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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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10-28-2018, 09:51 AM
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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10-29-2018, 07:31 AM
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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10-30-2018, 02:01 PM
(10-30-2018, 12:30 PM)Norgarth Wrote: [Image: ETX7T74.jpg]

Didn't I see that in a Spider Robinson story?
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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10-31-2018, 10:29 AM
re: the 'Up' themed pic) "A team of scientists, engineers, and two balloon pilots were able to successfully launch a house by using 300 weather balloons."

Looking closely, you can see it's not a real house, the floor is some sort of lattice, you can see the windows on the far side of the 'house' through it. Still fun though. 8)

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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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10-31-2018, 11:40 AM (This post was last modified: 10-31-2018, 11:42 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
I remember that house+balloons! There was a video of the project. They made no bones that they weren't building a full, real house -- they just wanted the look and the cool. I'm at work right now so I don't have the time to search for it, but I'm sure by the time I get home someone will have found it already.

EDIT: They were a team of established, skilled balloonists (and designers thereof), as I recall, and the "house" is really a shell around an unusually large basket. If you look closely at the image you will see that there is a trimmed opening in the roof through which the lines to/from the balloons all go; they fix to the actual support frame somewhere in the "attic" area.
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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10-31-2018, 11:52 AM
Yup. I saw that video.

The balloonists were not very happy with how terribly flimsy the 'house' actually was. They had to compromise a lot to get the needed light weight necessary to make this work, but that did mean using some of the thinnest aluminium plating that would still carry a person.
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-01-2018, 09:35 AM
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-02-2018, 01:22 AM
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-02-2018, 11:36 AM (This post was last modified: 11-02-2018, 11:39 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
I presume that first pic is a resort of some sort -- but where is it? I wanna go!

And I've seen the village(s?) in the fifth pic before, from a slightly different angle, but I can't for the life of me remember where they were located.

EDIT: Never mind, I found out where pic one is -- it's the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, and it was built in a former quarry. Shanghai, sadly, is not going to be a vacation destination for us any time soon. <sigh>
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-02-2018, 09:20 PM (This post was last modified: 11-02-2018, 09:24 PM by DHBirr.)
(11-02-2018, 11:36 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: And I've seen the village(s?) in the fifth pic before, from a slightly different angle, but I can't for the life of me remember where they were located.

Norgarth posted those villages from the different angle on 16 October, page 2 of this thread.  No indication of where they were.

How in Arioch's name does anyone arrive and depart at that lighthouse?
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-02-2018, 10:51 PM
(11-02-2018, 09:20 PM)DHBirr Wrote:
(11-02-2018, 11:36 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: And I've seen the village(s?) in the fifth pic before, from a slightly different angle, but I can't for the life of me remember where they were located.

Norgarth posted those villages from the different angle on 16 October, page 2 of this thread.  No indication of where they were.

How in Arioch's name does anyone arrive and depart at that lighthouse?

Huh, I'd forgotten about the 'different angle' pic of that village.

As for the lighthouse, I'm guessing that white square on the ground is a helipad.
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-03-2018, 10:05 AM
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-03-2018, 11:51 AM
(11-02-2018, 10:51 PM)Norgarth Wrote:
(11-02-2018, 09:20 PM)DHBirr Wrote:
(11-02-2018, 11:36 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: And I've seen the village(s?) in the fifth pic before, from a slightly different angle, but I can't for the life of me remember where they were located.

Norgarth posted those villages from the different angle on 16 October, page 2 of this thread.  No indication of where they were.

How in Arioch's name does anyone arrive and depart at that lighthouse?

Huh, I'd forgotten about the 'different angle' pic of that village.

As for the lighthouse, I'm guessing that white square on the ground is a helipad.

It can't be a helipad. Not only is it not large enough, it's too close to the lighthouse.

Presumably, they get to and from the lighthouse in a similar manner to how people get to and from Xuánkōng Sì.

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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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11-04-2018, 03:39 AM
Nominally, this is what you would call an 'unmanned' lighthouse. As in there is no lighthouse keeper on station to maintain it. It is an automated facility and needs minimal maintenance.

As for access... that platform seems to have davits for people to hang a line off. How they get the line up there is anyone's guess.
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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RE: Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
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