The first half of the video pretty well demonstrates how alien the Golden Disk might be to other life that finds it. It's a noble attempt by humanity, but there's no guarantee that all - if any - of it will be understood.
Or perhaps it will be received by an equally or more advanced civilisation that is wondering why we are so blatantly broadcasting our celestial location.
I like this one a lot. There's no scary monster or extradimensional trap: just an implication, that you slowly get more and more details about to build up the horryfying realisation. Definitely reminiscent of some of the classics that made the genre great.
Goal is pretty clear - if a civilization solves the initial puzzles and points a laser at that thing, that civilization just gave itself away and the box tells its host planet “we’ve got a live one here”. Pretty ingenious. No need to explore the galaxy yourself for intelligent life when intelligent life will give itself away. Scorpius prob isn’t the ultimate destination, but a relay station, so no one knows where the signals really go. Dark Forest mechanism? Perhaps.
Someone else also opined that it might be Dark Forest disinformation. An attempt to provoke sledgehammer civilizations into swinging wildly all around them, revealing them 'brightly.'
So, it sounds as if SCP-1947 may or may not function as a "sensor network" for an unknown tech advanced civilization. The speculation that multiple 1947-Ls are scattered around the galaxy, transmitting a code that's relatively easy to find, mixed with the primary object SCP-1947 openly transmitting, appearing to give specific instructions and directions to use an Ultraviolet laser on the object.. Point to this being a "sensor network" possibly being used to point out intelligent life for said unknown alien civilization who are able to codebreak. This SCP reminds me a lot of the Fungal Network anomaly players can use or dispose of in Stellaris, while not exactly the same, sort of similar. The anomaly revolved around discovering a species of extraterrestrial fungus on a planet, the fungas appears to transmit and receive information from all of its own species, even if it's on another planet. Making a sensor network. It's later discovered this fungal network is sending information to a specific constellation of stars across the void of space. Implying this fungal network is the creation of an Alien civilization to get eyes on the universe. potentially sending these fungal spores to countless planets to different galaxies across the void of space, and that there is evidence that someone is listening.
Agreed, except it strikes me that the various iterations of SCP -1947 were not intended by their makers to sit on planetary surfaces. For a good part of the day, Scorpio is not visible from the surface of Earth, similarly it is not visible from other planets for parts of their rotation. The body of the planet will therefore absorb much of the transmissions. Also, once placed on the surface of a planet there is no guarantee that they will stay there given geological and ecological processes that alter the surface. The SCPs may be buried, be washed into a saltwater ocean that corrodes the shell and absorbs the signal or otherwise effectively disables them. For that matter, Earth’s atmosphere and weather tend to corrode things with their chemical composition over time even in cold, dry desert environments. (All of the above presumes that the electromagnetic signal is the primary signal and not just a side effect of a hypothetical neutrino, faster than light or other signal capable of passing through a planet.) If placed on a planet hosting a species like us there is also the risk that they will be smelted down and the material used for other purposes, or just cut up or otherwise destructively tested. We started messing around with “sky iron” meteorites with similar nickel-iron composition more than three thousand years ago, using them to craft artifacts like Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s iron dagger. Hence I think they were more likely originally placed in orbit around worlds that their makers found “interesting” according to unknown (to us) criteria. The fact that there are five known to exist on Earth’s surface suggests that they were particularly interested in Earth. It also suggests to me that they were originally placed in a constellation of orbits like GOS satellites are so that one or more would always have a clear line of transmission to Scorpio. Otherwise, if they were indeed meant to be found by species like us, the disappearance of the signal could be interpreted as meaning that the makers should come and investigate to see why they stopped transmitting, so shielding them so that they can’t transmit their signals might not have been the best idea. Makes me wonder if alternate universe versions of the Foundation which have space travel have found more of them orbiting or on the surfaces of other planets. (Some SCPs make better writing prompts than others.)
This is so cool, a civilization sends probes randomly in space, each containing a codified message that makes it seem so the makers want to make contact with whoever finds them, but actually none of the information about them is true, and you just activated the probe, they now know you are an intelligent species and where you are... Cool af concept with reference to actual messages we sent in to space and a touch of dark forest theory, i love it
Hmm, my first thought with this one is it's a boobytrap in a Dark Forest situation. You seed the probes with misleading information that's released via the microwave pulses that points to a dummy location and if that location goes "dark" then you have a "silent hunter" civilisation with the capacity to destroy a star (a major threat to your civilisation's longevity in a Dark Forest situation). By using different locations for each probe they can also effectively get a fuzzy location for the source of the hunter. You also have a trap for the curious species which switches it into an active mode that aims it at a disposable location where you have a listening post or is home to a known hostile species. This means you can locate the source and also potentially get another species to function as your hatchetman to destroy the "careless" species that set off the trap. Honestly, if this is a Dark Forest scenario then I'd argue that this is an active Keter situation but one who's time to criticality will be measures in thousands of years.
