Knob Noster? Really? :haha:

It is Whiteman AFB. Probably the only place in the world with a B-2 Spirit on the bottom of a swimming pool.

Interestingly, the B-2s flew nonstop sorties (two mid-air refuelings, each way) to Afghanistan and Iraq, and also Kosovo, from Whiteman in Missouri. Some of those missions were 30+ hours.

30+ hours, huh?

Diapers.

where is this guy hanging out?

Looked like the Great Plains, so I poked around and it's Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota.

yep - nice find, I thought someone might just recognize the face but didn't think poking around would find it so fast...

Where is this?
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Disneyland Paris

Yes!

That's much of the state of Nevada. The lake in the lower corner is Walker Lake.

Where's this?
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Coast of Bangladesh
21.903552,89.971046

Bangladesh, it is!

Okay, how the fuck? I mean, without just tossing the jpeg into Google image search, right? What are you people doing to get these answers?

I just used Google maps for Bangladesh. Water is blue so I thought tropical, but at least 60 miles across so that ruled out the Caribbean and small Pacific islands. So I started looking for southern deltas north of Australia and eventually found it. Don't think I would have tried without the scale since it could have been very small and harder to find.

Nevada was similar. The image looked arid to me, so I thought it had to be one of the world's deserts. I started with the Western US and immediately recognized the pattern of mountain ranges. The scale also helped a lot there.

I don't know how UT got Paris Disney, but as I was loading it, I knew I would be able to get it quickly myself. It's clearly Europe, it's self contained in a ring, but isn't a city by itself, it has a HUGE parking lot, and it's clearly an amusement park all packed in tight at the North end.

I started with theme/amusement parks, and realized that it had to be Europe since there was planted land right next to it and several roundabouts. I actually started with France and there aren't many amusement parks to check. When I noticed the first on the list, I thought, that's probably it.

"Where Is This?" game website based on google street view locations:

http://geoguessr.com/

Humbling.

Very cool. I was burned twice by Brazil and ended up with 12893 points. Best hit was downtown Houston, within 1.5km of the target.

Oh EVIL EVIL UT !!!!!!!!
Damn it dude now im never going to get any thing done !!!!

wow. time waster.

There were several repeats in the game, But it was FUN!!!

Yeah. And addicting. There were 2 images where I used clues and was able to get within 100 meters, but I had to guess for the other 3, and averaged about 200 miles for those.

I never missed by less than 1000 km. I am so shit at this game.

My parents sent me this picture they took today and asked "what is this"

I now ask you "where is this?" and to answer that, you probably need to figure out what it is first.

Only hint I'll give you is that my parents are world travelers who are currently on the last leg of a trip. And I obscured a sign on that white building.
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Tropical, tourist destination, prefab concrete building, seedy-looking art installation...

Cuba?

Not Cuba. The key is the purpose of the building. Ask yourself what it is, and then you'll have something to Google.

I can't decide what to call the thing. A stair maze? Terra Cotta-colored stairs to nowhere?

Hawaii?

The building actually has a function. It does something.

Which building, the white one, the concrete one, or the orange/coral-colored one?

Is it an observatory?

World's worst waterslide?

It's an observatory

good job! a search for "observatory ancient" led me to Jantar Mantars in Dehli:

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10...ronomical.html

Edit: good job Gravdigr

Well done, guys!

Rats. Late to the thread, one of the few that I've known.

Cools!

where is this?

Burj Al Arab in Dubai

Well that was quick!

I was gonna guess Dubai regardless of any other clues in the picture. Dubai is the place they do decadently weird stuff like that.

This might be easy, I dunno...

Walter White's house?

Good guess. I was thinking Brady Bunch, but it didn't look right. That roof above the driveway matches Walter White's house perfectly.

Yep, it's the house in Albuquerque where they filmed the series.

Who the F is Walter White?

Character on a very popular tv show that had its final season this year.

Ahh, I just googled it.

We are similarly out of touch, must be the cozy caves. The ladies here started to watch the series even going back to the beginning to try to get me on board. It didn't take. If I want to see drug ruined lives, I'll just teach special ed...

You could also work in the ER, or live in western PA, or have a child with a drug addiction.

I haven't had any desire to watch that series.

Yeah, it just isn't entertaining. I'm glad someone else gets it.

It ain't about the drugs. They're there, yeah, but that ain't what the show's about.

Yes, but isn't about his choices in the face of a terminal illness, about his rejection of any caring or responsibility toward anyone not in his family? He produces meth to finance his treatment so that his family doesn't suffer. What about the people he harms? Am I missing something?

I'm just saying there's a lot more to the show. If someone's decided they're not gonna like it, they're not gonna like it.

There are overarching themes about accomplishment, about doing something that no one else could have achieved, about wanting to leave a legacy that's more than just money. The show doesn't glorify these, rather it shows the downfall that can come from such hubris. It's about how we all make bad choices when confronted with our most dire fears. Walt doesn't start cooking to finance his cancer treatment, he reluctantly does it so his children--a special needs son, and a newborn baby--won't be homeless and destitute when he dies. At first, he doesn't even want treatment; the money he plans for is just enough to care for them after he's gone. He doesn't try to get people hooked on meth, he just figures the meth heads are going to buy it from someone anyway, it might as well be him for a couple months. You start out thinking Walt is a weak but fundamentally caring guy, but slowly over the course of the series, pride transforms him into a total bad guy. Other characters start out being bad guys, and you realize that they're more good guys, in the end.

It's about how none of us are perfect, and we all have the potential in us to be a bad guy, given the right circumstances. It's about how evil isn't born; it's made. It's a cautionary tale.

I can still understand not wanting to watch the base storyline, it's pretty intense. But it's definitely about more than a jerk who gets people hooked on meth.

Yeah: Breaking Bad is about meth, like There Will Be Blood is about oil, Apocalypse Now is about Vietnam, Leaving Las Vegas is about alcohol, The Shining is about a resort hotel, ... you get the idea. It's just the context for a character slowly descending into madness/destruction in a world where he often seems like the sanest of all.

It's one of the most well-written shows ever broadcast.

Imho, 'Breaking Bad' is the second best thing ever shown on television. The best being 'Lonesome Dove'.

:2cents:

I get that its "good." It's the sort of thing I'd watch on the big screen, one time. It isn't the sort of thing I'd allow space to inhabit my mind week after week. The real world can be a dark enough place without help from Hollywood.

It is shows like this, and others is the major reason I watch PBS, and got rid of cable. I can find no entertainment value in a show about a cooker and gratuitous violence. There are other shows that I find objectionable and refuse to watch, like Modern Family glorifying faggotry and portraying men as idiots. Needless to say I don't watch a lot of TV. Turn off the boob tube and read a book.