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July 5, 2012 - Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Today's mystery image brought to you by one of my favorite image sites: National Geographic.
I only wish I had a suitable prize to award to the best guesser.
jimhelm Thursday Jul 5 06:51 PM
goatsbee
Ibby Thursday Jul 5 07:31 PM
the sun?
DanaC Thursday Jul 5 07:33 PM
Sea urchin of some sort?
DanaC Thursday Jul 5 07:34 PM
Oh....maybe sunflower?
SPUCK Friday Jul 6 06:37 AM
That's the IQ of all the California Politicians!!
or it's a Spicule.
Nikolai Friday Jul 6 07:49 AM
Sauron?
DanaC Friday Jul 6 08:03 AM
*snort*
ZenGum Friday Jul 6 09:50 AM
I'm thinking small scale, maybe even very small.
Could be a pore in skin, or an ion channel in a cell membrane.
Lamplighter Friday Jul 6 10:07 AM
I'm thinking it's the center of a corn cob.
Undertoad Friday Jul 6 10:40 AM
I'm with Ib, this is the sun and some new kind of way it operates that we weren't previously aware of.
ukamikanasi Friday Jul 6 11:18 AM
It's a sunspot!
Ibby Friday Jul 6 03:37 PM
it IS a sunspot. For sure. I've seen lots of photos like this of sunspots.
if it isn't a sunspot, it looks exactly like a sunspot.
edit:
Sundae Friday Jul 6 04:18 PM
It's a sunspot shining out of my arse.
DanaC Friday Jul 6 07:56 PM
Well? We're on tenterhooks. What is it?
classicman Saturday Jul 7 12:46 AM
the shadow of a single atom
Flint Saturday Jul 7 12:51 AM
tenterhooks?
DanaC Saturday Jul 7 06:12 AM
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on tenterhooks anxiously waiting for news about someone or something Etymology: based on the literal meaning of tenterhook (a hook that holds cloth that is stretched to dry), suggesting that someone's emotions are tightly stretched like a piece of cloth held by tenterhooks |
Trilby Saturday Jul 7 08:26 AM
I thought it was that nasty thing in the desert in Star wars.
CaliforniaMama Saturday Jul 7 10:06 AM
Thanks for playing along ~ you guys came up with some great answers.
The answer is: It IS a sunspot!!!!
It is super detailed sunspot called Big Bear's Sunspot because it was seen from Big Bear Solar Observatory in California.
More here.
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jul 7 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Flint
tenterhooks?
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edit - spell check wanted to change tenderhooks to tenterhooks.
Sundae Saturday Jul 7 03:31 PM
You say tidbits too.
BigV Tuesday Jul 10 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama
Thanks for playing along ~ you guys came up with some great answers.
The answer is: It IS a sunspot!!!! It is super detailed sunspot called Big Bear's Sunspot because it was seen from Big Bear Solar Observatory in California. More here. |
neither animal nor mineral nor vegetable. you trickster you.
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