It's essentially Foundation canon that if we survive to the next milennium, humanity will outgun anything in space. The evil star on approach to Earth? Humanity will either FTL away or blow it up. "EINSTEIN WAS WRONG, FUCK YOU AND GOODBYE"
Me and my wife have seen ALMOST all the videos on this channel and we would LOVE to see you do your "Extra Credit" bit on more of your videos. We love your videos and really hope you'd consider adding those in, it was a really great idea! ❤
@@-0rbital- video stadistics showed him most people (like 80% i think) clicked off the video at the extra credit section, so it was harming his retention (yt doesnt recommend videos with lower retention, an in turn, less views, creating a negative feedback loop) so he deemed it not worth to keep adding it in.
@@-0rbital- The only one that I clearly remember having it is scp 2747 - as above so below, that is because the extra credit section on that one is as long as the main article itself haha.
This might well be a world-ending Keter. One interpretation-which the foundation apparently considers as enough of a possibility as to shield it-is that it could be a berserker beacon, meant to be intriguing enough to investigate and should the target display a critical level of knowledge start calling home to invite attack
@@defies4626yeah but it's fairly low-key and vague in its presentation, the article isn't desperately trying to tell us it's 15 billion times more powerful than god and exists in all possible realities and is definitely the most powerful scp and is really really really cool.
Especially ones liel this that appear to be a harmless extraterrestrial species, researching earth. Either because they know that were here, or because they want to find other life, i like how theres no indication if they know or if they just tossed these things into space to see if anyone figured them out.
I am begging on my hands and knees for you to make another 45 minute video Edit: I hope one day he does 3989, as it's the first SCP I ever read, and it's what got me into the foundation stuff
This is cool that starts off like alien Voyager but then becomes slightly more sinister when it's revealed that there are multiple copies with different star charts and diagrams of the species meaning that they are broadcasting misleading info save for the means by which to trigger it to send a signal back. Basically we fell for the trap. And we still have no clue who is actually receiving the signal. I also like the unsolved mystery of the white scattered dot pattern like they're tryingI say something obvious like a QR code or bar code or some fundamental aspect of life in the universe involving patterns that we just aren't privy to understanding. Or maybe they're just dumb aliens assuming we'd get it. Like our including DNA helixes on Voyager might not make any sense to a life form that doesn't have DNA like our own.
I think they targeted different regions on the planet to survey where the most advanced humans are. Given that it's sort of cost-prohibitive to go to another star system for resources, they are probably not coming to Earth, rather they're doing some sort of research. The author of the article might have had some other rationale in mind.
@crabofchaos7881 potential berserker probe beacons. The idea being that once a civ can figure out what it's saying, it rings a bell to call in the culling agents. One wouldn't want to dispose of a perfectly useful biosphere before you have to, of course.
what if the spheres themsleves have some sort of anomalous explosive property? so that when a signal is sent by an alien race they just send a signal back that makes em go boom and whatever race has the spheres is gone.
The next logical conclusion is to use the “random array” pictures together to try and figure out a coded image, right? I wish these things got updates lmao
It's an Arecibo trap, the information is bogus except for the means to trigger the return signal to it's creator, telling it that an intelligent life form exists and (likely) it's current location.
This comes at such a perfect time I worked my ass off my back is broke, and i just wanna shower and then sit... and nothing else for the rest of the evening
Funny if he got the wrong prime number(s), and properly arranged the message really says "Shop at Dave's for HUUUGE discounts", and the radio emissions are just transmitting all of humanity's credit card details to an interstellar dropshipper.
Some of the images reminded me of the symbols or the purpose of the symbols of those on the Voyager 1 space probe launched by NASA in 1977 (when I was 10), which I’m sure is intentional. It’s mission being to transmit useful data back to Earth. We have no idea how old these spheres are or where they came from. The species who sent them could have long died out, or evolved or devolved into another one. We don’t know if the purpose of the spheres is benign, but the images collected seem to convey a willingness to communicate using scientific information that exist as constants in our universe. I enjoyed this one a lot!
my interpretation is that it’s a real (in universe) species that exists that is deliberately transmitting false information in hopes that any sufficiently advanced enough species would decode some of the information so they take the bait and triggering the return broadcasts with UV light so they have their location revealed for unknown nefarious purposes. note the seemingly varying images being sent out by similar probes
Please make a catalog outside of UA-cam before you quit SCP. please... You sir, have genuinely impacted the WORLD with your narrations. Do not feel small for I am telling you, you are Great.
