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spacekdet · Post by **spacekdet** » 12 Feb 2025, 20:50

The Smoking Area.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 12 Feb 2025, 20:52

Wow!!! What are the odds!
My nephew was just there on a 2 hour tour with his wife's brother in law who works there.
He told me about the Russian missile story and what that object is.
I will tell more about what is inside the rest after someone correctly guesses.

trueBlue · Post by **trueBlue** » 13 Feb 2025, 16:12

D.O.G.E. Footlongs

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 14 Feb 2025, 15:19

so far i have no idea, but iam with spacekadet :D

I guess it has been there before they built the pentagon around it. Isnt it a tomb of Lincoln or some of the first presidents?

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 14 Feb 2025, 22:30

Answer and Steinie's tour info. sometime on Sunday Feb. 16.

I think I was living in the past. There aren't enough people on U3DA now to have enough who would not already know. Maybe I should have posted a close up of the overhead view and no background info. Then web searches would have enough challenge.

borgcone · Post by **borgcone** » 15 Feb 2025, 04:44

Miniature DoD. (Of course it's nested. There is a next miniature in the center, and so on.)

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 17 Feb 2025, 01:33

Ha ha ha and good guessing.

Time for Steinie to report on what his nephew told.

Originally it was a hot dog stand. Now it is a restaurant. Recently it was this one: (link)

There are food courts in the Pentagon but this central place has history with it. The Pentagon was to be built in DC but various concerns including proximity to Arlington National Cemetery changed that to nearby Virginia.

Spacekdet: The park probably really is the smoking area!

trueBlue: I heard DOGE would move DOD to the inner rings and lease the outer ones to become a big mall or indoor go cart track.

Bitkar: Not those but that's good thinking. Some US things include older things. The star shaped base of Liberty Enlightening the World (the Statue of Liberty) was part of Fort Wood.

Borgcone: If it was a museum then there would be a model Pentagon in it which would need a model museum which would have ...

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 17 Feb 2025, 15:48

trueBlue actually had the correct answer (hotdog stand) when the Soviets wanted to aim a missile at it thinking it was a top secret location.
There is a shopping mall inside, restaurants and even dry cleaners but the most amazing thing I heard when my nephew was inside...
They give visiting diplomats a guided tour by someone in the military who for 1=2 hours walks backwards while giving the tour. Not looking where
he is going. Completely by memory while he gives his tour dialog. Even on the stairs.
He saw this while he was there!!!

trueBlue · Post by **trueBlue** » 17 Feb 2025, 22:13

Google Maps says it is Fort America Pentagon "Souvenir store"

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 18 Feb 2025, 00:27

Bing maps shows Au Bon Pain (online translation "with good bread") and Navy Federal Credit Union with Fort America and another NFCU in the main building. Apple maps via Duck Duck Go shows Fort America. Interesting. The locations of businesses are fairly accurate on most maps for other places.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 18 Feb 2025, 19:06

It USED to be a hotdog stand. I could ask my nephew to see what it is today.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 18 Feb 2025, 21:13

damn, i was thinking about like it looks like a restaurant in a park... (i thought it to myself as a joke)

trueBlue · Post by **trueBlue** » 18 Feb 2025, 21:55

https://www.diplomaticaglobal.com/featu ... 27m%20here.
Interesting history
Keywords
Freedman's Village, Oppenheimer, Department of Agriculture farm, Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery, 9/11, George Bergstrom, hot dog stand, courtyard, Randy Odom, War Department, Foggy Bottom, Robert E. Lee, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, segregation, Arlington, Cold War surveillance, Russia, X-Men, Aliens

An overabundance of toilets?
The sad truth?

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 20 Feb 2025, 02:24

Someone post a new what is it.

(Maybe post a CG picture too. Y'all get busy with TS, Blender, or whatever you use now. Don't Spacekdet and Steinie have new super computers?)

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 13 Mar 2025, 17:30

Ok, i will make the next one... ofc no googling...
who knows exactly rightaway can PM me, but dont spoil it to others, let them play.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 14 Mar 2025, 15:50

Hmm. From the wood grain and depth of field I think it is not large. Baseball or softball size. The black part looks like plastic. There is round feature on the base that might be a switch, a sensor, a light, or a screw. It is not aligned with the main opening nor hidden in the back. This implies that the upper part can rotate on the base.

What is inside? It looks like a copper scrubber or plastic decoration like on presents with ribbons.

What does it do? If the copper colored stuff is decoration/ribbon I have no guess. If it is a scrubber this might be a holder for such scrubbers.

The ribbons are not dirty but it could be a new scrubber.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 14 Mar 2025, 19:56

Well I think Finis is on to something suggesting scrubbers. So you stick something in the hole and it knocks off whatever was on
the doohickey you stuck in there. One question for a hint....is this something you now own?

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 15 Mar 2025, 10:52

good thinking... more clues/answers:
- there are only rubber pads on the bottom (important)
- it does not rotate (i think its just the way its manufactured, two pieces pushed together)
- inside material - copper
- you are +- right about the size (iam not a baseball player tho :D )
- yes I own it.

I would like to see more specific answer. Its for one specific thing/task.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 15 Mar 2025, 21:51

Steinie wrote: 14 Mar 2025, 19:56 you stick something in the hole and it knocks off whatever was on
the doohickey you stuck in there.

I second that. I think it vibrates or something so the copper ribbons clean what you put in it.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 16 Mar 2025, 12:26

it does not need to vibrate :) question is WHAT you put in it. Its for one specific thing.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 17 Mar 2025, 01:54

Hmm. It is from Bitkar so I'll bet it has something to do with cars.

