That overlay is not perfect and has elements not fitting the system map... I don't believe this is the meaning of it. Keep on thinking...
UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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That overlay is not perfect and has elements not fitting the system map... I don't believe this is the meaning of it. Keep on thinking...
Well then ladies and gentlemen. We may have the first free floaters in a couple of hours. Good luck to all.
Definetly not a coincidence, this looks spot on. Especially the background with a random location/oriantation and all the overlaying images...
He dropped a big list of systems, so it might not be that fast. It would be very nice to see though!
Only 9 jumps away now :-D
[h=2]remembered this after seeing what you found
The Golden Record Cover[/h]
The Golden Record Diagram. › larger image
"In the upper left-hand corner is an easily recognized drawing of the phonograph record and the stylus carried with it. The stylus is in the correct position to play the record from the beginning. Written around it in binary arithmetic is the correct time of one rotation of the record, 3.6 seconds, expressed in time units of 0,70 billionths of a second, the time period associated with a fundamental transition of the hydrogen atom. The drawing indicates that the record should be played from the outside in. Below this drawing is a side view of the record and stylus, with a binary number giving the time to play one side of the record - about an hour.
"The information in the upper right-hand portion of the cover is designed to show how pictures are to be constructed from the recorded signals. The top drawing shows the typical signal that occurs at the start of a picture. The picture is made from this signal, which traces the picture as a series of vertical lines, similar to ordinary television (in which the picture is a series of horizontal lines). Picture lines 1, 2 and 3 are noted in binary numbers, and the duration of one of the "picture lines," about 8 milliseconds, is noted. The drawing immediately below shows how these lines are to be drawn vertically, with staggered "interlace" to give the correct picture rendition. Immediately below this is a drawing of an entire picture raster, showing that there are 512 vertical lines in a complete picture. Immediately below this is a replica of the first picture on the record to permit the recipients to verify that they are decoding the signals correctly. A circle was used in this picture to insure that the recipients use the correct ratio of horizontal to vertical height in picture reconstruction.
"The drawing in the lower left-hand corner of the cover is the pulsar map previously sent as part of the plaques on Pioneers 10 and 11. It shows the location of the solar system with respect to 14 pulsars, whose precise periods are given. The drawing containing two circles in the lower right-hand corner is a drawing of the hydrogen atom in its two lowest states, with a connecting line and digit 1 to indicate that the time interval associated with the transition from one state to the other is to be used as the fundamental time scale, both for the time given on the cover and in the decoded pictures.
"Electroplated onto the record's cover is an ultra-pure source of uranium-238 with a radioactivity of about 0.00026 microcuries. The steady decay of the uranium source into its daughter isotopes makes it a kind of radioactive clock. Half of the uranium-238 will decay in 4.51 billion years. Thus, by examining this two-centimeter diameter area on the record plate and measuring the amount of daughter elements to the remaining uranium-238, an extraterrestrial recipient of the Voyager spacecraft could calculate the time elapsed since a spot of uranium was placed aboard the spacecraft. This should be a check on the epoch of launch, which is also described by the pulsar map on the record cover."
The Golden Record Cover[/h]
The Golden Record Diagram. › larger image"In the upper left-hand corner is an easily recognized drawing of the phonograph record and the stylus carried with it. The stylus is in the correct position to play the record from the beginning. Written around it in binary arithmetic is the correct time of one rotation of the record, 3.6 seconds, expressed in time units of 0,70 billionths of a second, the time period associated with a fundamental transition of the hydrogen atom. The drawing indicates that the record should be played from the outside in. Below this drawing is a side view of the record and stylus, with a binary number giving the time to play one side of the record - about an hour.
"The information in the upper right-hand portion of the cover is designed to show how pictures are to be constructed from the recorded signals. The top drawing shows the typical signal that occurs at the start of a picture. The picture is made from this signal, which traces the picture as a series of vertical lines, similar to ordinary television (in which the picture is a series of horizontal lines). Picture lines 1, 2 and 3 are noted in binary numbers, and the duration of one of the "picture lines," about 8 milliseconds, is noted. The drawing immediately below shows how these lines are to be drawn vertically, with staggered "interlace" to give the correct picture rendition. Immediately below this is a drawing of an entire picture raster, showing that there are 512 vertical lines in a complete picture. Immediately below this is a replica of the first picture on the record to permit the recipients to verify that they are decoding the signals correctly. A circle was used in this picture to insure that the recipients use the correct ratio of horizontal to vertical height in picture reconstruction.
