UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

Vent · Jul 28, 2016

babypowder84 said:
well i think ive officially given up. Found a UP near Ross 47. Took it all the way back to Merope, dropped it out of my cargo hold and poof....gone. 4 hours of searching wasted. Im landing on 5C for now and going to remove my helmet and slowly choke to death.....

Do you have any video of this? Was it something like this? Have you asked support to give the UP back to you?

Atebits · Jul 28, 2016

Now CMDR... We're trying to create a scarcity of tin foil here. You can't go using common sense like that!

BluWolve · Jul 28, 2016

Atebits said:
Now CMDR... We're trying to create a scarcity of tin foil here. You can't go using common sense like that!

Dont worry I'm still trying to grow barnacles

Tin-foil is for amateurs, I have a have a meta alloy-foil flight suit. Please now let me get back to singing with my Unknown Artifact friends, o7

dynamicbob · Jul 28, 2016

a checkin from the jaques thread, nothing of note, no barnacles or intersting things have been found out there, a small group continues to hunt them though. were there any results from the elephants trunk nebula ?

HBosch · Jul 28, 2016

Can anyone repeat the scan with the probe.... If its a clock then the spectrogram would have changed with time....

Atebits · Jul 28, 2016

Hahaha! My ribs... Ow... Occam's Razor can be blunt object too! Are you trying to plant them in singing wrecks? :O

Soon(TM) · Jul 28, 2016

xcyber said:
I heard with arguments somewhere on forums that UA and UP is human-maded things.

Judging by the design of the space stations and the ships in the game, I'd be willing to bet the UA and UP are not human made.

They don't conform to normal designs to likely be human made.

StainlesSteelRat · Jul 28, 2016

Colonel Kenney said:
Good point. I'm just wondering maybe they were meant to be both.

1U
2R
3W
4D

i posted sometime ago that apart from the R, the other letters could be the short morse version of numbers.
U = 2
W= 1
D= 6

Nagual · Jul 28, 2016

rizal72 said:
Well, that image is on the FrontPage since day one together with the golden disk image, but you know, you've put me in your ignore list perhaps, to not "disturb" you solving the mystery, so maybe you've missed it
I hope you didn't miss me finding the UP Convoy, or me getting the UP reply to my lucky Honk, or me decoding the UA morse for all the ships.

Suggesting people to add other people to their ignore list is not fair, nor smart, IMHO.
In 8 threads I've never ever added anyone in my ignore list, because I think that EVERYONE could be important. Everyone could count.

Take care.

Since the beginning of Alpha I've never felt the need to use the ignore list. You never know what you might miss.

HailVectron · Jul 28, 2016

When its suggested that the lines, the letters, the notes, etc mean lat or long, my brain says "if it does, what would they have done to represent the negative number?"

Keybuk · Jul 28, 2016

HailVectron said:
When its suggested that the lines, the letters, the notes, etc mean lat or long, my brain says "if it does, what would they have done to represent the negative number?"

-90 is the same as 270

HailVectron · Jul 28, 2016

Keybuk said:
-90 is the same as 270

Numerically, yep - I get that, but I've not seen anyone doing that conversion as a matter of course, when measuring the angles of the lines, etc. All calcs should surely be on a 0-360 scaling

Keybuk · Jul 28, 2016

HailVectron said:
Numerically, yep - I get that, but I've not seen anyone doing that conversion as a matter of course, when measuring the angles of the lines, etc. All calcs should surely be on a 0-360 scaling

Right, isn't that exactly the point?

dynamicbob · Jul 28, 2016

what systems are UPs confirmed to be found in so far ?

HailVectron · Jul 28, 2016

Keybuk said:
Right, isn't that exactly the point?

Haha, it might very well be, but I've missed it, whatever the point was

Thinking about it though, actually, the ship already uses 0-360 for long, but -90/+90 for lat doesn't it... (or 0-180 if positive numbers are used.)

kronslodo · Jul 28, 2016

dynamicbob said:
what systems are UPs confirmed to be found in so far ?

While reading the first page you can search them in ROSS 47 and GD 99-47

Nagual · Jul 28, 2016

Keybuk said:
-90 is the same as 270

That works for headings, but not co-ordinates.

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HailVectron said:
Haha, it might very well be, but I've missed it, whatever the point was Thinking about it though, actually, the ship already uses 0-360 for long, but -90/+90 for lat doesn't it... (or 0-180 if positive numbers are used.)

yeesss, but EDs co-ords are flipped for some reason, so it gets really confusing.

Tharrn · Jul 28, 2016

Nagual said:
That works for headings, but not co-ordinates.

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yeesss, but EDs co-ords are flipped for some reason, so it gets really confusing.

The flipped coordinates were confirmed by support to be a bug in the support forum (looked there as it confused me to no end) about a month ago.

Jorki Rasalas · Jul 28, 2016

Kerrec Snowmane said:
Another theory, with pictures and should be fairly easy to position in space:

http://i.imgur.com/4K3glxL.png
The above shows the UP clue superimposed over the entire Merope system. I centered the grid on Merope 5, and pointed the line in the bottom right quadrant to line up with the system star. Then I scaled the view down:

http://i.imgur.com/pX8oLv0.png

I scaled the clue so that the circle matches Merope 5's rings and the top left arc happens to line up with the orbit of the first planet/moon. Coincidence?

So, assuming the symbols in the corners are binary, and they are defining a series of steps, then I have

1) aligned the two stars as step 1.
2) scaled the clue to match a celestial feature, and the top right arc becomes concentric with the first orbit as step 2

then:

3) Look at the 2nd orbit? for step 3.
4) On this side? Which coincides with the intersection of the orbit lines of the Merope 5 star and planet/moon 2. ... step 4

Should be easy to go there and wait for a USS or something?
If no one else does, I will fly to Merope again, and science this myself, next time I get to log on.

Please also try overlaying the centre of the circle on the star & putting the pointer on 5C - pointing order of UA & UP,
also try centre onto merope5 & pointer onto 5C.

that seems to be the obvious relationships to test. Some people have queried possible role of Merope2 in this puzzle due to its orbital parameters; you could also see if that fits somehow.

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Eriol_Mits said:
I have no idea if this is of any value or not, but came across this while searching Merope 2A. I've come across ship wrecks before but nothing like this. Sorry if its normal but feel it worth posting.

http://imgur.com/9r9hwGV

http://imgur.com/9r9hwGV

http://imgur.com/hcsF4rh

http://imgur.com/iG0CvPJ

http://imgur.com/iRJ41TT

http://imgur.com/BVyw7lq

http://imgur.com/6hDN2w2

Cant view any of those-are they set up for public sharing?

AnotherVoice · Jul 28, 2016

Standard datapoint