Talk:Warehouse 12/@comment-4273152-20140710170126/@comment-4273152-20140710175545

Sort of. Here's how I worked it. In the final season, it''s revealed that artifacts vibrate with energy. I propose that there's another artifact that can pick up on these vibrations and alert people. When an artifact is being used the vibrations are stronger and they can be detected from further away. When this detection artifact was placed in the football it was fitted with gadgetry that takes the recieved signal and composes a 3D image, like echo-location. The football circles the earth to get the best coverage and a clearer image. Perhaps the artifact was soem formofmell or tuner that hummed whenever an artifact was used. Usless on it's own, but when coss-referenced with current events or the Nostodamus (great idea btw) on could take a guess at where it was used. The reason it doesn't react to the artifacts in the warehouse is because the amount of goo in the walls muffles the vibrations enough. In the field, I suspect the football can detect whether or not an artifact has been logged in the system and the computer filters it out of the search. Each artifact's resonance is unique, after all.

This also plays into how I imagine goo to work, it acts as an insulator that muffles the vibartions, thus reducing or cancelling the effect it has on matter. What do you think? Not a foolproof theory, but I'm pretty proud of it.