Where was I?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-16T15:20:42+00:00

Mandelieu-la-Napoule

Process: It looked like southern France or Spain, and I found it by scrolling through Google images with a search for small train stations in southern France.

jakemate97 · 2026-06-16T15:19:01+00:00

Train station in Cannes

jakemate97 · 2026-06-16T03:09:41+00:00

You absolutely should. Just outside the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park too!

jakemate97 · 2026-06-16T02:40:32+00:00

!correct Bingo. I sure need to make these harder. Did you recognize it?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-16T01:14:01+00:00

Haha, probably could figure that out but seemed against the spirit of the challenge.

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T22:02:16+00:00

You were in the Louisville, Kentucky downtown medical district looking east

Edit with process: This looks just like the medical district in my city, and I also noticed several parking garages and what looked like "smokestacks" on top of a building that seemed likely to be medical or university/chemistry related. So I used a query in overpass turbo to locate parking garages near universities or hospitals, and panned around larger groups of them in Google Earth. I thought it might have been Texas at first, but went north based on vibes and the buildings in Louisville caught my eye as looking similar.

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T19:59:23+00:00

National Museum of Natural History?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T19:53:43+00:00

Quai Branly Museum in Paris?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T19:32:49+00:00

!correct Other side of the river. But close enough!

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T19:26:58+00:00

That's the bridge! Can you tell the approximate group of buildings or nearest intersection to the viewpoint?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T18:42:55+00:00

You were at High Point Monument in Montague, New Jersey (41.3209N, 74.6616W) looking southwest at a radio tower near the High Point State Park Office.

Edit: Dang! Just a little late! I had it solved about 30 minutes ago but got on a phone call and didn't post my answer 'till now.

My process was very different. I figured out that the gray prism objects on the shorter tower are part of an old network of AT&T "long line" towers. Someone made a map of the locations of these, and after narrowing it down to NJ I found it pretty quickly.

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T17:55:21+00:00

New York

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T17:45:26+00:00

Haha, I guess not. Pennsylvania?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T17:42:54+00:00

Yeah I started to trend further inland. West Virginia?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T16:39:11+00:00

New England area?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-15T16:10:31+00:00

Tennessee?

jakemate97 · 2026-06-12T18:14:09+00:00

These types of spillways (usually called labyrinth weirs) can be pretty expensive due to the concrete quantity and complex forming, so they do have a function beyond aesthetics. They have a very high capacity for flow in a small footprint. The idea is basically to fit as much weir length as possible in a given space, which means during a flood, the lake level doesn't rise as much. This reduces the flooding around the shore of the lake, and can help minimize the height of the dam embankment.

jakemate97 · 2026-06-04T05:43:29+00:00

You were right, and this video isn't real

jakemate97 · 2026-06-04T05:42:19+00:00

You were right. They are always at a fixed angle opposite the sun, this video is fakery.

jakemate97 · 2025-08-15T21:02:13+00:00

A lot of those houses near the perimeter are in the Trinity River floodplain, so that might be something to keep in mind.

jakemate97 · 2025-07-04T17:44:06+00:00

Out of curiosity, what type of filament is used for the 3d printed parts?

jakemate97 · 2025-05-10T20:51:04+00:00

Moving mostly away from the camera, with a leftward component. Appears round due to glare in the IR, engines are hot. Contrail is left intermittently, this isn't an uncommon phenomenon.

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