UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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Considering how long it took anyone to find a barnacle even after MB pretty much erected a giant flashing neon sign saying "LOOK OVER HERE", I wonder if surface barnacles are the best thing to be looking out for when exploring other nebulae.
I mean, I check out the discoloured mineral deposits on planets I land on too these days (just in case), but the far more abundant and prevalent indicators of the presence of barnacles so far has been the UAs.
If we're going to find another nebula that is host to them, I'll bet it'll be easier to find another UA shell first, which I'll bet will be there, possibly 135-150Lys out from the nebula as well.
So don't forget to drop into a few Strong Signal Sources en route to other nebulae, especially about present shell-distance away from their centres. Finding a UA outside of the Pleiades region would be as big as a breakthrough as first finding the barnacles in Merope.
Even if we knew that the logo was Barnard's loop, the search would be close to hopeless. The loop region is huge. It would take an incredible amount of luck to find them. I'm sure the 'other barnacles' are out there somewhere. We just want find them yet.
Thing is that lots of nebulae have ring structures because they were formed when a star blasted out. There's heaps of them like that on the way to the core.
I've found another candidate for "the" logo: If you take a look at the pipe and bowl nebulae (which are dark, so you need to rotate the map to view them against the galactic disk), the top half of the logo is there, pretty much as good as Barnard's loop - and so are the two 'missing blobs', which are pretty much exactly the right shape, although they lie some distance below where they should be. From another vantage point (I noticed this from Barnard's Star) they could probably be lined up to form a complete 'logo' image.
I'll post a screenshot tonight, but I am lazy to fly off into space to try and line things up because I just got back from Sagittarius A* and I am Seriously Sick of Space Travel.
You should test with one of the known barnacles. The altitude is individual depending on screen quality, graphics settings and eye sight. I have to fly as low as 1 km to be reasonably comfortable. Others can do it at several km.
I closed the tab as soon as I saw /r/EliteDangerous.
I won't have anything to do with Reddit.
I don't know if debris/accretion discs are formally simulated in ED, but I've come across some very large diameter rings around dwarf stars in the past...
[video=youtube;AB1uwPm77Kw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB1uwPm77Kw[/video]
Cross posting this over from the UA reddit... Don't know how much exposure that thing actually gets and I'm curious to see what the wider community thinks. So far the conversation hasn't gotten too in depth so not a ton to catch up on there. Any ideas to do this differently would be welcome. The basic idea is to overlay the barnacle formations over the galmap using the spirals of the barnacle to match up with the arms of the galaxy... This is only a first attempt, really wish I could get a more closely zoomed Galmap that I could pick out existing nebula on. Below is my first mock up image and the link to the reddit thread.
http://imgur.com/BkSMOZ2
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownArtefact/comments/449v1y/first_mock_up_of_barnacle_formations_overlay/
http://imgur.com/BkSMOZ2
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownArtefact/comments/449v1y/first_mock_up_of_barnacle_formations_overlay/
We have already tried all that. Previous thread I think.
Not saying it's a waste of time, we could have missed something, but it has been looked at.
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Yeah this is something that's been tried a couple of times now, this is a good attempt!
I think that the spiral formation is taken from the fact that so many biological things on earth also grow in spirals and that that's where it ends - but obviously I know as much as anyone else. Probably less to be fair
I think that the spiral formation is taken from the fact that so many biological things on earth also grow in spirals and that that's where it ends - but obviously I know as much as anyone else. Probably less to be fair
Yeah this is something that's been tried a couple of times now, this is a good attempt!
I think that the spiral formation is taken from the fact that so many biological things on earth also grow in spirals and that that's where it ends - but obviously I know as much as anyone else. Probably less to be fair
Well - it would explain why they are so rare. If the insist on using a spiral, I mean.
I think Hekik is right. In fact the situation here put me in mind of this XKCD sketch:
https://xkcd.com/978/
Yes, I've seen and inspected a few of them. Not remembering where unfortunately.
Nothing special.
There should be lights. But they are not there. They are not there always and anywhere in the galaxy.
Also, look directly above the cabin (outside). There's even more "should be lights".
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there's 2 rocky ice in Maia B i think is the 4° or 5° planet farthest moon
MAIA B 3 D and MAIA B 3 E
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Gday guys,
Just double checking that we are all aware of the four very close proximity barnacles on Pleiades JC-U B3-2 2. If we are aware of them, is there a spreadsheet with the co-ordinates of all the known barnacle sites on it. I did check the Front page but only found one with all the planets on it, no co-ords.
Cheers,
Omate
Just double checking that we are all aware of the four very close proximity barnacles on Pleiades JC-U B3-2 2. If we are aware of them, is there a spreadsheet with the co-ordinates of all the known barnacle sites on it. I did check the Front page but only found one with all the planets on it, no co-ords.
Cheers,
Omate
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