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Shall We Run Our Own Experiment?

The experiment is now closed and the results compiled!

Password_denied :
A reproduction robot from about the late '50s (Japanese)
An Apple
A Thrup'penny bit.

Frideswide :
left to right:

spiky yellow
lots of knobs or bumps?
something softer....

rynner2 :
On the left, some sort of Lego figure, mostly brown. Centre, a small potted cactus. Right, a blue mug of cold coffee.

MungomanII :
From the left, looking out the window - a cup, then a saucer, then a fork - and am I hungry - no, not really...

Krepostnoi :
From left to right: a bunch of keys, a glass ashtray or coaster, and a cuddly toy - most likely a bear, about 6“ tall, and is it wearing a T Shirt with some writing on?

A safer prediction will be that none of these are even close :)

Yithian :
One of the objects surely must be a cactus or a model of a cactus or an anthropomorphic cactus character - definitely something with spikes, spines or bristles at any rate.

Shady :
Cat, envelope, key

And the actual objects?

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A small cardboard box shaped like a heart (which actually contains a tacky cat-shaped keyring, courtesy of a local Chinese restaurant); some Post-It notes (spiky and yellow?); and a voice-activated tape recorder (lots of knobs?).

If you saw a cat, it's probably because she occasionally sits on that windowsill and not at all because I've mentioned cats before. I do not yet have a LEGO Squarefoot (as I've talked about elsewhere), so sorry rynner2, no LEGO figures, brown or otherwise. Interesting that three of you went for a spiky object - I think the cat needs her claws trimming...

So in summary - you're all getting a bit better... at seeing the cat, anyway. Be a while before we can get a military agency grant though.
 
Tribble said:
Be a while before we can get a military agency grant though.
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Indeed. But a key element within any DoD Condition of Offer must be that the successful RV contractor will not be advised, via any conventional routes, of having been awarded the grant. Because, if the applicant doesn't even know that already, then they don't deserve the work.

And whilst we're trying-out all this remote interconnectedness....here's a brief (one minute) inspirational video from the superhuman Amy Walker, from her "We are Connected" trope....but, be warned, watching this video will change you, a little or a lot.

She is able to motivationally-convey emotional information so effectively, she'll still be in your head an hour later...
 
OK, I'll try another photo. This will be selected at random, and may not be nice, artistic, well focused, and just possibly not even taken by me. I'll be back when it's on my desktop.
 
OK, it's up now. No clues of any kind. PM me under title Experiment.

Good Luck!!
 
I forgot to give a time limit. I'll reveal the answer after I get 7 (or more) replies.
(Only 3 so far.)

Most replies are very short and simple. Perhaps a scatter-gun approach might get lucky!
 
Tribble said:
Frideswide :
spiky yellow
lots of knobs or bumps?

rynner2 :
Centre, a small potted cactus.

Yithian :
One of the objects surely must be a cactus or a model of a cactus or an anthropomorphic cactus character - definitely something with spikes, spines or bristles at any rate.
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Surely this is significant!
Is there usually or has there previously been a cactus on this windowsill?
 
Yithian said:
Surely this is significant!
Is there usually or has there previously been a cactus on this windowsill?
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Not on that windowsill, no... there's a rather dead-looking, non-spiky, non-anthropomorphic cactus in another room, but you'll find cactii in a lot of homes... Maybe you were looking through the wrong window and were spying on a neighbour?
 
rynner2 said:
I forgot to give a time limit. I'll reveal the answer after I get 7 (or more) replies.
(Only 3 so far.)

Most replies are very short and simple. Perhaps a scatter-gun approach might get lucky!
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Frideswide said:
Damn he's spotted our cunning plan!
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Okay, 7 replies... 7 colours of the rainbow... if we all choose different colours we might stand a chance (unless it's a black and white pic).
 
5 replies so far.

To expand on my comment earlier about short replies; I think that a lot of 'psychic' stuff goes on in the subconscious, so we should give that full rein by talking around the subject in our minds. Don't expect one-word answers - the more angles we take the more our imaging of the target should come into focus. (If that sounds a bit hologrammatic - well, maybe it is!)

So I suggest more stream-of-consciousness thinking might improve results. Perhaps we should adopt as our motto the words of the proverbial Irishman who said (allegedly) "How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?"
(I think that Irish jokes often conceal a hidden level of folk wisdom.)

If that inspires you to try another reading, then feel free - no limits!
 
At the risk of screwing everything up, another verbal clue:

'The image shows three smiling men admiring Bo Peep's backside.'
 
Well, this experiment seems to have run out of steam (OMG, I just gave another clue!), so it's time to look at the entries this time.

Shady: Sorry, all im getting is a waterfall
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Frideswide: A ladder, or something like it in silhouette - cross bars on long ones.

Ermintrude: I can see a circular ring, like at a cattle market, or almost a gladiatorial arena. And some tall animal...

