Today's Mystery - Can You Guess What It Is?

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The discussion revolves around a guessing game titled "What is it?" where participants attempt to identify images based on hints provided. The initial image is revealed to be a satellite image of Death Valley, with various guesses including locations like Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. After several hints, a participant correctly identifies Death Valley, leading to playful banter about prizes, including a fictitious ticket for a week in Death Valley. The conversation shifts to other images and trivia, including a humorous exchange about pomegranates and their etymology, along with light-hearted jokes and references to pop culture. The thread showcases a mix of geographical knowledge, humor, and community engagement through guessing games and trivia discussions.
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Today's "What is it?". Can anyone quess? If you ask, I will give hints.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6198/whatisitlc9.jpg
 
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It is the inside of a rock.
 
Could be a microscope shot of some fabric.
 
It looks like it needs stitches! :rolleyes:
 
Could be an extreme close up of an iris. That is the coloured but round the pupil not the plant.
 
It's a satellite image of a very well known geographical area in the Western US. It's colored using polarimetry.
 
Niagara.
 
Evo said:
It's a satellite image of a very well known geographical area in the Western US. It's colored using polarimetry.

Darn, I was going to guess that it might be a satellite image, but I couldn't account for the colors. It must be an IR image?

Edit: sorry, got it, polarimetry
 
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Yosemite?
 
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grand canyon?
 
  • #11
Looks like Lake Meade and Hoover Dam, and Vegas.
 
  • #12
Gokul43201 said:
Niagara.

Ivan Seeking said:
Yosemite?
Nope to both.
 
  • #13
Kurdt said:
grand canyon?

waht said:
Looks like Lake Meade and Hoover Dam, and Vegas.
Nope.

Think hot.

I have another picture that shows a larger area and a different colorization, want it?
 
  • #14
The Salt Lake Basin?
 
  • #15
Ivan Seeking said:
The Salt Lake Basin?
Nope.

All great guesses, though.
 
  • #16
Yellowstone
 
  • #17
St. Helens (my next guess would have been Yellowstone)
 
  • #18
rewebster said:
Yellowstone
Nope.

That picture is REALLY tough, this next one of the same place might be easier.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6812/whatsameem7.jpg
 
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Evo said:
Nope.

All great guesses, though.

Geez, I even cheated and used Google Earth. :biggrin: I found a spot that looked pretty close.
 
  • #20
death valley
 
  • #21
Kurdt said:
death valley

my second guess--colorized throws things off


basins drain down and go no place --like Salt Lake

(oh, oh, got to go------NO vs SEA)
 
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Kurdt said:
death valley
We have a winner!

Regular photo.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9021/whatisit2zs9.jpg
 
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Evo said:
We have a winner!


Yey! What do I win?
 
  • #25
Kurdt said:
Yey! What do I win?

A ticket to Death Valley for a week next summer.
 
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waht said:
A ticket to Death Valley for a week next summer.

Oh that's ok I do enjoy the warm more than the cold.
 
  • #27
waht said:
A ticket to Death Valley for a week next summer.
Yeah, that's the ticket! :-p
 
  • #28
Evo said:
Yeah, that's the ticket! :-p

Second place, TWO weeks. Diddy-boom tshhhhhh.

*now give old joke his cane back!*
 
  • #29
Chi Meson said:
Second place, TWO weeks. Diddy-boom tshhhhhh.

*now give old joke his cane back!*
:smile:
 
  • #30
do you have a photo of the mot(h)el(l)?
 
  • #31
This is an extremely well known area in the US

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7498/desertscene2ne8.jpg
 
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  • #32
That ones rather easy Ivan and perhaps a rather obvious choice from yourself. That would be Groom Lake otherwise known as area 51. :-p
 
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Kurdt wins another week in Death Valley! WooHoo!
 
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Heh, I figured that would go quickly but was worth a try.

btw, I'm not an area 51 guy, so the obvious connection is a predisposed bias on your part. :biggrin:
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
This is an extremely well known area in the US

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7498/desertscene2ne8.jpg

Wow! On the lower right there's a baboon face in 3/4 profile. Looks like he's lying on his back looking up at the top of the picture.
 
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Evo said:
Kurdt wins another week in Death Valley! WooHoo!

Not this time. The winner of this contest receives The Golden Probe Award.

oh Kurdt...
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Heh, I figured that would go quickly but was worth a try.

btw, I'm not an area 51 guy, so the obvious connection is a predisposed bias on your part. :biggrin:

I assumed you might live there since you used to be a grey skinned alien.

Evo said:
Kurdt wins another week in Death Valley! WooHoo!

Are you trying to get rid of me :cry:

I was rather hoping for a weeks invasive surgery in the secret facilities at Groom Lake.
 
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Kurdt said:
I assumed you might live there since you used to be a grey skinned alien.

Grey, yeah, but the Roswell aliens are all Republicans.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Not this time. The winner of this contest receives The Golden Probe Award.

oh Kurdt...
:smile: :smile:
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Grey, yeah, but the Roswell aliens are all Republicans.
That pretty much puts an end to the idea of Alien intellegence.
 
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Integral said:
That pretty much puts an end to the idea of Alien intellegence.


...psssssst, Obama is one of us.
 
  • #42
Ivan Seeking said:
Grey, yeah, but the Roswell aliens are all Republicans.

that also explains the cold, gray skin and big heads
 
  • #43
I'll piggyback on Evo's thread:

Ok---What is it?

whattheheckisthat.jpg
 
  • #44
Pomegranite Seeds, My Favorite!
 
  • #45
just had one for lunch and took a photo--

where do YOU want to go for a week, Evo?


would this one have been harder for you to get?


whatl5a.jpg
 
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  • #46
Damn too late. I think Evo would enjoy a trip to death valley. She can keep me company for a week.
 
  • #47
Nope, I grew up with pomegranites, 'tis the season. A harder picture might have been leaving the white membrane over the seeds.
 
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A bit of etymological trivia about the pomegranate: most everyone knows that the word is derived from the latin pomum granatum (apple with many seeds), through the late French pomme grenade (which, doubtless, you are all aware was the origin of the word 'grenade'), but how many of you know that the botanical name of the pomegranate tree (Punica granatum) is the only biological name that has one specific type of bad grammar - the gender of the adjective does not agree with the gender of the noun (it should instead be Punica granata)?
 
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Kurdt said:
Damn too late. I think Evo would enjoy a trip to death valley. She can keep me company for a week.
Woohoo! Did I ever tell you that I can make a knife and spearhead out of a harmonica?

I'm watching Survivorman right now. I'm learning how to live in the mountaintops in winter with only a camera in my backpack. I think the camera turns into a microwave oven.

Damn, I spelled pomegranate wrong, looks like Gokul has to come to death Valley with kurdt and I to make sure we don't make spelling and grammatical errors.
 
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If i don't bring a harmonica you won't need a knife or spearhead :-p. Unfortunatley I missed most of the survival programs here so I think I won't survive.
 

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