Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 10 - The Canonn
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I'm with this idea.
Most Thargoid attacks and battles have apparently been in the vast gulf between systems, but the major (in game) flaw with this idea is the speeds at which our ships move beyond the system and the 1kLs range on supercruise searches.
Unless it popped up with a "mission critical" USS (or other implanted feature) everyone would have to double back and check every Signal Source and risk adjusting the flight path off the intended route.
The simpler the system, the less error there is in it.. that why they use binary notation. Also mathematics is universal language and this why we can easily interpret.
FINE, take a dump on my layman theories. Ima go cry now.
Or they realise the full security horror of dropping massive, unreadablly minified JavaScript libraries written by monkeys into their system.
Had some coffe my self.
I'm starting to think that the spectrogram image represents a hyper jump, from the bottom circle to the top circle.
The second number should then be the lenght of the jump from the system where the spectrogram was found to the target system.
I think that gives a single arrival point?
Snap! (see earlier)
Or...
It's related to the message that was played. I can't remember what they say, but do they relate to a system?
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Do we need to find more live facilites then, are we positive there is only one live base to get the catalyst spectros from?
Does an Unknown Link point in a particular direction when dropped in space?
So, yeah I was thinking this too - and it would also mean that both Merope on the left and the 'other' system on the right are both equidistant from the source location and the target location.
Because distances 1 and 3 define the lengths of the hypotenuses of two right-angled triangles where one of the other sides' length is equal to half that 2nd distance.
Edit: Or, it just makes a diamond which has the same dimensions top and bottom
(that pint of coffee is only just kicking in!)
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UL doesn't appear to orient itself in any particular fashion (after multiple drops with different ship orientation) nor does it react to honking or EMP.
Is there a checklist of things that people tried doing with the alien artifacts?
can anyone remind where from we did get this numbers? And how. wanna try myself with source
The UL transmit a coded message similar to the UP. The coded message souds
like an old printer or old harddrive arms motion.
The UL message has three blocks of two numbers in octal coded on three bits.
Listening/looking at the transmission you get the binary triplets that form the message.
converting to decimal you get :
18/125 --| UA
31/1000 -|- UL
945/1000 -|| UP
From the UP we know that distances are measured with 1 = 871.012824 lyr
So, in effect what we got here is three distances from known locations : Col70, Merope and HIP14909(?)
Distances from three reference points is a valid way to encode a point in space (though having more cut the uncertainties).
Plus, this interpretation fits nicely with the sonogram drawing :
the triple wavy thing represent distances, and it remembers us that UA refers to merope, UP to col70. The link refers to the source (HIP14909).
The three "distances" point to the "target" (circle at the top).
Also :
Two predictions :
Congratz to Wade & all for the nice work
like an old printer or old harddrive arms motion.
The UL message has three blocks of two numbers in octal coded on three bits.
Listening/looking at the transmission you get the binary triplets that form the message.
converting to decimal you get :
18/125 --| UA
31/1000 -|- UL
945/1000 -|| UP
From the UP we know that distances are measured with 1 = 871.012824 lyr
So, in effect what we got here is three distances from known locations : Col70, Merope and HIP14909(?)
Distances from three reference points is a valid way to encode a point in space (though having more cut the uncertainties).
Plus, this interpretation fits nicely with the sonogram drawing :
the triple wavy thing represent distances, and it remembers us that UA refers to merope, UP to col70. The link refers to the source (HIP14909).
The three "distances" point to the "target" (circle at the top).
Also :
- the UA is associated with --| in the drawing, and merope. so : line 1 = merope to target
- the UL is associated with -|- in the drawing, and sits between bottom and top circles. so : line 2 = source to target
- the UP is associated with -|| in the drawing, and col70. so : line 3 = col70 to target
Two predictions :
- The system on the right will match the col70 sector system map. The system in question is a brown dwarf, so the picture depicted is credible
- If we find and other active site, the UL will give an other distance in the second line.
Congratz to Wade & all for the nice work
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Just keep clicking back on the 'source' links and you'll get there - well done to the CMDRs for keeping traceability, now we just have to find something!
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Now, everytime there is real Science to do, here you are Wace
Amazing work, that's what I meant with "We need a true scientist now"....
+REP
DAMNIT Wace...I was just triangulating systems with a Canonn member when I refreshed the forums and saw your post!
Let me get that straight:
That'd mean we're searching for a system that is:
125,4 lys away from
27 lys away from
823 lys away from Col 70 (assuming that the largest distance is the distance to Col 70 as Merope and HIP 14909 are fairly close).
Is that correct?
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As far as I can tell, yes.
I will go so far as saying that the sonogram drawing tells us that the first coordinate is the distance to merope.
(see my updated previous post)
Be aware that due to a big mess up, I don't have my won data, I use what I can get from the thread so
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