Who / What / Where Game Part 2

[Ostfriese]

Entertainer? :)


^ No.

[Jimbuna]

Married?

[Ostfriese]

Married?


Yes

[Jimbuna]

Beats me, off to watch the Chelsea v City game.

[Aktungbby]

madame curie?

[Ostfriese]

madame curie?


Yep, exactly. :) Over to you.

[Aktungbby]

her work has 'cured' me several times!:shucks::O: I'll have something shortly...

[Aktungbby]

shortly: :Kaleun_Los: https://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=12941 <what is this?

[Ostfriese]

Some old vehicle? The wheel looks way too sturdy for a road vehicle, though, so maybe a locomotive?

[Aktungbby]

not a locomotive; it does move and it's old... very old and it holds 'passengers':D

[Eichhörnchen]

Fairground type of 'big wheel' - but not necessarily a fairground erection (you know what I mean)

[Jimbuna]

Does it float?

[Aktungbby]

Fairground type of 'big wheel' - but not necessarily a fairground erection (you know what I mean) it is indoors; there are two of these.

Does it float? I doubt it. It was built by a gunsmith.

[bracer]

An elevator?

[Aktungbby]

no, it does not go up or down...but it does rotate periodically

[Eichhörnchen]

Are its 'passengers' human?

[mapuc]

What "Time" is it ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Are its 'passengers' human?Yes! but hardly humane. :k_confused::03:One was dubbed "the Great and another was killed in battle.

[Aktungbby]

What "Time" is it ?

Markus...if I understand your question, the original stems from the 17th century with Danish antecedents.

[mapuc]

...if I understand your question, the original stems from the 17th century with Danish antecedents.

It wasn't what I thought it was-The mechanic behind the Big Ben clock.
Thereby "time"

The funny thing is, I know I've seen this monstrum before, but I can't place it.
(On tv that is)

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Static in its location?

[Catfish]

Mitrailleuse?

[Aktungbby]

Static in its location?I would say yes, but it is moveable.

[Aktungbby]

Mitrailleuse?not French; not a weapon; and does not have wheels for mobility.

[bracer]

Located in Sweden?

[Aktungbby]

nope...but it may have passed through Sweden in the Great Northern War enroute to it's final destination.:hmmm:

[bracer]

Hmm, tricky.
Was it used in war?

[Aktungbby]

As a means of bribery perhaps; and as war booty well into the 1940's

[Ostfriese]

Some kind of torture instrument?

[Aktungbby]

Not unless U were unfortunate enough to be in it in 1747 when one of the two caught fire; that one was was restored by 1790. The reproduction, built in 2005 on the original grounds that housed the 17th century one, is housed in its own building in the castle from which its name is derived (for both of them). Waterpower, via mill and brass worm-drive, was used to rotate the original in its original building.

[Eichhörnchen]

How many 'passengers' did it usually carry?

[Jimbuna]

Is it a giant bell?

[Aktungbby]

How many 'passengers' did it usually carry?approx. a dozen to QUOTE my many sources...the one dubbed 'the Great' went to see it often.

Is it a giant bell?:hmmm: I suppose It is a giant 'bell' of sorts; one of the first of its kind. When the Nazis stole the original in 1942 it was recovered by the British and ultimately returned to it's original location where it resides today...though I don't think the current would-be "Great" goes to see it often!:03:

[Ostfriese]

Was "the Great" you mentioned Catherine the Great?

[Eichhörnchen]

Or Peter?

[Aktungbby]

It was Peter; He saw the thing at the castle for which it is named and it was 'donated' to his museum probably initiating a long standing tradition of artifact
removal(looting) as is ongoing in Ukraine today ie Sythian gold etc.

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it the Gottorf Globe in the Kunstkammer?

