Guess what this is a photo of!

[qmax]

It's the Rosetta Stone.

I knew that would be too easy.

 

[phinz]

Do another one, q.

 

[les]

well done that was a hard one, it's just roped off now, no longer in a framework.

 

[qmax]

Do another one, q.

ok. Try this:

 

[Cooksie]

a refinery in Saudi??

 

[qmax]

a refinery in Saudi??

Nope, not a refinery, not Saudi.

 

[Cooksie]

I'm guessing that it's not in the US because I see the guy without a shirt, which OSHA would never allow. I see bottles and what looks like someone in welder's gear. Malaysia?

 

[qmax]

I'm guessing that it's not in the US because I see the guy without a shirt, which OSHA would never allow. I see bottles and what looks like someone in welder's gear. Malaysia?

Not Malaysia. When this pic was taken OSHA didn't exist.

 

[qmax]

Bump. This has historical significance.

 

[phinz]

It's the Mike Device, the first fusion bomb, tested in Operation Ivy. Those guys aren't wearing shirts because it's hot in the Marshall Islands.

 

[qmax]

It's the Mike Device, the first fusion bomb, tested in Operation Ivy. Those guys aren't wearing shirts because it's hot in the Marshall Islands.

I figured you would get it. I hope it wasn't too easy.

Thing was cryogenicaly cooled, took up the whole building. Was more like a fusion installation.

 

[phinz]

Definitely wasn't too easy. I spent quite a while looking, but thought with the way it was piped, it had to be nuclear of some sort.

I have one in mind. Give me a few minutes. It'll probably be pretty easy, though.

 

[qmax]

Definitely wasn't too easy. I spent quite a while looking, but thought with the way it was piped, it had to be nuclear of some sort.

I have one in mind. Give me a few minutes. It'll probably be pretty easy, though.

The pipes to the right are actually "light pipes". They channeled early bomb light to test instrumentation a couple of miles away.

 

[phinz]

Here we go. What is this place?

 

[les]

looks like an old prison...maybe Montana?

 

[phinz]

It is not Montana.

 

[qmax]

Looks like old English/Scottish architecture. True?

 

[les]

It does look like English/Scottish architecture...or could be Welsh...there's loads of places here like the photo, my 1st thought was Conway Castle, but somehow I keep thinking prison...so back to the drawing board

 

[les]

it's definately Gt Britain....I think it's in Scotland..., the road is the right size

 

[Cooksie]

My first thought was Henry VIII (don't ask me why), so I am going to guess Hever Castle.