Solved: What is it? Space mystery object
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Space mystery object #29
What is it? Space mystery object #29
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Art Neuendorffer
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That's T-1000 looking down on his feet melting
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Got it!
That was a tough one*! Kudos!
* for this mortal, anyway; possibly not for Chris
* for this mortal, anyway; possibly not for Chris
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It shouldn't have been too tough considering who posted it.owlice wrote:Got it!
That was a tough one*! Kudos!
Art Neuendorffer
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My mistake was in treating this as one posted by a normal person. ![:) :ssmile:](./images/smilies/smile.gif)
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looks like Saturn, but no Saturn look like that!!!
i spent more time searching it than i spent on any other one....pooh!
i spent more time searching it than i spent on any other one....pooh!
Amir H Taheri
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Bear!
Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?
I thought this one might be a bit hard.
Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?
I thought this one might be a bit hard.
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Hold off. There's nothing wrong with a puzzle that needs a few days. Some of us (read: "me") have other things we need to do. A hard puzzle means I might have a chance to work on it before somebody snaps it up!owlice wrote:Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?
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I'll hold off.
And when I wrote I thought it might be a bit hard, I left unwritten except for Chris, but I thought it, I thought it!!
And when I wrote I thought it might be a bit hard, I left unwritten except for Chris, but I thought it, I thought it!!
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Good call Chris. I managed a quick look, but no luck. Busy lives. I think a week, before tips and clues. What do you guys think?Chris Peterson wrote:Hold off. There's nothing wrong with a puzzle that needs a few days. Some of us (read: "me") have other things we need to do. A hard puzzle means I might have a chance to work on it before somebody snaps it up!owlice wrote:Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?
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I think we need a standard size for crops, some are just too small, like this one, to make for a reasonable challenge.
Making a stupidly small crop just makes it easy on the challenge poser.
Making a stupidly small crop just makes it easy on the challenge poser.
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It could, but it doesn't need to. It isn't just those trying to answer that are challenged; the poster is being judged as well. I think that every APOD section selected has some reasonable crop size- it might be very small in some cases. That is part of the challenge to the poster- make the puzzle as obscure as possible, while still providing enough information that somebody can figure out what it is without resorting to brute force searching.Wayne wrote:I think we need a standard size for crops, some are just too small, like this one, to make for a reasonable challenge.
Making a stupidly small crop just makes it easy on the challenge poser.
(This one is tricky; I have a couple of ideas what I might be seeing, but none of my searches have turned anything up yet.)
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In this case, I don't believe the OP indeed has provided enough for anyone to solve it by any means other than brute force or dumb luck.
Though I personally am yet to try. I'll give this a go tomorrow when RL is less of a burden.
Though I personally am yet to try. I'll give this a go tomorrow when RL is less of a burden.
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There are clues in the crop. I am happy to point out one or two of them if folks want.
(What's wrong with brute force or dumb luck, anyway? That's how I've solved all of the ones I've solved!!
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(What's wrong with brute force or dumb luck, anyway? That's how I've solved all of the ones I've solved!!
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better wait for three days, till the week that folks demanded is over: then it's time for clues & maybe another crop!
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What I think I see is a yellow disk or sphere quadrant, either clipped along the bottom edge by something in the foreground, or shadowed by something. This object is bisected (as seen by the single column of pixels along the right edge that you left in the crop) by a foreground object like a pole.owlice wrote:There are clues in the crop. I am happy to point out one or two of them if folks want.
My sense is that this is not an astronomical object, or if it is, it's a rendering. But I'm not real confident about that feeling.
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Am I supposed to confirm or deny? Or wait and do so later?
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Well, I guess I'm ready to hear "warm" or "cold", anyway <g>.owlice wrote:Am I supposed to confirm or deny? Or wait and do so later?
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It's good that you are not real confident about that feeling.Chris Peterson wrote:But I'm not real confident about that feeling.
Definitely warm.Chris Peterson wrote:This object is bisected (as seen by the single column of pixels along the right edge that you left in the crop) by a foreground object
As was Amir.
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Let me amend that...As was Amir.
Amir was sitting on the sun, he was so hot!
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What happens when one of these isn't solved? Do I keep posting crops until someone has it, or should I just post the URL of the original APOD so we can move on?
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This pretty much ends itowlice wrote:I hope this helps!
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THANK YOU! (That's almost exactly what I thought it was, and then I was misdirected by a bad clue!)makc wrote:This pretty much ends it
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