[Aktungbby]

Bingo!:salute: Over to Eich! Alas poor Mapuc he's got to have run across
this before!The funny thing is, I know I've seen this monstrum before, but I can't place it.
(On tv that is)

Markus https://gottorfer-globus.de/upload/img/globus_13_,noindex.jpg?w=2000&h=928&zx=1764&zy=1172&code=5c9db68f74d4105fcc9496a2f7aa6e8e6a9efb4a0cb5c 66665e799ea032a01f6 After the Gottorf inhabitants lost the Great Northern War against the Danish crown, Tsar Peter the Great – a Danish ally – requested the globe as a present and had it brought to St. Petersburg. The globe is still there today. It has been severely damaged due to its far transport, fire and the chaos of war, however repeatedly restored anew. Hardly any of its original ornamental painting has remained intact. Only its constructional frame and the door have still remained true to the original. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Gottorp_jordglob_2014b.jpg/1200px-Gottorp_jordglob_2014b.jpg https://gottorfer-globus.de/en/the-gottorf-globe

[mapuc]

I was wrong I thought I had seen this before which I haven't.

Learned something new today.

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Aktung - your'e more generous with the clues than I am - I'd have kept that going for days - maybe a whole orbit :haha:

(Back soon)

[Jimbuna]

I get the impression that a lack of clues eventually leads to a loss of interest in guesses.

[Eichhörnchen]

Okay I'll give you plenty of clues for this one

https://i.imgur.com/7Djhxhc.jpg What's this and what's it a part of?

[Aktungbby]

I get the impression that a lack of clues eventually leads to a loss of interest in guesses.
Precisely; keeping the game in motion is paramount. Plus I had rotated the puzzle-picture 90⁰ to make it more difficult w/o showing any of the globe's artwork. Quite a gizmo imho;(rhyme intended:O:) I cannot believe it isn't a premier attraction in Denmark today at the castle; or in St Petersburg at the museum. I thought Mapuc would figure it out first...

[Aktungbby]

Okay I'll give you plenty of clues for this one

https://i.imgur.com/7Djhxhc.jpg What's this and what's it a part of? are there more gears than just those two?

[Ostfriese]

THose gears look pretty worn. Has this been used for a long time?

[Eichhörnchen]

Two very good questions -

@ Aktung - these are the only two needed

@ Ostfriese - strangely, this isn't very old at all

[Aktungbby]

electrically driven?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Nope

[Ostfriese]

This looks super familiar, but I'm racking my brains and simply can't find the connection.


Those gears are made of metal, right?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ No, they are not

[mapuc]

They can be both metal and plastic ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Industrial use?

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Markus - they are not metal

@ Jim - No

[Jimbuna]

A timekeeping piece?

[Catfish]

Is it Issus (https://scitechdaily.com/natural-example-functioning-gear-mechanism-discovered-insect/amp/)?

[Aktungbby]

is it a toy?

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it Issus (https://scitechdaily.com/natural-example-functioning-gear-mechanism-discovered-insect/amp/)?

YES!! - how did you get there so fast ?!

https://phys.org/news/2013-09-functioning-mechanical-gears-nature.html

https://i.imgur.com/jrS9yK6.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/aYvj9ag.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/N2fOj44.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7PUxRyT.jpg


The ball is yours, Catfish!

[Catfish]

YES!! - how did you get there so fast ?!
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On your photo the surfaces looked a bit too "clean", so i was not sure..
There is a similar mechanism, but here it would be more a marine thing in earthly terms, and difficult to achieve at this location with quite a dense 'atmosphere'.

[Catfish]

What is this?

https://i.imgur.com/PlUOys7m.jpg

[mapuc]

Some kind of viaduct ?

Markus

[Catfish]

Not a viaduct.

[mapuc]

A dam

(I'm imagine Hoverdam light up in the lgbtq colour)

Markus

[Catfish]

What is a "hoverdam"?
You are dam' right with "dam" :)
But which one?

[mapuc]

What is a "hoverdam"?
You are dam' right with "dam" :)
But which one?

I meant hoover dam.

Markus

[bracer]

Edersee Dam?

[Ostfriese]

What is this?

https://i.imgur.com/PlUOys7m.jpg


Colorful :03:

[Catfish]

^ @Ostfriese: You are not wrong..
Edersee Dam?
How? Yes it is! :haha:

You guys/girls/div are incredible :D

Over to bracer :salute:

[Jimbuna]

Nice one.

[bracer]

Sweet, a nice dam indeed!

Ok, then what exactly are we in here?
https://i.imgur.com/scfmVVk.png

[Eichhörnchen]

A diesel engine room?

