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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:38 am

Do you own it?


No

Milk Duds salvaged and saved from the 1950's ?


No, but that brought a smile to my face!

Some eggs on LV-426


No, and I had to look up LV-426. It's here, on earth, and it's not a movie prop or in any way associated with motion pictures or TV

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:27 am

You don't own it.
It is not milk duds.
It is not eggs.
It is on earth.
It is not a movie prop.
It is not in any way assocciated with movies or TV.
There are no balls in the second clue, which looks like an insane heat sink.

Is it some kind of heat sink or radiator?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:38 am

Is it some kind of heat sink or radiator?


No. The object is quite large and the "clues" are cut from the whole image. The "concrete" like surfaces near the edges are tied together.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:04 am

You don't own it.
It is not milk duds.
It is not eggs.
It is on earth.
It is not a movie prop.
It is not in any way associated with movies or TV.
There are no balls in the second clue, which looks like an insane heat sink.
It is not some kind of heat sink or radiator.
It is quite large.
There are "concrete" like surfaces near the edges.
The concrete is tied together.

Is it part of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:43 am

webenda wrote:You don't own it.
It is not milk duds.
It is not eggs.
It is on earth.
It is not a movie prop.
It is not in any way associated with movies or TV.
There are no balls in the second clue, which looks like an insane heat sink.
It is not some kind of heat sink or radiator.
It is quite large.
There are "concrete" like surfaces near the edges.
The concrete is tied together.


Got that far and no more....

Is it part of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?


Fukushima?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby robert. » Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:08 pm

Rail crossing
I spend entirely too many hours a day tying my shoes

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:30 pm

Last partial image:

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Nothing to do with nuclear plants/accidents
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:10 pm

A harvester machine?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Thu Apr 30, 2020 2:16 pm

A harvester machine?


Nope, not a harvester machine.

Entire image, out of context, i.e. no background/surroundings

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The previous 4 images are clipped from the 1 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, and 9 o'clock positions.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:47 pm

The very serious snout of a newfangled robot dog, chewing its was thru its new master's wall?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Thu Apr 30, 2020 5:19 pm

It does look like some kind of boring machine.

Here it is in context

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title is "Disk in the Form of a Desert Rose". It is actually two sided. This is the "front".

this is the back side

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1994 Bronze By Arnaldo Pomodoro

I'm cataloguing my father-in-laws home movies and still pictures. I ran across one that was actually a bas relief and assumed it was from the Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park near Grand Rapids. His Senior Mens club took a day trip (about 2 1/2 hour drive from Birmingham, MI) and he took a bunch of pictures. The image I was looking for is actually from an outdoor display in Saginaw up where his son used to live. While perusing the images for the Meijer Gardens on Google I ran across the Desert Rose piece and found it intriguing/appealing. I have mixed feeling on most "abstract" sculptures, some are quite attractive and some seem like a pile of scrap metal. Here is one of the later that is actually installed on UM campus.

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None of these images are his. These are all in focus.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:32 pm

Desert Rose - selenite

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:36 pm

Thanks Wayne, beautiful sample.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Sat May 02, 2020 7:05 pm

Back to Rufus's Whatzit:
No more little bits of the image, here is the whole image.
Ya'll should be able to answer immediately just by looking at it.
If that doesn't work, look over the wrong answers to narrow it down.
If that doesn't work, google it. :wink:

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Sat May 02, 2020 7:41 pm

It's an ice sheet. Greenland has been ruled out. I don't feel it has the morphology of the Antarctic sheet, at least Google Earth images show much more defined rock outcrops. Same is true for western Canada/Alaska and Baffin Island/Nunavut.

Maybe Iceland? Or Norway?

BTW, Google says it's "Snow".
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