This one is awesome, ive never heard it before. It seems like the images might be a lie to get whoever finds it to expose themselves. I like that it transmits to Scorpius, I feel like that references the scorpions betrayal in the fable of the scorpion and the toad
I love entries like these, that are just really complex explanations of what is basically just an "ayy lmao" transponder. Saying "It's an alien spy device" wouldn't have made for a good story, but that's basically all it was, and just somehow the writing still makes it interesting. My compliments to whoever wrote this, this was fun and interesting.
It’s because fundamentally it tricks the writer into assuming it’s the alien golden disk, only to reveal and drop the implication it is an alien trap device and shatters the first expectation
So I literally listened to the whole video and realized I literally didn't hear any of it 🤣🤣 so tired I can't even multi task. But I'm restarting cause I watch every video. Love your channel bro. Keep up the awesome work
I see some people saying this anomaly is lying to people, that the images don't depict where they are. I'm not so certain. What's actually quite likely, is that each sphere is transmitting to a relay, not the home world. That's the detail you're supposed to figure out. Chances are the relay is some kind of Quantum Entanglement Device, or some anomalous tool, that permits transmissions that can ignore the limits of lightspeed. That relay may also be what launched the spheres in the first place. It fits with a model of how I believe we should do space exploration in the future. In real life, warp drives that let you go faster than light are probably not feasible. What could work is a self-replicating probe that sets up a network of linked QEDs across space. An intelligent species has decoded enough to activate the sphere, and it's pointing the way to the next step. Now you need to go to space, and find it.
Strange the planetary system and random dots images are different; it would seem to have taken more effort to program differences instead of duplicating the images, so obfuscation certainly seems to be intended.
Your videos capture SCP so well - the minimalist but impactful images with the voice acting to top it off. I have read SCP a fair bit but you always deliver a niche topic I haven't read before. Voice acting is phenomenal! Loving the new accent. I agree with others that another 45 minute + video would be more than welcome but ultimately, every video you put out is a pleasure to watch. I'm very grateful and hope you continue with this for a long while
My favorite SCPs read like an archive more than an adventure story. The thing in the archive has happened, been studied, then the findings added to the article. That makes SCPs like spatial anomalies, or hidden monsters so much more interesting than writing like its a TV show
I agree! Getting a slow, progressive description of something mysterious is far more in line with what I'd expect from SCP and its style than a longwinded narrative where those mentioned read like stock characters. That being said, I do have a soft spot for some of the longer ones, any kaktus or something like 7900, where the writing carries it. There's room for both but this kind of thing is definitely the preferred imo
Eagerly awaiting another big video to sink my teeth into, the short ones just dont hit the same. Do a channel poll if you’re worried about audience reception we all love it
I like this scp, it could be innocent, it could be good, could be evil, until those signals cause a response, we just don't know. We know some of the signals got out, so it might already be too late
I decoded the header for the transmission. After some basic telemetry and decryption overhead, the message begins with the heading, “To Serve Man”. Surely this must mean peaceful contact is imminent.
These strike me as the alien equivalent of the Voyager spacecraft with the data being akin to that on the golden disks. The reason why the star systems are changing in each unit is because they're sent 100's of years apart, each more advanced than the last one and sent in the same direction getting to Earth faster, arriving around the same time. Their star system is probably falling apart which is why there's fewer worlds on the other images and this is a cry for help to any other planet they'd deem inhabitable. By the time we'd reach them, they're possibly already gone.
I can't remember the scp number but it was basically an entity that had a fight with a researcher that was recorded on the containment procedures and no one can remember what it was in general only that they had a containment room for it and the sheet for it lol I always thought it was an interesting read and never see anyone make a video on it yet
Well, theres good news and bad news. The good news is that we finally solved the fermi paradox. The bad news is that we will soon be an answer to the fermi paradox.
muh? I worked in a lab with radio equipment. There has never been a point in human history where we had the ability to discriminate between 1415MHz and 1425MHz, had the ability to analyze digital data *but* were unable to detect 6000MHz. If I were given an "important object" even in 2009, transmitting unknown data, it wouldn't take me (or anyone with any competence) a year to realize that it had started transmitting at 6GHz. It would probably take me seconds, probably less if it were as important as a potentially alien transmitter. I think the writer wrote themselves into a corner here with their personal experience.
Theory, its not only extraterrestrial but quite possibly extra dimensional. Considering that they look and function the same yet show different variations of the same system.
This is my favourite type of SCP object. Not explicitly dangerous, not apocalyptic and frankly, not even inherently supernatural or malevolent. Just something odd. Something alien. The horror of it is only in the mystery and our own imagination of its implication about our place in the universe − and the notion that we may not be alone.
The article implies a Junior researcher playing with a Safe object. All the experienced, competent people are off caging monsters and backhacking mind viruses.
the idea that the foundation, as paranoid as it is, wouldn't immediately faraday cage a radio equipped voyager disk is pretty silly. hell, shouldn't initial experimentation be done at a secure location that would almost surely be faraday caged simply by virtue of being so heavily fortified (and probably deep underground)?