[bracer]

Yes, it holds a diesel engine.

[mapuc]

(Don't know but O'Brien came up when I saw the picture)

Is it on a civilian ship ?

Markus

[bracer]

Haha, yeah, he might look a little like him!


No, it's not civilian.

[Catfish]

Looks a bit like the swedish U3 engine room :hmmm:

[bracer]

Looks a bit like the swedish U3 engine room :hmmm:


Haha, well, that's because it is the U3 engine room :-)


I'ts a small coastal uboat launched in 1943. It is almost 50 meters, held 26 men and could do 13.7knts surfaced and 7.5knts submerged.
It sits in the museum in my home town Malmö, so I am there frequently.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/U_3_in_Malm%C3%B6_01.08.09.JPG
Over to you, Catfish!

[mapuc]

Between 89 and 91 I lived in Malmö-Mellanheden.

Visit some of the museum like the one with this U3 sub...I should be shameful not recognize it.

Fy skäms på mig.

Markus

[bracer]

Aha! Där ser man!
I moved here in around 2006, currently living in Limhamn area :salute:


There's plenty of uboat museums, not easy to remember them all.
Except for Catfish I see, who seems to know all of them! Haha!

[bracer]

Or Catfish knows alot about Malmö: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2666485&postcount=10772
Not the first time he solved my Malmö questions. :D

[Eichhörnchen]

I don't think I would have guessed this one. That boat is certainly kept in wonderful condition :Kaleun_Salute:

[Jimbuna]

Just waiting on Kai getting out of bed now :)

[Aktungbby]

/\ ...at our advanced age:hmmm:...always an "iffy" proposition!!?:o :shucks::O:

[Catfish]

Sorry, just awoke from the dead lol

so what is it?

https://i.imgur.com/3c54g0hm.jpg

[bracer]

Welcome back 🙂

Does it fly?

[Jimbuna]

WWII era?

[Catfish]

Yes it flies, or did.
Not WW2

[Jimbuna]

Post WWII?

[Eichhörnchen]

Soviet?

[Aktungbby]

Bartini Berieve vertical lift aircraft?

[Catfish]

Post WWII?
Yes!
Soviet?
No. Though there could have been a connection in another alternative reality timeline :03:
Bartini Berieve vertical lift aircraft?
I think this is rather a ground-effect "aircraft" than a vertical lift one?
edit: ok the later version was changed into a VTOL..
But it is not this one.

[Eichhörnchen]

My first thought was Soviet ground-effect craft but I can't find anything to match your photo. It'll probably be Aktung who finds it :haha:

[Catfish]

My first thought was Soviet ground-effect craft but I can't find anything to match your photo. It'll probably be Aktung who finds it :haha:
Not a ground effect vehicle, more conventional. Not a plane.
Photographed at an unusual angle, and further cropped by me ..

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it the "Raduga" hovercraft?

[Catfish]

No, not a hovercraft, not a plane and not soviet (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2846748&postcount=2089).
But the inventor is half ukrainian half russian..
And it is an aircraft.

[Aktungbby]

well if it's not a plane is it a helicoptor?

[Ostfriese]

But the inventor is half ukrainian half russian..

Sounds pretty much like Igor Sikorsky.

A CH-37 Mojave helicopter?

[Aktungbby]

Not a ground effect vehicle, more conventional. Not a plane.
Photographed at an unusual angle, and further cropped by me ..
well...:hmmm: there's meager satisfaction in leading Ostfriese to "the promised land". :yeah: I had latched onto Ukrainian Sikorsky early enough; but the USMC Mojave didn't leap off the page at me...:wah: one could say I 'came a-cropper':O:

[Catfish]

well if it's not a plane is it a helicoptor?
A "helicoptor", what is that? :O:
Yes a helicopter –
Sounds pretty much like Igor Sikorsky.
A CH-37 Mojave helicopter?
That is it!
Who else than Igor Sikorsky could invent such a contraption, two radial WASP engines in gondolas driving the main rotor via propshafts; also the rotor could be folded to the rear, and the whole tail tilted forward.
The whole bow could be opened to accommodate 26 personnel, or three Jeeps.
The biggest and heaviest helicopter at the time, used by the US Army and Marine Corps, if only for seven years.
It was built in all kinds of versions, also in England though they built their own variant prototype with different engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-37_Mojave

https://i.imgur.com/E6MAWBGl.jpg

Over to Ostfriese :salute:

[Ostfriese]

well...:hmmm: there's meager satisfaction in leading Ostfriese to "the promised land".

