What Is This Object on the Titan Rocket?

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The discussion revolves around identifying an ambiguous image, with participants offering various interpretations, including comparisons to natural objects like mushrooms and butterflies, as well as mechanical components like aircraft parts and rocket engines. As the conversation progresses, the focus shifts toward the image being related to a combustion chamber of a Titan rocket engine, with detailed explanations about hypergolic propellants and their combustion processes. Participants engage in technical discussions about fuel nozzles and injector assemblies, showcasing their knowledge of aerospace engineering. The conversation also touches on historical machinery, with references to water-powered mechanisms in old forges. Ultimately, the thread highlights a blend of playful guessing and serious technical insights, culminating in a collaborative effort to decipher the image's true nature.
  • #51
There with fantastic garlands did she come,
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples...
 
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  • #52
Is no one playing or does no one know?

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come,
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indu’d
Unto that element; but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death."
 
  • #53
What is this?
 

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  • #54
looks like a quilt
 
  • #56
no to both, but Russ is on the right track
 
  • #57
how is that colorado?!
 
  • #58
yomamma said:
how is that colorado?!
It's not Colorado.
 
  • #59
Evo said:
What is this?

Duh...

It's a picture... :-p

Kidding...looks like the rockys.
 
  • #60
how is it simaler to colorado? is it a mountain?
 
  • #61
It's some sort of mountain range, but I don't know which one. They all look the same to me from the sky.
 
  • #62
Moonbear said:
It's some sort of mountain range, but I don't know which one. They all look the same to me from the sky.
Yes, mountain range, I guess it's too much to expect someone to guess which one, although this one is very famous.

I'll wait to see if someone guesses the right one, if not, I'll call it a tie between Russ & Moonbear.
 
  • #63
Evo said:
Yes, mountain range, I guess it's too much to expect someone to guess which one, although this one is very famous.

I'll wait to see if someone guesses the right one, if not, I'll call it a tie between Russ & Moonbear.

What the heck? That is favoritism...russ says colorado and I say the rockys and moonbear says a mountain range? Colorado is a state not a good answer since not all of Colorado has mountains. A mountain range is too broad of an answer. Mine is clearly the best so far...

But since you say it is famous then I guess...the swiss alps?
 
  • #64
not the alps
 
  • #65
Evo said:
not the alps

Appalachian Mts?
 
  • #66
Himalayas?
 
  • #67
Well, if Colorado is close and it's not the Rockies, then how about the Sierra Nevada mountains?
 
  • #68
he's takin' all the mountain ranges! :cry:
 
  • #69
Townsend said:
Himalayas?
It's the Himalaya's, Mt Everest is in the middle. Sooner or later by process of elimination someone would get it.

I will award you, Russ & Moonbear with the kill.

For more cool pictures taken by astronauts, go here http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16407
 
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  • #70
who's turn is it?
 
  • #72
They're cells! :biggrin:
 
  • #73
Moonbear said:
They're cells! :biggrin:

Are you always so broad in your answers? I need the type of cell to award any points :smile:
 
  • #74
Fibroblast cells.

If anyone else guessed it, you probably wouldn't make them give more detail, would you?
 
  • #75
Moonbear said:
Fibroblast cells.

If anyone else guessed it, you probably wouldn't make them give more detail, would you?

Don't you feel special? :rolleyes: :biggrin:
 
  • #76
Moonbear said:
Fibroblast cells.

No, think about it...:wink:

If anyone else guessed it, you probably wouldn't make them give more detail, would you?

Um...I don't know for sure. But...you are the biology guru and so I expect more from you. Being knowledgeable is a double edge sword my dear...but I am sure you're smart enough to get it anyways.
 
  • #77
are those neural cells?
 
  • #78
yomamma said:
are those neural cells?

yes...did you see the hints?
 
  • #79
It's obviously a U.F.O going up a tunnel.
 
  • #80
Townsend said:
No, think about it...:wink:



Um...I don't know for sure. But...you are the biology guru and so I expect more from you. Being knowledgeable is a double edge sword my dear...but I am sure you're smart enough to get it anyways.
Meh, I don't play with cells in dishes, they're boring. :-p Well, I was trying to decide if there was some polarity to them or not. If they're not fibroblasts, then must be neural.

Edit: oops, yomamma was too fast for me.
 
  • #81
no. was 'think about it...' a hint?
 
  • #82
yomamma said:
no. was 'think about it...' a hint?

It was suppose to be...that and the "you're smart enough"
 
  • #83
Moonbear said:
Meh, I don't play with cells in dishes, they're boring. :-p Well, I was trying to decide if there was some polarity to them or not. If they're not fibroblasts, then must be neural.

Edit: oops, yomamma was too fast for me.

See...you would have gotten it on your second guess...:approve:
 
  • #84
DO NOT QUOTE THIS: THE URL HAS THE ANSWER
http://biology.edcc.edu/u-streptobacilli.jpg
yes, I know they're bacteria. be specific
 
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  • #85
Townsend said:
See...you would have gotten it on your second guess...:approve:
I should have gotten it on my first guess, but for some reason I second-guessed myself and thought you wouldn't be that obvious putting neural cells up with a neurobiologist playing along. :redface:
 
  • #86
These are pretty.
H1FibroSm.jpg
 
  • #87
Moonbear said:
I should have gotten it on my first guess, but for some reason I second-guessed myself and thought you wouldn't be that obvious putting neural cells up with a neurobiologist playing along. :redface:

Well, truth be told I was thinking about one for you specifically... :smile:
 
  • #88
yomamma said:
DO NOT QUOTE THIS: THE URL HAS THE ANSWER
http://biology.edcc.edu/u-streptobacilli.jpg
yes, I know they're bacteria. be specific
I cheated and I disqualify myself. :frown:
 
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  • #89
yomamma said:
yes, I know they're bacteria. be specific

Really long and skinny bacteria. :approve:
 
  • #90
I'd guess lactobacillus, but I'm not completely sure. Definitely some sort of bacillus variety (since that's the rather generic term for rod-shaped bacteria).
 
  • #91
Bacillus anthracis aka Anthrax?
 
  • #92
you're both wrong
 
  • #93
yomamma said:
you're both wrong
Evo's are prettier. They're irridescent!
 
  • #94
zoobyshoe said:
Evo's are prettier. They're irridescent!
Actually, they're fluorescent. :biggrin: I always love those sorts of images.
 
  • #95
Moonbear said:
Actually, they're fluorescent.
We have a winner!

You're up, Moonbear.
 
  • #96
I won't be back for qa little while, so the answer is: streptobacilli
 
  • #97
Bacillus cereus? (We can just keep going through bacilli.)
 
  • #98
Moonbear said:
Bacillus cereus?
No, but you got fluorescent right, so go ahead.
 
  • #99
zoobyshoe said:
We have a winner!

You're up, Moonbear.
That's one way to win...next one coming very soon. I just need to upload it.

Okay, here it is. Time to make this more challenging again.

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3369/whatisit0gd.jpg
 
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  • #100
Moonbear said:
That's one way to win...next one coming very soon. I just need to upload it.

Okay, here it is. Time to make this more challenging again.

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3369/whatisit0gd.jpg
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That is hard... :confused: I think from the picture you would be looking up at it. Perhaps it is the railing along a pier for ships to dock at. Just a guess...
 
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