I need help Commanders!

Obtuse

Obtuse
As some of you may know from previous UA threads I was considering the possibility of the WOW signal (1977 radio transmission from 200LYs away) having something to do with it, after much searching I could not find a connection.

However! I did find this on the Seti forums http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=61087 (not a Rick roll this time, I promise!)

I tried putting these into the Galactic Map but to no avail, does anyone know or would care to help me try to figure out where it might be in game? FD likes to put some real life stuff into the game and with this being the only event we've had of "contact" I would like to think they implemented something about it.

So if anyone is down with trying to find it let me know!

(my current theories are a static UA or some other artifact spawn point, a derelict ship (origins unknown), the ever popular Thargoids, or possibly the area in which the multi generation star ship from earlier game lore thats been lost in space.)

All I can pinpoint is its more than likely somewhere in the Sagittarii sector.
 
Last edited:

specialsymbol

specialsymbol
The WOW-Signal was most likely a glitch, but I'm not really up to date on that issue. Maybe another microwave.

Someone noted that if you speed up the transmission (UA, not WOW) you get variously pitched notes - morse code basically.

I jotted down the morse code, but I cannot make any sense out of it.

It's -.-.--.-..-.---..--.-.--..--.-.--.-
 

Obtuse

Obtuse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

If the wiki can be trusted (and thats a big IF)
"
The Big Ear telescope was fixed and used the rotation of the Earth to scan the sky. At the speed of the Earth's rotation, and given the width of the Big Ear's observation "window", the Big Ear could observe any given point for just 72 seconds. A continuous extraterrestrial signal, therefore, would be expected to register for exactly 72 seconds, and the recorded intensity of that signal would show a gradual increase for the first 36 seconds—peaking when the signal reached the center of Big Ear's observation "window"— and then a gradual decrease.
Therefore, both the length of the Wow! signal, 72 seconds, and the shape of the intensity graph may correspond to an extraterrestrial origin, as opposed to a stray terresterial signal being picked up by the telescope.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal#cite_note-space_com-5"]" "[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal#cite_note-space_com-5"]further research showed an Earth-borne signal to be very unlikely, given the requirements of a space-borne reflector being bound to certain unrealistic requirements to sufficiently explain the signal.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal#cite_note-10"][10][/URL] Also, it is problematic to propose that the 1420 MHz signal originated from Earth since this is within the "protected spectrum": a bandwidth reserved for astronomical purposes in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit"

[/URL][/SUP]"This region of the sky lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star group Chi Sagittarii, and about 3.5 degrees south of the plane of the ecliptic. Tau Sagittarii is the closest easily visible star."

As for including the expansion rate for 40 years I honestly don't know, my math skills are deplorable and I don't even know how to properly input the given information into an equation to give the answer, hence why I'm asking for help from the community :D
 

Arry

Arry
Obtuse said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

If the wiki can be trusted (and thats a big IF)
"
The Big Ear telescope was fixed and used the rotation of the Earth to scan the sky. At the speed of the Earth's rotation, and given the width of the Big Ear's observation "window", the Big Ear could observe any given point for just 72 seconds. A continuous extraterrestrial signal, therefore, would be expected to register for exactly 72 seconds, and the recorded intensity of that signal would show a gradual increase for the first 36 seconds—peaking when the signal reached the center of Big Ear's observation "window"— and then a gradual decrease.
Therefore, both the length of the Wow! signal, 72 seconds, and the shape of the intensity graph may correspond to an extraterrestrial origin, as opposed to a stray terresterial signal being picked up by the telescope.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal#cite_note-space_com-5"]" "[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal#cite_note-space_com-5"]further research showed an Earth-borne signal to be very unlikely, given the requirements of a space-borne reflector being bound to certain unrealistic requirements to sufficiently explain the signal.[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal#cite_note-10"][10][/URL] Also, it is problematic to propose that the 1420 MHz signal originated from Earth since this is within the "protected spectrum": a bandwidth reserved for astronomical purposes in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit"

"This region of the sky lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star group Chi Sagittarii, and about 3.5 degrees south of the plane of the ecliptic. Tau Sagittarii is the closest easily visible star."

As for including the expansion rate for 40 years I honestly don't know, my math skills are deplorable and I don't even know how to properly input the given information into an equation to give the answer, hence why I'm asking for help from the community :D
Click to expand...

Do you think the other feller, has finished work yet?

Arry.
 

Holven

Holven
40 years is nothing. But, this is the year 3301, commander and knowing the thoroughness of FD, I expect you need to calculate for that amount of time... still not much on a galactic scale. Universal expansion does not figure into this at all.. stellar drift, however, does.

Tau Sagittarii is the closest star to that location.. visible from Earth, but that star is still only about 122 ly away (according to some starmaps, haven't check which map they've chosen in here. HIP mostly, it seems.) You need to draw a line from Sol, through Tau Sagittarii and on for about another 80 ly.. then search at least everything in a 50 ly radius from that point.

Best of luck!
 

Deleted member 38366

D
-- Deleted --
 
Last edited by a moderator:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom