Weird plaque? [ENDED]

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Maybe a baby could tell us... it seems a shape sorter :P

It is a multi-purpose alien wrench tool — even for circular screws! ;)

HAHA I had originally read it as Weird Plague... like a disease sickness spreading...

Look like we have some alien code to decipher!

Bump for solved, and thanks!

Just a normal bump for solved. I'm a little rebel.

Right, I remember that one! You wouldn't happen to have seen it around Sweden?

Early nineties, Ikea decided to experiment with a new way to write manuals, for customers putting their cabinets together. Going on the whole Esperanto thing in the rest of Europe, some guys and gals were thinking that some sort of intuitive language could be useful, so they start cobbling together something linguistic with shapes like this. (Full disclosure: my sister was on that team.)

Now, about fourteen months later, a crop duster in Iowa takes a picture of a field of grain when he notices some of the wheat died overnight. It gets buried in the whole crop circles hype around that time, but there's one woman, Linnéa Engström, who was on that linguistics team, and that sees the pictures in a newspaper on business in Iowa, and starts playing around with the symbols on a train trip. She e-mails it to her former team members, and they have a laugh about it, trying to figure it out, until one of them (Inga Lundgren, my sister) writes back:

"Hey, if you use the first alphabet we published, the symbols in the crops read: 'Message received'. Like someone left a message on a billboard. Weird! xD"

Yeah. Weird.

Anyway, I was going around Scandinavia at the time, came back from Denmark, and there was a rededication in Sweden for a hydro plant (think it was the Moforsens kraftverk on the Ångerman), and I knew a spokeswoman in the company that makes these dedication plaques, and over dinner I shared this story and she said: "We should totally make a plaque in that language!" (We might have been a little inebriated.)

Anyway, long story short, it's probably not an alien language, but if it is, it reads: "Max 70kph, radar enforced."

It was funny when we thought of it. Like I said: slightly inebriated.

Well it obviously has something to do with astronomy. The constellations under which you're born have a big influence on how you evolve as a person. It also makes sense that babies enjoy these kind of puzzles and try to fit their own constellation as the solution. This is how they learn that the world doesn't always care who you are based on your birth sign and you have to learn to adapt.

If you know about Platonic solids -- you should, there are only 5 of them -- then this is very clear. It is a 2D version of the Plato's Rosetta's stone for regular solids, showing a Multiview Orthogonal Projection of the Universal Coverings of the solids (instead of the solids themselves).

I´m sure somone wanted to make a doorbell nameplate and screwed it up. But it has taken so much afford to make it, that he still put it on the wall.

I think it's some kind of secret door. If you put your fingers in the right holes, it will open the door to a top-secret laboratory where they do questionably legal research. The shapes are a reminder for how it works. Try pentagon #1, heptagon, triangle, rounded rectangle in that order,. If that doesn't work, I'll have to find a different interpretation of the code.

Weird Plague? No...... Oh its the cure for it. If we can just figure out the code we get to see the answer and be satisfied for another day. This Odd Sickness is called "puzzle solving compulsion".

No ... Its a band aid and not the cure. The puzzle solving need comes back each day.

... and bump for solved.

Edit. that will have to do. I could not find a good sounding name for the affliction.

Is it possible that it's not a plaque and is just leftover scrap? It appears that someone cut pieces out of it. Like, gears or something. Are those around there somewhere?

Isn't this for use in some kind of weird pianola?

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I'd say it has nothing to do with electricity or power since I don't remember this from my lectures. Damn, should have attended more often.

I think it is a Tool to make wires in different shapes so it makes sense to be attached on an electrical power Station
like that a wire drawing plate https://goo.gl/images/hlIOdo

It's obviously a commemorative plaque in memory of 6 small round aliens, 3 large pentagonal aliens, and several other variously shaped brave aliens who fell in a heroic battle in our remote region of the galaxy.

It's a Soviet era design cheese grater. Didn't last long in the market, because it weighed around 1.5 kg and you could grate around 10 grams of cheese in half an hour. It is the origin of the saying "In Soviet Russia cheese grater grates YOU".
Nowadays it is considered a relic and a rare item and collectors around the world pay large sums of money to acquire.
If I were you I would take that home and put it on eBay.

The symbols change every time I look at the plaque! How did you do it? This is creeping me out.

How did you say you discovered the space elevator control panel? Never mind.

*takes out a flashlight-resembling object* Look into this pretty light here and you will find everything you've been looking for.

Bump for solved o/

All those teories are really awesome (alien things and other space gates) but whole thing is rather simple. It's a room/sector description for blind people. First 6 chars describe room/sector purpose (control, electrical, security room). Next line is separator for "special notes" which can describe special requirements for safety reasons (for example: the need to wear a helmet or special clothes)

This is not just a normal bump.

I don't know yet, what it means..but after some research and image analysis, i found THIS!!!
But what does that mean?

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Am I the only one who actually knows it? It's the famous plaque that the Baron Gilluwoldarisher ordered to create and put beside the front door of his mansion in the year 1486, few days before his death. It simply says how to open the door. The legend says that the behind the door, in the middle of the hall, lies his inestimable treasure, which he decided to give to the first person who would decipher the strange code on the plaque, as prize for their cleverness.
Since then, nobody ever managed to understand the code though, so the interior of the mansion is actually still unexplored. Many people believe that the treasure is still there, untouched. Others say that exactly where the treasure used to be, now there is only brushwood.
If you don't believe me, you can google "Baron Gilluwoldarisher" and read the whole story. You can even go visit the garden of the mansion and see the door with the plaque yourselves. It's in the city of Llort.