Combine Overwiki wrote:
Its main facility is the Enrichment Center, located in Upper Michigan, with at least one other base of operations in Cleveland, Ohio.

The one featured in Portal 1 and 2 is the one in Upper Michigan. This is because the one in michigan contains the salt mine cough enrichment spheres and the old test track from portal 1. The other one on Ohio isnt seen.

Edit: I just checked the texture again, iWork is right, Northern Michigan is the right place.

iWork925 wrote:
idk where you got ohio from

This kind sir sums it up.

marver0ps wrote:
I always had that doubt, if Chell was put into stasis when she was 8, she is a person of 20 years old with the mentality of 8?

Then again, she was in stasis for at least several years (80 years at the least) in Portal 2 and still looks young.

marver0ps wrote:
I always had that doubt, if Chell was put into stasis when she was 8, she is a person of 20 years old with the mentality of 8?

I would assume the sort of stasis that Aperture Labs would have would include neurological stasis as well as the-rest-of-the-body stasis to avoid mental deterioration.

Although...Wheatley did mention that some stasis subjects experience a deterioration of mental function...

Oh God why am I speculating in this thread? I half wanted to close it months ago.

Entertaining? Definitely. That's what makes a game sell.

Spam Nugget wrote:
Perhaps there are two sorts of stasis? That is, she was in regular stasis before portal 1, which left her ageing normally, but wasnt she in a long term relaxation vault or something (cant remember the exact phrasing) between portal1 and portal 2? this would at least explain how she hasnt really aged between 1 and 2. I guess this could even make sense of wheatleys comment about mental deterioration, perhaps only long term stasis does this and the other kind doesnt?
Of course, this is all just baseless speculation, but still.

Ratman goes into the stasis chamber used for Portal 1 (Lab Rat Comic) and you hear him in Portal 2. My personal opinion: Chell doesn't have the brain of an 8 yr old. She was in stasis for a month or two before GLaDOS poisoned everyone in the facility. The clues related to Chell in Portal 2 only indicates that she was a daughter (adopted) of an Aperture Employee.

NuclearDuckie wrote:
See, this is why game writers have an easy job. They can come up with any complete mess of a plot, and fans will still try their hardest to make sense of it and fill in the gaps. With Portal's universe I'm not even sure what to consider canon or not.

TripleG10 wrote:
This next part might be complete garbage, but how come the letters that have fallen off of her project are N E U... the first three letters of neurotoxin... Hmm...

Hoo boy thread bump. Good rule of thumb: don't post in a thread unless 1) it's stickied, 2) someone posts in it before you, or 3) if it's less than a month old.

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http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/scien ... tOS_1#tabs

you might have seen this but if you look at the close up of the poster in the additional images...
there is more clearly worded writing on the poster mentioning chells dad and cave. And too many potatoes being ordered.

and it's apparently official and from valves writers.

Wow. This dude is really smart at solving cryptic clues.

THIS. TOPIC. IS. DEAD.

dont post things in topics so old, and if you must, can you at least post something thats relevant?

Spam Nugget wrote:

THIS. TOPIC. IS. DEAD.

dont post things in topics so old, and if you must, can you at least post something thats relevant?

Well said.

Lock hath been applied.