Skyline 22

Congratulations to Kurt for correctly identifying the skyline as Hartford, CT.

Congratulations to Kurt, Ben, and Mike for successfully identifying the southernmost tip of Simon’s Town by Cape Hope in Africa. It was extremely tough, but those guys pulled it off. One might wonder ‘why would mike choose that random location?’ well, the answer is idiocy. For whatever reason, I had thought that Cape Town was the southern most location in Africa. So I google mapped myself to Cape town, and saw the tip of Simons Town. I setup the whole contest before realizing that… no… this was not the southern most tip of Africa. Instead it was a random peninsula NEAR the southernmost tip of Africa.

all is well however, because Kurt, Ben and Mike found it. Well done dudes.

This week’s skyline will likely be a tad bit harder then Hartford. The satellite image is one that may appear to be tough, but it is a very significant location.

Skyline!

Satellite!

Best of luck!

Satellite Hint #1:
Something very bad happened at this location.

10 thoughts on “Skyline 22

  • 1/2/2007 at 12:07 pm
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    The skyline is Kansas City, Missouri. The main building in the picture is Union Station, and I’m guessing the picture was taken from the top of the Liberty Memorial.

    I have no idea on the satellite, but it looks like a circuit board.

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  • 1/2/2007 at 12:54 pm
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    Wow Becky! I’m impressed with your intimate knowledge of Kansas city!

    So much for “harder than Hartford.”

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  • 1/2/2007 at 8:50 pm
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    Re: Last week’s satellite image

    Arrrrgh….

    Scale got me. As in, I was looking in exactly the right place but I was looking for something 10 times smaller. I wasn’t zoomed out enough to see the bigger picture.

    Here’s what I did: I didn’t recognize it immediately, but I determined that it wasn’t in the USA, Canada, Australia, and northern Europe. Other than knowing that it was from a non-volcanic, mountainous, and non-tropical area, I knew I’d have to manually search for it, so I wanted some clues.

    The first clue was that the bird’s eye view is facing east, so it’d be from a peninsula/bay with an ocean/sea to the south and west. This gave me the possibilities of western coasts of Mexico and South America, Africa, and the eastern coasts of the Adriatic, Red, and Aegean Seas, and the Persian Gulf.

    The second clue was that it was in a region with Google Maps with English letters (yellow text in the inset map). This eliminated the Middle East, and all probable locations in the Western Hemisphere.

    And the third clue was that the original image was zoomed to the 4th-closest level, and this could give me a sense of scale. Using the scale, I estimated the visible length of the peninsula in the first image to be about 3000 feet. Then, knowing that the first image was within the red circle, the red circle must also be 3000 feet in diameter. Therefore, I was looking for a peninsula of about 1.5 miles long, and a bay of about 1.5 miles in diameter.

    Then I tried to figure out what feature Mike D. intended to use, but missed. My first guess was Gibraltar, and that Mike D had missed to the south and found something in Morocco. Once I got to Morocco, I got excited, because there were mountains and maps. However, I didn’t find anything. However, I still had a hunch that it was Africa, with lots of favorable coastlines, plus Google Maps. I skipped down to southern Angola (maybe the significance was the origin of Bradgelina’s baby) and worked my way around Cape Horn, and then checked out the western coast of Madagascar. Keep in mind, I did all of this zoomed in too far, and I completely went RIGHT THROUGH the correct answer.

    The sad part is that somehow, subconsciously, I knew it was there, because I checked the Cape Town area TWICE, still zoomed in. I knew I was close, but, well, I didn’t know that I was that close! My mistake? Assuming that the red circle was the same size as the original image. So, yeah, arrrrrgh….. Congrats to the trio who solved it!

    Re: This week’s skyline

    Becky is right on with everything. What’s funny, is that I took that exact same picture again on Thursday. The National WWI Museum just opened a month ago at the Liberty Memorial, so my family and I went to check it out last week. (It’s an amazing museum, by the way). Anyway, our entry fee included a trip to the top of the tower, so I went up there again and took another photo (this one was taken April 2004). While I was up there, I thought… “hmmmm, Mike D still hasn’t posted my skyline photo.” There’s been some activity in that panorama in the past few years. The Sprint Center (sports arena) is about half done, and they just broke ground on the new performing arts center, too.

    Re: This week’s satellite photo

    I have a guess as to what it is, but I’m not sure where it is. (I’m still in the preliminary stages on this one).

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  • 1/3/2007 at 11:47 am
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    You should be on one of those reality shows like Amazing Race or Treasure Hunters. You know more about navigation than I ever will.

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  • 1/3/2007 at 2:18 pm
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    If there was a show called Extreme Cartography, Patrick would be all over it.

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  • 1/3/2007 at 4:02 pm
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    Satellite Hint #1:
    Something very bad happened at this location.

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  • 1/3/2007 at 4:25 pm
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    That’s crazy. With that hint, I got it on the first guess, and I don’t know why. I am glad I’m not living pre ’91.

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  • 1/3/2007 at 4:37 pm
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    Yes it was, Mike D. I knew what it was after the hint, too. I didn’t even have to look, but I did anyway. The hint is too easy.

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  • 1/3/2007 at 5:11 pm
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    Lies.

    For all I know with MikeD “something very bad” could be Sander ate the last cupcake here.

    I maintain that Tyler and Patrick are just full of knowledge of how things look from the sky.

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