UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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CMDR Ofan

CMDR Ofan
rizal72 said:
Well, if we should not ignore the third dimension, it is not a Ball, my friend: it's a slice of it, or a cup. ;)
Anyway, whatever it is, it wasn't me... :D
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Surely if it was a slice of a ball the grid lines imposed on it would all be straight rather than gently curved to indicate surface curvature?
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
sherriffjb said:
Surely if it was a slice of a ball the grid lines imposed on it would all be straight rather than gently curved to indicate surface curvature?
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Not a slice, a cap.

I'm sure thats what my Italian friend meant.

The lines indicates that it's part of a sphere, not a complete sphere.
 

CMDR Ofan

CMDR Ofan
Han_Zen said:
Not a slice, a cap.

I'm sure thats what my Italian friend meant.

The lines indicates that it's part of a sphere, not a complete sphere.
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With respect I have to disagree, i think it's more likely that it represent a whole sphere just from a 2d perspective, which in itself perhaps is a clue. Look at some wireframes of spheres, they are usually tilted for full 3d effect. I suspect this is shown side on, equator-centrically for a reason.

If it was part of a sphere the easiest representation would be a simple quadrant with orientation instructions as you can convey a location less ambiguously in the same area of message.

That's why whilst I am not limiting my view on this puzzle to just how I'm trying to turn it, personally I'm taking it to be an indication of a planet itself rather than a location on a planet...for all the difference that distinction makes lol
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
sherriffjb said:
With respect I have to disagree, i think it's more likely that it represent a whole sphere just from a 2d perspective, which in itself perhaps is a clue. Look at some wireframes of spheres, they are usually tilted for full 3d effect. I suspect this is shown side on, equator-centrically for a reason.

If it was part of a sphere the easiest representation would be a simple quadrant with orientation instructions as you can convey a location less ambiguously in the same area of message.

That's why whilst I am not limiting my view on this puzzle to just how I'm trying to turn it, personally I'm taking it to be an indication of a planet itself rather than a location on a planet...for all the difference that distinction makes lol
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I'm not saying it's not a sphere. All I'm saying is that the grid lines matches a cap.
You can test it by drag-dropping the image in to Google earth. If you put the image on the equator, with the top left quarter circle just inside the edge of eart. The lines match up very well with earth's longitudes.

I doubt this is important though.
 

Peter Stark

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If that has been done, sorry.
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FSD malfunction testing 1:
--Player 1 with UP release UP.
--Player 2 spools FSD for jump to nearby system with throttle down and waits till it is ready with throttle down.
--Player 1 honks at UP
-- RESULT?

FSD malfunction testing 2:
--Player 1 with UP release UP.
--Player 2 spools FSD for jump to nearby system with throttle down and waits till it is ready.
--Player 1 honks at UP and just after Player 2 puts throttle up.
-- RESULT?

1 is easily testable, 2 is cumbersome, so I would say ignore 2.
I can help testing in either my ASP Smuggler build, or in my newish Anaconda. (Not having much time to check convoys and such, but will check those 4 known systems and their vicinty in my ASP
 

CMDR Ofan

CMDR Ofan
Han_Zen said:
I'm not saying it's not a sphere. All I'm saying is that the grid lines matches a cap.
You can test it by drag-dropping the image in to Google earth. If you put the image on the equator, with the top left quarter circle just inside the edge of eart. The lines match up very well with earth's longitudes.

I doubt this is important though.
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By cap, do you mean the top of a sphere, as in the northern hemisphere? I'm bamboozled by the meaning, as the cap (as in cap stone?) tends to mean the upper segement of something and in relation to a sphere means the more "northern" parts beyond a given plane? I realise this is semantics but I'm puzzled? :)
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
sherriffjb said:
By cap, do you mean the top of a sphere, as in the northern hemisphere? I'm bamboozled by the meaning, as the cap (as in cap stone?) tends to mean the upper segement of something and in relation to a sphere means the more "northern" parts beyond a given plane? I realise this is semantics but I'm puzzled? :)
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It's like a polar cap, yes.

It could be anywhere on a sphere. You just draw a circle with a radius smaller than the total radius of the sphere and you have a cap.

It's just a circular sector on a sphere.

Sorry for being unclear. English is not my first language and I'm dyslexic and my iPhone has a non Enghlish spell checker.

