I’m bored so here’s another #ISeeTheWorldWithScience.
You can look here for an example from the previous #ISeeTheWorldWithScience here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChadHaney/posts/NxpNNozaDgh
The way the game works is that you tell me your guess for what the item(s) in the image below is/are, without saying the object. If you want to guess what the object(s) is, tell me something interesting about it but don’t say what your guess is. I’ll get annoyed if people don’t follow instructions and I’ll probably delete your guess. Yes, bah humbug. So please don’t blurt out the answer. In the past it has been fun to try to decipher the guesses as they were cleverly written by some.
If you don’t want to guess, you can tell me what science the image makes you think of.
In the link above, one of the clever guesses was humorous + a type of macaroni, which is great because the image was an elbow.
More examples of #ISeeTheWorldWithScience
http://goo.gl/98ZhNL via +Mark Crowley
http://goo.gl/kPz2Kr via +Rajini Rao
http://goo.gl/3nhaI4 via +Johnathan Chung
http://goo.gl/XpKIco and http://goo.gl/hp1EfB via me
#ScienceEveryday
Have fun learning science.
December 21, 2015
Alex, I’ll take “what satisfies bacteria for $300?”
December 21, 2015
Steven Spence, I’m going to assume that doesn’t work for any of the objects in the picture but I like your guess/comment.
December 21, 2015
fair enough, because i have no idea what I’m seeing. the game is afoot, Trebek!
December 21, 2015
A quick glance at Wikipedia says that Trebek has Ukrainian heritage. I was hoping for Greek as that would be a clue.
December 21, 2015
Not sure about the foreground, by the background device is for hand numbing.
December 21, 2015
Dustin Zastera, I don’t know about hand numbing but if you aren’t careful, your hand would be more than numb.
December 21, 2015
Is the foreground device a rotary tube breaker?
December 21, 2015
Dustin Zastera, I have no idea what that is so, I’m gonna say no.
December 21, 2015
hmmm. i’m confused. particles are flying in circular clouds.
December 21, 2015
It something we need to survive but in a cold and dangerous form?
December 21, 2015
You are on the right track, I think Steven Spence. An old timer from Lennep might be able to help you out.
December 21, 2015
William Hart, I think we survive just fine without. In fact you’ll probably live longer if you avoid it.
December 21, 2015
well let’s not make things too transparent here, Chad.
December 21, 2015
Steven Spence, I figured everyone knows Old Bill from Lennep.
December 22, 2015
No one is going to try to use the hint about Lennep, Germany?
December 22, 2015
That’s a good guess in terms of how to play the game, Phoenix Williams, but it misses the mark a bit.
December 22, 2015
Chad Haney well, by hooks or by Crookes I have been braked. Although this is an improved design. It’s certainly not something I’d want to Dally with.
December 22, 2015
I think x-rays are leading you all astray.
Steven Spence and Phoenix Williams seem to be on the right track.
December 22, 2015
Steven Spence is pretty darn close for the object in the back (in case people are guessing for both objects).
December 22, 2015
I was only guessing the back object. I thought you had said you didn’t know what was in the front, but I misread.
I think the background device would be something Stereopes would have approved of when working for Zeus. I’ll guess that it is related to Stereopes lineage and Maxwell’s silver
hammerequations.Perhaps music has the answer.
_Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible.
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible._
December 22, 2015
Oh boy, I think I’m twisted around now Steven Spence. Crookes is basically there but now I’m not sure I follow Steropes and Maxwell’s equations. Time for a little Google-Fu of my own.
December 22, 2015
Ha, that’s awesome, Phoenix Williams
December 22, 2015
It’s ok. This has been a stumper, but I think I have the general idea. I’ll wait for the reveal.
December 22, 2015
Steven Spence, care to try on the object in the foreground? I won’t trash your guesses but you’ll have to do some heavy lifting.
December 22, 2015
My guesses are now all over the place after reading suggestions and responses. Is the background device for shaking things up a bit?
December 22, 2015
If you know how Crookes’ radiometer works, then it doesn’t really help.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question239.htm
The helpful part is the name.
December 22, 2015
Chad Haney sorry Chad what I thought it might have been was off ,I’m not verry science minded but I’ll keep reading can’t wait for answer
December 22, 2015
No worries, William Hart. The point is to have fun learning some science.
December 22, 2015
Chad Haney , well Google and porcelain thrones isn’t so far off then is it? I mean that’s related to plumbing which derives from Plumbum, right?
I was going down the wrong track with the back piece. I thought it was to generate instead of measure.
Let’s see what other people come up with. I’m out of my league.
December 22, 2015
Steven Spence, you are the closest so far on both objects. Generating vs. measuring was throwing me off.
Was my clue about Wilhelm from Lennep helpful?
December 22, 2015
I went down the x-ray track with Lennep.
December 22, 2015
Steven Spence, I was hoping the unit of measurement would be the track you got on.
December 22, 2015
Scintillating idea there, Chad Haney ! Your clues were fine. I went the wrong direction.
December 23, 2015
The object in the background is a well counter connected to a Capintec CRC 55-tW system. It’s used in nuclear medicine to measure contamination (using a wipe test). You take a piece of paper and wipe a test area. You place the paper in a tube then measure the radioactivity in the well counter. You can also measure low amounts of radioactivity of in vitro biological samples using a well counter. If you know exactly what isotope you are looking for, you can specify that and the machine will look for that spectral signature. The CRC 55-tW also has a dose calibrator and the chamber for that is behind the well counter (cut out of the picture). The whole apparatus sits on top of a massive lead cabinet. The object in the foreground is a heavy lead lid for the cabinet. Most people put a trash bin, specially labeled for radioactive waste, below that opening. Some people mount the dose calibrator in that opening to further protect the workers.
For those that didn’t catch the Lennep hint, Wilhelm Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Rontgen is a unit of measurement for exposure to x-rays or gamma rays. In this case gamma rays was meant to be the more helpful clue.
December 24, 2015
When all is said and done, I still don’t think I know much more than I did before. You should give it to TSA it ought to make their inspections go well.
December 25, 2015
cocktails and shaking
December 25, 2015
Thanks for the explanation, Chad! I’ll know where to take Bruce Banner or Steve Rogers.
December 28, 2015
I hope Steven Spence and Phoenix Williams had fun.