Proposed Art - Did You Have to Look Twice to Know What It Is?

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  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    what's your first impression of what it is?

    your second, if any?

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  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My first impression was that it was a radar dish. Now I’m starting to think it’s some kind of solar cooking plate.
    You’re right I have no idea what it is going by that pic.

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  • mach19
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    A dish searching for intelligent life ? notice it's pointing out in space and not on earth ! LOL

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  • Typekat
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    Is that what a fire in a coal mine looks like?

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  • coinkat
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    Looking twice did not help…add this to my list of artistic and numismatic failures.

    But in my defense West Virginia deserves better.

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  • Mr_Spud
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    My first thought is that it has something to do with that place where you can’t get any cell phone service or gps service. I went there on a road trip once and got real lost and had to ask people for directions. I remember it had thingys that looked like giant satellite dishes and a little museum about outer space. Am I close?

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  • DotStore
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    My first impression was a radar dish on fire with alot of smoke.
    My 2nd look (Inkblot test) - I see a coiled up snake biting the dish between 7:00-9:00, and it's tail pointing down to the center of the dish.

  • Sapyx
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    @MsMorrisine said:
    what's your first impression of what it is?

    The aliens were sick and tired of us trying to listen in to their private conversations, so they bombed the SETI array.

    More serious answer: I assume it's supposed to be stars and nebulae, and a radio telescope. Not entirely sure of the action sequence, though. Are the stars and nebulae supposed to be coming out of the telescope, or are they getting sucked into it? Neither of those images really make sense.

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  • USSID18
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    My very first impression? A burning parabolic dish, with a lot of smoke.

  • USSID18
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    I can't say I truly understand today's coin design process with CCAC. These coin renditions all seem to be created by Computer Aided Design (CAD's). They all look cartoonish to me. I guess the days of the mints Chief Engraver are gone.

  • Creg
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    Edit- removed dumb comment amending dumb photo.

  • ksmooter61
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    My first thought was the discovery of the galactic background radio noise, but that was in NJ.

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  • Typekat
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    @Mr_Spud said:
    My first thought is that it has something to do with that place where you can’t get any cell phone service or gps service. I went there on a road trip once and got real lost and had to ask people for directions.

    YES! to all of that!
    AND the highway signage is virtually nonexistent. You either live there, or you’re lost.

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  • ShaunBC5
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    I looked many times and read all the responses and still have no idea what it’s supposed to be.

  • ajaan
    ajaan Posts: 18,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    West Virginia is one of the prettiest states west , maybe East, of the Mississippi. This design is an insult.


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  • BLUEJAYWAY
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    From the D in United to the center of the dish it somewhat reminds me of those old dogfight war planes in battle. Where one gets shot down leaving the smoke trail to the ground and their demise.

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  • jmlanzaf
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    @airplanenut said:

    @ajaan said:
    West Virginia is one of the prettiest states west of the Mississippi. This design is an insult.

    Taking the long route, are we?

    subtle!

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  • jmlanzaf
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    It's definitely the Green Bank Observatory. One of the things they do there is to look for gravitational waves by timing pulsars. The glowing stars in the "smoke" are pulsars. The "smoke" is either meant to indicate cosmic radiation or gravity waves. The observatory itself looks a lot like that part of the drawing. I just don't think it is that famous a landmark for anyone to immediately know what it was on the coin.

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  • Maywood
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    A similar design was used on a half-dollar size medal from the 1960’s.

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  • The_Dinosaur_Man
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    I think it's a pretty cool design. I'm a bit of a space and science nerd. The secondary market will have fun applying holographic overlays to the design elements.

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  • Some_of_it
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    I prefer the simplicity of the 1963 National Commemorative Medal.

  • USSID18
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    @Creg said:
    Edit- removed dumb comment amending dumb photo.

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  • ajaan
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    @airplanenut said:

    @ajaan said:
    West Virginia is one of the prettiest states west of the Mississippi. This design is an insult.

    Taking the long route, are we?

    Coming from Thailand. West, East what's the difference?


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  • MsMorrisine
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    It IS the Green Bank Observatory

    I believe the aliens among us have sabotaged it

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  • MsMorrisine
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  • MsMorrisine
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    apparently the AIP has HS art flunkies getting their second shot

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  • johnny9434
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    Im not sure if it was looking for intelligent life and short circuited or not? 🤥

  • Creg
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    It looks like a section of an orange, or an apple.

  • messydesk
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  • jacrispies
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    @MsMorrisine said:

    I know exactly what it is. Fish-eye photo of a rollercoaster space button at the top of a short staircase.

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  • DBSTrader2
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    Looks like that giant dish that collapsed in Central(?) America a few years back.....................

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