is a dim image of something like a rolled snake or spiral in the middle of the compass. (It was later discovered that this is a watermark from the iStockphoto site the compass image came from)
- The entire The Maxwell Group website is located at the Find815 servers: http://www.find815.com/TMG/