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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 6, 2006 14:07:55 GMT
OK then let's proceed with something else in the meanwhile: What you see here is very peculiar in its wide surroundings, thought to be impossible until well into the 19th century; and actually also is a book and film title. What is it?
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Post by janggut on Dec 7, 2006 2:10:30 GMT
Cleg said on Larian that he's lost his password, and that it's not Kourou in French Guyana, but a place that has been on the news. Übereil thanks for the heads-up, Ube. maybe the launchpad does not belong to any of the space exploring countries, rather to a military missile launching country like that of North Korea. u know, Kim Jong Ill & his Taepodong missiles. ;D
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 7, 2006 9:47:06 GMT
I know I'm challenging your intellect more than your visual perception - but I'm trying to follow Cleg's example - so, come on, where are your guesses?
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Post by Galadriel on Dec 7, 2006 19:24:29 GMT
I know I'm challenging your intellect more than your visual perception - but I'm trying to follow Cleg's example - so, come on, where are your guesses? Doing the best I can Glance, but I'm only blonde so ;D
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Post by Ubereil on Dec 7, 2006 19:28:30 GMT
It's the location of larian's new screenshot! ;D
Übereil
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Post by Alrik on Dec 7, 2006 21:40:35 GMT
Is it part of the opening of the new mini-ocean in east africa ? Anyway, it has something to do with geology, I'm sure about it !
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 7, 2006 23:16:09 GMT
The solution would be more meteorology than geology, but indeed there is a peculiar geological formation underneath ;D
And East Africa isn't half bad a guess...
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Post by ss on Dec 8, 2006 0:23:02 GMT
Well, it sure ain't the Serengeti Desert.... ;D Looks like the residue of the Aral sea in Kazakistan that has been drying up, but that is far from East Africa... So, I give up... ;D But, is that a house of some sort in the bottom right hand corner.?? So, it could be a weird golf course of some kind...
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 8, 2006 11:57:31 GMT
{The lower right hand corner thing is a graphic overlay issue and has no significance}
Serengeti is not a desert, and not so far from there...
A dried up sea? No, but salt isn't the only thing that's white...
It's taken from 300 km height, so what you see is BIG. Actually, the underlying geological formation is the biggest of its kind in the world.
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Post by Alrik on Dec 8, 2006 15:00:54 GMT
Ah, I know : The big, big mountain, what's its name ? And the white thing is snow !
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Post by Ubereil on Dec 8, 2006 18:49:36 GMT
Mount Everest?
Übereil
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 8, 2006 19:29:45 GMT
Alrik is getting close... And Übe - does this look like Himalaya to you???
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 8, 2006 20:45:10 GMT
Kilimanjaro? (Thanks Alrik.)
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Post by Alrik on Dec 8, 2006 20:53:30 GMT
It's the Kilimanjaro, and according to an article i read a long time ago, its name means "mountainmountainmountain", because different peoples adoipted the names of orther peoples living there not realizing that their name already meant "mountain". European travellers and Scientists could not believe for several hundred years that a) an mountain of that height exists in Africa, and b) that snow was actually on it.
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 8, 2006 21:03:53 GMT
Cleg said on Larian that he's lost his password, and that it's not Kourou in French Guyana, but a place that has been on the news. Übereil thanks for the heads-up, Ube. maybe the launchpad does not belong to any of the space exploring countries, rather to a military missile launching country like that of North Korea. u know, Kim Jong Ill & his Taepodong missiles. ;D Yes it is the North Korean missile launch facility.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 9, 2006 0:33:34 GMT
Yes, indeed - though the correct answer to the question is:
'The Snow of Kilimanjaro' - a 1936 short story by Ernest Hemingway - a 1959 film
Next one coming up...
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 9, 2006 0:39:53 GMT
This peninsula of characteristic shape is the core of a very famous (and very old) city... Which city? Current or past names of the city are accepted
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Post by peterh on Dec 9, 2006 1:02:57 GMT
I'd say Istanbul.
The area with the Blue Mosque, right?
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 9, 2006 11:38:11 GMT
Hmm - obviously too easy - solved by a drunken Dane at first glance ;D Byzanz/Konstantinople/Istanbul is correct! Now - where is this ship moored? (Once you know what is special about it, the answer should be easy)
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 9, 2006 17:11:14 GMT
The cars seem to drive on the wrong side of the road--so someplace British. Liverpool?
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