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Post by smash » 01 May 2007 08:55

doesn't he have to go back to derka-jihad-istan?

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Post by Steampunk » 01 May 2007 08:57

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Name the two largest islands seen here.

Hint: moo.

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Post by Bligityblah » 01 May 2007 09:29

Jersey and Guernsey.

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Post by Steampunk » 01 May 2007 21:36

Bligs wins a kewpie doll.

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Post by Bligityblah » 01 May 2007 22:58

This one is a softball, the busiest tower on the planet.

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Post by AngelBaby » 02 May 2007 01:53


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Post by exelis » 02 May 2007 02:18

Yeah, I didn't catch it on the first few of that list nor the first ones for most passengers or cargo. (Atlanta (again) and Memphis, respectively)

Perhaps those airports have more than one tower, though. I don't claim to know much about aviation.

Busy day though, so I'll have to look again later if the puzzle's still unsolved.

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Post by Steampunk » 02 May 2007 04:48

It's got a body of water on the east side, so I tried all the "usual suspects": Narita, Singapore, everything in NYC, O'Hare, San Fran. And then the ones that I didn't imagine near water, like ATL and Memphis.

The only thing I can think of, is the tower must be busy for an event of somekind. So, naturally, the Oshkosh fly-in at Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

What a Steampunk. <_<

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Post by Steampunk » 02 May 2007 04:58

Size matters.

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Post by AngelBaby » 04 May 2007 03:09

It looks like an interesting location, but I don't have the vaguest idea what/where it is.

More clue plz?

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Post by Steampunk » 04 May 2007 03:11

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... and big words like "interferometer" and "2M1207b".

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Post by AngelBaby » 04 May 2007 03:15

Well, you didn't have to make it quite THAT easy...

The Very Large Telescope (actually 4 instruments), located at the Paranal Observatory on Cerro Paranal, a 2,635 m high mountain in the Atacama desert in northern Chile.

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Post by Steampunk » 04 May 2007 03:17

No airports plz.

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Post by AngelBaby » 04 May 2007 03:37

^^^
I think you have me confused with Bligs.

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Holy Stone, Batman!

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Post by Umgawa » 04 May 2007 04:42

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. And, because I don't want to throw out anything so challenging that I have to check back here for days on end:

Second verse...
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