UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

[Han_Zen]

I'll say it again, I don't think the | - - - - | at the bottom are numbers at all. The spacing is too different to the 'numbers' at the top. I say it's an indication that a planet - i.e. Merope 5 c - is the unit of measurement being used.

I agree.
It looks like the left half is numbered 2 and represents gravity factor.
The right half is numbered 3 and represents size (radius and circumferense) factor.

This matches the order in the message and makes the symbols understandable.

1 is temp factor, it seems. I can not see that one in the drawing.

4 contains three numbers that Are yet to be decoded.

 

[CMDR CJ Fortuna]

Well, my idea didn't pan out in the way I thought it might but someone may be able to use the concept and spot something I haven't.

Given that our measure of distance is based on the distance light travels in one orbit of our planet, do we need to try using the distance light travels in one orbit of Merope 5C or Merope 5 as a part of co-ordinate calculations to see if that final set of numbers make more sense?

 

[MadDogMurdock]

I've tried to find some gas giants with ammonia-based life near the Pleiades that I have scan data for but it's a nightmare trying to find systems I've scanned whilst docked 22KLY away. The Internet is crawling for me right now so I'm giving up for today but I've found three planets in two systems that look like they might be the right colour scheme for these worlds, although sadly I did not do a detailed surface scan to be sure:

• HIP 16440 planets 4 & 5
• Pleiades Sector IH-V c2-5 planet 2

Can't help thinking that Universal Cartographics badly needs an upgrade so that you can do searches.

 

[Vall]

So yeah it sounds like a bounty hunter could be a new engineer unlocked by doing rep with the Pre Logistics. I would throw my hat in the ring for the Sarge engineer.

Currently Tod "The Blaster" McQuinn is connected to the Alliance and sells weapon upgrades.

 

[Xenia_K]

I'll say it again, I don't think the | - - - - | at the bottom are numbers at all. The spacing is too different to the 'numbers' at the top. I say it's an indication that a planet - i.e. Merope 5 c - is the unit of measurement being used.

So why should not the upper two be measurement references too ? Group 5 is still pending on decryption,
It might well be that upper left tell us factor is distance to next star (Merope5?) upper right is distance to next system?

I still believe Group5 is a coordinate, though I don´t think it´s standard 3d (x;z;y) as we use it in galmap.
Again, for a probe it makes absolutly no sense to send planetary data without telling the receiver where to find that Object.
Logically reference would be the "Home" system like we do with Sol.

In that context, someone got the distance from Merope5 to Merope A ? Can´t find anything in Systemmap, EDDB ED Wiki or somewhere else....

 

[Saool]

Its The Argents Quest all over again....

If only.

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Well, well, well. Who would profit in a war between Federation and Empire!

Core Dynamics and Gutamaya

 

[CMDR Boozeman]

Hi,

That message says bounty!hunter, not bounty hunter or bountyhunter. My fellow wing member said earlier "Hunter? Is it Orion?" when i paste whole message to him.

Also that "radiation turns you green" makes me wonder about greenish B-class star.

 

[Edd Jordan]

got a UP free floater next ammonia would kc-u b3-1

 

[Allant Doran]

That message says bounty!hunter, not bounty hunter or bountyhunter.

Probably more to do with issues that arise from translating it from binary. I'd be willing to bet money that 'Bounty Hunter' or 'Bountyhunter' are the correct ways to infer it.

 

[Xenia_K]

Probably more to do with issues that arise from translating it from binary. I'd be willing to bet money that 'Bounty Hunter' or 'Bountyhunter' are the correct ways to infer it.

OK, count me in with 100 indian rupees

 

[Iori]

So, here's something I've been struggling with today. The UP transmission clearly prefaces each block of information (except the first) with a number, and these numbers handily enough go up from 1 to 4 as the transmission goes on, like so:

No preface, meaning unknown
1, surface temp ratio
2, gravity ratio
3, radius ratio
4, meaning unknown

But when we look at the spectrograph "key"

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/YawVY9G.jpg

If I had to assign meaning to each of these quadrants, I would assign radius to the bottom right, temperature to the upper left, and gravity to the upper right. But the key numbers don't match the transmission prefaces for that information. Maybe I'm wrong about temperature and gravity, but radius seems pretty obvious.

