The most important part was left out in all of the media coverage. What is the project name aka which state was Grounded called before it got the official name?
Maine.
That implies there are three other projects (Mississippi, Illinois, and Alabama) potentially under consideration.
Check it out. Grab a copy of the video loop from https://grounded.obsidian.net --->> https://d1079ywfijtdjs.cloudfront.net/images/grounded/videos/grounded-looping-video.mp4
Parse it for strings, and you'll find:
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