Posts by Ptar

61) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038544)
Posted 3 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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or shanghai


No, not Shanghai. Is too far south. However when I originally was told the 'joke' of the national bird 'Building Crane' it applied to Shanghai. Since then, it applies everywhere in China apparently.
62) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038541)
Posted 3 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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changchung?


The city is not Changchun - but you are certainly on the right track; just not at the end of the line.




63) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038519)
Posted 3 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Bejing?


The greater Beijing metropolis area has a population of nearly 20 million. It seems to have been Chinese since ... a loooooong time ago.
It is not Beijing.

The city in question I just learned is not in the top 20 largest in China. Yet still has a population of 7 million. Given that it had 12,500 people in 1898 - it is very new.

I'm told that the national bird of China is the "Building Crane". This photo is also within 500m to 1000m of the all the previous. It shows spiffy brand new buildings - and those national birds are still at it in upper left:

64) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038505)
Posted 3 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Hong Kong?


I am going to this as yet unnamed city in a months time; and you all have become part of my homework. (Sorry about that).

No, this city is not Hong Kong. However, China is the correct nation.
65) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038502)
Posted 3 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Singapore?


Forgive me while I relearn geography ... . I just learned that Singapore is its own Republic, and is not part of "Malaysia".

No it is not Singapore.
66) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038462)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Hint #2:
Today it has an urban population of 2 million and a suburban population of an addition ~5 million.

The following photo is the business and urban centre. Photo area is 500 meters from the one taken in 1898.



67) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038454)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Hint 1: Since 1850 the area has been owned by 3 different nationalities - other than the current 'owner'. It has been a geopolitical 'football'.

In 1898, it was garrisoned and had a meagre population of some 13,000.

Photo from 1898:


Looks like a mud-bath to me.
68) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 11 year club (Message 1038420)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Time really does fly. Only this morning I discovered the "10 Year Club". 6 hours later and its already 11 years.

Happy crunching to all.
69) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 10 year club (Message 1038315)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Not noticing this previously, I'm a bit late for my own anniversary - now 11 years-ish (thanks to Derek for putting the thread back on top).

A 10-Year Anni story:
I have the 10-year anni T-shirt. During the 2010 Vancouver Olympics I wore it at Whistler - (deliberately to provoke my daughter mostly).

Imagine: the world is in Whistler, everyone wears shirts/hats/what-evers from every corner of the world representing every nation ... . I was amazed to find I could not move 2 feet in the bar(s) without someone stopping to ask what the Seti shirt meant, what Seti was about ... . Interestingly mostly they had some awareness of seti-type activity. If this informal survey is any indication, there is broad (global?) interest in the concept of Seti.

So fellow 'Seti-Ten-izens' "Keep on crunching"!

70) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Electric Vehicles (Message 1038301)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Here's some good news for Daddio:

Today at the Paris Motor Show 2010:

Jaguar have developed and tested a concept car "electric road car" with speed of >200 mph and range of 560 miles without recharge - because it uses an auxiliary gas turbine (designed in Britain) to recharge the battery. The car is essentially a hybrid.

The (UK) Telegraphy news article is here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motor-shows/paris-motor-show/8033781/Paris-Motor-Show-2010-Jaguar-creates-electric-supercar-with-jet-engine.html

The maybe bad news for Daddio:
Tata, the Indian car company, bought Jaguar for 1.15 bn pounds in 2008.

Says the President of Jaguar:
“The C-X75 demonstrates that Jaguar is still leading the field automotive design and technology. And will always continue to build beautiful, fast cars."
71) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Electric Vehicles (Message 1038299)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Now much of our capital goes to foreign automakers and to non american fuel sources. Thus, our auto usage now is sucking us dry of our Capital.

If we don't commit to stop this, find cheap energy and return our manufacturing base we are headed for the third world in an inexorable way.

Another good rant by Daddio


IMO not a rant; is what is happening. I just came from a conference where ALL six/seven "keynote" economic speakers had exactly that message. And one of them specifically cited the case of Chinese electric car auto R+D versus nearly nil in the US - is why I looked up the NY Times piece cited in the previous post.




72) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038279)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Next up: name the city. Bonus point for naming the place of the green bowling ball within the city.

73) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038196)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Ding Ding We got a winner.

Heavy lifting courtesy of John MVII and Carlos.

For general interest, some of the most significant/spectacular physical or cultural places on earth are described on the UNESCO website under the World Heritage Sites section; usually with photos.

Geirangerfjord is here:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1195

As a (multilingual) way to explore the special places of the world (aka 'virtual tourism') this site is one of the best.

New MP pic to follow.
74) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1038182)
Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Is your photo from the UNESCO World Heritage Sites Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord?
I will guess Geirangerfjord is the photo because there are falls called the 'Seven Sisters' ... .

75) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Electric Vehicles (Message 1037959)
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Here is a link to an Op Ed piece in the New York Times from a week ago. It discusses China's recently announced investment of $15 billion to create an electric car automotive industry - and the lack of any similar investment in the US.

The piece concludes with the concept that if the Chinese are successful, America will be importing electric cars from them - to the economic detriment of the US.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/opinion/26friedman.html

76) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1037902)
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Well done Uli. (What is it with Europeans and lions? How about a Canadian Beaver statue on the top of a dam??)

I'll start the geographic 20 questions with this guess: somewhere on the Yangtze River in China?
77) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Milky Way barred galaxy? (Message 1037826)
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Well now. That has *certainly* straightened it out for me lol. Thanks Johnney! Btw if you had done your 'splainin' in 'street cockney' no one would believe it.
78) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1037775)
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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All the brain cells were thought killed by vodka - but one still lives.

I think its the Krasnoyarsk dam in Siberia, Russia - its dam big don't ya know.

Now I'll move over to Scimansteve's drinking thread and drown it ... .
79) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 6 (closed) (Message 1037699)
Posted 1 Oct 2010 by Profile Ptar
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That lion reminds me of something Russian; so is it in Russia?
80) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Mystery Photo Game 5(closed) (Message 1031856)
Posted 8 Sep 2010 by Profile Ptar
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Is it a (nesting) platform for a species of bird?


"the object of which this is a part" ... . So not a bird platform; baaad idea.


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