Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the UP sonogram meant to be the key to understanding the UP transmission?
Don't the numbers in the sonogram correspond to a number in the transmission? And then each quarter of the central part of the sonogram then gives a visual symbol of what the corresponding part of the UP transmission relates to (the planets gravity, etc)? And this is how it was meant to be the key?
Isn't it just that what actually happened is that things worked in reverse and rather than the UP spectrogram being the key to working out the UP transmission, the UP transmission was decided first and that acted as the key to understanding the sonogram?
No, that explanation of the UP sonogram is not satisfying (IMO). It barely works when you know the solution and is not at all obvious if we were meant to work that solution out from the puzzle. Another strike against it is that MB never acknowledged it (he didn't always acknowledge solutions but he often did, e.g. with the UA ship drawings).
I understood it that way too - the coincidences are to high ->
4 "purred" information groups representing Temp, Grav, Radius and Atmospheric composition - 4 symbols on the UP Sono
actually if You look at the drawn one I still think in Group I-- (the two lines) aren´t drawn correctly one line goes to the body, the second one stops shortly before (in original sono) - for me indicating the stuff between the end of lines > Atmosphere
for4 the rest of pictograms i seriously think either the devs mixed up the binaries are the order of chirps in the sound.
Upper left picto should represent temp (Infra-red radiating from the planet) but is marked with -I- = 2 as Temp in the UP Sound is after Purr 1, upper right (picto something pulling to the surface) is marked -II = 3 although Group 2 in sound and finally lower right (Picto clearly shows the radius of the body) has --I = 1 despite Radius is in Purr Group 3....
If your explanation relies on "the devs got something wrong" then there is a high chance that your explanation is incorrect. It's possible - the devs aren't infallible - but Occam's Razor and all that. Especially since I'd expect a mea culpa from the devs if that were the case and they've never said anything.
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