Indeed, thanks for that :Kaleun_Salute:

I’m currently at work, I won’t be able to put up something new until the afternoon, so I ask you for a bit of patience. New one will come in the (European) afternoon.

[Ostfriese]

OK, what's this:


https://s20.directupload.net/images/230111/4eo5seew.jpg


The white borders on the right and at the bottom of the picture do not belong to the riddle, I just couldn't get rid of them

[Aktungbby]

something microscopic?

[Catfish]

Crystalline carbon? :D

[Ostfriese]

something microscopic?


Yes


@Catfish: crystalline, but not carbon

[mapuc]

Came to think of these NANO robots who was made so they could connect in different ways-Well I can't remember everything.

Is it these Nanoid robotics

Markus

[Ostfriese]

No, nothing robotic (it's far, FAR less complex).

[Jimbuna]

Calcite?

[Ostfriese]

Calcite?


No, but your general direction is much better than Markus'

[Aktungbby]

looks like salt crystals to me

[Ostfriese]

looks like salt crystals to me


Because they are salt (sodium chloride) crystals. Over to you :)

[Aktungbby]

Being 'an old salt' myself I'll have something shortly

[Ostfriese]

But don't get 'salty' :Kaleun_Cheers:

[Aktungbby]

Shortly: what is this rare, ca 1855, built item: https://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=12950

[Catfish]

Percussion rifle U.S. Model 1855 Springfield ?

No it isn't. Well i tried lol

[Aktungbby]

Nope; custom by well-known New England gunsmith. currently reasonably offered for sale and in .38 caliber...I'd get it but I've a wedding to pay for and I make my own rifles anyhow.

[Jimbuna]

G.P. Foster Percussion Rifle?

[Aktungbby]

precisely! Over to you.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

https://i.postimg.cc/5tYVmPZk/fffffgggg.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

What and location.

[Ostfriese]

Looks to fresh for the Dark Ages/early middle ages and to broken for Renaissance or later, so: is it medieval?

[Jimbuna]

Earlier but it has been subject to considerable reconstruction.

[Eichhörnchen]

I think it's Roman (originally)

[Jimbuna]

Yes, well recognised.

[Aktungbby]

in England?

[Jimbuna]

Most definitely.

[Aktungbby]

Hadrian's wall?

[u crank]

Arbeia upon Tyne?

[Aktungbby]

I see yer Romin' around in the thread again Pilgrim!:D

[Jimbuna]

Hadrian's wall?

Not too far off.

[Jimbuna]

Arbeia upon Tyne?

Spot on Marcel and located in my home town two to three miles away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeia

https://i.postimg.cc/W1XZZ7Zy/34919-arbeia-roman-fort-south-shields-01.jpg (https://postimg.cc/qN6gVyjc)

Over to you :salute:

[u crank]

I thought that was your house Jim.

:D

Ok what might this be?

https://i.imgur.com/g7hdT7J.jpg?2

[Jimbuna]

I wouldn't mind if it was....sited on a hill overlooking the entrance to the river.

Is your clue an Italian Smoked Glass Sectional Serving Dish?

[u crank]

I wouldn't mind if it was....sited on a hill overlooking the entrance to the river.

Is your clue an Italian Smoked Glass Sectional Serving Dish?

Sorry, no.

[Jimbuna]

A wall or roof of a building?

[u crank]

No, somewhat smaller.

[Aktungbby]

Hadrian's wall?

Arbeia upon Tyne?

