degrees are only a unit of measurement. Any angle measurement system would be interchangable with another as it's all based on the physical world.
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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degrees are only a unit of measurement. Any angle measurement system would be interchangable with another as it's all based on the physical world.
I had that thought like, last week. Sidewinder Rocket League after this ruin craziness is over? We could use 4 guys in Anacondas as goal posts!
So on your given body of preferance you would search :-
32/64
32/-32
32/-128
32/128
-32/64
-32/-32
-32/-128
-32/128
64/32
64/-32
64/128
64/-128
-64/32
-64/-32
-64/128
-64/-128
Is that what you mean ?
Yes, but the 32;64 hypothesis relies on the fact that the number of degrees is a power of 2. that is not a universal property across all measurement systems.
That's what I'm thinking and now using. From FDev's point of view it's simple but people have to do work to find the sites.
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Which angle measurement system this would not work in? I through quaternary would.
Mathematics, whatever you call your units is universal. While another species wont use the name degrees they will have something analogous. Also, what Madwax said
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^ 2 based soley on CMDR Dreamstates calculations. his 31.xxx.64.xx and our ruin at 31.xxx 128. It's a theory with reasonable lack of tinfoil. I'm game to fly back out and try it. If I waste a few more hours so be it. I'll also visit the brain trees
Mathematics, whatever you call your units is universal. While another species wont use the name degrees they will have something analogous. Also, what Madwax said
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^ 2 based soley on CMDR Dreamstates calculations. his 31.xxx.64.xx and our ruin at 31.xxx 128. It's a theory with reasonable lack of tinfoil. I'm game to fly back out and try it. If I waste a few more hours so be it. I'll also visit the brain trees
The aliens I have met uses relations between sets to determine values. And so do we humans, just that most of us forgot what we relate our numbers to.
0,1,e,phi,pi, fingers ... etc etc.
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^ 2 based soley on CMDR Dreamstates calculations. his 31.xxx.64.xx and our ruin at 31.xxx 128. It's a theory with reasonable lack of tinfoil. I'm game to fly back out and try it. If I waste a few more hours so be it. I'll also visit the brain trees
Just relised we need to check 0 as well.
if you are doing this in gw-v b2-4 and get a google doc to cross-check between anyone testing this then i'll help out, but tired of looking at canyons.
going to d101. if anyone else is out there checking around, let me know so we can coordinate our efforts.
on another note, i have a feeling that once we find one or two more sites, the puzzle will solve itself and we can find the remaining ones.
fun stuff
on another note, i have a feeling that once we find one or two more sites, the puzzle will solve itself and we can find the remaining ones.
fun stuff
I dont belive EDs galaxy rotates
The Guardians like equilateral triangles. Six equilateral triangles can be organized into a circle that divides the circumference into 6 equal parts. So it is likely that whatever angular measure they use, it is divisible by 6. Since our 360 degrees is also divisible by 6, our degrees and their degrees are at least proportional.
It is also likely they would define some latitude/longitude coordinate scheme that references sites on the surface to the rotational axis and equator, if the position were important to sky visibility. They could use something completely different to reference locations on a sphere, like a soccer ball hexagonal pattern. This makes a lot of sense but it does not relate well to the axis of rotation or the equator.
What they would not use is our longitude reference. We arbitrarily have the site located at 128 degrees. They don't know this, and even we don't know what the zero point is referenced to. They probably have the site located at their zero.
It is also likely they would define some latitude/longitude coordinate scheme that references sites on the surface to the rotational axis and equator, if the position were important to sky visibility. They could use something completely different to reference locations on a sphere, like a soccer ball hexagonal pattern. This makes a lot of sense but it does not relate well to the axis of rotation or the equator.
What they would not use is our longitude reference. We arbitrarily have the site located at 128 degrees. They don't know this, and even we don't know what the zero point is referenced to. They probably have the site located at their zero.
Revised picture - I tried applying the compass to it, but gave up because the picture isn't amazing at all for trying to place one on top of (the camera is off the centre of the "key" as I call it in the picture below, because the original screen shot wasn't taken directly overhead of the round symbol).
Hopefully this may satisfy you if you needed confirmation
EDIT: Updated with a bit more info.
Hopefully this may satisfy you if you needed confirmation
EDIT: Updated with a bit more info.
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This. Our system maps are really simplistic, we cant see the whole system moving.. and planets orbiting each other. Maybe we should just Super cruise... and analyse the orbitlines of the 4 systems.
Aliens might be alien enough to use RADIANS to describe angles.
But the angles between planets are constantly changing. Unless FDev planned on us discovering and solving the Ruins in enough time to see the proper orbital angles, this isn't useful.
But the absolute distance between stellar bodies is less subject to change, right? They are more constant; a better target for long term planning.
The ruins are on the planets and that is all. Fdev is busy fleshing out the create-a-sim equivalent for the next update and they already past the promised release dates. They wouldnt bother with designing and implementing anything new for the xenohenge puzzle.
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