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arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
Reprise of the rules. The winner of the previous round posts a picture and a question about it. Typically "where. You may not use "tin eye" or similar reverse image look up sites. Please do not use EXIF data from the image to help. (note to posters, please remove EXIF data). This can include titles and location data. Please do not allow 24 hours to pass between clues. Questions deserve an answer (with the exception, of course, of directly asking for the answer). We will have to figure out how to deal with winners that go AWOL. Clues may be text or photographic. Contestants may use text searches to look for images (in particular images.google.com is allowed to be searched via text searches). There is no rule about having visited a place. If you have visited a place (or not) and instantly recognize where the picture is, go for it. If you post a picture of a previously entered place that is easily recognizable as that place, you get to pick a different picture. Please try to choose a picture and question where it is possible someone else will know or be able to research your answer. For example a picture of someone in your family and asking for the name will be just impossible for anyone else to get. PM The winner. |
Theramansi Send message Joined: 25 Jun 04 Posts: 97 Credit: 39,577,723 RAC: 63 |
After so many ornate buildings and structures, why not some place rather corny. What building is associated with this statue? |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
Corn Palace, in Mitchell, South Dakota? |
Theramansi Send message Joined: 25 Jun 04 Posts: 97 Credit: 39,577,723 RAC: 63 |
Very good, Zehcoutinho! That was way to easy. :p |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
I didn't know the place, the thing is that an image search on google for "corn statue" gave the image in the first page =P |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
Ok, next one: What is this piece of machinery used for? |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
Well, no one is saying anything so here goes a hint: The plants in wich this kind of machine is installed can produce mainly two end products. For one of them Brazil and the US are responsible for more than 87% of the world production, the US having passed Brazil as the #1 producer just in 2010. |
Theramansi Send message Joined: 25 Jun 04 Posts: 97 Credit: 39,577,723 RAC: 63 |
Does it have anything to do with corn or some cereal grain? |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
It looks like a heavy duty press or mill. Perhaps making cornmeal and grain alcohol production In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
Does it have anything to do with corn or some cereal grain? No It looks like a heavy duty press or mill. Perhaps making cornmeal and grain alcohol production Almost there |
Theramansi Send message Joined: 25 Jun 04 Posts: 97 Credit: 39,577,723 RAC: 63 |
My initial thought was a corrugating press for steel, but I can't imagine that the rollers would need to be this big. |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
My first thought was a cotton gin, with the covers off. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
My initial thought was a corrugating press for steel, but I can't imagine that the rollers would need to be this big. No My first thought was a cotton gin, with the covers off. No Hint: Poaceae |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
grass? artifical turf? In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
grass? artifical turf? No. You almost had it before, but now you got cooler. Hint: in the plants that have this machinery, the output energy/input energy ratio is on average 8.3 |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30648 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Beet press for fuel? |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
Beet press for fuel? Not beet ;) |
DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1066 Credit: 1,226,053 RAC: 2 |
Doesn't look like paper... so I'm going to guess WIRE (as in copper wire). |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
Doesn't look like paper... so I'm going to guess WIRE (as in copper wire). No Hint: Scientific Classification: Plantae, Angiosperms, Monocots, Commelinids, Poales, Poaceae, Panicoideae, Andropogoneae |
DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1066 Credit: 1,226,053 RAC: 2 |
OK, last guess: Some kind of SUGAR extraction? |
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