Not too far off.Actually, in a previous life as noble Hadrian's chief Brittania architect, the fortess was the considered end piece of the wall with the 4 mile stretch of Tyne as a natural barrier, negating excess denarii construction of stone wall 'twixt Walls End and the fort on the southern side of the rivermouth...Phlipius Vincentius Dallus:D:know::woot: Map EDIT:https://i0.wp.com/followinghadrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wall_path_map_lg.png?resize=640%2C272 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMy7gN4GgR5qLX0BH9uoSQ7wLpUEPYL8m9FscWR=s680-w680-h510 those now-truncated walls on the fort probably extended across the
entire Southgate peninsula from Tyne to North Sea completing the barricade. The fort guarded the supply-by-sea for the entire garrisoned wall.

[Jimbuna]

As is often joked in my town.....

" How did Wallsend get such a name"?

"That is where the Romans ran out of bricks"

:03:

[Ostfriese]

Spot on Marcel and located in my home town two to three miles away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeia
Over to you :salute:


Very nice, wouldn't have thought it could be Roman. Well, there are no Roman ruins around here, as I live in what the Romans called Germania Libera. Maybe I'll visit Arbeia one day, if the brits will let me in.


@u crank: it looks like it was made from copper. Is that some sort of heat-transfer device?

[u crank]

@u crank: it looks like it was made from copper. Is that some sort of heat-transfer device?

I'm sorry but I have been unable to find out what that material is. The whole object is not a heat-transfer device.

[Jimbuna]

Stationary?

[u crank]

Stationary?

The object in question is stationary. It is part of a larger object that is not.

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it on a ship?

[mapuc]

Placed on a building

Markus

[u crank]

Is it on a ship?

Sorry, no.

@ Ostfriese. A little more research and I now believe that the material may be a magnesium alloy, stainless steel or a copper alloy.

[u crank]

Placed on a building

Markus

Not on a building.

[mapuc]

In Space ?

Markus

[u crank]

In Space ?

Markus

It was in space.

[Eichhörnchen]

Made by the Canadian Space Agency?

[u crank]

Made by the Canadian Space Agency?

Not this time.:D

[Aktungbby]

was it used in spacelab?

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it part of the Shuttle?

[Jimbuna]

Part of a satellite?

[mapuc]

Is it
The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite ?

Markus

[u crank]

was it used in spacelab?

If you mean Skylab, no.

Is it part of the Shuttle?

No

Part of a satellite?

No

Is it
The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite ?

No.

[Ostfriese]

US-American in origin?

[u crank]

US-American in origin?

Yes.

[mapuc]

Did this Satellite crash into one of the celestial body we have in our solar system or in the vicinity ?

Markus

[u crank]

Did this Satellite crash into one of the celestial body we have in our solar system or in the vicinity ?

No.

[mapuc]

Was it a Satellite ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

did it return safely to earth?

[u crank]

Was it a Satellite ?

No.

[u crank]

did it return safely to earth?

Oh yea.

[Aktungbby]

crew of one?

[u crank]

crew of one?

No.

[mapuc]

Was this object from the real world ?

Markus

[u crank]

Was this object from the real world ?

Yes.

[mapuc]

Unmanned object ?

Markus

[u crank]

Unmanned object ?

No.

[mapuc]

Crew of three ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Two crew?

[u crank]

Crew of three ?

Yes.

[u crank]

Two crew?

No.

[mapuc]

NASA ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Space X?

[u crank]

Space X?

No.

NASA ?

Yes.

[Catfish]

One of the Apollo missons then?

[u crank]

One of the Apollo missons then?

Yes. The object we are looking for was part of Project Apollo.

[Eichhörnchen]

Part of the Landing Module?

[u crank]

Part of the Landing Module?

It was.

[Aktungbby]

Used exterior or interior?

[Catfish]

Part of the Apollo guidance computer housing?
(If it was Eichhörnchen should be the next, i would never have found this!!)

[u crank]

Used exterior or interior?

Interior.

[u crank]

Part of the Apollo guidance computer housing?
(If it was Eichhörnchen should be the next, i would never have found this!!)

Spot on man.:up:

https://i.imgur.com/wB6vfjj.jpg

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft. The object on the right was how astronauts communicated with the AGC using a numeric display and keyboard called the DSKY (for "display and keyboard"). Facinating stuff.

Over to you sir.:salute:

[Jimbuna]

Would never have got that like.

[Aktungbby]

me neither!