Oh I get it. Scorpius has 5 stars trailing off one side which corresponds to 5 spheres, though I'm seeing two different versions of the constellation online so unclear if that makes sense. The sphere's image 2 is different with superficially similar star maps in each because they populate nearby but different solar systems. Of course, looking at some of them like delta scorpii, beta scorpii, and pi scorpii, I'm not able to see any information that would make me think that's correct, but like the article said no part of scorpius appears to correspond to the data anyway. Most likely, that civilization is extinct, completely hidden (Dyson sphere?), or anomalously sent the spheres from an alternate universe. That's just my guess. While most of it is probably mysterious nonsense and not meant to be deciphered, I love that image 2, 3, and 5 keep up the trend of using prime numbers. Their metric system is divided into 7, not 10 like most humans would use. The star map has dots in groups of 2, 3, 5, etc. WAIT!!! It just occurred to me that Image 4 is the FOURTH image, which isn't a prime number! Either this image is intentionally garbled because it falls outside their paradigm or it's being used in some ritualistic way. Like what if the "taboo" number 4 needs to be treated in a specific way either as a result of their culture, superstition, or some greater threat we can't understand? The very fact that we're not such a prime number dependent species would imply that the 4th image can't be understood by us.
I love this one. It's an alien's version of the voyager golden record.
And it was sent with what seems to be bad intentions, unlike the voyager. Why else would they provide false information on all of the pictures?
Why people confuse Pioneer plaques and Voyager golden record?
more like bait.
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@@volo870 Well, it is also inspired by the Arecibo message
The first half of the video pretty well demonstrates how alien the Golden Disk might be to other life that finds it. It's a noble attempt by humanity, but there's no guarantee that all - if any - of it will be understood.
Or perhaps it will be received by an equally or more advanced civilisation that is wondering why we are so blatantly broadcasting our celestial location.
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Imagine if an alien species finds voyager, perfectly understood the Golden Record, only for them to not come visit.
@@ajstevens1652 classic Three Body Problem situation
@@KlaxontheImpailrhonestly depending on the species them not visiting might be better than them visiting
I like this one a lot. There's no scary monster or extradimensional trap: just an implication, that you slowly get more and more details about to build up the horryfying realisation. Definitely reminiscent of some of the classics that made the genre great.
Goal is pretty clear - if a civilization solves the initial puzzles and points a laser at that thing, that civilization just gave itself away and the box tells its host planet “we’ve got a live one here”. Pretty ingenious. No need to explore the galaxy yourself for intelligent life when intelligent life will give itself away.
Scorpius prob isn’t the ultimate destination, but a relay station, so no one knows where the signals really go.
Dark Forest mechanism? Perhaps.
Someone else also opined that it might be Dark Forest disinformation. An attempt to provoke sledgehammer civilizations into swinging wildly all around them, revealing them 'brightly.'
So, it sounds as if SCP-1947 may or may not function as a "sensor network" for an unknown tech advanced civilization. The speculation that multiple 1947-Ls are scattered around the galaxy, transmitting a code that's relatively easy to find, mixed with the primary object SCP-1947 openly transmitting, appearing to give specific instructions and directions to use an Ultraviolet laser on the object.. Point to this being a "sensor network" possibly being used to point out intelligent life for said unknown alien civilization who are able to codebreak.
This SCP reminds me a lot of the Fungal Network anomaly players can use or dispose of in Stellaris, while not exactly the same, sort of similar. The anomaly revolved around discovering a species of extraterrestrial fungus on a planet, the fungas appears to transmit and receive information from all of its own species, even if it's on another planet. Making a sensor network. It's later discovered this fungal network is sending information to a specific constellation of stars across the void of space. Implying this fungal network is the creation of an Alien civilization to get eyes on the universe. potentially sending these fungal spores to countless planets to different galaxies across the void of space, and that there is evidence that someone is listening.
I was gonna point out something similar to this but you beat me to it, and formatted far better too.
brethren moons from dead space moment
Reminds me of the spheres in Mass Effect 3 (removed content) DLC Leviathan.
Agreed, except it strikes me that the various iterations of SCP -1947 were not intended by their makers to sit on planetary surfaces. For a good part of the day, Scorpio is not visible from the surface of Earth, similarly it is not visible from other planets for parts of their rotation. The body of the planet will therefore absorb much of the transmissions.
Also, once placed on the surface of a planet there is no guarantee that they will stay there given geological and ecological processes that alter the surface. The SCPs may be buried, be washed into a saltwater ocean that corrodes the shell and absorbs the signal or otherwise effectively disables them. For that matter, Earth’s atmosphere and weather tend to corrode things with their chemical composition over time even in cold, dry desert environments.