"The drawing in the lower left-hand corner of the cover is the pulsar map previously sent as part of the plaques on Pioneers 10 and 11. It shows the location of the solar system with respect to 14 pulsars, whose precise periods are given. The drawing containing two circles in the lower right-hand corner is a drawing of the hydrogen atom in its two lowest states, with a connecting line and digit 1 to indicate that the time interval associated with the transition from one state to the other is to be used as the fundamental time scale, both for the time given on the cover and in the decoded pictures.
"Electroplated onto the record's cover is an ultra-pure source of uranium-238 with a radioactivity of about 0.00026 microcuries. The steady decay of the uranium source into its daughter isotopes makes it a kind of radioactive clock. Half of the uranium-238 will decay in 4.51 billion years. Thus, by examining this two-centimeter diameter area on the record plate and measuring the amount of daughter elements to the remaining uranium-238, an extraterrestrial recipient of the Voyager spacecraft could calculate the time elapsed since a spot of uranium was placed aboard the spacecraft. This should be a check on the epoch of launch, which is also described by the pulsar map on the record cover."
Now maybe draw a line from merope through the system Elephant's trunk sector DL-Y D20. Where does it lead? Let's see if those probes were really sent from a specific direction.
No... it does NOT look spot on. Coincidence.
Im sorry I thought the sarcasm was apparent in the last sentance... Move along
LOL :-D
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Alleged systems which could hold unknown probes as free-floaters in Elephant's Trunk Sector.
http://i.imgur.com/ndgGOQ9.jpg
I was just in Elephant's Trunk DL-Y sector recently sniffing for Barnacles a few weeks ago. There's a few candidate planets in that sector. Good luck with the hunt for probes; wish I could be there.
Just a few hours and I can get home to join you guys in Elephant Trunk
What overlay would you rather I use? I'll do the science, just give me the tools.
I also had problems getting things from the Elite Galaxy Online view to appear because the Merope 5 light drowns everything out (like the rings). If someone knows how to turn that off, I can produce much clearer/contrasting images.
I supposed I can fly to Merope and try to screenshot the orbit lines in actual in-game space, but OMG how much time would I spend trying to position myself for the screenshot?
The 'W' on the right hand side image above the weird downward curve and the two upward curves is nothing but a distorted version of the top right quadrant of the main message image. It's the 'II' of '-II'. The '-' is also there in a distorted form if you look carefully.
It looks like a W because of a drift in the echo, which is overlaid on the sound effects in that region. I believe it to be nothing but a cool way to add ambient effects to the exit of the message. The curves have the same drift so it is consistent. It becomes apparent if you listen to the recording with headphones while looking at the spectogram.
It looks like a W because of a drift in the echo, which is overlaid on the sound effects in that region. I believe it to be nothing but a cool way to add ambient effects to the exit of the message. The curves have the same drift so it is consistent. It becomes apparent if you listen to the recording with headphones while looking at the spectogram.
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I broke my rule and read something on Reddit, but it's only cause the first post linked me there rather than a sanitized version
I'm hoping that you find some over there, but does anyone not think it's kind of strange that they said they found them 60 days ago? 2 days after the release of 2.1, 2,500Ly away from anything, didn't take any pictures of something that at the time no-one had ever seen before [blah] and has now just suddenly remembered they saw one?
*Edit* Oh OK they've even photoshopped an Astronaut/Pilot onto one of the screenshots...
I'm hoping that you find some over there, but does anyone not think it's kind of strange that they said they found them 60 days ago? 2 days after the release of 2.1, 2,500Ly away from anything, didn't take any pictures of something that at the time no-one had ever seen before [blah] and has now just suddenly remembered they saw one?
*Edit* Oh OK they've even photoshopped an Astronaut/Pilot onto one of the screenshots...
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I don't think FD provides the "wobble" of a planet's spin does it? Aka the precession of the equinoxes?
AKA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession
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You might be right. That's why it is so dimmed. Then nothing to look there besides the central image and the left part?
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