[Catfish]

Eichhörnchen, go forth :yep:

[Eichhörnchen]

Well you needn't have credited me with that - I probably couldn't have got much further with it - but thanks anyway

https://i.imgur.com/JU5Gvwg.jpg Now what exactly is this?

[Aktungbby]

German?

[Jimbuna]

Russian made?

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes Russian - that was the easy part

[Jimbuna]

Missile?

[Eichhörnchen]

Uh-oh... yes :haha:

[Jimbuna]

Cruise?

[Eichhörnchen]

I've seen it described as an early cruise missile

[Aktungbby]

Who did u hear it from?

[Eichhörnchen]

I've seen it called a cruise missile in an internet feature (I have kept a copy)

[Ostfriese]

Launched by aircraft?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Yes

[Catfish]

Well you needn't have credited me with that - [...]
Oh yes :):03:

KS-1 Kometa?

[Ostfriese]

Oh yes :):03:

KS-1 Kometa?


More commonly known as AS-1 Kennel. That should be it.

[Eichhörnchen]

Corrrrect!


https://i.imgur.com/TbVbnkQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/iVaQDR9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/U0Urglz.jpg Also called COP-1 Comet

Yours again, Kai

[Catfish]

I had no idea, but early russian/cruise missile/started from planes ... immediately brought this up :oops:

Will have something new shortly

[Catfish]

what is this supposed to be?

https://i.imgur.com/vpSeUDGm.jpg

[mapuc]

Are we near Great Barrier Reef in Australia below surface ?

Markus

[u crank]

Is it an animal of some kind?

[Catfish]

Are we near Great Barrier Reef in Australia below surface ?
Markus
It is a depiction of "below the surface". "Great barrier reef", hmm. As a location maybe, but not as we know it.
(two questions, i saw that :03:)
Is it an animal of some kind?
Yes

[u crank]

Does it live in the ocean?

[mapuc]

A tropical fish ?

Markus

[Catfish]

Does it live in the ocean?
saltwater for sure
A tropical fish ?
Markus
edit: rather worldwide

[mapuc]

The fish is a tropical fish living in salt water and it's

Lawnmower Blenny

Now I'm not sure

Markus

[Catfish]

^ not a member of the Blenniidae

Much bigger, probably up to 10 meters.
I wrote not only in tropical waters but rather worldwide - and you will not find a living specimen anymore :03:

[Catfish]

another hint

https://i.imgur.com/qyy85o0l.jpg

[Catfish]

..

https://i.imgur.com/mX9TpDBl.jpg

[Eichhörnchen]

I'd have said it's an ammonite, looking at the last 2 pictures

[Catfish]

^ this is due to my in a way misleading hint :D
Not member of the ammonoidea, nor nautiloidea – but the fossil is real and belongs to said creature.
It lived during the Permian, it is extinct but close relatives still roam the seas today.

[Jimbuna]

I'd have said it's an ammonite, looking at the last 2 pictures

Largest one found was just under two metres and Kai has stated up to ten metres so something much larger.

[Jimbuna]

Giant Nautilus?

[Catfish]

Not a nautilus.

[Jimbuna]

Bigger?

[Eichhörnchen]

Does it have a segmented body?

[Ostfriese]

Xenacanthida of any kind, a predecessor of sharks?

[Catfish]

Bigger?
Up to 10 meters long they say, though little has been preserved apart from the hard components.
Does it have a segmented body?
No.
Mapuc had asked whether it is a tropical fish, i had only said that it was not limited to the tropics. So a fish it is.
Regarding the "Great barrier reef" remnants of this species have been found all over the world so it probably also was present there, but due to continental shifting this reef (if it already existed back then some 200-250 million years ago) it was not where it is today, geographically.
Xenacanthida of any kind, a predecessor of sharks?
not Xenacanthida but it is a shark indeed!

edit: maybe the picture in the first post gives a better hint: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2847636&postcount=2200
Remember what i said about only the hard parts have been fossilised. A shark is a vertebrate but its skeleton does not consist of bones, it is a cartilaginous fish.

[Jimbuna]

Chimaeras?

[Catfish]

^ I had not heard this name before but it seems to belong to them :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Ghost Shark?

