EX-Z3
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Puzzle Series: What is this or what do you want it to be?
It was impossible to get more light on the subject, so I’ll give an obscure opening clue; the veteran puzzle solvers might have a slight advantage on this puzzle.
24 responses to “What’s That? (25)”
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Ok…well clearly some sort of lift or elevator….grr..I can’t think of anything!
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Well, I wanted a crypto-answer and it is as obscure as the puzzle itself 🙂
Sun is back, so there is some light again:
By night, someplace as the Lick observatory (@ San Jose).
Inner view of the window of the dome, during observation (when "adding" any photon at the environment is strictly forbidden). -
You rang…?
The connection between The Rocketeer and I is that we live in Houston. Some of the connections here in Houston to jurvetson that I can think of are… NASA and the Medical Center.
I want to guess this thing is high tech, but the apparent wood bit keeps confusing me. Maybe it is not wood? Steve?
I’ve considered it to be part of some old x-ray machine or the interior of an Apollo Spider. The wood bit makes me think not the Spider.
So my guess is – Antique x-ray machine.
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Heheh! I don’t think OldCola is going to be satisfied until this is space related.
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Bingo OldCola! Viva la France! (as I was writing this, you edited your comment to second guess yourself with the projector scaffolding addendum…. Go with your gut!)
I thought Vladnik gave an evocative description for that Puzzle 9 photo, and wondered if I would ever see something like that….
Per your fixation, instead of “space”, it is commercial aerospace.
So I was in a American Airlines’ MD-80, flying to Dallas last weekend, and I saw this strange escape door in the very back of the plane. It had a tiny round peephole to darkness. So I put the camera barrel in the hole, took a non-flash photo, and hoped for the best…. It was all black on the LCD screen.
Back at home, hitting “Enhance” on iPhoto brought out the detail from the blackness.
So this is the escape slide and gangway that can pop out of the tail of the plane after a crash landing.
Here is an old Safety Card showing the escape path (in the bottom left box).
I think Nell is right about the handrails – something to hold on to when the back tail fin is gone.
As a fellow Texan, my reference to Rocketeer and Vanita was a bet based on a series of assumptions:
1) American Airlines’ hub is at DFW, so many Texans end up flying AA.
2) AA has a lot of MD-80 planes.
3) If they ever flew one in coach as I do…
4) And if they needed to use the bathroom while in flight…Then they would need to go to the very back of the plane, and walking into the lavatory would take them right by the door to this scene (thus 3 feet from this without seeing it).
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Merci. As for your request for a photo of the inside of the LEM, here’s what I could get in 10 minutes.
It’s a bit of an action shot, with a commercial surprise inside.
(also, the "unboldable hint" is the thumbnail photo at the top right of the page. That is puzzle 9, and the first quess there is the answer to this puzzle…. (if people are the cargo)).
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