Finding it today of all days.
May the Fourth be with You
May the Fourth be with You
I've put a couple up, but this one will probably be the most useful:
http://www.digitalscream.org.uk/audio/unknown_artifact_audio_long.mp3
Didn't the Amiga use a 5-bit encoding for text?
Do we believe this to be alien in origin? If so why should it be coded in any form we would be able to understand? Look at the emission of the object, what if the message is part audio and part pheromone, for example. Maybe it's not meant to be decoded, just "oooh"ed at while we speculate over what happens next and when.
(But please, carry on trying, I'm watching with much interest.)
Hmm, but what if the XH is to raise the value to a power? The most reasonable seems to be a power of 2, so that gives either:I am hearing the following pattern (L = low, H = high, X = honk):
LHLHHLXH
LLHLHXH
HLLHHLXH
LHHLLHXH
Translated to decimal (dropping the XH at the end each time, as I infer this as EOL) this either gives:
010110 - 22
00101 - 5
100110 - 38
011001 - 25
or
101001 - 41
11010 - 26
011001 - 25
100110 - 38
I thought Sol was 0.0 in Elite?
I am hearing the following pattern (L = low, H = high, X = honk):
LHLHHLXH
LLHLHXH
HLLHHLXH
LHHLLHXH
Translated to decimal (dropping the XH at the end each time, as I infer this as EOL) this either gives:
010110 - 22
00101 - 5
100110 - 38
011001 - 25
or
101001 - 41
11010 - 26
011001 - 25
100110 - 38
If I convert to morse, only taking L as dot and H as dash makes any sense, giving the following:
. - . - - . = CA or NP
. . - . - = LT or DN
- . . - - . = UW or AP
. - - . . - = GD or NX
This doesn't seem useful yet...
-- Pete.
Random thought - remember that Galnet article recently about an Imperial senator building up a ship with shields/jumpdrive after visiting Fed leaders in Sol? Might be she got clued in on the whole thargoid situation - seeing as how apparently Feds have these things...
Okay so it looks like some sort of cocoon and it's dying and screaming when in space. Maybe it's sending out a distress call so someone could pick it up. Maybe you really should take it somewhere closer to it's system so it's parents could hear it and come after it!![]()
I noticed when I first saw it, it lights up and dims every once and a while, and every time it lights up is when you hear the "fog horn" type sound.
I personally think it's one of their organic FSDs, notice the distortions around it.
Sorry for the multitude of posts...just thinking aloud...Hmm, but what if the XH is to raise the value to a power? The most reasonable seems to be a power of 2, so that gives either:
484, 25, 1444, 625
or:
1681, 676, 625, 1444
The problem is that these are four references, and our coordinates are three....hmmm.
The magnitude of these numbers feels "right" for the coordinate system though.