Musings on UA

[pprovart]

Its fabulous to see the community to come together to analyse the UA. Some really great thinkers out there..

Here are but a few musings on what i have seen and heard so far, which i think could steer the direction of analysis if we step back a little.

1) The visual shape and design of the UA i've seen lead me to think they work off base 3 rather than base 10. (note someone did notice a 3/6 pattern in the audio track)
2) The first things a civilisation sends out into the unknown are in essence probes. Thus these UA should be treated as alien science platforms collecting data.
3) It was briefly pointed out by someone else, that the sounds could be a Voyager like message etc. So lets look at it from this angle.
4) In the video there are LOTS of small blue things buzzing around the UA. What could these be..
5) If the message contains any co-ordinates, then we cant use SOL as the center, we should look to the center of the galaxy, or maybe the message contains details of the 'center' of reference for any co-ordiantes contained in the message.
6) Lets take guidance from the work on Voyager I & II on how they would communicated with Aliens, and then apply a similar logic to the UA.

I'm just stepping back a little and thinking how any first encounter with an Alien civilisation might actually manifest itself, and the whole probe/voyager thing seems to fit.

We could therefore assume that the message containes enough information to help us locate where in space the Alien civilisation is, but using mathematics as the basis to analyse..

Just some musings of an armchair CMDR, who is very intrigued but currently not the time to delve deeply in!

ZT

 

[scorpyon]

5) If the message contains any co-ordinates, then we cant use SOL as the center, we should look to the center of the galaxy, or maybe the message contains details of the 'center' of reference for any co-ordiantes contained in the message.

I've been thinking a little on this.
If this is the origin species' first space exploration trips and if they are anything like humans (Characteristically speaking), then any coordinate system they decide to use would like begin with 0,0,0 referencing their own home planet.
Therefore, without a known point of origin to start from, then placing the coordinates becomes exponentially harder to pinpoint.
Food for thought, at least...

 

[Raf von Thorn]

I've been thinking a little on this.
If this is the origin species' first space exploration trips and if they are anything like humans (Characteristically speaking), then any coordinate system they decide to use would like begin with 0,0,0 referencing their own home planet.
Therefore, without a known point of origin to start from, then placing the coordinates becomes exponentially harder to pinpoint.
Food for thought, at least...

How about this then: The 0.0.0 coordinate is the system we are looking for (origin of the "probe") and the coordinates it is broadcasting are the system it is in at the moment...

 

[The Natoorat]

I've been thinking a little on this.
If this is the origin species' first space exploration trips and if they are anything like humans (Characteristically speaking), then any coordinate system they decide to use would like begin with 0,0,0 referencing their own home planet.
Therefore, without a known point of origin to start from, then placing the coordinates becomes exponentially harder to pinpoint.
Food for thought, at least...

Hmm... How about the centre of the galaxy (Sag A*) instead? It would be a great candidate for 0.0.0 coordinates.

 

[scorpyon]

Is there a feasible way of discerning what coordinates you are currently at in space at the moment, though?
Would having a set of coordinates currently be findable in game?

(I've not seen any coordinates used anywhere that I can think of, but in fairness, I could have just overlooked them as not seeming that useful at present...)

 

[CMDR Moortz]

We aren't receiving these canisters from benign sources however.

We are stealing them from Federal ships. We don't know where they are getting them from.

I agree that there have been some great theories, but most of them begin with completely spurious statements that are being taken as fact - we can't for certain look at these UA's as voyager type probes, because they have not turned up in the fashion of an intersystem/intergalactic probe, or alien messaging system as far as we know.

We have to look at them for what they are. Unknown Artefacts, with strange visual and auditory properties that the Feds are transporting between systems for some purpose, alongside such goods as Hafnium 178, Battle Weapons, Haz suits etc etc.

 

[Raf von Thorn]

Look, its safe to assume that if there are any coordinates invloved, the Thargoids (or any aliens actually) will consider either 0.0.0 designation for either Sag A or their homeworld. If its Sag A its pretty obvious how to find it, if its the latter, then you want to take the broadcasted coordinates (if there are any) as the point in the space the probe is in now. For example, if probe would broadcast 100,-100,100 point, we should look for their homeworld in -100,100-100 from the point the probe is at the moment. The unit should be encrypted in the signal as well, me thinks.