Poor me. :)
 

SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
Han_Zen said:
It's like a polar cap, yes.
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You mean like this:

Polar-Bear-Hats.jpg
 
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Mhyre

Mhyre
Peter Stark said:
If that has been done, sorry.
----------

FSD malfunction testing 1:
--Player 1 with UP release UP.
--Player 2 spools FSD for jump to nearby system with throttle down and waits till it is ready with throttle down.
--Player 1 honks at UP
-- RESULT?

FSD malfunction testing 2:
--Player 1 with UP release UP.
--Player 2 spools FSD for jump to nearby system with throttle down and waits till it is ready.
--Player 1 honks at UP and just after Player 2 puts throttle up.
-- RESULT?

1 is easily testable, 2 is cumbersome, so I would say ignore 2.
I can help testing in either my ASP Smuggler build, or in my newish Anaconda. (Not having much time to check convoys and such, but will check those 4 known systems and their vicinty in my ASP
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This experiment has been done the very day Rizal found the probe responded to the ADS.
 

CMDR Ofan

CMDR Ofan
Han_Zen said:
It's like a polar cap, yes.

It could be anywhere on a sphere. You just draw a circle with a radius smaller than the total radius of the sphere and you have a cap.

It's just a circular sector on a sphere.

Sorry for being unclear. English is not my first language and I'm dyslexic and my iPhone has a non Enghlish spell checker.

Poor me. :)
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Ok, thanks, I though you were saying it was only showing the north of a sphere, rather than both north and south (if we are assuming it's a sphere). It wasn't the language that was the issue it was my understanding of the idea itself. Thanks :)
 

TuesdayFrog

TuesdayFrog
Guys,

I have just spent 3 hours in R CRA NEBULA system BRSO 14 and found nothing. Only two stars and no planets, so its a boring system!

I cruised up and down jumping into any USS I found, a Total of nine was seen (8 x DED, 1 x EED) no convoys. So I think we can cross this one off the first page list.
 

Derthek

Derthek
Canonn subreddit is up from 7th to 5th of the most visited Elite Dangerous subreddits! The subreddit is 5 months old, with 1,135 members (we hit 1,000 last week)

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Bi-weekly average over the course of the entire subreddit's life. So on average, in the past 5 months, we've had 8,000 views every two weeks! We're also pretty far ahead of the powerplay groups.
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Arguendo

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Arguendo
TuesdayFrog said:
Guys,

I have just spent 3 hours in R CRA NEBULA system BRSO 14 and found nothing. Only two stars and no planets, so its a boring system!

I cruised up and down jumping into any USS I found, a Total of nine was seen (8 x DED, 1 x EED) no convoys. So I think we can cross this one off the first page list.
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It clearly states that it is not documented nor corroborated by anything on the UP Spreadsheet. The reporter is on this forum, and as far as I know he stands by his story. So I won't remove it, but it is logged as unconfirmed.
 

gaplant

gaplant
Nagual said:
Indeed. The PI line may have been a simple indicator that it is a circle.
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I still think that is the whole purpose of that radial line, too.
Especially since it is 45 degrees and goes the whole distance to the circle- it just doesn't make a very likely direction or point indicator.
 

Toxophilist.

T
Arcanonn said:
Just a remark regarding Educating Ed the other day.

At 58mins 40secs Ed is asked if he has any ideas.

At 59mins 20secs Ed says "you're trying things in different locations and I think that's important"

Just checking we have noted this and the way it's said......could be nothing. ;)

Apologies if this had been mentioned.
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I did mention it regarding testing in different star type systems. No takers as AFAIK.
 

Rixaeton

R
gaplant said:
I still think that is the whole purpose of that radial line, too.
Especially since it is 45 degrees and goes the whole distance to the circle- it just doesn't make a very likely direction or point indicator.
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The three lines are for telling the reader of the message the messages reference time (ie Time 0) so we can work out other things like local time, and the origin point co-ordinates. The 45 degree line is when the rings of Merope 5 appear as a single line, and the 30 degree line is the orbital plane of Merope 5C. When Merope 5C is in the exact position in its orbit when the rings are a line, that is Time = 0. The rings will be a line two times per day, the second is at 3.3 days (ie 1/2 of Merope 5C orbital period.) At this point the 60 degree line matches the orbital plane: so it is the reverse of the 30 degree line. When the map is read this way, the origin point is the same lat and long at Time 0 and Time 3.3

I explained a little more in a prior post here: #6201

Cheers.
 
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