EX-Z55
ƒ/2.6
5.8 mm
1/1
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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Is an aquarium, hot tub or swimming pool relative to the photo? It almost looks like a silhouette of a fish looking at the camera (if you hold your tongue right). But that doesn’t take into account the distance to the object being 174 ft. Is that part of the EXIF wrong or am I making a wrong assumption based on that?
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A swimming pool vacuum cleaning up sediment that was in your pool? (Trying to incorporate a "tube" into the answer)
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I guess that rules out the pool the turtle is in at the top right hand corner of this page.
Could it be as simple as a light stick (tube) being "spun" around in a 2 second exposure?
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“Could it be as simple as a light stick (tube) being "spun" around in a 2 second exposure?”
Bingo Rocketeer, the reigning puzzle king! It’s just that simple! Whew!
I am twirling a green glow stick around like a cheerleader with a baton. The black area is my hand.
I guess that is pretty simple, compared to "cherenkov radiation in a reactor cooling pool" =)
Here is a short summary of the development of chemiluminescence and
glow sticks:
“as long as there have been fireflies glowing in the dark, humans have been fascinated by "cold" light. The firefly’s glow mechanism, which hinges on the oxidation of firefly luciferin, is incredibly efficient — 80 out of 100 reacting molecules go on to produce a photon of light…
Ultimately, Rauhut designed a phenyl oxalate ester that, when mixed with hydrogen peroxide and a dye, gave a quantum yield of 5% — not as efficient as a firefly, but still brilliantly useful. They dubbed it Cyalume, and it became the trademark name for American Cyanamid’s chemical light products.”Welcome pwn4… an awesome guess.
"I guess that rules out the pool the turtle is in at the top right hand corner of this page." –> That dude is in the ocean, and in a flickr Set, not Pool. 😉
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Now I can go to sleep tonight knowing I don’t have to dwell on it for hours before nodding off.
Thanks for the help everyone. I couldn’t have guessed it without the help of everyone else.
Yes, what’s up with the distance to the subject in EXIF?
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"Was not Is is an interesting way to describe the motion. *grin*"
No comprende. Edit burp?I think it was 1.73 feet. Maybe there was a missing decimal point. NASA has done worse. =)
It was an indoor shot, so if the sensor was at all accurate, it would have read 20 feet or so, if it missed me and caught the back wall.
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I wonder what the cameras focus on when they can’t get enough light.. It could be they settle on infinity.
Maybe quoted better, and explained it’ll make sense.
"Was not is" is an interesting way to describe motion. Refering to Alieness’s clue where you highlighted was and is. A very interestingly uniform color and brightness for such a random motion!
Oh, By the way, perfect amount of hint support.. We would have been lost without it, but plenty of brain power neccessary still.
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