Sep
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Can anyone guess where I am today? · 7:34pm Sep 17th, 2019
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Pineta
Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist
Pineta
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5 weeksEclipse 202410 comments · 167 views
Best of luck to everyone chasing the solar eclipse tomorrow. I hope the weather behaves. If you are close to the line of totality, it is definitely worth making the effort to get there. I blogged about how awesome it was back in 2017 (see: Pre-Eclipse Post, Post-Eclipse
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13 weeksEnd of the Universe6 comments · 177 views
I am working to finish Infinite Imponability Drive as soon as I can. Unfortunately the last two weeks have been so crazy that it’s been hard to set aside more than a few hours to do any writing…
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16 weeksImponable Update1 comments · 165 views
Work on Infinite Imponability Drive continues. I aim to get another chapter up by next weekend. Thank you to everyone who left comments. Sorry I have not been very responsive. I got sidetracked for the last two weeks preparing a talk for the ATOM society on Particle Detectors for the LHC and Beyond, which took rather more of my time than I
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17 weeksImponable Interlude3 comments · 229 views
Everything is beautiful now that we have our first rainbow of the season.
What is life? Is it nothing more than the endless search for a cutie mark? And what is a cutie mark but a constant reminder that we're all only one bugbear attack away from oblivion?
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19 weeksQuantum Decoherence2 comments · 164 views
Happy end-of-2023 everyone.
I just posted a new story.
Pineta · 12k words · 51 0 · 890 viewsThis is one of the craziest things that I have ever tried to write and is a consequence of me having rather more unstructured free time than usual for the last week.
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No, I can’t, sorry
Mars? (Hey, you never said the guess had to be correct.)
The Globe of Science and Innovation.
That display looks like the standard model. I figured it's CERN related. My next guess would have been Batavia, but Google found the answer for me with CERN wooden dome.
Wooden Epcot?
This is just a guess, but...somewhere on Planet Earth?
Somewhere on earth
EPCOTs looking a bit run down.
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DIDNEY WUUUURL
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I'd agree. I think Pineta took the picture standing here (though the aerial/satellite view is woefully out of date):
https://goo.gl/maps/DXu4ZVCHtLQL9msi6
Vous êtes à le conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire!
No clue.
Wherever you are, at least you have the most sciencey of princesses with you!
5122637 Ye gads. The fandom has some serious investigation skills.
Enjoying your time at CERN?
Whoah! All sorts of flags now. When did they put those up?
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If Homestuck fans can track down the specific random Burger King Dave was staring at in a matter of hours, I think MLP fans can find something that's an actual landmark.
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You win
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Well on the scale of the universe, you're pretty close
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Well that's accurate, but not as precise as it could be
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Very close, but it was actualy from the other side of the tramway on the Esplanade des Particules
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C'est exact. Et bravo pour le français
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Aha! So roughly here, or a bit further back?
https://goo.gl/maps/nmSrfZZay6kPfKUc8
Daniel Terdiman used to publish this sort of guessing game during his tenure at CNET over the course of his annual science and technology “Road Trip.” As the online visual search tools improved from year to year, he was forced to keep upping the difficulty by first stripping out EXIF data, then posting pictures of less frequently photographed places and objects, shooting them from less common viewpoints, etc.
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Spot on.
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Or that thing where they figured out where the flag was by looking at contrails in the sky and cross-referencing with airplane flight paths.
You obviously have discerning followers...
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In the course of Silver Glow’s Journal, there were often times where people would send me a link to a Google Streetview or a satellite view (for some of Silver’s flights) and have me confirm or deny that that was where she was . . . in most cases, they were right.