Do you know what this is?

Name that thing.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), June 22, 2000

Answers

Looks to me like an array of 4X 8 solar panels. Because of the number of panels shown here I would say they were heating a swimming pool.

-- Ra (tion@l.1), June 22, 2000.

If you looked closer, you'd see sixteen astronauts practicing being in a state of suspended animation for a future mission to Jupiter.

To add realism, NASA is using the roof of the resident chief custodian, to, in the words of a NASA spokesman, "get 'em used to really being up there -- you know -- in space."

(sorry, Cherri -- I couldn't help it...) :)

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), June 22, 2000.

A rock.

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), June 22, 2000.

A future species.

-- Oxy (Oxsys@aol.com), June 22, 2000.

a mirror for the gods?

-- (this@is.dumb.com), June 22, 2000.

NOT a tube tester.

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), June 22, 2000.

OK, if it's not solar panels, it's one of those two-way mirrors into the house of Big Brother ... the next survival tv series coming soon to your neighborhood station.

-- Oxy (Oxsys@aol.com), June 22, 2000.

This is the solar panel belonging to the Farquardt family at 216 Arroyo Seco in Cucamunga CA. You can see Marge's hand on the roof at the upper right side of pic. She likes to go there to sunbathe naked.

-- (lars@indy.net), June 22, 2000.

Light panels for signaling alien spacecraft?

-- (retired@nd.happy), June 22, 2000.

HEY!

That's my prototype "swim from the roof" pool! The grids are there to keep the water from sloshing down the slope! I haven't found anyone to buy it yet, other than a few backwards y2k survivalists (they are convinced that the END is still to come, and want to be able to keep cool while sniping from the roof) but my time will come!

This pool is loaded with all the features you can imagine:

It has its own built-in secondary clock, date dependant (but I can't seem to find it anywhere),

The thermostat can be set to "boil" for when you catch those pesky polly raiders and need a quick dinner,

The filtration system allows you to drink the water directly (AFTER filtering out the gubmint mind control chemicals like flouride),

It doubles as a Milne dunking booth/pig roaster.

Now.....just HOW did you get that pic of my roof-top, damnit????

-- Beachnut (gott@swim.always), June 22, 2000.

Cherri:

We know that you live in Seattle. If these are part of a solar environmental control scheme, we know that the picture wasn't taken within 100 miles of where you live. Where the sun never shines :^)

Looks like my roof, down to the shingle color. But, I see another house close by. Don't have those here.

Best wishes,,,,

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), June 22, 2000.

Skylight for that room nobody talks about.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), June 22, 2000.

-- Z1X4Y7,

You've got that right. I don't know why I complain cloudy rainy weather and then turn around and lament the heat when we finally do get sun. Did you know that some of Puget Power comes from windmills?

I thought some people would know it was solar panels, since that was a subject of discussion during the "prep period".

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), June 22, 2000.

Cherri:

What do you think of wind power. I've seen yours up close. I've been to the wind farms in CA and Iowa. Those suckers make a lot of noise. They place them in rural areas where cable isn't available. I am told [by folks that live around them] that they interfere with both radio and TV reception. I know that they are death on birds when they are grouped in a farm [as they are called]. Based on the system, it seems to me that they don't have to be grouped into farms but can be decentralized. I could be wrong and often am. What do you think?

Best wishes,,,

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), June 22, 2000.

Way too easy Cherri, try this one.

-- Hawk (flyin@hi.again), June 22, 2000.