UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

[Colonel Kenney]

Info being held close to vests....

We know one of you have honked it Share the data

It is probably a different key. Since they kept saying "a key". This one will be different in its native environment hopefully.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

So, Unknown Probes are found near ammonia worlds near a nebula surrounded by the UA.

I don't know how much of a leap this is but given the Thargoids are previously an ammonia based life form, this is very easy to speculate as them looking for Thargo-formable (what is their home world called?) planets to settle on in our galaxy.

Or they may have changed the physiology of Thargoids this time around to be not ammonia based and this could be another ammonia based alien species looking for new homes. They could also be a non-Thargoid ammonia based life form while Thargoids are still the same lore-wise.

Could we at least confirm the probes are actual probes looking for ammonia worlds now?

The only questions left in my head are why Merope and why point to Merope 5 C?

What do you think, too many assumptions or dwelling on the obvious?

Suspect that's where the Special Ops Thargoid survey team are based.

 

[porowozek]

Mission to Mars by Brian de Palma. Awesome film really.

Right! Their radar sounded just like dot matrix printer too.

 

[Muetdhiver]

• There are lots of three bit characters in the message
• High pitched notes are 0, low notes are 1 in each character
• Convert that binary to decimal you get the message below
• Each new line is the separate sections after the wails
• Slashes are pauses
• # is the random single/double bit character. Some sort of punctuation?
• The question mark is where I think CMDR MyklAtrum's recording misses the start
• The intro character after each wail is counting. This is definitely structured data!

? / 7 2 3 # 1 7 5 0
1 / 2 3 1 # 3 7 2
2 / 1 6 5 5 # 3 3 0
3 / 2 2 0 1 # 3 1 0
4 / 2 0 7 / 2 1 7 5 1 2 3 # 1 7 5 0 / 1 2 2 / 1 4 2 2 1 # 1 7 5 / 2 1 0 / 3 4 3 # 1 7 5 0


The UP is sending data, presumably about it's surroundings, to Merope system and probably body 5C. The data must describe it's surroundings. It could be something to do with CMDR MyklAtrum, Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 and the bodies in it?

o7

Great work. Shouldn't we read the numbers as octal ? and then convert to decimal ?

? / 467 # 1000
1 / 153 # 250
2 / 941 # 216
3 / 1153 # 200
4 / 135 # 588371 # 1000 / 82 / 6289 # 125 / 136 / 227 #1000

It is remarkable that so much "round" numbers like 1000, 200, 125, 250 appear when put in decimal

 

[Han_Zen]

Here's a transcription of Mykl Atrum's recording of the FFUP signal- the new one you get when you look at it from the end that points to Merope.

as little interpretation as possible- I tried to just write what I heard as the different sounds in the signal. Anyone who has heard it knows it's a crunchier fuzzier signal than the others, with echo, reverb, wobbly frequency shifts etc. I'm sure other people have other takes on it and I encourage people to post them.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FQ5JPxUN-W3Dfn5OWxH_AzunGTex6uIuOrd7-kKC5Rg/edit?usp=sharing

sections = sounds after each howl
. = the fast dits before each set of three longer tones
h = high tone
l = low tone
# = rising flangey sounding chirp tone, as heard after the 4th triplet tone in the file


section 1 - 4 has 1 # sound per section
section 5 has 3 of them


section 1
HOWL
..hlh..lll..hlh..hll#hhl..lll..lhl..hhh


section 2
howl
..hhl..hlh..hll..hhl#hll..lll..hlh


section 3
howl
..hlh ..hhl ..llh ..lhl..lhl # ..hll ..hhl ..hhh


old style faint tone triplet barely audible here- (hlh)


section 4
howl
..hll ..hlh ..hlh ..hhh ..hhl # ..hll ..hhl ..hhh


section 5
howl
..lhh ..hlh ..hhh ..lll ..hlh ..hhl ..lll ..lhl ..hhl ..hlh ..hll # ..hhl ..lll ..lhl ..hhh pause ..hhl ..hlh ..hlh ..hhl ..lhh ..hlh ..hlh ..hhl # ..hhl ..lll ..lhl pause ..hlh ..hhl ..hhh ..hll ..lhh ..hll # ..hhl ..lll ..lhl ..hhh

If those aren't binary octals I don't know what is.

 

[dynamicbob]

Confirmed third planet RO-Q B5-0 planet 7 UP found (ammonia terristrial)

Just found a threat anamolly level 2 and picked up a unknown probe.

Around planet 4 there is a capital ship and convoy beacon ( landable) - probable barnacle site. And its 30ly from merope and not in the nebula

Id suggest someone search for the barnacles

 

[drmorg]

Tried to remove as much background as possible, and isolate just the tweets, this is what I end up with:

Spoiler

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189512082482266112/215732196680400896/tweets.png

I hear four basic elements:

1. a low tweet at 800Hz
2. a high tweet at 1,600Hz
3. a mash of the frequencies between 800–1,600Hz, which sounds like the mid tone
4. a very high mash from 1,600–2,400Hz, which sounds like a Dolphin being fed a fish

There appear to be two basic lengths, a short, and a long. The bits that seem longer look more like consecutive long tweets.

