UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn
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Interesting theory. Most people seem to focus their searches on the colored canyons we see, large craters, or mountain ranges. Basically, NOT plains since they are, well, plain. People like to explore somewhere there's scenery. Maybe a different approach is called for?
That is Prof. Powell. and no he has not gone all Federal on us ;P
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On another note. Does anybody have skills with non euclidian geometry and coordinates?
We have three Barnie points on Merope 5C and we need to find the various centre points. i.e. http://www.1728.org/trictr.htm
Here are the coordinates https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189512082482266112/197036957841358849/unknown.png
HELP needed to eliminate search areas on Merope.
So my expirience from todays (hours and hours) flying around Merope 5C:
You will probably get "snowblind" after a while, this light grey, almost white kills your eyes. I flew over to the "dark side".
Was first flying "just around", came up with nothing. Then started at 0.00x,0.00x and flew "up" with bearing 180 ... ended up at 24.xx / 0.xx because i saw a huge (HUGE) crater passing on my right window.
The Diameter of this crater is beyond what i could estimate, but the largest i ever saw within this game (which does not mean anything ...)
Landed at one side, and decided to drive down, just because wavescanner scans better than my already sore eyeballs.
Went downhill for 45min. Did not reach the bottom yet. The side i'm going down is more of slope and not like a wall. However, every time i thought "well now i will reach the bottom", it was just another ledge.
Found nothing so far, except a NavPoint. Oh well, and Yttrium, which is nice to have.
Coordinates of the crater approx.: 23.4422 / 0.2486 - it is hard to miss.
Tomorrow will go further down, and towards the opposite wall (which is like a wall, at least from my current viewpoint).
If there is nothing, will continue to fly up with bearing 180.
Most of the time low altitude (below 200m), just because i don't trust the rendering on the Xbox.
o7
You will probably get "snowblind" after a while, this light grey, almost white kills your eyes. I flew over to the "dark side".
Was first flying "just around", came up with nothing. Then started at 0.00x,0.00x and flew "up" with bearing 180 ... ended up at 24.xx / 0.xx because i saw a huge (HUGE) crater passing on my right window.
The Diameter of this crater is beyond what i could estimate, but the largest i ever saw within this game (which does not mean anything ...)
Landed at one side, and decided to drive down, just because wavescanner scans better than my already sore eyeballs.
Went downhill for 45min. Did not reach the bottom yet. The side i'm going down is more of slope and not like a wall. However, every time i thought "well now i will reach the bottom", it was just another ledge.
Found nothing so far, except a NavPoint. Oh well, and Yttrium, which is nice to have.
Coordinates of the crater approx.: 23.4422 / 0.2486 - it is hard to miss.
Tomorrow will go further down, and towards the opposite wall (which is like a wall, at least from my current viewpoint).
If there is nothing, will continue to fly up with bearing 180.
Most of the time low altitude (below 200m), just because i don't trust the rendering on the Xbox.
o7
That crater is prime suspect - good job CMDR, keep hunting
Just a quick thought. Would it be a possibility if the sounds together make up something? Like putting the two together and seeing if the sounds intertwine in some way?
So I have a few not entirely related theories about the Unknown Probe.
1) What if it only points to Merope 5C because that was the first barnacle an Unknown Artifact was taken to? When the first barnacle was found, many people took UA's to that one barnacle on Merope 5C even before the next barnacle was found. However, if this is the case, I'm not sure how this helps continue the mystery in any way.
2) The Unknown Probe is "quiet" (or quieter than the UA) for long periods of time. The convoy comms stated they were doing orbital tests. What if the Unknown Probe is a detector for whatever it is pointing to on 5C and the audio will change depending on where in orbit the Unknown Probe is. One obvious test would be to drop it in orbit above the barnacle coords and see if it reacts any differently. However, as is being speculated it may not be searching for barnacles at all.
3) What if each unknown probe points to a random barnacle planet and it's just sheer coincindence that the first one secured pointed to Merope 5C. This should be easily disproved as soon as more than a couple more are retrieved.
1) What if it only points to Merope 5C because that was the first barnacle an Unknown Artifact was taken to? When the first barnacle was found, many people took UA's to that one barnacle on Merope 5C even before the next barnacle was found. However, if this is the case, I'm not sure how this helps continue the mystery in any way.
2) The Unknown Probe is "quiet" (or quieter than the UA) for long periods of time. The convoy comms stated they were doing orbital tests. What if the Unknown Probe is a detector for whatever it is pointing to on 5C and the audio will change depending on where in orbit the Unknown Probe is. One obvious test would be to drop it in orbit above the barnacle coords and see if it reacts any differently. However, as is being speculated it may not be searching for barnacles at all.
3) What if each unknown probe points to a random barnacle planet and it's just sheer coincindence that the first one secured pointed to Merope 5C. This should be easily disproved as soon as more than a couple more are retrieved.
Merope 5c has a radius of 1478km. If my math skills have not deserted me, this means a diameter of 2956 km, so a pole-to-pole route would be 2956 * Pi/2 km or about 4643 km long. The top speed of an SRV is about 35 m/s, so this would take about 1.5 days of round-the-clock driving time if we can keep top speed all the time. If we hit rough terrain (and Merope 5C has a lot of that), the speed will be lower. My gut guess is that the average speed is maybe a third of the top speed, so we are talking about 4.5 days. However, there is one show-stopper: At the equator, you would have a distance of 2956 km * PI / 36 = 258 km between SRVs, so we would miss stuff.
My estimate is that the scanner has a range of maybe 1 km. To ensure that we really cover everything, we need to place the SRVs 1 km apart at the equator, and then all drive to the pole, return to the equator, and repeat the procedure for the second half. We only need about 9300 commanders for this.
Piece of cake.
Good news on the surface scanner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1pl4KoAHMo
On my Way i am 2500lys away so be there in a few hours.
Trying to convince 9300 CMDRs to drive from one end of a planet to another for no pay is going to be tough....
I'm gunna give it a go, I'll park up my Anaconda at the northern pole and make my way to the southern one. I should have more than enough SRV materials for refills. Is there any part of Merope 5C that someone suggest I drive through on the way? Any crater or anything?
Well, yeah, when you put it like that.
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Check my map to see where people have already searched: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w8fe95FR9Wz-eBcrz0ZKEEKSh1IesRprxRi5JJG4imU
Granted, not everyone on Merope 5C is actually using my map but there's only so much I can do about that.
Try to drive through the part that has the secret hidden item. That would be immensely helpful.
I'll take a look as I make my way to Merope. I'll see if I can pick a route which has a lot of craters and canyons in it as that tends to be where the barnacles are and hopefully some other goodies are hidden too. I have about 27 standard fuel refills on me which should be enough if I turn a few modules off. I'll also pack a second SRV incase I screw up.
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