Yeaaaa, got oneHUGE barnacle
Thats Moya, or some other Leviathan transport
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Thats Moya, or some other Leviathan transport
Yeaaaa, got one
I think that is Grandma lying face down, sans wardrobe... head is to the right off screen. ;P
I've somehow missed it while reading the last 100 or so pages, but why do we think this mission/message is connected with large barnacles?
I'd rather think of another downed T9 treasure hunt, since that message was received
several hundreds of Ly away from our current focus.
Aesculon Phaia was talking earlier about mist getting generated as the surface heats up and gases sublimating out of the rock, and also about eclipses providing sufficient darkness/coolness to offer a barnacle protection to come out and feed. I've been in a canyon on an otherwise unmisty planet surface during an eclipse, and it got really misty for the duration, so I think there's also a mechanic going on when the temperature drops significantly.
Now on a connected but different note - I think (and others have already said here) that barnacles are to be found in nebulae because they are rich with dust particles to provide food, in the same way that barnacles in the sea feed from the nutrients in the medium around them. There's no food in regular space. So this means that the planet type (metal content etc) is not the food - barnacles do not feed from their substrate. The planet type WILL be important, but in providing good conditions for the barnacle to root to (Rocky?)
So now to guess at the right places on a planet in a nebula. We could go for high ground being more sticky-outy in to the nebulous yumminess... or... low ground where mists accumulate, AND nebula dust pulled in by gravity will collect and concentrate. So my money is on low ground - canyons maybe, but craters I think will create a more concentrated nebula soup (although canyons could create a flow).
Tidally locked? No, no, NO. Tidally locked would render the environment static. No sublimating gases, no temperature differentials (remember meta alloys are excellent thermal insulators).
And as others have cleverly said, possibly NOT the polar regions where any magnetic fields would prevent nebula snacks from getting on down to the barnacle party.
MB's comment that we would definitely notice one if we were near it. Well perhaps they are pretty big and obviously barnacle-esque, but also maybe they make a big wailing sound like a UA? Perhaps it would take a UAs presence to trigger it.
Finally for now - Some people have discounted the UA bubble as being connected but I think the UAs could be a part of the barnacle's breeding cycle and they are equidistant from Merope because they were spawned there by a mature barnacle and have spread out to search for and pollinate/inseminate any barnacles they find. They have their 'head' aligned to Merope but they spin so that the two faces with the 7 markings (one for each metalloid type?) cast their signal sideways to that orientation in 360 degrees, like a lighthouse. If I'm right, that would mean that there are barnacles in Merope system.
I think that's about it for now.
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edit: Aaaand the thread moved forward two and a half pages while I wrote that, Jeeeeeesus!
Now on a connected but different note - I think (and others have already said here) that barnacles are to be found in nebulae because they are rich with dust particles to provide food, in the same way that barnacles in the sea feed from the nutrients in the medium around them. There's no food in regular space. So this means that the planet type (metal content etc) is not the food - barnacles do not feed from their substrate. The planet type WILL be important, but in providing good conditions for the barnacle to root to (Rocky?)
So now to guess at the right places on a planet in a nebula. We could go for high ground being more sticky-outy in to the nebulous yumminess... or... low ground where mists accumulate, AND nebula dust pulled in by gravity will collect and concentrate. So my money is on low ground - canyons maybe, but craters I think will create a more concentrated nebula soup (although canyons could create a flow).
Tidally locked? No, no, NO. Tidally locked would render the environment static. No sublimating gases, no temperature differentials (remember meta alloys are excellent thermal insulators).
And as others have cleverly said, possibly NOT the polar regions where any magnetic fields would prevent nebula snacks from getting on down to the barnacle party.
MB's comment that we would definitely notice one if we were near it. Well perhaps they are pretty big and obviously barnacle-esque, but also maybe they make a big wailing sound like a UA? Perhaps it would take a UAs presence to trigger it.
Finally for now - Some people have discounted the UA bubble as being connected but I think the UAs could be a part of the barnacle's breeding cycle and they are equidistant from Merope because they were spawned there by a mature barnacle and have spread out to search for and pollinate/inseminate any barnacles they find. They have their 'head' aligned to Merope but they spin so that the two faces with the 7 markings (one for each metalloid type?) cast their signal sideways to that orientation in 360 degrees, like a lighthouse. If I'm right, that would mean that there are barnacles in Merope system.
I think that's about it for now.
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edit: Aaaand the thread moved forward two and a half pages while I wrote that, Jeeeeeesus!
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We dont. It was just some random data from a random mission. Partly because of the UA clues with some numbers / reference, just testing to see if it could match.
99.9999999% unrelated.
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A very good conclusion,
now if we had a general formula to determine the area an equator covers,
we could narrow the search to a pattern, determining this and predecessing
theories to be right or wrong.
isnt that just circumference? 2xPixR? Or PiD Radius n Diameter. Multiplied by search width
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I think there's a lot of confusions about POIs/Blue Circles/Permanent sites on planets. I think it's addressed in one of the top posts of this thread. Rizal's been updating them like a fiend. I believe the difference, and you'll have to take this with a grain of salt because I can't currently run Horizons, is that there are things (sites, settlements, crashed ships, etc.) that randomly pop-up, like signal sources do in space and are shown as the blue circles when you get near. Then there are sites, like ship graveyards, that are permanent and do not have a blue circle when you get near. They can only be spotted visually. MB has said that large barnacles have been placed by hand and randomly placed. Many of us are assuming that this means they can only be spotted visually/auditorially, and not by searching through the blue circles when they pop up. There's a bit of a leap there in assuming they don't, but I think that the blue circle POIs are always non-permanent, yes?
The primeval jungle on earth doesn't just grow on a linear latitude,
there must be a formula to determine the equatorial region on an earthlike planet,
but having different masses and proportions.
FD are just cooking up the science we are,
there are technical terms humans have grown accustomed to.
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I think Merope 1A eclipsing Merope's star happens pretty regularly, played yesterday and it was about to happen.
gotcha. i think its going to rely on distance from stars, goldilocks zones and axial tilt. I'll have a hunt
Convinced me ... Im off to search the equatorial regions of the dirtiest heaviest rotating planets i can find in the nebula.
Nope. How do we know that there isn't a shell of UAs around other nebula we just haven't stumbled on yet? Or, the Pleiades one spawned UAs first because of humans poking around (it's very close to the bubble).
There aren't any nebulae in the bubble.
No, there is a tiny nebula called 'bubble' and it needed a system permit.
It's Fleetwood Mac, 1977, all over again.
The amount of players checking those is relatively low,
as (i think) is the spawnrate of S.S.S.es far away from civilized space.
Good luck CMDR!
Remember to have some Captain Morgan as thought accelerator, if that theory is correct
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I'm with you all up until the UA connection. I think your UA theory makes sense only if you ignore the intelligent behavior exhibited by them. Add in the ship scanning, stellar object-identifying, and morse-blaring aspects of the UA, and they seem far too advanced to be simply space-sperm.
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