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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be? Clearly, I’ve got to make these things harder…
77 responses to “What’s That? (40)”
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OLEEEEEEEEG! Welcom´ back! 😀 *screaming in bursts of happiness*
He who says Dark Angel, can say "Black Angel", right? The Cult at least think that… (rightclick link to "save as" the song 😉
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oh yes, sorry… the puzzle… this one is hard. I can´t see anything in it, but lovely abstract art. Now, I could mention some things that puzzle me 😉
The green thing above looks as something, a glass or a bottle neck pouring those green things below onto the black figure… but it disturbes me the opacity of the black and the glowing of the green… as if there is no light for the black thing so it is cut as a sillouhette, but there is light for the green thing to glow. (?) Unless this is a scanner picture of some sort which "misregards" the composition of the body ( = it is black) and puts the atention in the rest of the things ( = give them those colors green, white, blue…) So the colors would have a semantic reason to be.
Another thing is the size of the picture… you could crop it, but it is too small, I think. my two cents 🙂
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Fine, Ben, thanks! A good week ahead… at least I´ll put the best to make it a good one 😉
Hey I really like your guessing, can this have something to do with this?
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Good, glad to hear it Alieness. What I was thinking of is probably similar to that tech, yea. But smaller. The whole thing is 5cm by 5cm and the glow, some smaller bit of that.
But fortunately for you Steve, that’s not it…
So, other reasons there’d be something not glowing.. something blocking it, other sort of failure… I’ll get back with ya.
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This reminds me of the electroluminescent/light sensitive panels at the Exploratorium. When I was younger, my friends and I would strike poses against the greenish walls, and the periodic bright flashes would create silhouettes that lasted for 20 seconds or so. Wish I had some photos of that… 🙂
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That can be VERY interesting: Iv´s experience with her eyes and the effects of light on them and Complexi´s connection…
I´ve been thinking since yesterday that maybe the the green and black are visual distortions of that body -the sillouhette, despite what it is- which it is between the camera and the panel. The bright light of this last makes the blind black effect in the body for opposition (full presence/absence of light and angle of the source) and the green halo may be a halfway effect. Perhaps the body is moving so that´s the green aura´s reason, too.
Voilá un Eclipse!
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Is it another broken LCD display similar to puzzle 20?
If not, perhaps it is a liquid crystal object similar, but larger than a "mood ring"…
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To build on OldCola’s theory… the flame (if it is a flame) looks like it might be coming from a birthday candle.
Well, that’s what "I want it to be."
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Hmmm… "no stone will go unturned."
Sounds like a clue to me, OldCola. What do you think? Is this some magnetic resonance imaging of a rock formation, perhaps?
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In a more abstract sense, it could mean that OldCola is on the right track about it being an inverted photo.
There’s no EXIF data, so this photo is modified or possibly snagged from elsewhere. Didn’t you once say you don’t have Photoshop?
Is it a close crop of a photo of a lava lamp?
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Ben, according to the EXIF data that Steve helped me find…. (still blushing) the distance to the object is 53000 mm. 53000 millimeter = 173.8845144 feet. That’s pretty far away (if the EXIF data can be trusted). Also, the original was much larger, so I think this has been cropped quite a bit. The original is 2560X1920 pixels in the EXIF data, but the file that was uploaded is 608X360 pixels.
Maybe I’m reading the EXIF data wrong?
It looks like one of those demons I saw in Constantine last night.
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I concurr. 174 feet, if the focal distance is correct. However, this doesn’t look like it’s in focus, so maybe it’s infinity, a failed auto-focus in the dark, and it’s the lens focal distance we see.
If not, at 174 feet away, and 1/4 of the frame, that’d make it… Just swagging… at least 50 feet across the frame? So, let’s say steve was on a cruise and he saw a swarm (BIG swarm) of jellyfish with a dark patch in the water. If it were, say, a quarter that distance away, 45ish feet, that’d still be 10 feet across.
