Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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Ben_BigBen

Ben_BigBen
OK, so I'm up to speed on the audio message, no repetitions over the course of about an hour but is there any reason it's not their encyclopedia ? it's been mentioned before about the Alpha - Epsilon signals that they are cultural, biological etc. so why not a book's worth of info ?

It got me thinking FD might be Stargate fans :) http://www.rdanderson.com/stargate/entries/ancientlanguage.htm - close but no cigar.

I really think the Bernard's loop, Magelanic clouds looks like a match on the ruins too - I had been wondering if we'd ever get to visit the LMC and look back on the Milky Way from a high plane. Shame the stars don't really line up with the pyramids though.
 
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HailVectron

HailVectron
Morning all. What's the overnight scoop - so I can catch up? The last thing I was doing was looking over the Alpha system from Mengy's projected map. Is that still valid, because I have to say, the system looks like a bust. A good few landable planets, but they all look pretty uninteresting - no volcanism on any of them, they are all very cold ice + rock lumps.
 

rizal72

rizal72
Silaz said:
I may be a very poor unemployed graphic designer, and admittedly it was a drunk miner who suggested using a laser scanner and retail barcodes, but we need someone who stacks shelves at Walmart now to help read these barcodes...

Barcodes. Hmm. Very cute FD.

http://carbryck.com/EDSCREENS/4_Signal_Component_Sets.jpg

These are the component sets that I chose to turn into what hopefully resemble retail barcodes, enough that someone who works in retail with moderate experience and an acuity for numbers should not have too much trouble decoding them.

These codes use 6 individual bars of varying weights. Light. Medium. Heavy. Very Heavy. Double Light, and Double light long.
These have been directly translated from what I called Short Top. Tall Bar. Wide Bottom Bar. Big Bar. Slim Double Bar and Deep Slim Double Bar, respectively.

I have tried to incorporate spacing to be proportionate with the original spacing in the spectragraphs, and still look a bit like what I expect a retail barcode should look like. But it was mainly guesswork. If there is any error in reading, it may be this.

Hopefully if the supermarket attendant is suitably numerate, they may be able to error check based on their experience...

I don't know for sure if this is the correct assumption, and this of couse is only a small sample of what could potentially be an unlimited number of numbers, due to it's randomly inserted nature. I would hazard a guess though, that if we recognise these sample numbers from the retailesque barcodes, then that's half the mystery solved. We shouldn't need to examine too many more component sets to find some kind of order from them. If it is prime numbers, then it may well be the case that these ancient aliens were not just intelligent, but also had a civilisation and culture based on consumerism, similar to our own...

http://carbryck.com/EDSCREENS/BARCODES.jpg

- Si
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Very clever analysis CMDR.

Your images are on the Front Page for posterities. ;)
 

Erid

Erid
Some my random thoughts:
- obelisks are "broken" and all this random patterns are simply noise - need to look on "all on/off" picture;
- from relic pillar we can see that pattern is mirrored horizontally - it can lead to some sort of Triangular array.

discuss
 

Glastinghouse

Glastinghouse
I'm currently scouting Col 173 Sector, Planet 15 F. To me it is quite similar to Synuefe 1 B:
- "only" half the temperature of 150K
- a moon, as the only planet with a moon in the system
- lines up very well with Barnards Loop
- same surface structure and color (yellowish/brownish)
- similar radius to 1 B (1.200km)
- no volcanism
- almost the same gravity of 0.15G
- very similar amounts of rock and metal
- orbital period of 8.1
 
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Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
Erid said:
Some my random thoughts:
- obelisks are "broken" and all this random patterns are simply noise - need to look on "all on/off" picture;
- from relic pillar we can see that pattern is mirrored horizontally - it can lead to some sort of Triangular array.
discuss
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After looking a lot (too much) at the obelisk patterns, I don't think they are random, because :

  • The whole sequence is really a loop. Each state differs at most by 5 switchings, most by only 1 or 2.
  • They are rather long pauses ~10 frames between some parts of the sequence.
  • The sequence is rather "long" with 96 states, enough for a message, and contrary to the barcode thing, it loops. There is the marking on the relic and the ones on the base of the pillar. IMO way to much stuff to be a red herring.

I am currently testing some hypothesis that at the very least might help discard some possibilities.

The whole sequence might just be a linear-feedback shift register producing a maddening red-herring. But that would be really nasty XD.
 

Nutter

Nutter
Morning Commanders, i've checked the first page for a long sound sample, nothing there? Do we have a long recording I can Analyse ?
I was after at least 30 mins - I have the message start and end but a gap needs filling. Can someone point me to a longer recording?

Nutter

o7
 

rizal72

rizal72
Nutter said:
Morning Commanders, i've checked the first page for a long sound sample, nothing there? Do we have a long recording I can Analyse ?
I was after at least 30 mins - I have the message start and end but a gap needs filling. Can someone point me to a longer recording?

Nutter

o7
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Yes there is, I forgot to put it on the FP.

I'm doing it soon.
 

Erid

Erid
Few days ago I tried to analyze relic texture. I thinking it is a barcode but i'm too lazy and lost interest in it :D
 

rizal72

rizal72
iamgingerbear said:
This is that place, post it in the thread and it'll be added to the front page.
beacons normally send a message out on or just after the hour, although they can be at half past the hour as well.
Go to the location, sit around the speculated time and listen for numbers.
Also double check the beacon you found isn't located on the front page so as not to waste your time.

link to 1h recording of obelisk: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9uhohtdv7tsho9s/Obelisk.flac?dl=0

if anyone wants it in another format then just ask and i'll get it for you.
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Here it is, thanks to Ginger Bear ;)
If you could convert it as mp3 it would be really appreciated...
 
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