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Walmart on the west side of Jacksonville Florida..any night will do to poke your minds eye out.
 
This is the weirdest place I've been. It's called Guaipo, located in Liaoning Province in northeast China. According to some, it's an optical illusion, but it sure doesn't look like one...but then it wouldn't be an optical illusion. There's also a flesh museum there.

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Tronman said:
This is the weirdest place I've been. It's called Guaipo, located in Liaoning Province in northeast China. According to some, it's an optical illusion, but it sure doesn't look like one...but then it wouldn't be an optical illusion. There's also a flesh museum there.

What am I supposed to see that I am not seeing?
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Peartree said:
Tronman said:
This is the weirdest place I've been. It's called Guaipo, located in Liaoning Province in northeast China. According to some, it's an optical illusion, but it sure doesn't look like one...but then it wouldn't be an optical illusion. There's also a flesh museum there.

What am I supposed to see that I am not seeing?
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It takes more energy to go "down" the slope than it does to go "up". For instance, to go down on a bicycle, you have to pedal...but to go up, you can coast.
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In the grotto of the Basilica of the Annunciation with a couple of Israelis co-workers that knew way more about the place than I did translating a Filipino priest that spoke primarily German.

Riding around in the elevation compartment of a Mk 26 missile launcher while it ran a simulated full salvo missile launch.

In an surgical OR during an open heart surgery supporting the testing of an experimental surgical laser and watching the patient’s entire chest cavity light up when the laser fired. ET phone home?

Inside a lighting test chamber minutes (seconds?) after a failed test caused the DUT to catch on fire. The combination of a high ozone level, smoke & flames from the fire, enough residual electric field strength to make you hair stand up, and clouds from the CO2 extinguishers made it completely surreal.

Inside an acoustic test chamber with a back ground level <15dBA, it was so quiet you could hear your heart beat and the blood rushing thorough your blood vessels.
 
- Watching Columbia land for the first time at Edwards AFB
- Spent the night in the basement of the United States Military Academy Supt's house (oldest on post and most haunted--slept like a baby)
- On the flight deck of a EC-130H, #2 engine on fire, at 18k, nearly upside down (time for new underwear)
- US Embassy in Islamabad as 30k protesters surrounded the enclave, Sept 2012
- Sangin, Afghanistan (FOB Jackson), Helmand Province--crash site for Pedro 66
 
fyrwrxz said:
Cool! I did a 2-32 along Torrey Pines back in the 70's (before I got boring) Unfortunately did not buy it....dang! The only one of my family without a pilot's lic.
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I may have flown in the 2-32 you're talking about if that's the one AGCSC had for a long time.
 
Zeus-cat said:
OK, you need to tell me where this place is. My wife has started planning our vacation this year and we are headed to the Maritimes!
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Oh, you'd know this place if you ever came across it!! So just stay on main roads that the GPS shows will circle back to major highways and you'll likely be quite safe. Uh, but don't drive after dusk, because... well... just don't!:y:
 
Riding my motorcycle on January 25, 2014 through town! Probably the only time will ever be able to do this.

Mike
 
fyrwrxz said:
Was that voluntary or were there handcuffs involved???
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Close.

I was at a party with a coworker. Cell phones where new back then and very expensive. He had one. Everyone had one but me. And I knew what my friend made and there was no way he could afford a cell phone on his salary.

All night long they kept calling each other instead of talking to each other because it was such a novelty back then.

Oh, and he had a new truck that week. They all did.

Flash forward six months and all 12+ were arrested and sentenced to jail for 20 years for cooking meth.

Fear and loathing in Santa Ana.

It's deeper than this but I won't post it. But that's why this was the weirdest place I've ever been.
 
Weirdest place I've ever been in? Time to make a confession, it was Top Ramen's house. I'm the reason he now has surveillance cameras.:hohoho:
 
I've been to many very interesting places. One was a building where they had a scale model of what actually landed at Roswell (even before it was declassified):

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

The so-called "alien writing" was the decorations on the masking tape used by the toy manufacturer who made the lightweight radar retroreflectors, the "strange metal" was the aluminized paper used in the retroreflectors, etc. I have for a long time snickered at the Roswell claims and still do every time I see something on TV about it. They have been told what it was. Sorry to rain on their (monetarily lucrative) parade, but the information is publicly available in detail.
 