Anyone have bright ideas about why this mismatch might be?

The drawing of the bottom left quadrant could represent an angle of some sort. Maybe the axial tilt, the argument of periaxis or the orbital inclination.

 

[Allant Doran]

OK, count me in with 100 indian rupees

Haha, I'll make a note about it

 

[greymalkin]

Good evening Commanders, did someone notice we got some kind of UP hint Audio in the Gamescom Interview with David Braben today? Its here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQa...HKxuw8GaFsCKgXB5jPNqJhdn&index=4#t=337.202187 and the UP Visual and Soundpart is from 4:49 to 4:57. Not that there is something hiding in that Audioscrambling . Maybe someone should take a look. I´m not too familiar with these audio extractions

Nothing of note there that I can see:

 

[Gombari Noah]

So, here's something I've been struggling with today. The UP transmission clearly prefaces each block of information (except the first) with a number, and these numbers handily enough go up from 1 to 4 as the transmission goes on, like so:

No preface, meaning unknown
1, surface temp ratio
2, gravity ratio
3, radius ratio
4, meaning unknown

But when we look at the spectrograph "key"

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/YawVY9G.jpg

If I had to assign meaning to each of these quadrants, I would assign radius to the bottom right, temperature to the upper left, and gravity to the upper right. But the key numbers don't match the transmission prefaces for that information. Maybe I'm wrong about temperature and gravity, but radius seems pretty obvious.

Anyone have bright ideas about why this mismatch might be?

I have now confirmed that, as indicated, the EDTS tool can return a list of systems within a sphere of a given set of co-ordinates. What shall we test first?

 

[daygobah]

Who knows this could be another alien race that is looking for the Thargoids for some reason.

 

[Painbeaver]

Guys, sorry if i'm wrong, but why people are still asking about original spectrogram ? I thought that it's solved already. It's representing an ammonia molecule. It was a key to find a FF UP, so we get a new signal, new puzzle to solve.
Or everyone thinks, that it has additional purpose ?

 

[Gombari Noah]

Anyone got the distance from Merope to Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 to hand? Just had an idea.

30.83Ly

 

[Derthek]

Guys, sorry if i'm wrong, but why people are still asking about original spectrogram ? I thought that it's solved already. It's representing an ammonia molecule. It was a key to find a FF UP, so we get a new signal, new puzzle to solve.
Or everyone thinks, that it has additional purpose ?

Not that I disagree, but can you show/prove how the UP diagram relates to ammonia?

 

[MadDogMurdock]

Guys, sorry if i'm wrong, but why people are still asking about original spectrogram ? I thought that it's solved already. It's representing an ammonia molecule. It was a key to find a FF UP, so we get a new signal, new puzzle to solve.
Or everyone thinks, that it has additional purpose ?

I'm not convinced that's more than a passing resemblance either.

 

[Stillsober]

Ok, I (might have) craked part of it :

if one looks at the pairs as fraction :

1) 979 / 1000 => 0.979
2) 231 / 250 => 0.924
3) 941 / 200 => 4.705
4) 1153 / 200 => 5.765

It turns out that if one takes merope 5c as a reference scale, and look at the fourth number :
5.765 * 1478 [km] = 8520 [km]

Turns out that 1478 km is Merope 5c radius and 8520 km is Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 radius.

I will look at the other parameters for other matches.

That is definitely good thinking

Michael

Guys, sorry if i'm wrong, but why people are still asking about original spectrogram ? I thought that it's solved already. It's representing an ammonia molecule. It was a key to find a FF UP, so we get a new signal, new puzzle to solve.
Or everyone thinks, that it has additional purpose ?

MB more or less said this is along the right train of thought.
I agree but we still don't know what some of it means.