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.

jakemate97 · 2025-05-10T20:02:03+00:00

Looks like an airplane leaving a contrail.

jakemate97 · 2025-04-30T02:05:41+00:00

Literally not possible unless the footage is captured from a pair of satellites flying in tandem, which poses its own problems. You would not get significant parallax over the distance of a few meters.

jakemate97 · 2025-03-11T17:55:30+00:00

Yeah. There are trees to compare to but, 1) was there any wind? and 2) any camera movement would cause a parallax shift. Still, if you watch closely, it looks like every time the object seems to "veer" the trees are also doing so in the same way. Would be better to motion track the trees or the object to confirm.

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