(All of the above presumes that the electromagnetic signal is the primary signal and not just a side effect of a hypothetical neutrino, faster than light or other signal capable of passing through a planet.)
If placed on a planet hosting a species like us there is also the risk that they will be smelted down and the material used for other purposes, or just cut up or otherwise destructively tested. We started messing around with “sky iron” meteorites with similar nickel-iron composition more than three thousand years ago, using them to craft artifacts like Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s iron dagger.
Hence I think they were more likely originally placed in orbit around worlds that their makers found “interesting” according to unknown (to us) criteria. The fact that there are five known to exist on Earth’s surface suggests that they were particularly interested in Earth. It also suggests to me that they were originally placed in a constellation of orbits like GOS satellites are so that one or more would always have a clear line of transmission to Scorpio.
Otherwise, if they were indeed meant to be found by species like us, the disappearance of the signal could be interpreted as meaning that the makers should come and investigate to see why they stopped transmitting, so shielding them so that they can’t transmit their signals might not have been the best idea.
Makes me wonder if alternate universe versions of the Foundation which have space travel have found more of them orbiting or on the surfaces of other planets.
(Some SCPs make better writing prompts than others.)
same brainwaves
This is so cool, a civilization sends probes randomly in space, each containing a codified message that makes it seem so the makers want to make contact with whoever finds them, but actually none of the information about them is true, and you just activated the probe, they now know you are an intelligent species and where you are...
Cool af concept with reference to actual messages we sent in to space and a touch of dark forest theory, i love it
Yup. Best case it’s either like the voyager probe, worst case it’s a fishing lure for aliens that wanted a species advanced enough to figure it out
It's a fucking Bracewell probe.
Hmm, my first thought with this one is it's a boobytrap in a Dark Forest situation. You seed the probes with misleading information that's released via the microwave pulses that points to a dummy location and if that location goes "dark" then you have a "silent hunter" civilisation with the capacity to destroy a star (a major threat to your civilisation's longevity in a Dark Forest situation). By using different locations for each probe they can also effectively get a fuzzy location for the source of the hunter.
You also have a trap for the curious species which switches it into an active mode that aims it at a disposable location where you have a listening post or is home to a known hostile species. This means you can locate the source and also potentially get another species to function as your hatchetman to destroy the "careless" species that set off the trap.
Honestly, if this is a Dark Forest scenario then I'd argue that this is an active Keter situation but one who's time to criticality will be measures in thousands of years.
It's essentially Foundation canon that if we survive to the next milennium, humanity will outgun anything in space. The evil star on approach to Earth? Humanity will either FTL away or blow it up.
"EINSTEIN WAS WRONG, FUCK YOU AND GOODBYE"
Me and my wife have seen ALMOST all the videos on this channel and we would LOVE to see you do your "Extra Credit" bit on more of your videos. We love your videos and really hope you'd consider adding those in, it was a really great idea! ❤
Seconded!! I love to hear his opinions/analysis of the works he covers
Yeah, what ever happened to that?
@@-0rbital- video stadistics showed him most people (like 80% i think) clicked off the video at the extra credit section, so it was harming his retention (yt doesnt recommend videos with lower retention, an in turn, less views, creating a negative feedback loop) so he deemed it not worth to keep adding it in.
@@fabiancross1944 Really? That's a shame. Do you happen to remember which videos had that, because I never saw one. Tia
@@-0rbital- The only one that I clearly remember having it is scp 2747 - as above so below, that is because the extra credit section on that one is as long as the main article itself haha.
I love SCPs that are just weird things or locations and not world-ending Keters.
This might well be a world-ending Keter. One interpretation-which the foundation apparently considers as enough of a possibility as to shield it-is that it could be a berserker beacon, meant to be intriguing enough to investigate and should the target display a critical level of knowledge start calling home to invite attack
@@defies4626yeah but it's fairly low-key and vague in its presentation, the article isn't desperately trying to tell us it's 15 billion times more powerful than god and exists in all possible realities and is definitely the most powerful scp and is really really really cool.
Especially ones liel this that appear to be a harmless extraterrestrial species, researching earth. Either because they know that were here, or because they want to find other life, i like how theres no indication if they know or if they just tossed these things into space to see if anyone figured them out.
Same
You guys really need to stop complaining about world enders, they're not that common, it's cringe.
I am begging on my hands and knees for you to make another 45 minute video
Edit: I hope one day he does 3989, as it's the first SCP I ever read, and it's what got me into the foundation stuff
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Eat your food and let him cook
I like the way you beg!
This is cool that starts off like alien Voyager but then becomes slightly more sinister when it's revealed that there are multiple copies with different star charts and diagrams of the species meaning that they are broadcasting misleading info save for the means by which to trigger it to send a signal back. Basically we fell for the trap. And we still have no clue who is actually receiving the signal. I also like the unsolved mystery of the white scattered dot pattern like they're tryingI say something obvious like a QR code or bar code or some fundamental aspect of life in the universe involving patterns that we just aren't privy to understanding. Or maybe they're just dumb aliens assuming we'd get it. Like our including DNA helixes on Voyager might not make any sense to a life form that doesn't have DNA like our own.