[Catfish]

^ This is a living relative

[Aktungbby]

Remember what i said about only the hard parts have been fossilised.

:timeout: So did it live to age 71?:O:

[Catfish]

:haha:

i have no idea .. but sharks can get quite old, and they even mate at very old age.
But .. being cartilageous or chondral i doubt they got real bone..s :O:

[Jimbuna]

Stethacanthus?

[Catfish]

^ not Stethacanthus
Look at the fossilised remains and what it is.. yes it is a strange beast indeed.
I know the problem makes you gnaw your underlip ..

[Jimbuna]

Helicoprion?

[Catfish]

Helicoprion?

Hah! Yes it is Helicoprion!
with its "spiral saw"-like jaw:

https://i.imgur.com/ibWMqgIl.jpg

Some fossil showing the spiral of teeth, a predecessor of today's sharks which developed regrowing teeth instead:

https://i.imgur.com/0oBCWDSl.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicoprion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZtnhAfQfA

Well done Jim! Over to you :salute:

[Jimbuna]

I know the problem makes you gnaw your underlip ..

That was the clue for me :03:

Back soon.

[Eichhörnchen]

:haha: . .. being cartilageous or chondral i doubt they got real bone..s :O:

Dear old Sailor Steve would have busted you for that - he did me when I said [that] word once :har:

I looked at pictures of this creature more than once today but never added it up

[Aktungbby]

only the hard parts have been fossilised.:timeout: So did it live to age 71?:O:

:haha:

i have no idea .. but sharks can get quite old, and they even mate at very old age.
But .. being cartilageous or chondral i doubt they got real bone..s :O:

Dear old Sailor Steve would have busted you for that - he did me when I said [that] word once :har:

A bolt of lightning just flashed over my house from the skies above... :k_confused:

[Eichhörnchen]

^ :har::har::har:

[Jimbuna]

What is this?

https://i.postimg.cc/J0GkDrH2/tthhthtt.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[Eichhörnchen]

The neck area of a human statue or carving?

[Jimbuna]

Afraid not.

[Catfish]

Organic?

[mapuc]

Fossil ?

Markus

[Eichhörnchen]

Is it fabric?

[bracer]

Microscopic image of a bug? Water bear?

Recognize the image like crazy...
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/24/article-0-152D53DC000005DC-559_634x556.jpg

[Aktungbby]

I already posted this puzzle ...I think Catfish got it! :hmmm:

[mapuc]

Water bear? Microscopic bug.


Probably three posts will show up from me here... I got banned or something?:hmmm:

Could it have something to do with this

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=254521

Markus

[bracer]

Could it have something to do with this

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=254521

Markus
Thanks, that is most certainly the reason.

Ah, sorry I missed that, cleaned up thread. 😀

[Jimbuna]

Microscopic image of a bug? Water bear?

Recognize the image like crazy...
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/24/article-0-152D53DC000005DC-559_634x556.jpg

That's the one and over to you :salute:

[bracer]

Haha, cool! I never really could shake this image out of my head since I saw it the first time long ago. Recognized it instantly. Freaky bugger.
I will have a new one up in a few hours.

[bracer]

Where is this?
https://i.imgur.com/cAvAg7B.png

[Jimbuna]

Le Mans France

https://i.postimg.cc/66VjdRpX/hours-le-mans-france-march-world-s-oldest-active-sports-car-race-endurance-racing-held-annually-near.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[bracer]

And you are solving this as fast the cars run on that track!
There is a very cool museum there, incase you like those cars.

Back to you then :salute:

[Aktungbby]

That's the one and over to you :salute:

I already posted this puzzle ...I think Catfish got it! :hmmm:

Haha, cool! I never really could shake this image out of my head since I saw it the first time long ago. Recognized it instantly. Freaky bugger.
I will have a new one up in a few hours.https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2821745&postcount=554 Actually Jinbuna got it...just 5 months ago!??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets,[2][3][4][5] are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.[2][6] They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them Kleiner Wasserbär ("little water bear").[7] In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada (/tɑːrˈdɪɡrədə/), which means "slow steppers".[8]

[Ostfriese]

Solved in six minutes :Kaleun_Salute: