What is this thing #6

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Boy, I hope this works. This should be a tiny piece of the "big picture" but I'm not sure that I can get away with it. A preview would be really nice now...



-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), June 27, 2000

Answers

Whew, it worked. Any guesses??? <:)))=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), June 27, 2000.

The burnt out guts of a 1969 NCR cash register : |

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), June 27, 2000.

That'a an arial photograph f a tank farm.....you know.... where the soylent green is made.

-- Will (righthere@home.now), June 27, 2000.

yes, I'm drunk.

-- Will (righthere@home.now), June 27, 2000.

You're not that drunk Will. It's part of the Bayway refinery, in Linden NJ, from Terraserver.

I thought this would be harder. I figured that a few would guess it was part of a printed circuit, or a microscopic view of an IC.

You've earned a gold star...

For a better view, go here:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ima ge.asp?T=1&S=10&X=2828&Y=22493&Z=18&W=2

<:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), June 27, 2000.



A sewage treatment plant.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), June 27, 2000.

Systems and Systems.

Macro or micro.

Isn't it amazing how much they look alike? And how similar the equations are for pneumatic, mechanical, fluidic. and electrical ones?

So this is a macro fluidic. I thought it was micro and electrical-- you caught me Sysman.

-- I'm (grinning again@anymore.com), June 27, 2000.


What's the difference between micro and macro? It depends on scale.

Tom van Flandern, in his book "Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets (Paradoxes Resolved, Origins Illuminated)" -- written for the layman (and for those who would like to get laid :-) ) discusses scale from what we think of as atoms to galaxies.

"The first cosmology:
"The world is not flat, as it appears, but round, like a ball.
"Then what holds the world up?
"The great god Atlas holds the world on his shoulders.
"But what does Atlas stand on?
"He stands on a huge island.
"But on what does the island rest?
"It rests on the back of a giant turtle.
"But what..."
"No need to ask further. It's turtles all the way down!"

-- A (A@AisA.com), June 27, 2000.


God, I just drove past the Linden tanks the other day too. Maybe if I saw the turnpike on there someplace, I could have put it into scale. I thought it was something very small.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), June 27, 2000.

Look close. You can see Tony Soprano dumping a body.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), June 27, 2000.


That is good A. I heard it as William James teaching a philosophy class. He asks a student to elaborate on the concept that the universe is infinite. So the student explains that the universe is founded upon a rock, that rock is founded on another rock, and it's rocks all the way down!

FWIW!

Forget all that other nonsense by the way. This is embedded chips without the salsa.

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), June 27, 2000.


Sysman, My Dad and I thought it was a refinery, then after playing with it half of the night and part of the morning in a photo program we were convinced it was part of a circuit board. I even saw the dip switches????

Oh well *grin* we must see what we want to see sometimes *grin*. Good job.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), June 27, 2000.


Sysman, i have no idea.

-- number six (iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), June 30, 2000.

Bayway refinery, in Linden NJ!!!

Old stomping grounds for me. Hey Sysman, you ever eat at a place called Big Stosh's? Just off Route 1 and Wood Avenue (I believe), before you cross Bayway/Elmora Avenue heading towards Newark Airport. No dancers, just good food, good beer - lotsa both.

Bayway smells like nothing I could ever describe. Lots of bodies (buried & floating) in that stinkin' part of the Garden State. I've always said (half jokingly) they should drop the bomb & start over.

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), June 30, 2000.


Well, that explains it all. Sysman and Bingo romping around in the toxic waste dump (AKA: New Jersey) all of their lives. Shoulda known.

-- Ra (tion@l.1), June 30, 2000.


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