NickTheGreat
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The St Louis Arch, but after the Apes have taken over the planet.
Name That Skyline - Picture Game
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Looks like a large water aqueduct somewhere in California.
It’s that giant gun Saddam never got working. There’s probably a gold toilet somewhere just out of shot.
Is it Trump’s wall between the US and Mexico?
All good guesses, but wrong. The skyline is, in fact, the 200 area of the DOE nuclear reservation in south-eastern Washington state where the plutonium used in the Trinity test (and featured in the recent Oppenheimer movie) was produced.
But since I am stood right next to the x-arm of the LIGO Hanford Observatory, I'll have to hand it to @bruce_the_loon. The picture was taken June 23, 2016 while I was up there working with the detector calibration team. Chronlogically, that's about half way between the first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes in September 2015, and the detection of the first neutron star merger in August 2017.
@bruce_the_loon you're up!
But since I am stood right next to the x-arm of the LIGO Hanford Observatory, I'll have to hand it to @bruce_the_loon. The picture was taken June 23, 2016 while I was up there working with the detector calibration team. Chronlogically, that's about half way between the first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes in September 2015, and the detection of the first neutron star merger in August 2017.
@bruce_the_loon you're up!
I don't think I even noticed the actual skyline before I identified the concrete arm. Anyhoo, here goes along the same theme.
Is that the Sphinx Observatory in Switzerland?
That is correct. Went for one with low angle and foreshortening to try and confuse, but you got it.
@beermanpete you're up.
Looks like that could be in CA.
Yes, but which California?
Mt. Wilson is my first guess
Not Mt. Wilson.
InspectorJon
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Maybe try the other California…
National Astronomical Observatory of Baja California Mexico. 
And now for something completely different. LOL
Humboldt, CA
PV you are are in the area. 
^^but not correct.
Weed, CA?
Santa Cruz, CA?
It is not CA
Willamette Valley, Oregon
You got the right state, but this pic is farther south and a little inland of Willamette Valley.
Bend, OR?
Rogue Valley, Oregon?
InspectorJon
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Shady Cove
D.B. Got it exactly right You are up.
You are up.
InspectorJon
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New Orleans?
D.B.Moody
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New Orleans it is. You're up @InspectorJon.
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InspectorJon
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Your picture made me remember this from the winter of 2005/2006.
InspectorJon
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This is my submission. The house in the back ground used to be on the foundation in the for ground.
Joplin?
InspectorJon
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Nothing like that ever happened in Placerville. Not Joplin, Tornadoes seldom leave things in one piece. The house was pretty much still whole.
yea, I thought that after I made my guess. It if was a tornado the house would be sticks.
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