1 and 2 robably are 0 and 1, 4 - end of number, 3 - end of phrase

 

[bitstorm]

It better not say "Welcome to Gamescom" =p

 

[LordZoltan]

Crikey! Well done everyone on finding UPs and now that other 'hidden' signal. amazing stuff.

Ammonia worlds, eh? Dang that wasn't at all obvious... Bit embarrassing actually

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If those aren't binary octals I don't know what is.

Indeed.

 

[dynamicbob]

with my discovery just listed ( need someone else to verify) we should start a list

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Had a friend that is not into video games and that is not into ED and is not aware of this thing at all visiting and he saw the background image of the UP-gram, and first thing he mentioned. We were talking about how I had a theory and I've been looking for it in Ammonia based life planets (due to thargoids past), and then he mentioned that the symbol was actually similar to the ammonia representation:
http://i.imgur.com/9qT8moA.png

This just kicked my tinfoilness to the top again (it was already).

So, for the last days I've been trying to find floating UPs close to Merope systems and around ammonia based life (gas giants mostly) and now I just realized I've missed the just purely ammonia based planets, regardless they have life or not. eddb.io only shows one close to Merope: Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8, been there and nothing spawned.

Are you guys aware of any other ammonia based planet close to Merope that I could include in my search? or where can I do a better search?

Strange thing is, I was googling the chemical structure of ammonia a couple of days ago specifically to look for any resemblence, and nothing jumped out at me.

 

[Dommarraa]

There are 'free-floaters' - in the sense that they can be found where they are supposed to be, rather than being transported via convoys.

Michael

Lol - Yes we know, we have found them.

Go on, please do give us a hint in the livestream, I will wee myself

 

[gaplant]

Info being held close to vests....

We know one of you have honked it Share the data

It is probably a different key. Since they kept saying "a key". This one will be different in its native environment hopefully.

It's not a honk thing- it got honked right away and the image appears to be completely identical

 

[bitstorm]

Can I just ask because it's not clear (and am work cannot test myself!)

Does the wild UP point at the Ammonia world or was that just a coincidence in the previous image?

If so does the UP still point at the Ammonia world when redeployed?

 

[dynamicbob]

ive sold 2 at maia so far, 302,000 per unknown probe. And i know of others that are selling them there as well, hope it holds up now it has been meta alloy repaired. Soon find out but thats not my main reason for retrieving them

 

[Han_Zen]

or to shell

It's sending to Merope 5C. It's a thight beam that can only be detected if you are between the UP and M5C

 

[NorMonsta]

Lol - Yes we know, we have found them.

Go on, please do give us a hint in the livestream, I will wee myself

that will attract some probes to your crotch, good plan

 

[gaplant]

Great work. Shouldn't we read the numbers as octal ? and then convert to decimal ?

? / 467 # 1000
1 / 153 # 250
2 / 941 # 216
3 / 1153 # 200
4 / 135 # 588371 # 1000 / 82 / 6289 # 125 / 136 / 227 #1000

It is remarkable that so much "round" numbers like 1000, 200, 125, 250 appear when put in decimal

Yep and @han_zen also:

yeah that's kinda interesting about the big round numbers... especially cause they arent OCTAL big round numbers, or even binary ones...

but yeah.. the lure of going to octal numbers next is made even stronger by all the octagonalthargoidness, on top of the natural usefulness of octals in binary. Doesn't mean it's RIGHT or anything but you know.... aliens.

 

[dynamicbob]

Confirmed third planet RO-Q B5-0 planet 7 UP found (ammonia terristrial)

Just found a threat anamolly level 2 and picked up a unknown probe.

Around planet 4 there is a capital ship and convoy beacon ( landable) - probable barnacle site. And its 30ly from merope and not in the nebula

Id suggest someone search for the barnacles

Ok ive just sold the second on in maia and im now headed back to get a third, so yeah i think thats the third ammonia world with confirmed UPs dropping as freefloats

 

[LordZoltan]

Curious isn't it - probes, presumably looking for something the same as UAs (within the shell defined by the UAs, too) and potentially sending all data back to Merope - if we take the most logical conclusion from that garbled signal you get if you sit between the probe and 5C.

Speculation:
When the probes have confirmed they've found what the whole operation was designed to find -I'm not sure I'll want to be in Merope... After the recent Thargoid galnet, I think it's nailed on that they're looking for the remnants of the previous 'goid scouting party that we've all heard so much about... And they won't be too pleased to find out what happened.

Where the barnacles fit in all this is a total mystery. I don't think they're the same thing though; especially given that the barnacles are so much more widely spread.

Very exciting. And troubling.