I have to say, that although Treetops was a pretty wierd place to be for a Couple Nights, pretty much every Place you could stay in Kenya was pretty Wierd. Governors Camp was interesting. In one place we went, there was a Place where you could go into this thing that put you into the River, and you could see the Fish and the Hippos. It was like a Tube inserted into the River, with a Plexiglass Window.
The Mount Kenya Safari Club had this giant Lark Bird, and I would follow it around to watch it Fly.

Watching "Africas Deadliest" on Nat Geo Wild. Seeing and Hearing the Hyenas brings back some Memories of Tsavo.
 
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hmm...
Inside the primary coolant pipe of a A4W/A1G nuke plant
Bobby's Bar, Glyfada Greece 2/2/85 (the outdoor portion)
Isreali Kibbutz being shelled from the Golan Heights
Kleen energy plant 2/7/10 (an hour or so after the explosion)
Town Place apartments 2/2/11 (hey, the snow made the top floor five feet high, then it collapsed)

maybe I've had a little too much fun....
 
cbrarick said:
Inside the primary coolant pipe of a A4W/A1G nuke plant
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Cool! (no pun intended)

For me, looking down into the crystal clear, ultrapure water covering the core of a research reactor and seeing the beautiful blue Cherenkov glow. But not this particular one:

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Isreali Kibbutz being shelled from the Golan Heights
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Such fun! Never got shelled, but temporarily lived not far from a counter-battery radar during a time when I easily could have. Not in Israel, though.
 
Thunderball Grotto. By floatplane. During a fast tide. With skies darkening.
Partying inside the local Nike silo. Now covered with a soccer field.
Partying in the "dungeons" of Byberry Asylum, Phila. Gone, now townhouses.
Partying in a hidden abandoned iron ore mine. Note- do not get drunk in a dark abandoned mine and do tell someone where youre at.

Dark strip club on Sunset Blvd in the 70s. My 1st intro to strip clubs.
The "show" was a bikini clad blonde inside a giant champagne glass, singing 'Tiny Bubbles", while pouring champagne on herself.
We were laughing so loud , we got thrown out.
 
I have mentioned climbing over the wall and traipsing around inside the Bremen U-boat pens in Germany back in the early 1960s so we'll leave that out.

Okay, how about Moulay Idriss Zerhoune (Arabic: &#1605;&#1608;&#1604;&#1575;&#1610; &#1573;&#1583;&#1585;&#1610;&#1587;&#8206;), in Morocco? Visiting the Mausoleum is one of the holy pilgrimages open only to those of the Muslim faith. Moulay Idriss was a direct descendant of Muhammad (great-great-great-grandson). So how did I get there? Well, it involved wearing a djellabah, sunglasses to conceal my baby blues, and being escorted by my nanny, Fatimah.

I have long since forgotten most of my Arabic beyond the common "please" and "thank you" sorts of things but still am able to startle folks by busting out a few words in their language.

One of the "benefits" of growing up a military brat is acquiring the ability to pick up languages.
 
When I was in Iraq, my brothers (actual) did a TV interview in one of Saddam's palaces. Creepy and exciting all at the same time.
 
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Qualifying chemical agent detectors for these guys at several isolated locations......

Bob
 
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Couple of others I thought of...

  • The jail in Juarez Mexico - Cheering for the bull in a bullfight is illegal (and so is being a college boy, tanked on tequila, and arguing with the Federales)
  • The bottom of a sink hole in Terlingua Texas.


San Diego last week - watching the locals in coats and gloves when it is in the high 50's. Watching their looks as I walk back from the conference hotel to my lodging wearing slacks and a golf shirt.


But the hands down winner has to be my freaking desk - right now. It don't get much weirder than this.
 

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