Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
Per the requests from the prior puzzle, I will try to wait 24 hours before recognizing the winner… whoever is the most correct in their details…
34 responses to “What’s That? (79)”
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[dream] to me it looks like the top end, the nose of a rocket or toy rocket, whose ending part (the point itself) has fallen or been removed. The little hole in the square would be the place where the pointy piece assembles with this red part (and possibly there´s glue envolved in sticking those two together) And I envision the missing point of metal… golden metal. 😀 (hope to have been clear enough!) [/end of dream]
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for me, unless that square is the place where another piece of precise format should fit (done like that on purpose, as in a toy or any other product made of parts) then that perfect square must have been "left" by a square thing which was there and now is missing, for example, as the endings of a matrix or mold to make candles or plastic things. I imagine a mold, in which this red substance in liquid state was thrown into, and such mold had a squared protuberance with a liltle pin (which made the litle hole there), so when the red thing, cold and solid was retired from the matrix, the square protuberance left that form on it…
[as opposed to the idea of the square piece being dissected and taken away from the solid red thing -which was previously "complete"-)
whats the red thing… i like nels1 idea… i don´t know how the matchstick head substance is made but most probably is fused in heat into a liquid or semisolid state so that they can bathe the wooden sticks with that substance to make the matchstick head… ??????
Looks like styrofoam or polyestyrene too.
(hope i didn´t entagle in words too much, sorry)
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the square looks like it was cut with a hollow mortise chisel and bit. the object doesn’t look like wood though…probably a frozen piece of liver.
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About the HOW ….. O=)
So…fourth upon a space time….
A little prince was gardening a new planet he just colonised : Mars La Rouge.
Then once upon a night… a "maverick rocket crazy nuts geek scientist won the Mavericks DFJ J-prize by sending his rocket on mars ‘s orbit, took this picture, uploaded it back to Earth on his MACdo…, and flickred it. Then it became a proof that life form (the little prince e.b.e.s) gardened Mars …sometime upon a season !"The End…. of the Universe is in…one hour" =)
(By the way, interesting and relax interview you gave : GigaOM TV: Cleantech Investments with Draper Fisher Jurvetson "Craig Venter Oil, the Oil of tomorowwwww…" =P)
@Nels : Nice one ; )
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lol Photon! that’s great!
as for how the little segment was removed, i thought there might be a punch-biopsy type instrument (as used in medicine) that may have have been used, possibly with a central spike involved seeing as there appears to be a hole in the centre of the base.
there is also another thin groove along the bottom edge which may be the remnants of the first botched attempt at using said-imaginary-instrument to resect the square:)
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It’s a hole drilled with an excimer laser into a match head, showing a) little deposited heat/temperature rise, by not igniting the match; and b) the finesse of the machining, by size of the hole, and the sharpness of the corners.
Points for creative interpretation?
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Is something to Polishing ????
with maybe a dremel???O.o
=^-^= kisses TAUBE
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A glass marble, illuminated with red light, being supported by a water flow a close distance from its carved stone support.
The picture was shot from above, and we see through the glass the slightly fuzzy orifice — in the middle of the square — from which the turbulent flow of water supporting the marble emerges. -
Bingo nels1 on identifying the object as an extreme macro zoom of the tip of a match head. The Australian contingent is en fuego, nailing the last two puzzles in less than 5 minutes from first posting.
And Bingo P^2 on the process of creation (with his first comment on this photostream I believe – welcome!). You offered your guess as a creative interpretation, but really, it was spot on.
Most lasers burn through materials, generating heat. This one is inspired by the “flickr’n of photonquantique”…
The ultrashort pulses of the Raydiance laser do not burn or ablate material; they vaporize by disassociating electrons and disrupt the atomic bonds of the target material. The match head was literally obliterated at the subatomic level. It makes a clean and precise hole (width and depth), and neighboring material can be left unharmed. This has a number of medical applications (and is particularly good at what the military calls “remote machining” since it can punch through incoming projectiles no matter how fast they are spinning).
During each vanishingly brief pulse, a modern femtosecond laser transmits the equivalent power of all of the world’s power plants put together.
Through the creative use of fiber optics, Raydiance has miniaturized a laser that normally takes a room full of equipment and skilled operators to an appliance that can fit in a briefcase. (full disclosure on my enthusiasm: we are investors)
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woohoo! bummer i didn’t get the technique correct, but fascinating all the same:)
this is exciting stuff, especially in the field of medicine. it won’t be long before we look back at our current surgical techniques in horror to realise the extent of damage and trauma to non-diseased tissue that takes place unnecessarily.
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So very fascinating! Yes, in surgery, this will be extremely helpful!!! I would never have guessed by I always enjoy trying to guess and then reading other guesses.
You see, Steve, the longer you wait, the more chance others have of participating and the more interesting the series of answers. I missed it because I was busy and had not come here in a couple of days. Great puzzle again!
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Super posting. Thanks for the link to Raydiance. I checked them out and found this link to a pdf file about the ultrafast lasers.
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"the “flickr’n of photonquantique” Strange and funny expression i just learned =P Don’ t forget to upload the real picture, when you get on mars ‘s orbit ; )
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