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The Queen Mary 2, November 2015
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Lush farmland or a Kandinsky?
Lush farmland or a Kandinsky?
This is so often what you see, no matter where you fly out of or into. This could be France, New Zealand, Japan or Bolivia.
Bed sheet pattern or Nebraska?
Bed sheet pattern or Nebraska?
I swear this looks like a set of sheets I had in the mid-80s.
Or is THIS the Kandinsky?
Or is THIS the Kandinsky?
Fly over country sure looks a lot like a Kandinsky painting.
Fossil of a giant boa constictor
Fossil of a giant boa constictor
Where IS this? I'm convinced there are millions of square miles in America that no one has ever set foot in.
Wyoming? Idaho?
Wyoming? Idaho?
Are these mountains or a close-up shot of a delicious pepper steak? I'm thinking the steak because it's making me hungry.
Crop circles.
Crop circles.
Who is this one farmer who has a circular field in the middle of a bunch of square fields? Does he have a giant, rotating sprinkler, so his farm has to be circular?
The Badlands or a brain sample?
The Badlands or a brain sample?
This looks like the early pictures that came back from the Mars rovers. But in a photo, it also looks like a section of a brain.
Green discs in the middle of nowhere
Green discs in the middle of nowhere
Why are these here? Where is this? Do humans live down there?
Neurons?
Neurons?
This is somewhere in autumn, but it really just looks like a slide of some nerve cells.
Uncharted national parks?
Uncharted national parks?
Is this some amazing gulch that isn't in any tourist guides? Does the Dept. of the Interior know about this area?
Semi-cooked New York Strip steak
Semi-cooked New York Strip steak
Why am I thinking about steak so much?
Surface of Mars?
Surface of Mars?
Yet it can't be because I flew out of Minneapolis and am landing in San Francisco.
What lake is this?
What lake is this?
Again, I searched Google Maps exhaustively and could not determine what body of water this is. It simply doesn't look like the great Salt Lake.
Asteroid site?
Asteroid site?
That crater is a classic asteroid-impact shape - especially with the small rise in the middle. Why am I unaware of any giant craters out west, aside from Crater Lake in Arizona (which this is not).
Not the great Salt Lake either.
Not the great Salt Lake either.
I don't think.
What lake is this?
What lake is this?
I searched Google Maps high and low and could not figure out what lake or reservoir this was.
Eye of Jupiter?
Eye of Jupiter?
Does Earth also have an "eye?" What the Hell is that and what's all the white around it - salt?
Landing in San Francisco
Landing in San Francisco
There's a lot of available real estate where you see those brown splotches! Some intrepid developer should get moving on that.
California or a circuit board?
California or a circuit board?
You are what you eat. Could a state's topography become whatever industries it houses? Is Silicon Valley really just a big silicon chip?
Landing in San Francisco
Landing in San Francisco
So this is some weird, marshy area near San Francisco, but in a photo it looks like decorative marble.