UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Don't.
You cannot imagine how many times I felt like that in this thread.
So many ultra-smart people around!
I suspect at Nasa they are all playing ED, and a couple of them are becoming mad about this puzzle
Can confirm the second part.
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I know at least one guy from JPL does
Michael
Pffft. JPL. Buncha show offs. Goddard Space Flight Center is where the real work gets done. (Kidding mostly, those JPL guys do get a lot of the glory though.)
Holy hell, this threads are growing fast!
Just some mindstorm here, and maybe someone will see some clue.
Things that are (pretty) sure:
1) The UA and UP are of the same origin. They clearly look the same (half of them - the sphere - is a 1:1 copy with different color).
2) Whether the barnacles are of the same source is unknown, because they look different to the UA and UP.
3) The names have not been chosen randomly: an artifact is something made by someone, but the purpose is at first not clear. The purpose of a probe is very clear: it's not to give information, but to gather or extract information from an ontherwise unreachable place.
4) The UAs can only be found in a perimeter of 100 - 150 ly around Merope / the Pleiades
5) UPs have only been found at this point in convoys within human territorry
6) all three, the UP, UA and barnacle have that flickering around them.
7) the artifact points to Merope, the probe points specifically to Merope 5C
8) the artifact communicates in morse code
9) the probe communicates in a EM signal, translated into sound by the ship, which translates into a specturm image.
Questions:
1) What is the real and distinct purpose of the artifact and the probe?
2) Why does especially the probe give us information, because that's not the purpose of a probe?!
3) Where do convoys take the UPs from? Where do they bring them (orbital test site within the bubble?)
4) what does the flickering aura mean?
Hypothesis:
1) The gathering of the UAs in a bubble around Merope and the UAs pointing to Merope 5c tell us
a) something is happening here. This planet is important.
b) this is the center (of the map / instructions). Go from here.
2) If it's instructions to go somewhere, e.g. to the next waypoint... we most probably need to search within the perimeter of the UAs. So within 100 to 150 lys.
What landmarks lie within that parameter?
Are we able to extract a general direction from the image?
I first thought from one of the drawings that it points to Polaris, but that is far outside of the perimeter. Maybe Polaris is used as orientation to align the map / instructions?
Just some mindstorm here, and maybe someone will see some clue.
Things that are (pretty) sure:
1) The UA and UP are of the same origin. They clearly look the same (half of them - the sphere - is a 1:1 copy with different color).
2) Whether the barnacles are of the same source is unknown, because they look different to the UA and UP.
3) The names have not been chosen randomly: an artifact is something made by someone, but the purpose is at first not clear. The purpose of a probe is very clear: it's not to give information, but to gather or extract information from an ontherwise unreachable place.
4) The UAs can only be found in a perimeter of 100 - 150 ly around Merope / the Pleiades
5) UPs have only been found at this point in convoys within human territorry
6) all three, the UP, UA and barnacle have that flickering around them.
7) the artifact points to Merope, the probe points specifically to Merope 5C
8) the artifact communicates in morse code
9) the probe communicates in a EM signal, translated into sound by the ship, which translates into a specturm image.
Questions:
1) What is the real and distinct purpose of the artifact and the probe?
2) Why does especially the probe give us information, because that's not the purpose of a probe?!
3) Where do convoys take the UPs from? Where do they bring them (orbital test site within the bubble?)
4) what does the flickering aura mean?
Hypothesis:
1) The gathering of the UAs in a bubble around Merope and the UAs pointing to Merope 5c tell us
a) something is happening here. This planet is important.
b) this is the center (of the map / instructions). Go from here.
2) If it's instructions to go somewhere, e.g. to the next waypoint... we most probably need to search within the perimeter of the UAs. So within 100 to 150 lys.
What landmarks lie within that parameter?
Are we able to extract a general direction from the image?
I first thought from one of the drawings that it points to Polaris, but that is far outside of the perimeter. Maybe Polaris is used as orientation to align the map / instructions?
I 'd just like to point out that having been given an apple, I theorised that if I had another one I would have two apples. So I asked my wife for an apple. when she gave it to me I was able to conclusively show that my theory was dead-on. I now had two apples.
TL;DR : Never say never.....
There are more glyphs to be decoded!I like it. Simple.
And I liked your reply about the reason for the first quadrant to be at bottom right: the need to have a 138° angle.
And I liked all the four instructions you've proposed. The two beams of light the most
I was starting to do a similar experiment before losing the UP: I was hovering M5c with the UP in hold, honking all around it.
Problem is that the planet is huge, and hovering all of it and honking could be a pain, and too random.
There should be some more detailed place to search IMHO. But who knows?
Tip off in Ceti Sector RD-T B3-2. Crashed Anaconda right at the summit of a huge mountain:
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I tjink the barnys are related to the ua/up for the fireflys come off of all 3 and the glowing texture noises etc kind if simular. Tbh i think the ua/up creators use the barnys for their tech
What? COL70 is the one you need the permit.. you still gotta go way around that. Was it locked before?
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Perhaps because its in close orbit. Even without Horizons you get the altimeter.
I'm rather hoping that discovering where the free floating UPs can be found might offer further context or insight into the message itself, possibly even being part of the "key".
We don't actually know that. It's certainly one way to interpret what we know, but not the only way. And actually a lot of the circumstances make more sense if this is meant for us/made by us (humans).
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Yes. Forced the Anaconda to a crash landing, I suppose. Still checking the site.
EDIT: Found one of these caine-massey cargo racks...
The arrangement of the crash site is wonderful, congrats to the art department:
View from orbit:
EDIT: Found one of these caine-massey cargo racks...
The arrangement of the crash site is wonderful, congrats to the art department:
View from orbit:
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Like the mystery Diamondback Explorer scanning the Obsidian orbital I mentioned a little while back
(Being a bit pedantic here, but..) they don't really need to transcode the message through the latin alphabet. They could simply have a 2D graph with Morse co-ordinates. They might not even know if the Morse symbols represent letters or numbers! For the schematics to work they just need to be familiar with a cartesian-like coordinate system and know the relative sequencing of the Morse symbols. So first (or last) is .- then -... then -.-. etc.
And if they've ever seen even a small handful of messages which includes all the known morse symbols exactly once, and in the same order; they could make a reasonably safe guess that's our alphabet (or number system!) which provides the sequencing they need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_p5Kzy75U&feature=youtu.be
This video. I got EVDISEER for UP blinking as morse. That last part "seer" is very clear ... . . .-.
This video. I got EVDISEER for UP blinking as morse. That last part "seer" is very clear ... . . .-.
Just to be pedantic I must point out that it's a radio signal they receive. Audio does not travel well through interstellar space.
You say 'two apples'.
I say: The beginnings of a small strüdel.
Edit - to be a pedant, you didn't have a theory, you made a prediction.
Theories and proofs, on the other hand, are only tested by attempting to disprove them - and failing to do so. Which, I believe, is what Jorki was getting at.
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Still: small strüdel.
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