Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[SteveH aka shetc]

 

[Cheshire Cat]

India

 

[pvtpublic]

Is that the Himalayas in the background?

 

[pvpeacock]

looks like Chinese characters in the fencing in the upper right corner.

 

[D.B.Moody]

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Wasn't this an indication that we should be looking at Japan?

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Wasn't this an indication that we should be looking at Japan?

Nah, just Asia plus thermal pool made me think of snow monkeys

 

[beermanpete]

Yes, those are the Himalayas.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Pakistan?

 

[beermanpete]

Not Pakistan.

 

[pvpeacock]

Yangbajain Geothermal Field in Damxung County, Tibet?

 

[beermanpete]

@pvpeacock, you are correct. You're up.

 

[pvpeacock]

This one should be easy if you have ever been here.

 

[schmurf]

Bavaria somewhere, looking familiar but only because I've seen a photo from that building taken by my parents many years ago. A monastery I think?

Edit: and it's probably by Donau/Danube

 

[pvpeacock]

Correct on Bavaria and the Danube.

 

[schmurf]

Wish I could be more specific

 

[pvpeacock]

Hint: It is beer related.

 

[duncan.brown]

Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei. It’s on my bucket list of places to go in Germany. The oldest monastic brewery in Germany.

 

[pvpeacock]

Bingo. Was just there and I highly recommend taking the boat up the river from Kelheim and through the Danube Gorge to get there as opposed to a car or motor coach. The church at the abbey is amazing. You're up Duncan.

 

[duncan.brown]

Ok, let’s try this. No clues just yet.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

The LIGO Hanford Observatory that detects gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

 

[NickTheGreat]

The St Louis Arch, but after the Apes have taken over the planet.

 

[pvpeacock]

Looks like a large water aqueduct somewhere in California.

 

[pvtpublic]

It's clearly bumper lanes for monster truck bowling.

 

[Pkrd]

It’s that giant gun Saddam never got working. There’s probably a gold toilet somewhere just out of shot.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Is it Trump’s wall between the US and Mexico?

 

[duncan.brown]

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!

 

[bruce_the_loon]

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!

I don't think I even noticed the actual skyline before I identified the concrete arm. Anyhoo, here goes along the same theme.

 

[beermanpete]

Is that the Sphinx Observatory in Switzerland?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

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.

 

[beermanpete]