I've wondered this about Merope for awhile. Unfortunately I'm 22,000 Ly away at moment. The Orrery is very helpful, but it only does so much compared to actually being there. There was also someone within the last day or so (sorry, forgot who!) who said there could be something in the Asteroid belt. I'd love if that were true. Would certainly simply things.
Lately the thing repeating most in my head is Zero Punctuation on Silent Hill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jbhCOCdHUw&list=PLYoxfEJFaKvshg_W2vGthWmn2pH9ejl_D
1:00 seconds in.
This seems to be the situation we're in. It's something we need to step back from the math about maybe and just say, "Okay how would I solve this if it was Resident Evil 2?" Therefrom we begin the search for the Chief's chess set...
Also trying to put some ideas to the test over here at Jaques'. There's a growing interest to go Barnacle Hunting out here. Planet 2, moon1, is pretty close to Merope 5c in terms of conditions and features. Lots of yellow valleys and such by the equator.
Merope / Jaques P2M1 Side by Side:
http://imgur.com/a/GS5BW
P2M1 Orbited:
http://imgur.com/a/zMM8N
But realistically we're not going to get far without some profound luck. Jaques' has no repairs and there are a lot of griefers headed this way. It's 9 real life days to come out here (one way) in a Type-9. 25,000,000 plus scan data loss and 12,000,000 CR credit loss up front if anything should go wrong. A griefer just loses some kicks for their time. So, Open Channel is pretty much just done at the station or in some far off dead space. The Osmium CG is going to take a while too. There are NPC pirates. :/ Kind of killed everyone's interest who was looking for something else besides more Bubble-content. We'll have to probably wait for CG 1 to get past and 2 drag on or fail before anyone's going to risk doing anything serious out here together.
I'd like to go down the surface and compare notes from conjecture to application with all this idea of the whole spectogram being instrumentation but so far I haven't found a flat spot large enough for a type 9 to set down just yet. I'm somewhat angling on the idea that (( - || is meant to be the SRV. Dunno why in the world anyone would consider that a description of the SRV, but maybe they have wonky eye-sight. That or for them sound IS an image. That can happen. That's more an Amazon/Peruvian thing though. Do we even know what kind of climate Merope was before humanity got hold of it?
Hmm, hmm, hmm... There was something else... *drives into a pile of papers*
- Right! Temporal values.
There's a possibility all of the information we are getting is one way or another 4D being pressed into 3D and then communicated 2D. This might be something to do with the destroyed ships out in space 'singing' to the way people are saying they hear voices in certain audio tracks. Though to be fair at this point a lot of people will be hearing voices regardless if they're doing the UP research or Jaques' runs.
