Looks like the BBC, Ars Technica et al have been reading Galnet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36865212 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/...ers-inch-closer-to-solving-games-big-mystery/
'The message':
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/YawVY9G.jpg
Sorry if this has been discussed and I've missed it - just noticed something - the image appears geometrically balanced, but one element is not - the intersect line in the bottom right quadrant ('step 1') doesn't appear to be 45 degrees - it doesn't align symmetrically to the grid. Is this is a meaningful angle that we have been given? Any thoughts about how we could use this? See below:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8thoVWst81pd3J5cG1vaDFNMEk
Speculation on the 'steps', any thoughts welcome with this, please correct me if I'm wrong. The order of the steps can't be confirmed, but I'm using the idea that it's binary. Each quadrant contains a distinct message or instruction, so I'm going with the idea that there are steps or stages to this message. If so, at what point are we currently at in this sequence?
Step 1: Bottom right quadrant - intersect line within the sphere, with a specific angle provided - but to where, and to what purpose? To locate a centrepoint on 5C or elsewhere?
Step 2: Top left quadrant - this could represent a signal being sent off-world. Could this have happened already? Could the UAs have received a signal from somewhere on 5C? and that's why they now point there?
Step 3: Top right quadrant - this could represent a signal being sent from space to the surface - the two lines could suggest a response broadcast to the single line of the initial broadcast in Step 1? Could this be the UP? Do we need to get the UP into a specific place to trigger something on the surface? We may already be trying to solve this step.
Step 4: Bottom right quadrant - another angle provided, intersecting the centrepoint. This time the angle is represented outside of the sphere.
Also this 'a key' newsletter business. As plenty of others have said, it does seem like a hint to either the key of A, and/or some reason why it's green, but also that it's a key (!), rather than just a map. Therefore back to Step 3 - somewhere in the image and the hint there may be a way to get the UP into the right place to broadcast the 'key' - we need to keep searching for the lock.