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What is It? for June 28

Posted June 28, 2015 12:00 AM
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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 12:20 AM

Sunrise.....

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06/28/2015 7:41 AM

Flock of birds

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 7:58 AM

You may be late to the party. The first picture lacks the atmospheric distortion that yours has. :-)
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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 3:40 AM

glass furnace?

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 7:56 AM

A G-Type main sequence Pop I star.

That, or a train.
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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 8:14 AM

A whole burned in a sheet of Kapton by a very powerful synchrotron light source.

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 10:25 AM

The sun filtered by forest fires in Saskatchewan?

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06/28/2015 10:38 AM

Locomotive headlight in bad visibility conditions...

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 10:45 AM

The last thing many at Hiroshima and Nagasaki ever saw.

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 11:00 AM

A Rorschach Test for extremely clever engineers.

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 11:14 AM

Probably fusion... but it certainly looks like something I see at a visit to the optometrist.

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06/28/2015 1:40 PM

I'm with #7.
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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/29/2015 3:13 AM

Well done!

We had some very severe fires simultaneously in the Malibu and Ahmanson Ranch areas here in November 2007.

This is what the sun looked like mid afternoon from a mountain ridge in Thousand Oaks California. The whole viewable sky was similar to that in this picture, mostly dull red.

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 1:42 PM

It's how a politician thinks his anus appears.

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06/28/2015 2:00 PM

Nah,.... They're not that bright.... But they would be at their brightist when it would happen.

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07/01/2015 11:50 PM

Nope that when you look right through the hollow when you want to see the shine.

But its simply not there.

The problem is they do not stand above you and if they bend over they will never be able to shine.

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 3:54 PM

Could be one of many things given we don't know the scale, what's in the rest of the cropped photo or what filtering was used in the photo.

A single eye of a T-800 Terminator walking in dense fog in the new (yet to open)Terminator movie.

Is this at least in the current news to give us a chance?

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/28/2015 5:21 PM

Picture of sun taken through volcanic dust cloud....

Ooouu aahhh...

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06/29/2015 1:21 AM

The sun as seen through a dust storm taken through a blue filter?
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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/29/2015 1:45 AM

Looking through a long tube at the surface of a crucible of molten metal.

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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/29/2015 3:27 AM

I won't guess whose it is, but I'm betting when he sits, it gets real dark.
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06/29/2015 7:31 AM

I heard it was the cause of global warming.
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06/29/2015 7:49 AM

I heard that obfuscation by the use of an undefined pronoun is frequently the technique of the merely baffled and the "aye dee ten tea" alike.

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06/29/2015 8:07 AM

Let me clarify.

I have some carbon credits for sale. How many can I put you down for?

"When I left office I was dead broke....."

Ahh, sir,....... Hillary already used that one.

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06/29/2015 8:04 AM

Sunrise in Philadelphia, Pa. near the refineries, circa July 1969. It looked quite a bit like this prior to all the air pollution enforcement.

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06/29/2015 9:17 AM

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

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06/29/2015 10:14 AM

Midsol on Mars?

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06/29/2015 12:06 PM

The sun in the Martian sky?
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Re: What is It? for June 28

06/29/2015 12:24 PM

A picture to entice engineers to post stupid answers.

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06/30/2015 12:12 AM

Modern art that can be hanged any side up.

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06/30/2015 12:17 AM

The end of the tunnel.
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06/30/2015 11:42 AM

The sixth chakra, ajna, the seat of "concealed wisdom".

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06/30/2015 12:34 PM

And someone left that seat up.
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07/02/2015 12:42 AM

The left headlight from the "street beast' as seen on Street Outlaws.

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