July 5, 2012 - Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
 

goatsbee

the sun?

Sea urchin of some sort?

Oh....maybe sunflower?

That's the IQ of all the California Politicians!!



or it's a Spicule.

Sauron?

*snort*

I'm thinking small scale, maybe even very small.

Could be a pore in skin, or an ion channel in a cell membrane.

I'm thinking it's the center of a corn cob.

I'm with Ib, this is the sun and some new kind of way it operates that we weren't previously aware of.

It's a sunspot!

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:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/sgi...potdiagram.GIF

It's a sunspot shining out of my arse.

Well? We're on tenterhooks. What is it?

the shadow of a single atom

tenterhooks?

I thought it was that nasty thing in the desert in Star wars.

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.

Here we say tenderhooks (tender-hooks, tender hooks), which is a corruption of tenterhooks the Brits use.

edit - spell check wanted to change tenderhooks to tenterhooks.

You say tidbits too.

so.

neither animal nor mineral nor vegetable. you trickster you.