I’ll stick with my previous guess though, if it’s an out of focus macro though. I lean towards small because it’s a huge exposure, and the focal length matches many of his macro shots.
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Steve, is this perhaps related to model rocketry? Could it be that we are seeing thermal output of a chemical rocket motor?
Maybe even a model rocket motor in a swimming pool and we’re seeing the shadow of the thrust outlined by the blue pool?
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Assuming that JKaljundi is the Estonian you referred to as being on to something… and it doesn’t have anything to do with fire or electricity, he mentions a tube, which is the only other element that qualifies. Steve also said "It was only a matter of time." (wondering if that is another clue)
There is a luminescent glow… he says…
The exposure was for 2 seconds also, which may account for the extreme saturation and slight blur.Is this a macro photo of a watch with glowing elements made of trasers (phosphor and tritium capsules)?
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Is the blue/green luminescence from a swimming pool and the dark shape the shadow of something? I’m thinking that the clue in the Rocket set is from a "shadow", especially considering that you included this photo in the Shadows Pool. (no pun intended) The shadow looks like a lawn chair with a full leaf bag in it.
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Suppose it were just a broken pool lighting panel? Do they make the fully luminescent panels these days?
Or, maybe it’s a normal incandescent one, and a leaf somehow got in?
OH oh WAIT, see what The Rocketeer’s sayin’. Maybe Steve’s shadow at the bottom of a dark pool that’s lit by a single light behind him? This kinda fits in with the right scale of things and scale of focus according to the exif…
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OH! Suppose it’s cherenkov radiation in a reactor cooling pool? The color isn’t quite right, but maybe that’s the camera or monitor’s fault. That’d be a reactor that was really pushing hard, though. The shadow in the middle is the core?
I don’t put much faith in this, but it’d be a cool photo to have rights to.
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*laugh* OH, a funny one just occurred to me.. What if you’d cut open and spilled out a light stick all over your counter… Again, color issues, but… That’d also be a fun experiment.. I forget if there are dire warnings on those light sticks or not though.
So it’d be pools of goo on your counter, and eventually it’d stop glowing… (time)
Hmm. Looks around for alieness, OldCola or Rocketeer.. I’m stealling all the guesses are you gonna let me do that!? *laugh*
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Mmmm… hi back!
First: Pool: I think Puzzleman just refered to the pool of guessings… but there is no swimming pool here.
Second: "a mater of time": It can mean that there is no fire. There was fire. Is the black spot smoke?
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There’s a lot of pools to sort through… and thousands of photos in some of those pools. Hard to glean a clue that way.
It’s a neon clock?
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Yeah, but Steve said neither fire nor electricity are involved here. And his latest statement that you stumbled into something might mean you’re on the right track with chemical luminescence.
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True, true. Darn.
Chemical motion.. Doesn’t seem the right color for an ex-lightening bug.
Glow in the dark what’s his name (s somrthing, c someting…) motion demonstrator? Thin layer of liquid that you turn upside down and it buckles and wriggles as it flows to the bottom… Was not Is doesn’t fit here though.
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Yes, I think the clue in the pools is "motion"… but as I mentioned it and didn´t cause any reaction…
The other clue can be "000000" so the black thing IS black and not the outcome of something happenning… but I don´t think so.
The other thing important that I told about and Rocketeer found out afterwards in the exif file is that the picture is RE-cropped ("re" = a local way of saying "very"). This is not a minor thing.
Btw, for me the picture makes sense rotated 90º to the right.
I don´t know…
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Clues recap:
Not fire
Not electrical
luminescent
"tube" from Estonian
"matter of time"
taken at home
taken at night
distance to object 174 feet
cropped
Black (from pool)
Blue (from pool)
Green (from pool)
Shadow (from pool)
in motion (from pool)Did I miss anything?
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Just to avoid a wild firefly hunt, all the clues are on this page, now that you know what the "pool" referenced. The firefly will have special historic meaning, but that’s for later.
I have added bold to some of the clues from before…. the active guessers have hit upon every element…. now it just has to be spun together.
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