It could be ornamental but Bitkar says you put something in it.

It doesn't vibrate. If it is for cleaning then the user provides the mechanical action. He puts something in it then shakes the whole thing or moves the item for the copper scrubber to work. Impractical. I think there is no mechanical action or movement. However, rubber feet on the bottom would be to prevent sliding implying force is applied to it.

Maybe it is not for cleaning. It could be a holder for scrubber pads. In that case the scrubber IS what you put in it.

Hmm, a specific thing goes in it for a specific purpose. A container (plastic ball), copper stuff, and rubber foot pads are needed. Hmm.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 17 Mar 2025, 13:57

Well the copper scrubbers I believe would be for cleaning something of hard metal like drill bits or another hard object.
A commonly used part that gets dirty often.
Used in the garage for electronic parts like a spark plugs.
Since it is two pieces the bottom is removed to clean whatever came off the object.
Does it demagnetize?
Are we getting closer?

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 18 Mar 2025, 11:28

you are onto something for sure.. very close. But you dont usually need to poke drills into copper shavings. Its something else.
It does not have anything to do with magnetism.
It could be used during a car fixing... and also for fixing other things. Its just a support thing for the main thing. As you said, for cleaning during the operation.
PS: it does not need to be a ball, the shapes vary.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 18 Mar 2025, 22:50

It supports something. Why copper? Maybe the supported thing is hot. The rest of it is probably plastic though. The supported thing probably doesn't fit tightly in the hole unless these things are made for specific tiems.

borgcone · Post by **borgcone** » 20 Mar 2025, 10:22

My thought. The opening is not on top, but at an angle of about 45 degrees, and the copper scraps are not piled horizontally, but get higher the further back, probably because it would be difficult to put something in vertically.

The role of copper other than magnetism is to transfer electricity (conductivity) or heat (thermal conductivity).

For electricity, for example, "static electricity removal" or "static electricity-based adsorbing or deodorization." However, since this item is not grounded, it cannot be expected to remove static electricity from car keys or engine parts, or to remove dust or chips with static electricity. Since rubber and metal are likely to be isolated, it does not seem possible to accumulate static electricity.

To release heat, for example, a "soldering iron stand" would be a candidate. However, that case does not seem to be able to withstand heat, and it seems that there are almost no situations in which soldering is required for car repairs in the first place. The narrow opening makes it difficult to use for placing "hot engine parts". "Paint" and "radiators" do not seem to be related either.

I give up.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 20 Mar 2025, 16:25

I will comment on that
- i said no magnetism already
- it can be placed vertically as other brands are more horizontal
- iam actually not sure about the material, it might be a metal or even some plastics are pretty heat resistant
- soldering IS used to fix a car as there are lots of wires and electronics in a car (even old cars)

I think you guys are pretty close to the solution

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 21 Mar 2025, 04:07

It doesn't look like it would grip anything firmly like a vice or clamp. So I think you don't work on the held or supported thing while it is in there. It could hold something while you paint it.

It isn't just a container. A box or jar could do that. It doesn't simply hold something up. A jack, brick, or piece of wood could do that.

It is important that there are rubber feet on the bottom. That the stuff inside is copper is probably important. Unless it could be another substance.

Maybe more than one of these are used on one job. Maybe different types.

We are thinking of use a garage or workshop. It could be for organization like on a desk. It could hold pencils or paint brushes. It could be used in a kitchen. Maybe it holds toothbrushes.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 21 Mar 2025, 16:02

it can in theory hold pencils or toothbrush, but those copper shavings would scratch it up pretty good i think :)
Seems like you are overthinking it now.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 21 Mar 2025, 17:39

I will take a wild guess since it is used in a garage.
A place to hold a welding torch?

trueBlue · Post by **trueBlue** » 21 Mar 2025, 17:45

borgcone was super close, but he gave up

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 21 Mar 2025, 19:18

trueBlue wrote: 21 Mar 2025, 17:45 borgcone was super close, but he gave up :mrgreen:

this man is right :)

folks, dont think only about the garage and cars. I said its for fixing all sorts of things, not only cars :)

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 22 Mar 2025, 01:51

bitkar wrote: 21 Mar 2025, 16:02 Seems like you are overthinking it now.

I've been working with Richard Feynman and we've simplified it to four chalkboards.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 22 Mar 2025, 23:12

haha, its nor really a rocket engineering... just a bit of electrical engineering ;) you need only a half of the board.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 24 Mar 2025, 14:43

Well if not a soldering iron then my next guess would be an iron to burn wood.
I'll get me winners mug ready....

trueBlue · Post by **trueBlue** » 24 Mar 2025, 15:19

Steinie is super close!

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bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 24 Mar 2025, 17:38

dont think anything new... everything has been written here already. Just connect the right two things and you will have the correct answer :)

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 25 Mar 2025, 12:43

I reread all the answers and cleaning a soldering iron should be the correct answer.
We all just missed it! Cleaning solder not wood is where I screwed up!

trueBlue · Post by **trueBlue** » 25 Mar 2025, 14:16

What is a...
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bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 25 Mar 2025, 17:38

Steinie wrote: 25 Mar 2025, 12:43 I reread all the answers and cleaning a soldering iron should be the correct answer.
We all just missed it! Cleaning solder not wood is where I screwed up! :bananamouse:

YES! you won :)

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 28 Mar 2025, 02:21

Congratulations Steine!

Borgcone did some good thinking too.

That was a good one Bitkar.

Me:

trueBlue wrote: 25 Mar 2025, 14:16 What is a ... Listening to Jeopardy Music ...

Demoted from v ... 238#p67238
to I lost on Jeopardy.

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