July 5, 2012 - Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?

CaliforniaMama • Jul 5, 2012 6:49 pm

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[FONT="Arial Black"]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.

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jimhelm • Jul 5, 2012 6:51 pm

goatsbee

Ibby • Jul 5, 2012 7:31 pm

the sun?

DanaC • Jul 5, 2012 7:33 pm

Sea urchin of some sort?

DanaC • Jul 5, 2012 7:34 pm

Oh....maybe sunflower?

SPUCK • Jul 6, 2012 6:37 am

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

or it's a Spicule.

Nikolai • Jul 6, 2012 7:49 am

Sauron?

DanaC • Jul 6, 2012 8:03 am

*snort*

ZenGum • Jul 6, 2012 9:50 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 • Jul 6, 2012 10:07 am

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

Undertoad • Jul 6, 2012 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 • Jul 6, 2012 11:18 am

It's a sunspot!

Ibby • Jul 6, 2012 3:37 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 • Jul 6, 2012 4:18 pm

It's a sunspot shining out of my arse.

DanaC • Jul 6, 2012 7:56 pm

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

classicman • Jul 7, 2012 12:46 am

the shadow of a single atom

Flint • Jul 7, 2012 12:51 am

tenterhooks?

DanaC • Jul 7, 2012 6:12 am

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 • Jul 7, 2012 8:26 am

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

CaliforniaMama • Jul 7, 2012 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 • Jul 7, 2012 12:44 pm

Flint;818841 wrote:
tenterhooks?

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.

Sundae • Jul 7, 2012 3:31 pm

You say tidbits too.

BigV • Jul 10, 2012 7:32 pm

CaliforniaMama;818865 wrote:
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.

so.

neither animal nor mineral nor vegetable. you trickster you.

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