Chris Chapman

Here’s a curious mystery. Potential answers (and boosts) welcome!

Saw this canal boat today with an unknown #cipher on the paintwork. The blue symbols obviously translate to ‘puddle jumper’ as well, but what is this cipher?! What’s it’s significance? What does it say about the owner? Never seen these symbols before today.

Jul 26, 2023 at 2:36pmWeb
Show threadChris ChapmanJul 26, 2023
Solved, apparently our narrowboat owner is a Stargate fan! Thanks to @wiredfire and @promovicz for shockingly fast answers. That was awesome.
Show threadChris ChapmanJul 26, 2023
hadn't considered it beforehand, but I'm so relieved the owner wasn’t doing a conspiracy dog whistle or something, they’re just a massive geek. the best possible outcome.
Show threadMatthew WaltonJul 26, 2023
@retrohistories @wiredfire @promovicz ooh that's why it looked familiar! And of course the name.
Show threadWiredfireJul 26, 2023
@retrohistories potentially related to Stargate Universe / Atlantis? (Whichever one has little ships they called Puddle Jumpers)
Show threadChris ChapmanJul 26, 2023
@wiredfire that's it! thank you! https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient_language?file=Ancient_alpahabet.png
Ancient language

Ancient language or Alteran language are the names given to the language spoken and written by the Alterans that consist of two factions: The Ancients/The Ancestors/Lanteans and the Ori. The language was given to Earth humans in the past where it eventually evolved into Latin. Both languages are little similar to each other. The alphabet and numeral system used by the Alterans have interesting and special appearances: the symbols consist of squarish dots, and as a "full symbol" there are 24 squa

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Show threadWiredfireJul 26, 2023
@retrohistories Huzzah! And you’re welcome 😃
Show threadvga256Jul 26, 2023
@retrohistories of course i solved it using symbol frequency/position analysis, before i read the thread, and found out it was from stargate 🤣