TICK TOCK BOOM
Anons, I think I might have found something:
On March 5th, Q posted the first series of four BOOMs:
The first BOOM had zero spaces before BOOM,
The second had eight,
The third had sixteen,
And the fourth had twenty-four.
On April 17th, Q again posted a series of four BOOMs:
The first line had zero,
The second had three,
The third had six,
And the fourth had nine spaces.
Yesterday, Q posted four BOOMs again:
The first had zero,
The second had two,
The third had four,
And the fourth had six.
If you put the posts into a text editor and use a monospace font (such as Courier
New or Terminal), you'll notice it more clearly. The effect is that, over time,
you get a series of BOOMS that look like they're lining up.
Between the first and the second posts, a period of 43 days had passed. Between
the second and the third, a period of 47 days passed. That represents two
consecutive prime numbers in ascending order. If the pattern holds, the next
post will occur 53 days from yesterday…which would land on July 27th. The
next one would land 59 days from there, on September 23rd. If the number of
spaces decreases from two to one, then zero, all of the BOOMs will line up on
that day.
Of course, that's assuming that we don't get something like:
BOOM
BOOM
BOOM
BOOM
I haven't quite figured out the significance of the spacing (8 spaces, 3 spaces,
2 spaces, ??). At first I thought it might be the Fibonnacci sequence, but it's
missing a '5' unless you count the five exclamation points from post #1170. It
also never gets to zero, so if it is that sequence you'll never see the
BOOMs line up–which may well be the case, for all we know. Also, the spacing
could well have something to do with trigonometry, perhaps with the number of
spaces equal to the cosine of the angle times some amount of spaces. I haven't
really had time to mess with it much, as I've got finals to deal with and I've
already blown off most of the day.
I suppose we'll learn more as time goes on. Whether we'll get another one on
July 27th, I'm not sure…but the fact remains that at this point, we have three
posts with four BOOMs on separate lines, with increasingly large gaps between
them that correlate to ascending primes, and as time goes on they're lining up.