The frustration seems to be mounting. If you know your alternate histories, you'll remember that it took quite a long time for the answer "42" to come to light and the question hadn't even been discerned yet. I'm still struggling to figure it out to this day. In the absence of any kind of progress, vitriol has seeped in.
A bunch of "scientists", whose methods have yet to lay out any kind of concrete path to an answer, are now resorting to arguing over which of their methods is deemed appropriate. None of these methods is correct. You are all trying to slay the dragon. You can't see the dragon. You don't know it's weaknesses. You don't even speak its language. It's burning your houses down while you hurl heavy boulders into its empty cave.
The correct and only method could lead you nowhere. This method requires data that either catches you unaware or doesn't exist yet. These "theories" are merely conjecture. The only respectable HYPOTHESIS (not scientific theory!) based on concrete data is that the UP is pointing to Merope 5C for an unknown reason. The spectrogram is a secondary set of data that is unreliable and a waste of time at this very moment. If you want to tout your scientific theories, you must first perform the necessary steps in the scientific method.
We must all unify our efforts. It's fairly simple:
1. Prioritize our efforts based on reliability of CURRENT data.
2. Perform research in the field.
3. Report findings.
4. Hypothesize (if possible)
5. Test hypothesis
6. If results of testing confirm or strengthen hypothesis, RECORD the results and start back at one with the new data and direction in mind. If testing does not back up the hypothesis, start back at one with original data.
7. Have patience.
They may be difficult and hard-won, but the mysteries of the universe are only as such because they have been weaving their intricate riddles for billions of years. Who are we to stoop to guessing and conjecture. Have a little more respect for science before you float the word out there like a pink balloon.