Tribble: Lots of cows. Your desktop pic is cows in a green field, nice blue sky. Possibly Holstein Friesian cows (the black and white dairy ones). One's looking at the camera with a typically cow-like expression.

Pandacracker: Stars and planets (one with rings round it, like Saturn)

Mungoman: Excavation site?

The target on offer is actually the second one my random number system offered, as the first one did not correspond to any pics on my computer.

At first I thought it was rather dull, but since having it as my wallpaper I've come to realise it is quite interesting.

Anyhow, stand by for the Great Reveal!

Is this Steam Porn?!
 
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The actual target was:

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This was taken in Redruth on Trevithick Day in 2006, when the town was full of steam traction engines.

So who gets Honourable Mentions?

Ermintrude and Pandacracker, who both mentioned Rings, which could relate to the wheels (and the Flywheel, although that is on the far side of the vehicle).

The rest of you are either trying too hard, or looking for quick solutions. Let your subconscious do the work!

There's also a coincidence associated with this image: a neighbour of mine spends a lot of time making models and doing jigsaws. On Sunday, when I posted this challenge, he started a jigsaw of an (American) steam traction engine. And he still hasn't finished it!
 
rynner2 said:
Ermintrude and Pandacracker, who both mentioned Rings, which could relate to the wheels (and the Flywheel, although that is on the far side of the vehicle).
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There are over a dozen 'rings' in that picture, of sorts. A 'tall animal'....maybe a steam-breathing iron giant? No, these are just straws I clutch at..
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Tribble said:
and a farm connection!
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The Beast is named 'Bo Peep', in a cursive script, said Ermintrude, sheepishly.

We're so good, next we should try staring at goats....

ps I just had a strange retrotech steampunkean revelation ....(not remote viewing related)...that is, surely steam engines, whether static, traction or locomotive, all emit unwanted sooty smoke plus hamless watery steam. Why can't the main smoke-stack pass through a fabricated internal steam curtain? Thus capturing the soot as liquid carbon sludge, instead of belching it into the air as contaminating airborne particulate. Come on, you inevitable steam train experts, lurking in FTMB....isn't this a workable idea?
 
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The shop behind Bo Peep was quite an interesting one. It was run by an old black man, and I suspect he made most of the carved wooden objects himself. He lived in the flat above the shop, but he must have died about a year ago, and the shop has been shuttered up ever since.

A couple of pics of the shop as was:

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Ermintrude said:
The Beast is named 'Bo Peep', in a cursive script, said Ermintrude, sheepishly.

We're so good, next we should try staring at goats....

ps I just had a strange retrotech steampunkean revelation ....(not remote viewing related)...that is, surely steam engines, whether static, traction or locomotive, all emit unwanted sooty smoke plus hamless watery steam. Why can't the main smoke-stack pass through a fabricated internal steam curtain? Thus capturing the soot as liquid carbon sludge, instead of belching it into the air as contaminating airborne particulate. Come on, you inevitable steam train experts, lurking in FTMB....isn't this a workable idea?
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G'day Ermintrude, just a bit OT, but some Aussie farmers are using exhaust gas from the tractor, which contains Carbon Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorous, Iron, Zinc and Potassium, to be injected with the warm moist air into the furrow along with the seed, which gives the seed a head start.

It's called the Stubble Cruncher’s Exhaust Fertiliser System, which takes the hot exhaust from the tractor, cools it and introduces it into the airseeder fan, to actively inject the seed in a sub-sod seeder.

I like the way you think.
 
Frideswide said:
need more shops like this! I wonder what happened to the stock...
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I wondered that too. Now I wish I'd gone in and bought something, but mostly I was just passing, on my way to somewhere else. My mental nickname for the place was The Old Curiosity Shop.
 
Right then, oh gifted ones, same procedure as before. Three mystery objects on the windowsill. Tell me what they are and you could win win win!*

*Prizes may include hearty congratulations, Likes and the unwelcome attention of certain government agencies.
 
Aaaand that's about 24 hours! Five sets of answers with some interesting results... Just what kind of junk do you people think I have lying around in this place?

pandacracker :

key
Michael Palin (?!)
car
rope

Shady :

A fork, Great Expectations, I get something Star Trek, but i suspect that's something to do with your name, so i will ignore it :p A camel :eek: Bah, all wrong i bet :p


Password_denied :

A pebble.
A (old) foreign coin.
A starched collar.


Frideswide :

Left - reflective or very glittery, round and either white or clear.
Centre - white tin enamel mug with a blue line.
right - looks like stacked wood o_O maybe a small house built of clothespegs? weird!


Krepostnoi :

A glass, cup or flower vase, containing water
A snail (or a tape measure!)
A handheld audio device: transistor radio, cassette walkman, dictaphone or similar.

And the objects were :

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A spool of white polyester cord, a cardboard tube, and a small mirror with brown plastic bits.

I think Frideswide got the most keywords right this time, so congrats, the black helicopter will be with you shortly!
 
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