Good tin foil thinking there - we decided that pulsars would be the most recognisable navigation markers and used that as the basis of our diagram for aliens to interpret.
Perhaps our barnacle buddies came to the same conclusion.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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Good tin foil thinking there - we decided that pulsars would be the most recognisable navigation markers and used that as the basis of our diagram for aliens to interpret.
Perhaps our barnacle buddies came to the same conclusion.
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If you simplify the arrangement to say rather than pulsars, are you looking at a system with a lager central body, 3 surrounding bodies and then outer bodies ?
And of course that's on the assumption there is anything to find in the layout of the Barnacles.
And of course that's on the assumption there is anything to find in the layout of the Barnacles.
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Well, the disc on the voyager also has the periods of the pulsars on them, so besides length of distance to the center, you'd also need something to indicate a number for each spike, which should identify the corresponding pulsar. Don't know if we have a way to do that, unless it's the atomic number of the materials that spill forth when you shoot a spike. But that's rather deep into tinfoil territory. 
Question: why would the spikes and the barnacles contain any information regarding the position of other barnacles? (apart from the devs building them as a riddle)
If you build a factory, you don't build it to show you the way to other factories?
If you build a factory, you don't build it to show you the way to other factories?
ED is a game. There are people who made it. They give us a clue. I think.
and of course there will be the meaning of it and we will learn it later when the content evolves.
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D'oh that is exactly what I forgot :S
But the clues so far were "logical"?
The UA shell collecting data - either as electric fence around the barnacles or "just" as pointer to them - pointing to them (Alloy hyperspace transfer to keep them alive or something might fit in there).
I don't see the logical step from spike position to additional barnacle sites.
This one was mentioned before - in regards to the "origin of the barnacles" hinted by MB somewhere:
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Yes, that was the name of the creative thing, but I used the name because most of us know what it means sorry!Isn't "What-u-hear" a Creative/Soundblaster mixer option though? It's certainly not on my W7 (Audacity only seems to have Microsoft Sound Mapper, Microphone In: Phoebus or Aux In: Phoebus - Asus strikes again
I really miss the old XP sound mixer layout :'(
I've got an analogue audio from HDMI spliiter now so at least I have Elite in full surround and could presumably feed one of the outputs to a mic socket (may also allow to get rid of ambient sounds around the morse site?)
I'm using a Xonar U7 external USB board on Win 10, and by switching the device to something different in the dropdown... Can't remember what now, but I do remember it being in Audacity help (possibly on the website)... Sorry! Need to get back in front of my machine to tell you for sure...
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If he has any more rep he'll explode!
You're right, though
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We still don't know that the UA shell and barnacles are linked.
Why is Merope more significant than Pleione or the other P-Sec system where barnacles are?
The spike layout being significant is an idea, just like the symbol being significant.
The best ideas are testable - I doubt the spike layout is self-referential to more barnacles but it's relatively easily tested because we have 3 data points to go on so I'll give it a try.
I didn't want to go far from Maia at the moment so I decided to check spike distances against barnacle systems and got some apparent matches - that's it really - I'd need to identify more systems that fit the pattern and then find barnacles in them to prove it.
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"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth?"
Merope might not be more significant - maybe a limitation of the engine in that case to point the (specific?) UAs at different locations?
And the "why" was actually an open ended question, based on the assumption that the steps so far had some sort of inherent logic - and that logic would help to narrow down the endless universe.
The symbol on the Shells did not lead to anything yet, if I saw that correctly? Maybe we'll just recognize it on the giant star-destroying, planet-sized warship of the alien invaders at a later point in the progresison. xD
hmm .. more stuff on Orion's Belt and Barnard's Loop (<- sic)
Just Wikipedia, though, which in general is rather .. questionable as source. Maybe there's some more knowledgeable ressources out there.
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Ok since I was unable to discern any way to orient the map ... I decided to use the less glamorous approach and assuming the Barnacle spike placement is a galaxy map ... And assuming the Barnacle is the Center (Sag A*) The only likely candidates for the Pleiades would be the outer ring of eight spikes.
So I plopped things into my fancy mapping program for each of the eight alignments and spat out some coordinates based on those assumptions... The scaling up to galaxy from Barnacle is a very big fudge factor... but if the points all get me close to Nebulae then its a win.
Alignment 1
Alignment 2
Alignment 3
Alignment 4
Alignment 5
Alignment 6
Alignment 7
Alignment 8
Hmmmm would be neat if one of these actually is right .... im going to check tomorrow though ... spent too much time on this tonight
This is nice but what about the elevation above and below sol? (0, 0, 0)
Perhaps you could use the heights of the spires to determine this missing factor?
Or would you stick with the assumption that they are all roughly on the same plane?
mmmmmmmmm coffee roll donut...... *drool*
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The image on the barnacle in Morope could well be the Pleiades nebula as seem from "Pleiades Sector GR-V B2-0 A 2". I went on the premise that the creators of the Barnacles could well use the image of the Nebula as their symbol due to the dominance in their sky, and explored the surrounding systems to try and find a possible match for the symbol. This is the best I've come across so far.
I thought that was a sarlacc at first...
You are wrong:
That's clearly the symbol on the Barnacles... after a couple of bites...
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