Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 04:13
An old sea sponge, or a very large cornflake (yes, the breakfast kind). 
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 09:34
Not sea foam, mouse remains, sea sponge or large corn flake. Ian is getting warm with his `petrified' although it didn't start out as something living.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 10:05
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 11:16
Kev it was - sorry I misidentified you Ian, do you look like Kev!
It isn't ambergris but I can see why you suggested it. A clue, it's neither animal nor vegetable matter - i.e. it's inorganic.
It isn't ambergris but I can see why you suggested it. A clue, it's neither animal nor vegetable matter - i.e. it's inorganic.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 11:25
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 11:47
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 11:47
Is it melted sand from a lightning strike?
Fulgurite?
Fulgurite?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 11:59
Is it something left from the site of an atomic bomb?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 12:07
Is it a type of Fat?
No no scrap that
No no scrap that
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Mar 2022, 15:55
Kev's got it! It's a specimen of fulgurite in my mineral collection. When lightning strikes desert sand it fuses the sand into strange shapes which follow the path of the lightning in the ground. Wikipedia
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 03:12
I have always known I should have studied geology!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 08:49
Tizer, I claim a foul, You said 'petrified but not living' but isn't petrified by definition organic material turned to stone? Although I've been declared an expert on the subject many times I' refrained from mentioning waste products on OG. 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 09:47
I agree that the word petrified is most often used to mean turning a living thing into stone but it comes from the Greek word for stone and is literally `turned to stone' - in this case sand fused to become `stone'. If you want to claim a foul ask Kev if he used a reverse image search! 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 10:04
Of course I didTizer wrote: ↑09 Mar 2022, 09:47 I agree that the word petrified is most often used to mean turning a living thing into stone but it comes from the Greek word for stone and is literally `turned to stone' - in this case sand fused to become `stone'. If you want to claim a foul ask Kev if he used a reverse image search!
Make use of the resources available to you...Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 12:32
First it was Latin now its bloody Greek. I'm still struggling with the Lancashire vernacular.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 13:02
What's a reverse image search? I understand image search but not reverse.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 13:27
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 15:53
Go to this Google page LINK then click on the camera and either give a web address link for the Mystery Object image (right click on image and choose Copy Link) or choose Upload to find one on your computer. But beware, it's the work of the devil! 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 16:23
Or just right click on the picture and choose 'search for image'. Of course I'd never dream of cheating that way myself...
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 16:31
Wendy, in my Firefox if I right click on an image embedded in a post the menu doesn't offer `Search for Image'. I need to copy or save the image first, or use the web link I described above. I expect Stanley would find the same as me.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Mar 2022, 04:09
I shan't bother trying. I shall rely on my own resources.....
So, if my understanding is correct you lot are off piste and we don't have an object..... I shall do something about that.
What is notable about this image of a butcher's shop in Paris?
So, if my understanding is correct you lot are off piste and we don't have an object..... I shall do something about that.
What is notable about this image of a butcher's shop in Paris?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Mar 2022, 08:47
Is it Kosher?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Mar 2022, 04:25
Yes Ian. But what is remarkable about that?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Mar 2022, 06:54
Was this during the German occupation?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Mar 2022, 07:33
No Wendy, something much more fundamental and surprising.