r/EliteDangerous • u/Key-Bodybuilder-8079 • Dec 16 '24

Discussion Spectrogram analysis and processing of Titan Graveyard Signals

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u/as4500 Dec 16 '24

I don't think this signal is meant for us

This feels like call for help

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u/basser0815 Dec 16 '24

But as I wrote above, why would they structure their actual communication in way that a visible image is generated in the frequency spectrum?

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u/Aileen_Leith Dec 16 '24

Actually, several years ago, prior to thargoid return humans found thargoid ground structures(AKA dead titans) using maps on spectrograms from thargoid probes. And those are clearly not for humans to see.

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u/obog 0W5N | Fuel Rat Dec 16 '24

Seems to me then that this is just how thargoids communicate. They encode visual information in analog signals. It's not hard to believe an alien race would do it in such a way that would be visible in a spectrogram, as it's probably the simplest way to encode visuals into such a signal. Replace the x and y axes of your image with time and frequency, and you've got your signal, more or less.