The What is It Game.

Tony wins. B)
It is a "tornado generator" built for the express purpose of filming car commercials.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(samiam @ Aug 13 2007, 01:29 PM) [snapback]494907[/snapback]</div>

By rights, this slot should go to Evan or Tony, but after more than 8 hours I'm going to throw one up just to keep things going....

Hint: It has almost nothing to do with petrochemicals.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Aug 13 2007, 07:41 PM) [snapback]495043[/snapback]</div>

Tower and gantry for Soyuz launches.

Dan

 

Damn... That was fast. I'd hoped it would be a little harder....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Aug 13 2007, 08:01 PM) [snapback]495056[/snapback]</div>

Oh, I guess this means I have to come up with something?

Ok... lemme look...

Howzabout this?

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Dan

 

It looks like it's built for collecting pollen, but for whom I couldn't say at this range

 

It's a fly's foot. I wasn't able to find an exact match, but you can compare to this electron microscope image of a blowfly's foot:
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Now I need something clever.... mutter mumble.... hmm....
Before:
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After:
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Be at least somewhat specific!




<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Aug 13 2007, 09:57 PM) [snapback]495224[/snapback]</div>

Good thing, since I cross posted....

 

Nice water heater! I bet you can take a looooooong shower with one of those.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Aug 13 2007, 10:02 PM) [snapback]495226[/snapback]</div>

The before picture is one of these being washed, a parabolic solar trough, for generating electricity, by heating oil pumped through the pipe at the parabolic focus.

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This is exactly the sort of thing (sorry) only a Googlemaps image can do justice to! Below is a SMALL portion of a large array of troughs near San Bernardino CA

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I haven't got any mystery pictures to put up - someone else go ahead ----

 

Since my shower gag was *somewhat* specific, I present:
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Bonus points if you can indicate what this is the "first" of.

 

OK thanks APK. . .

Here is a bit of a mystery to me . . . I have had these hanging around for a couple of years trying to figure out what they go to and for some reason it really bothers me I can't figure it out. What the heck are these things?!? :blink:

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I'm a bit of a computer geek so I'm tending to think they have some relationship to computers or printers or well I don't know, sorry.

Wildkow

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Greenkeeper @ Aug 13 2007, 10:50 PM) [snapback]495252[/snapback]</div>

It's an alien from MIB (Men In Black)?

Sorry I stepped on you but my little mystery is driving me nuts.

Widlkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Aug 14 2007, 01:57 AM) [snapback]495255[/snapback]</div>

Nope... it's real.

 

That is a smaller version of hycamguy07's Giant Isopod.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Aug 14 2007, 05:57 PM) [snapback]495255[/snapback]</div>

Widlkow, please tell me you didn't remove the flux capacitors from the shielding array unit!
Now the Vogons are going to come back, and boy are they going to be pissed!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(samiam @ Aug 14 2007, 12:05 AM) [snapback]495268[/snapback]</div>

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

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pfffft . . . let the Vogons piss away they are lousy shots anyway!

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 13 2007, 11:44 PM) [snapback]495193[/snapback]</div>

For the record, you were way right.

Oddly enough, though, when I saw it for the first time, I hadn't a clue what it was. I mean, *I* don't think it looks like a missile launcher ought to look. But what did I know?

Then I wound up spending 7 months in a PATRIOT unit. lol...

Dan