I think they targeted different regions on the planet to survey where the most advanced humans are. Given that it's sort of cost-prohibitive to go to another star system for resources, they are probably not coming to Earth, rather they're doing some sort of research. The author of the article might have had some other rationale in mind.
@crabofchaos7881 potential berserker probe beacons. The idea being that once a civ can figure out what it's saying, it rings a bell to call in the culling agents. One wouldn't want to dispose of a perfectly useful biosphere before you have to, of course.
what if the spheres themsleves have some sort of anomalous explosive property? so that when a signal is sent by an alien race they just send a signal back that makes em go boom and whatever race has the spheres is gone.
The next logical conclusion is to use the “random array” pictures together to try and figure out a coded image, right?
I wish these things got updates lmao
Wait the researcher was familiar with frequencies and his name was -hertz? Really, author?!😂
The transcript says schertz. Honestly I thought it has said shirts
nothing like a good old "alien probe with a radio and we dont know who or wtf they are-- HIDE IT" story
Ok this is the ideal SCP. Creepy and unexplained. But also very grounded. And its possible threat left undefined
Its like an alien version of the the "Arecibo Message".
or the golden plaque on the voyager probes, the hydrogen electron transition length is rougly the same as on the plaque
It's an Arecibo trap, the information is bogus except for the means to trigger the return signal to it's creator, telling it that an intelligent life form exists and (likely) it's current location.
Harbinger also did well😭
This comes at such a perfect time
I worked my ass off my back is broke, and i just wanna shower and then sit... and nothing else for the rest of the evening
One of the best feelings post shower
@BeaufighterGaming omg yes
I spend the last 4 hours sitting. And it felt like half an hour
@@mischake real
Feels like this is a trap for a dark forest style scenario designed to expose intelligent life.
Funny if he got the wrong prime number(s), and properly arranged the message really says "Shop at Dave's for HUUUGE discounts", and the radio emissions are just transmitting all of humanity's credit card details to an interstellar dropshipper.
Babe wake up, TheVolgun posted
Some of the images reminded me of the symbols or the purpose of the symbols of those on the Voyager 1 space probe launched by NASA in 1977 (when I was 10), which I’m sure is intentional. It’s mission being to transmit useful data back to Earth. We have no idea how old these spheres are or where they came from. The species who sent them could have long died out, or evolved or devolved into another one. We don’t know if the purpose of the spheres is benign, but the images collected seem to convey a willingness to communicate using scientific information that exist as constants in our universe. I enjoyed this one a lot!
my interpretation is that it’s a real (in universe) species that exists that is deliberately transmitting false information in hopes that any sufficiently advanced enough species would decode some of the information so they take the bait and triggering the return broadcasts with UV light so they have their location revealed for unknown nefarious purposes. note the seemingly varying images being sent out by similar probes
Those symbols are calibration images.
Please make a catalog outside of UA-cam before you quit SCP. please... You sir, have genuinely impacted the WORLD with your narrations. Do not feel small for I am telling you, you are Great.
I just realized that "special containment procedures" is also abbreviated as SCP I'm a genius
SCP is also the Soviet Communist Party
Coincidence? I think NUT
You think NYET?
This one is awesome, ive never heard it before. It seems like the images might be a lie to get whoever finds it to expose themselves. I like that it transmits to Scorpius, I feel like that references the scorpions betrayal in the fable of the scorpion and the toad
You're such an incredible VA. Really enjoyed this one especially with the cryptic images attached. Great selection!
It's another race's Voyager!
Edit after finishing video: Oh no, that's disconcerting.
This SCP needs a movie
I love entries like these, that are just really complex explanations of what is basically just an "ayy lmao" transponder.
Saying "It's an alien spy device" wouldn't have made for a good story, but that's basically all it was, and just somehow the writing still makes it interesting.
My compliments to whoever wrote this, this was fun and interesting.
Seems more like the gold voyager record nasa sent out, just with a nifty transmitter so they actually know it was found and where.
It’s because fundamentally it tricks the writer into assuming it’s the alien golden disk, only to reveal and drop the implication it is an alien trap device and shatters the first expectation
loving these smaller articles lately!! Very reminiscent of classics, a break from the over dramatized universe enders is nice:)
Nice article.
Waves, math, patterns, our Milky Way? Count me in.
Thanks for this reading.
This man is still making SCP reading, you sir are truly a hero it’s been years since I’ve had a peak at the old SCP community
This is such a cool SCP! And Schertz’s delivery was on point.
