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Space mystery object #29
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:39 am
by neufer
What is it? Space mystery object #29
Re: Space mystery object #29
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:37 am
by makc
That's T-1000 looking down on his feet melting
Re: Space mystery object #29
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:54 pm
by owlice
Got it!
That was a tough one*! Kudos!
* for this mortal, anyway; possibly not for Chris
Re: Space mystery object #29
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:26 pm
by neufer
owlice wrote:Got it!
That was a tough one*! Kudos!
It shouldn't have been too tough considering who posted it.
Re: Space mystery object #29
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:31 pm
by owlice
My mistake was in treating this as one posted by a normal person.
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Space mystery object #30
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:44 pm
by owlice
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Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:40 pm
by Amir
looks like Saturn, but no Saturn look like that!!!
i spent more time searching it than i spent on any other one....pooh!
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:05 pm
by owlice
Bear!
Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?
I thought this one might be a bit hard.
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:19 pm
by Chris Peterson
owlice wrote:Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?
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!
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:24 pm
by owlice
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!!
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:49 pm
by The Code
Chris Peterson wrote:owlice wrote:Amir, would you like another crop? Or clues?
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!
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?
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:17 pm
by Wayne
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.
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:31 pm
by Chris Peterson
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.
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.
(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.)
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:59 pm
by Wayne
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.
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:19 pm
by owlice
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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Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:28 pm
by Amir
better wait for three days, till the week that folks demanded is over: then it's time for clues & maybe another crop!
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:31 pm
by Chris Peterson
owlice wrote:There are clues in the crop. I am happy to point out one or two of them if folks want.
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.
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.
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:11 pm
by owlice
Am I supposed to confirm or deny? Or wait and do so later?
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:28 pm
by Chris Peterson
owlice wrote:Am I supposed to confirm or deny? Or wait and do so later?
Well, I guess I'm ready to hear "warm" or "cold", anyway <g>.
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:17 pm
by owlice
Chris Peterson wrote:But I'm not real confident about that feeling.
It's good that you are not real confident about that feeling.
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
Definitely warm.
As was Amir.
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:21 pm
by owlice
As was Amir.
Let me amend that...
Amir was sitting on the sun, he was so hot!
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Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:37 pm
by owlice
I hope this helps!
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Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:41 am
by owlice
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?
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:03 am
by makc
owlice wrote:I hope this helps!
This pretty much ends it
Re: Space mystery object #30
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:47 pm
by Chris Peterson
makc wrote:This pretty much ends it
THANK YOU! (That's almost exactly what I thought it was, and then I was misdirected by a bad clue!)