New red-orange dot approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute-- Thargoid mothership?

[Obsidian Ant]

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/x1v0w8

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/x1v0w8/new_redorange_dot_approaching_the_bubble_at_08ly/



Unless I have missed it, it seems this hasn't been posted on the forum yet (strangely).


Also:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asKFxQ2JoVM

 

[St0rmFury]

Alright, anyone knows how long it takes to build a death star?

Asking for a friend.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

There's some discussion in the more alien-focused parts of the forum ... looks like after longer observation the initial speed estimate was too high, but I haven't seen how it was calculated in the first place.

 

[St0rmFury]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/x26ail/brightened_for_higher_visand_cuz_my_app/

Someone made a time lapse of the suspicious looking dot over an hour.

 

[Vardaugas]

Have we determined a heading yet or is it just roughly towards the bubble?

 

[Northpin]

Alright, anyone knows how long it takes to build a death star?

Asking for a friend.

Much much much much longer than it takes me to fill my carrier with tritium and go for an exploration trip on the other side of the galaxy

 

[varonica]

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/x26ail/brightened_for_higher_visand_cuz_my_app/

Someone made a time lapse of the suspicious looking dot over an hour.

That's a...remarkably...innacurate way to guage the speed of a distant object, unless you know for certain it is traveling at an angle directly at right angles to your position, so it would take multiple different measurements from multiple different angles using a fixed tool to actually tell anything at all, I expect this is why the estimated speed has been updated.

 

[Factabulous]

That's a...remarkably...innacurate way to guage the speed of a distant object, unless you know for certain in is traveling at an angle directly at right angles to your position, so it would take multiple different measurements from multiple different angles using a fixed tool to actually tell anything at all, I expect this is why the speed has been updated.

And they're on a FC, orbiting a star ...

 

[varonica]

And they're on a FC, orbiting a star ...

Yes, but is the distant object moving across your path, towards you at an angle, or even away? You need to determine those factors before you can assign any sort of speed estimate.

 

[Factabulous]

Yes, but is the distant object moving across your path, towards you at an angle, or even away? You need to determine those factors before you can assign any sort of speed estimate.

Others are taking multiple sightings from different angles to work out the position. Not sure if they've reported any movement yet.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Much much much much longer than it takes me to fill my carrier with tritium and go for an exploration trip on the other side of the galaxy

With a carrier loaded full of tritium and another few thousand tonnes in the hold of altCMDRs docked on it I reckon there's about 120,000 LY of usable range. Might just be enough....

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

It does move if you watch it while completely stationary.
There's even a "hidden" POI in at least one system (I suspect several more) that matches "the image" and can be dropped on.
But that still doesn't mean it's covering distance towards the bubble, if it resets to the same location every time you jump...

 

[varonica]

It does move if you watch it while completely stationary.
There's even a "hidden" POI in at least one system (I suspect several more) that matches "the image" and can be dropped on.
But that still doesn't mean it's covering distance towards the bubble, if it resets to the same location every time you jump...

That doesn't surprise me, wait until after Thursday server reset and see if it has moved then, if it has then it is moving on server reset and it is something major, until then, hold your excitement.

 

[S3NS3R]

Well it might arrive at or near the bubble around the time of update 14, so you prob's got until then to run for your life to Colonia.

 

[WeComeInPeace]

It's kind of beautiful. Can we get near it?

 

[Florenus]

It's always fascinating how this game measures distance by how far light travels in a year, while at the same time it obviously travels at ultra-hyperspeed.

 

[WeComeInPeace]

It's always fascinating how this game measures distance by how far light travels in a year, while at the same time it obviously travels at ultra-hyperspeed.

Do your friends (like mine) also say that you think too much?

 

[Ashnak]

Someone else already pointed out a major flaw here - or maybe a question: how can this observation be made compatible with the finite speed of light? If it's moving fatser than light, we should only be able to see it (in real space in any case) when it reaches our position.

 

[Northpin]

It's kind of beautiful. Can we get near it?

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ofc we can (bzzzt)

 

[maehara]

Someone else already pointed out a major flaw here - or maybe a question: how can this observation be made compatible with the finite speed of light? If it's moving fatser than light, we should only be able to see it (in real space in any case) when it reaches our position.

Physically impossible, but narratively necessary.