Nice little hidden Gem from Series 2!
i haven't heard of this one prior to watching, and it's such a great SCP. the writing is fantastic, and this video pairs with it so well.
This and SCP explained channel are now my two favorite SCP channels
This one was so awesome! I hope someone develops it further.
So I literally listened to the whole video and realized I literally didn't hear any of it 🤣🤣 so tired I can't even multi task. But I'm restarting cause I watch every video. Love your channel bro. Keep up the awesome work
I see some people saying this anomaly is lying to people, that the images don't depict where they are. I'm not so certain. What's actually quite likely, is that each sphere is transmitting to a relay, not the home world. That's the detail you're supposed to figure out. Chances are the relay is some kind of Quantum Entanglement Device, or some anomalous tool, that permits transmissions that can ignore the limits of lightspeed. That relay may also be what launched the spheres in the first place. It fits with a model of how I believe we should do space exploration in the future. In real life, warp drives that let you go faster than light are probably not feasible. What could work is a self-replicating probe that sets up a network of linked QEDs across space. An intelligent species has decoded enough to activate the sphere, and it's pointing the way to the next step. Now you need to go to space, and find it.
The universe is a darkie forest
I really liked this one.
I LOVE YOU VOLGUN
Strange the planetary system and random dots images are different; it would seem to have taken more effort to program differences instead of duplicating the images, so obfuscation certainly seems to be intended.
6,666 reasons why pondering the orb is a GOOD THING:
Your videos capture SCP so well - the minimalist but impactful images with the voice acting to top it off. I have read SCP a fair bit but you always deliver a niche topic I haven't read before. Voice acting is phenomenal! Loving the new accent.
I agree with others that another 45 minute + video would be more than welcome but ultimately, every video you put out is a pleasure to watch.
I'm very grateful and hope you continue with this for a long while
My favorite SCPs read like an archive more than an adventure story. The thing in the archive has happened, been studied, then the findings added to the article. That makes SCPs like spatial anomalies, or hidden monsters so much more interesting than writing like its a TV show
I agree! Getting a slow, progressive description of something mysterious is far more in line with what I'd expect from SCP and its style than a longwinded narrative where those mentioned read like stock characters.
That being said, I do have a soft spot for some of the longer ones, any kaktus or something like 7900, where the writing carries it. There's room for both but this kind of thing is definitely the preferred imo
It's aways a good day when Volgun posts
The mathematical component of this one was really cool :)
Always a good day when Volgun posts 😌👌
Eagerly awaiting another big video to sink my teeth into, the short ones just dont hit the same. Do a channel poll if you’re worried about audience reception we all love it
"Will arrive at some point in the future" thanks fam very specific 👍🏻
Always a pleasure Doctor. Keep doing what your doing and I would love to see so longer lectures in the future!
I was here before the thumbnail change ❤️
Emission Sphere? That was my nickname in college!
This scp is special because I could actually believe that something like this exists
Wake up babe, new Volgun poppin’
Need more of this man
Nice Djimon Hounsou impersonation. I loved it.
An alien version of Voyager? Interesting indeed…
I like this scp, it could be innocent, it could be good, could be evil, until those signals cause a response, we just don't know. We know some of the signals got out, so it might already be too late
I decoded the header for the transmission. After some basic telemetry and decryption overhead, the message begins with the heading, “To Serve Man”. Surely this must mean peaceful contact is imminent.
nope
to serve man. They're gathering ingredients to serve man at an alien family dinner.
"We watched your culture, all of it. And this is what we identify with."
An intimidating show of intent, but not the subterfuge one might expect.
I wish you ulpaded to spotify. Id love to listen to these while i work
These strike me as the alien equivalent of the Voyager spacecraft with the data being akin to that on the golden disks. The reason why the star systems are changing in each unit is because they're sent 100's of years apart, each more advanced than the last one and sent in the same direction getting to Earth faster, arriving around the same time. Their star system is probably falling apart which is why there's fewer worlds on the other images and this is a cry for help to any other planet they'd deem inhabitable. By the time we'd reach them, they're possibly already gone.
Hey man. Haven’t commented in a while, thanks again for helping me get to sleep at night.
I like how this actually happened but without the emissions and they turned it into an SCP
I look forward to every upload. You are the best!
It's Blindsight. Or that one Bracewell probe from Babylon 5.
So we fucked around and, somewhere between a few decades and several hundred years from now, we're gunna find out.
the funny thing is, is this is just the alien equivalent of the voyager mission, like the original author is brilliant because you WOULD be terrified!
You confuse Voyager and Pioneer. It is Pioneer that was criticized for nude pictures.
