The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[Huckleberry]

I know, its a giant paper mache duck with a handlebar moustache named Groucho. The duck is named Groucho, not the moustache.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

RAF Fylingdale?

No

 

[Andy]

obviously not my fibre optic thing in da pacific

 

[Gokul43201]

Yes or no, Ivan : Is it in the Bay Area ?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

obviously not my fibre optic thing in da pacific

no.

One more clue and then I have to go for just a bit.
1973

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Yes or no, Ivan : Is it in the Bay Area ?
Yes.

 

[Gokul43201]

1973 was the year the draft was rescinded. Something military, methinks ...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Howard ...

 

[Evo]

Project Jennifer
Hughes Glomar Explorer (AG 193)

I had thought the Spruce Goose, but the dimensions didn't fit, and then the date was wrong from your later hint.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Project Jennifer
Hughes Glomar Explorer (AG 193)

I had thought the Spruce Goose, but the dimensions didn't fit, and then the date was wrong from your later hint.

CORRECT! Neptune refers to the sea.

The Hughes Glomar Explorer [HGE] was built in 1973 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. for an intricate CIA undertaking. The mission of Glomar Explorer was to raise a Soviet nulear submarine [the deeply held secret] that had sunk in the Pacific, resting on the ocean floor nearly 17,000 ft. ...The Soviet Golf-II Class ballistic missile submarine sank on April 11, 1968, ...

...the vessel has since been mothballed with the Naval Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay CA, where it could be seen by cars crossing the Benicia bridge on U.S. Highway 680 east of San Francisco.

...This was the first instance of an agency using the "can neither confirm nor deny" answer in response to a FOIA request. Since then, the terms "Glomar response," and "Glomarization" are used to describe an agency’s response when they can neither confirm nor deny whether records exist.

http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer.htm

When this was a very secret enterprise in the early 70's, it was sometimes docked in Long Beach harbor. We passed it in our boat few times while heading out to fish. For some reason my dad knew that it was involved in work for the CIA, so we made a real point to take a look; and stand and wave at the secret agents as we went by.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Oh yes, about the time that he refused to wear clothes any longer, Howard Hughes wrote an instruction manual for his employees. It instructed them how to catch flies with their bare hands.

 

[Evo]

This is pictorial.

 

[JamesU]

curved tetrahedral surface with 1 verticy open and filled with a spherical object and is surrounded by an eliptical object with an interesting pattern?

that's the best I could do...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Too easy.

 

[JamesU]

oohh! is it some kind of clock?

 

[JamesU]

why does evo always post here but it says she's not online?

 

[Danger]

Too easy.

Yeah, that one's a bit obvious. But what's Evo doing with an industrial-grade egg salad masher at home?

 

[honestrosewater]

Too easy.

Easy for you... I need a hint (maybe time period or country?) Oh, is it in the Sistine Chapel??
I was thinking a triangle with an eye in it is a Masonic symbol, but the triangle is upside down

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I have an unfair advantage on this one.

 

[Danger]

Where's that wanker Brewnog hiding? This is his kind of thing.

 

[honestrosewater]

What's the painting in the background? Peter and the wolf? Is that a dragon's foot?

 

[Mk]

Looks like a calendar, or an early model of the universe.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I have an unfair advantage on this one.

Likewise. If you've seen one before it is obvious.


To those still guessing, there is a near-clue here:

Where's that wanker Brewnog hiding? This is his kind of thing.

Also, it's not art.

 

[brewnog]

I know what it is!

I'd like to see some non-engineers think about this one a bit.

 

[zoobyshoe]

If I didn't already know what it was, I can't think how you'd find out, except by showing the picture to people till you found someone who recognized it.

 

[Evo]

hints - a triangular rotor that revolves around a shaft

patented in the late 1920's

(seems a lot of the guys already know this one anyway)

 

[honestrosewater]

Why didn't someone just say Wankel rotary engine?? You like to torture me? That's it, I know. That is it, right? Yeah, an eye in a triangle- why didn't someone just shoot me?

 

[Evo]

Why didn't someone just say Wankel rotary engine?? You like to torture me? That's it, I know. That is it, right? Yeah, an eye in a triangle- why didn't someone just shoot me?

Wankel Rotary Engine is correct!

 

[honestrosewater]

Wankel Rotary Engine is correct!

Hooray! I was only the last person to get it. Oh well, I guess a win is a win.

You will find a monkey, horse, and duck in these.

 

[honestrosewater]

No to the first thing Danger says.
I'll be back in a flash.