That's bonkers. And I want it to be true!
UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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That's bonkers. And I want it to be true!
You do the Canonn no favours hinting to the people on the thread here with what someone else in private might be working at, acting all superior with second-hand 'knowledge'. Let that person decide to share if they want, but don't act as his or her mouthpiece.
You're trying to create a 'them and us' culture in terms of who knows what, and showing really you don't understand what the group's about.
Or, at least, whatever it means for you is certainly not what it means to me.
When it happens again, video recording on & select the unknown ship- let's see what the pilot name & faction are!
I spent a good hour or to having done exactly the same with googel image search, 'cause I was sure I'd seen something similar. When I found myself looking at crop circles I thought.. ok, step away from the images ;p I do have that nagging feeling of seeing something similar before though. The best I could come up with was looking at pictures of celestial spheres & galactic co-ordinate systems, and thinking the two protruding lines were indicating the long axis of ecliptics(?notsureifrightword), but yeah, after a while there's so much 'similar but not quite' there it didnt lead me anywhere frutiful.- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
I am gonna laugh hard if it isn't a decoder ring. And if it is, then well done, but shutup CookieJarviz, unless you wanna share.
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Well, let's give in my 5 cents.... After thinking about it and how people play it 5 times faster, I decided to play it at 0,01x (the lowest of audacity). While most of the signal seemed just nothing, the "actual" signal part, with the circle and so on had an interesting pattern.
http://imgur.com/a/VAeA0
Wich is about the same pattern used by SRV scanner sound. Don't know how to post the slow sample so couldn't give an audio example but the test is easy to replicate with audacity. Just select the 'drawings' part and play it at the lowest speed. It long, but after a few seconds the scan humming emerges. In my way of thinking (wich may be wrong) this should actually point us to the surface. The audio played at 0.01x has a very "scanner" like sound, but I'm not used to it enough to recognize wich minerals or things it is pointing at. What if the image was "just" some sort of geological report, a surface scan made by the UP being sent back somewhere, embedded within the coordinates of the planet (in that case, Merope 5c).
Maybe this is just an artifact from recording the image into a sound (but in that case it appears only in this part of the file and not in the first symbols nor the last, after the middle part)
Maybe this is just the audio from the SRV they used, pitched differently to draw it and upped the speed of the overall thing.
Or maybe with a finest analysis we can discover the SRV scan signature embedded, if there is actually one.
Or probably I'm just want to hear something
http://imgur.com/a/VAeA0
Wich is about the same pattern used by SRV scanner sound. Don't know how to post the slow sample so couldn't give an audio example but the test is easy to replicate with audacity. Just select the 'drawings' part and play it at the lowest speed. It long, but after a few seconds the scan humming emerges. In my way of thinking (wich may be wrong) this should actually point us to the surface. The audio played at 0.01x has a very "scanner" like sound, but I'm not used to it enough to recognize wich minerals or things it is pointing at. What if the image was "just" some sort of geological report, a surface scan made by the UP being sent back somewhere, embedded within the coordinates of the planet (in that case, Merope 5c).
Maybe this is just an artifact from recording the image into a sound (but in that case it appears only in this part of the file and not in the first symbols nor the last, after the middle part)
Maybe this is just the audio from the SRV they used, pitched differently to draw it and upped the speed of the overall thing.
Or maybe with a finest analysis we can discover the SRV scan signature embedded, if there is actually one.
Or probably I'm just want to hear something
So this popped up on reddit an hour or so ago;
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4vuo4i/so_the_strangest_thing_happen/
Coincidence? Pretty small chance of it happening if one of the backers just happened to put his CMDR name in as an NPC choice. He is a backer, but the NPC name he put in is different to his CMDR name.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4vuo4i/so_the_strangest_thing_happen/
Coincidence? Pretty small chance of it happening if one of the backers just happened to put his CMDR name in as an NPC choice. He is a backer, but the NPC name he put in is different to his CMDR name.
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Well that would be an interesting (if a bit cheezy) way to introduce Alien space ships and save on labor. The aliens have been carefully scanning our ships to detect their capabilities and then build clones of them to attack us.
Pretending for a second this is a thing (and there is zero proof there is) there's even some merit from a balance perspective. The forums went bat insane with the new AI, so clearly balance is an issue. New aliens with better AI and better ships would lead to forum meltdown.
Grenade tossed, I will now step aside and watch the inevitbale raft of speculative posts about why this is such a good/bad/great/dumb/<your theory here> idea.
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I agree with this, occurred to me too.
1. Why does the UA have attached 'nourishment canisters' (TM). Does it nourish itself, or build something else with those ingredients? The end-product could be a barnacle, but hey it could be a UA, UP, or something else entirely that we haven't seen yet. If it doesn't build anything, why would it need to sustain itself?
2. Conversely, why would the UP not need equivalent sustenance?
3. We have both a plant-like motif and skeletal structures evident in the UA. Artistic licence, something of significance related to their engineering, or a bit of both? Is the barnacle the only genetically-engineered lifeform, or does that also apply to the artefact and probe?
Plant motif:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8thoVWst81pdXNEZ0hZT051eEU
Skeletal structure:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8thoVWst81pbklyWjdQUWdtRjg
It looks very similar to a lens effect called barrel distortion. Usually seen in extreme with very wide angle lenses like a fish eye lens. This is one reason I don't subscribe to the the "It's a sphere and must be overlaid on a planet" theory. That's not to say I have completely discarded this line. Open minded to all theories. I just choose to follow those I think are more likely or fit the evidence. I can't get excited about theories where the evidence is made to fit the proposition.
I still believe, in my own thought process, that this is both a map and a set of instructions. If it were a "decoder ring", where is the code? If it is code, where is the cipher key? One without the other is useless. Even if we have both, we still haven't recognised which is which. I can't advance any of my thoughts into action as I'm at work and can't give up much time. I'm supposed to be controlling an oil rig right now. Thank the Pagan gods for nightshifts.
Oh, you solved it? What's the message say?
![Afterglow [SecB]](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/38/38904.jpg?1753438328){kind=avatar}
I do not know whether these two are already known here.
not the same location. strange noises. sounds like barnacle or UA
http://imgur.com/a/s81md
not the same location. strange noises. sounds like barnacle or UA
http://imgur.com/a/s81md
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Well that's the thing - I'm not saying it isn't (okay I rubbished them hard earlier). But the kind of posts I'm talking about are utterly useless, and divisive.
He's going on the ignore list anyway - when the guy who's actually working on this decoder ring comes in to show his work and the solution, I'll see it anyway and will praise him heartily.
I've thought exactly the same. It isn't spherical. It could be a cap of a sphere? or just nothing to do with a sphere. I wondered if it was trying to represent space rather than a sphere.
Those aren't nourishment canisters, they're air tanks that also hold digital data.
This suggests a few more questions:
1: why are we asking complicated questions that follow from theories we don't have evidence on?
2: why?
3: do we want fire that can be fitted nasally?
It kinda makes sense though. Barnacles producing Meta Alloys. Ships being scanned and schematics being communicated. Meta alloys being used to generate the clone hulls...
Wow. Tuesday nights are the new Saturday nights. Particle accelerator for your ears, Sir? Ooh, suit you Sir.
I also met my NPC as a mission target. Maybe something FD slipped in to increase the chances of us meeting them.
no, it's why watch old black and white UHF OTA on a 4k tv. You aren't getting anything new.
it literally will not show anything at a better level of detail. It might introduce artifacts that aren't real though! So if you want to see things that aren't there, this is a good place to start.
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