Voyager, on the other hand, has some sweet music with it.
no, i meant voyager, voyager has a pulsar map of where our sun is and a hydrogen atom diagram (two of the images in the emission sphere)@@volo870
I can't remember the scp number but it was basically an entity that had a fight with a researcher that was recorded on the containment procedures and no one can remember what it was in general only that they had a containment room for it and the sheet for it lol I always thought it was an interesting read and never see anyone make a video on it yet
7:03 QR code for Raid Shadow Legends, probably.
Da king is back baby he neva miss
So its so its an alien version of Voyager and the golden disk.
I think if the Volgun played with his voice a little he could sound exactly like my dad, whos last name is Miller and has a doctorate
Well, theres good news and bad news.
The good news is that we finally solved the fermi paradox.
The bad news is that we will soon be an answer to the fermi paradox.
Thanks for the shorter stuff, I dislike overly long scps because it kinda ruins the point of scps
This is amazing, thank you for all your hard work.
A relatively low number huh? Looking forward to it.
You should meet Dr Bob
very interesting this one
muh? I worked in a lab with radio equipment. There has never been a point in human history where we had the ability to discriminate between 1415MHz and 1425MHz, had the ability to analyze digital data *but* were unable to detect 6000MHz. If I were given an "important object" even in 2009, transmitting unknown data, it wouldn't take me (or anyone with any competence) a year to realize that it had started transmitting at 6GHz. It would probably take me seconds, probably less if it were as important as a potentially alien transmitter. I think the writer wrote themselves into a corner here with their personal experience.
I think I saw this episode of Babylon 5.... These spheres are super suspicious
"Finish your homework and we'll give you blueprints for new tech"
Meanwhile the probe's reactor:
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It sounds to me like these objects are just More Advanced Versions of Our Voyager Probes launched in the 70's with the famous Golden Record Disk
Honestly if that happend irl I would be absolutly terrified!
It did, there was an incident in Africa where a weird welded metal sphere was found. The image of the sphere is real, but it didn’t emit emissions
Coud've been anything. @@d.b.406
Another W
God I love these physics ones
Theory, its not only extraterrestrial but quite possibly extra dimensional. Considering that they look and function the same yet show different variations of the same system.
This is my favourite type of SCP object. Not explicitly dangerous, not apocalyptic and frankly, not even inherently supernatural or malevolent. Just something odd. Something alien. The horror of it is only in the mystery and our own imagination of its implication about our place in the universe − and the notion that we may not be alone.
Kind of bad practice that they followed the instructions inside without doing a risk assessment
The article implies a Junior researcher playing with a Safe object.
All the experienced, competent people are off caging monsters and backhacking mind viruses.
Imagine, humans over thinking this shit, and it’s just an invitation to an alien party
My maiden name is Schertz so this spoke to me in a unique way.
Maybe it’s the extraterrestrials being slightly dishonest with their location so they can see if we’re hostile first..? Haha, right? Right?
The dark forest is not being considered here.
"Yeah, give us a call and we'll drop by!"
the idea that the foundation, as paranoid as it is, wouldn't immediately faraday cage a radio equipped voyager disk is pretty silly. hell, shouldn't initial experimentation be done at a secure location that would almost surely be faraday caged simply by virtue of being so heavily fortified (and probably deep underground)?
I miss the ending commentary and personal touches these videos used to have.
It's alien Voyager probe!
...wouldn't Radio waves travelling to Scorpius take an enormous amount of time to get there? At least ~6000 years or so?
/waves hand
Anomalous FTL distortion added to transmission in interstellar space.
I want to believe...
It’s like an alien’s version of Voyager 1’s golden record
So basically a beacon to alert the makers of the location of a civilisation advanced enough to figure them out?
Carl Sagan would really have appreciated this SCP.
Oh I get it. Scorpius has 5 stars trailing off one side which corresponds to 5 spheres, though I'm seeing two different versions of the constellation online so unclear if that makes sense. The sphere's image 2 is different with superficially similar star maps in each because they populate nearby but different solar systems. Of course, looking at some of them like delta scorpii, beta scorpii, and pi scorpii, I'm not able to see any information that would make me think that's correct, but like the article said no part of scorpius appears to correspond to the data anyway. Most likely, that civilization is extinct, completely hidden (Dyson sphere?), or anomalously sent the spheres from an alternate universe. That's just my guess.
While most of it is probably mysterious nonsense and not meant to be deciphered, I love that image 2, 3, and 5 keep up the trend of using prime numbers. Their metric system is divided into 7, not 10 like most humans would use. The star map has dots in groups of 2, 3, 5, etc. WAIT!!! It just occurred to me that Image 4 is the FOURTH image, which isn't a prime number! Either this image is intentionally garbled because it falls outside their paradigm or it's being used in some ritualistic way. Like what if the "taboo" number 4 needs to be treated in a specific way either as a result of their culture, superstition, or some greater threat we can't understand? The very fact that we're not such a prime number dependent species would imply that the 4th image can't be understood by us.