EX-Z3
ƒ/2.6
5.8 mm
1/13
The first puzzle lasted less than 24 hours…. Here is another “What is this?” image.
14 responses to “What’s That? (2)”
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Hello, mon jolly ami. We meet again. =)
Please let me share with you these two things I see in your miterious picture:
Vision 1: Those things that seem to be like glowing stones or drops or something "on" a blue surface… Are they actually holes that show the other side of the blue wall?
If not, change the perception and you will find a lovely "Lava-scape" through the holes of a brilliant blue wall.
Vision 2: Mercury drops over teflon? or over something which they reflect with their
liquid metal surface (polished like a mirror)?Adieu…
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Wow. That took less than 6 hours! Way to go Zenera. These are room temperature water droplets on something fundamentally similar to "tarmac".
The other guesses do justice to the beading up of the liquid… and I like the way the mind jumps to heat as a cause…. Or maybe that’s because the last puzzle involved a microwave oven… And check out One-Eye’s “Vision 1” (imagine glass beads at the bottom of a glass aquarium. Now, it’s hard tor me to imagine it any other way…. =)
Tarmac is “a paving material of tar and broken stone.” Tar is a water-repelling substance… and the blue material is actually hydrophobic sand. This is bizarre stuff to play with. Small amounts will float on water; larger amounts sink and push the water to the top.
For the geeks: is normal sand treated with the vapors of a silicone compound (trimethylhydroxysilane), which makes it “water hating” (like oil and water). In fact, the original use of this product was to soak up oil from ocean spills. The hydrophobic sand and oil clump together for easier cleanup.
It can also be used to keep sand bags dry (and lightweight), to repel freezing water from underground cable, or as a water-proof fabric treatment.
Having ruptured a silicone breast implant in college, I can tell you that silicone is near impossible to wash out of your clothes. (I forget how I got my hands on that thing….)
Thanks to the TED Conference and Inventables for supplying these unusual materials.
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Oh my! That was fantastíque!
Zenera you r great! Mr. J. you are surounded by wonderful women
*this not includes me since I am a one-eye 0-) ET*
I was remembering also Zerena´s commnent about the coyote on your photo that was delivering a message…
Cheers! =)
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astonishing! superb puzzle.
(by the way, not pigeon point, but a sister lighthouse, north of gualala on highway one. absolutley worth a road trip:
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Hmmm. . . I would have guessed turds in a litter box. (Maybe I shouldn’t have admited that)
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