UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Ozric
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That is definitely good thinking
Michael
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Thinking "aloud"... The game probably knows the distance of a BODY from Sol, not just the host star? This could account for the different?
Check atmospheric pressure.
The reference body is Merope 5 C.
Did. No pressure on merope 5c XD.
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In-system differences are not going to throw it out by that much, though. - Even 500k ls is 0.01ly.
4 values, 4 quadrants of the Key. Radius, circumference, surface temp???, distance from star???
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lol
my fail
but still proper atmospheric pressure is necessary for a comfortable life
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Radius, diameter and circumference are all equivalent (apart from planets being oblate spheroids, technically, but who's counting?) But I think those four aspects are what we're hunting for.
dynamicbob
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so basically its a auditory presentation of ammonia world information sets and if we have solved the mystery what comes next .....
So the UP is looking for a habitable world for thargoid population.. i take it we havent found any yet or we would be covered in ant bites? just a load of near misses i suppose?
Sounds good. We're back to the UP diagram, where we can see a radius line, a circumference line, something to do with an off-planet object (sun, or other planet?), and the two radial lines in that 4th quadrant. I'd guess relative height of mountains and craters, but that wouldn't work for atmospheric worlds.
Starting to fit into the "it should be obvious after the fact" model
What I find interesting is the UA signal (the ship wireframe) is basically a broadcast. We can hear it from any side.
The UP signal is a point-to-point, we need to get between it/Merope 5C to hear it.
Also, it actually makes a lot of sense for it to be planetary stats. They're consistent between, well, planetary bodies, but the UP doesn't light up and transmit for stars, asteroids or stations, which all have different stats.
And, well, probe... XD
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I was thinking along the same lines:
wail 0.979 - health of UP maybe (97.9%)?
wail 1 0.612 - surface temp
wail 2 4.705 - gravity (with rounding error)?
wail 3 5.765 - radius
wail 4 135/588.371 82/50.312 136/0.227 - no idea yet, I'm pretty certain there's three separate sections, maybe co-ordinates?
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I haven't had time to find out which system it is, but it's form Mykl Atrum's recording.
I find it probable that the numbers contain information of the planet in some way. We should be able to decode it by comparing the numbers, the planet info and the UP drawing.
I will get on it later, if someone doesn't beat me to it. [hehe]
My new, maybe-crazy hypothesis.
I believe we may have it all backwards.
It's possible that the probes aren't relaying data to Merope 5c at all...but FROM it.
My theory is that something has crashed into Merope, and has embedded the system parameters of 5c into the UP, then sent them out to any planetary body that they believe could hold further members of their species, hoping that any probes picked up by a friendly in those systems would be able to determine THEIR position from the data in the probe, and be able to assist them somehow.
Best guess? There is a crashed ship somewhere on the surface of 5c, with inhabitants unable to leave it due to the lack of an ammonia atmosphere.
I believe we may have it all backwards.
It's possible that the probes aren't relaying data to Merope 5c at all...but FROM it.
My theory is that something has crashed into Merope, and has embedded the system parameters of 5c into the UP, then sent them out to any planetary body that they believe could hold further members of their species, hoping that any probes picked up by a friendly in those systems would be able to determine THEIR position from the data in the probe, and be able to assist them somehow.
Best guess? There is a crashed ship somewhere on the surface of 5c, with inhabitants unable to leave it due to the lack of an ammonia atmosphere.
Write plz coordinates for system where UP signal was recorded
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