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fluffyporcupine

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2008, 09:30:11 PM »
i wish i had one of these:

pluk

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2008, 09:31:43 PM »
a rocket engine exhaust nozzle?   These CFD people have the strangest wishes ;D
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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #32 on: April 26, 2008, 09:34:12 PM »
Looks like the inside of a wheel to me . . .

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #33 on: April 26, 2008, 09:35:08 PM »
one of you is quite warm, but its only part of the object not all of it ;)

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2008, 09:36:14 PM »
a rocket ? :D

a fighter jet ?
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. - Roy Amara, engineer, futurist (b. 1925)

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #35 on: April 26, 2008, 09:43:41 PM »
Or just a jet engine?


Do you irregulars too?

Go out and point your camera up!

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2008, 09:47:58 PM »
a space shuttle
(the pushy end  ;D )
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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #37 on: April 26, 2008, 09:49:05 PM »
pluk is in the danger zone, if thats not too much of a clue

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #38 on: April 26, 2008, 09:50:24 PM »
The exhaust system of some other thing, like a factory or power station?

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #39 on: April 26, 2008, 09:53:00 PM »
A Saturn 5 rocket?
But where would you keep it fluffy?  :)


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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #40 on: April 26, 2008, 09:56:23 PM »
Is there something fluffy hasn't been telling us?! ;D

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #41 on: April 26, 2008, 09:56:43 PM »
up my sleve with my armies hehehe. do i need to enlarge the pic?

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #42 on: April 26, 2008, 09:58:52 PM »
Dunno, but I must say, it looks like a zebra crossing inside it - if that's relevant in any way.  :-\

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #43 on: April 26, 2008, 11:25:56 PM »
Afterburner/jet exhaust of a Typhoon or Tornado

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Re: Guess that object
« Reply #44 on: April 27, 2008, 08:53:31 AM »
I think fluffy's going to make us guess upto and including brand, model, year of manufacture and serial no ;)
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. - Roy Amara, engineer, futurist (b. 1925)