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To channel Cain from Sandman - 'it is the mystery that is important, not the solution.'
UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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To channel Cain from Sandman - 'it is the mystery that is important, not the solution.'
Yaffle
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Apologies, you were caught up in the cleanup.
1- because that background stuff is unvarying
2- why don't you check out the rest of it then? If other people don't see the possibilities of data being there already, they aren't going to be much good analyzing anything.
Binary Tuba from 10 Minute of Unknown Probe on "Merope 5 C" x12 speed
https://clyp.it/ss04wki4
It may be morse, I guess, there are subtle gaps in some places ?
Props to mrrobbins1 for posting this 19th July https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/268667-UAs-Barnacles-other-mysteries-Thread-7-The-Canonn?p=4249630&viewfull=1#post4249630
https://clyp.it/ss04wki4
It may be morse, I guess, there are subtle gaps in some places ?
Props to mrrobbins1 for posting this 19th July https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/268667-UAs-Barnacles-other-mysteries-Thread-7-The-Canonn?p=4249630&viewfull=1#post4249630
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Yaffle
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A fair point, but it sounded wrong in the sentence, hacking was more effective than 'click, click, oh look a folder'.
1- if you take the howls as a letter separator and the high and low purrs as dots and dashes, each group of purrs are legit letters, no numbers. I haven't found every letter of the alphabet yet just because it takes such a long recording but I've seen letters BDFGJQRUW which is better than some of the UP sound which seems to have like 4 letters.
2- if that's the case, the morse it spells is total gibberish (tried both high and low as dit)
Agree'd. This came to my attention tho and looking at files is not hacking... it just reminded an old fart like me that FD have re-introduced the Thargoids. Apologies if I miffled anyone. I am more of a scientist than anything else and this enigma has had me sleepless for quite a while.
Disturbing stuff. It's the kind of spooky that you only get with graphic glitches...but it would be great if it wasn't!
./+.++./+..++/.._ ++./.+._.+/+..++/. .++./++.+_../++..+/._+._./++..++/.++.+/.
. is low
+ is high
/ is howl
_ is a small gap
At least how I can hear it.
Yeah like i said its most likely a glitch but a really g strange one at that looks like the head of a up turned into a liquid and decided to make a miniature pool in the wreckage xD
No probs Yaffle, I think I took a bit to edit my post to remove the link in the quote. Keep up the great work. 
Okay so I'm now flying with my FSD at 20% with FSD MALFUNCTION alert all the time. At first I thought something happened since my FSD went online after I dropped UA. Then I scooped it back hit jump button few times with FSD Malfunction error and then again FSD Online. It seems like a typical behavior of damaged module. I'll try not to repair it for some time.
Also big thanks to CMDR Noob MK2 for helping me with the science o7.
Some of the dots/dases are either partially or wholly obscured by the howls. How do you determine which to include ? E.g. There's a 'low' right at the start. And something like the 4th sequence (using howls as markers) there's a low right on the tail of the howl and High a faction before the next howl. IMO I would expect the howls to clearly delineate the sequence if that were intended. Worth pursuing though.
I done this about 4 weeks back before the new Up discovery, nobody wanted to listen then hope you do find something with this technique and it's not just a coincidental technique that Fdev used a tuba to produce the audio.
does it seem to you like the high/low and the howl are on their own timing, like the howls are going on a loop and the highlow is a not exactly 5x loop, so sometimes the howl lands on a highlow note?
if the howls were really dividers, they wouldn't overlap and cover up the dits and dahs like that.
EDIT- what pocketmoon said above ++
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Sorry to be the guy who always repeats the same things over and over again but MB has stated misjumps haven't been implemented yet. What applies to big asp "ships" (SS1, Antares, Jaques) may not apply to our ships, yet. Don't waste your hard earned FSD injections for that. Plus it's a mechanic that requires quite a few requisites to be met: loads of UA's in hold, several malfunctions, a long jump, and so on. Do you think they would go that far, yet?
Of course I'd love for MB to jump in and say "A misjump is a testable theory now".
Of course I'd love for MB to jump in and say "A misjump is a testable theory now".
Well, I've flown and driven 45 of the 90 degrees, and so far I've found nothing but rocks. It's almost weird, really, how little is down there. I've not been picking up any POIs on the scanner. I think there were a few nearer the equator, but heading to the poles I've turned up nada.
I've figured it out!
The message is an instruction for how to find out the answer, as we suspected.
The numbers represent 1,2,2,3 - the area code for Cambridge in the UK.
The circle with a line through it is a pizza, which you should buy, and take there.
The two lines away are fingers, "two fingers" is a request for whiskey. Take a bottle.
Supply all to the FDEV offices, in return for the answer.
The message is an instruction for how to find out the answer, as we suspected.
The numbers represent 1,2,2,3 - the area code for Cambridge in the UK.
The circle with a line through it is a pizza, which you should buy, and take there.
The two lines away are fingers, "two fingers" is a request for whiskey. Take a bottle.
Supply all to the FDEV offices, in return for the answer.
I'm not sure.
That is why we have to have a recording that is at least twice the new transmission lenght.
We also need this recording to start wirh the disco scann message, in case the UP is idle until scanned.
This is equally important, not matter where in the sound the 'message' is hidden.
Checking the purrs is the purrs first is sensible, as they are easiest to hear. They also seem to form Octals, which is nice AS we have possible octal symbols on the drawing.
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