What is it? Game 90

By Alex in What Is It on Jan 29, 2009 at 7:37 am

This week’s collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this wonderfully strange contraption. It has a very specific (and awesome) function – can you tell us what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you’re playing for fame and glory only. For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 1/30/09 – the answer is:

A Marquardt Space Sled, designed for individual space maneuvering in the vicinity of a spacecraft, this design was never used and instead they went with the shuttle manned maneuvering unit.

No one got it right! Score one for Neatorama and the What is it? blog!


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  1. KIT CLOUD
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 7:52 am

    Time Machine.

  2. Behemoth
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:00 am

    A sit-on lawnmower simulator?

  3. George
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:06 am

    A test dummy tester. For testing the accuracy of test dummy sensors.

  5. Polx
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:26 am

    It is a space toilet. The pipe pointing at the crotch couples up to the bodily waste nozzle on a space suit.

  6. TimO
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:40 am

    Actually that’s an early 60′s concept “space taxi” for astronauts.

    I remember seeing it in either the Smithsonian or the USAF Museum…..

  7. CB
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:48 am

    It’s a chair in which they test pilot responses under high G’s.

  8. Melphistopheles
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    Darn you, Kit Cloud (#1), you beat me to the punch. That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw it. But I’m going to specify it only goes forwards in time, because the first thing every backward time traveler tries to do is kill Hitler, and No Hitler = No WWII, No Cold War, No Electronics, No Time Machines = Paradox, so it only goes forwards.

  9. SteveR
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    It’s a seat to test/train Top Fuel Dragsters and Funny Cars

  10. zander
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am

    It is the inside stripped out of an X Wing Fighter.

  11. Gauldar
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 9:17 am

    It’s a cockpit from a rocket propelled John Deer tractor.

  12. Kevin
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 9:18 am

    A simulator for the little car the astronauts drove on the moon.

  13. mrfemur
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    It is a podracer without the engines!

  15. Ellen
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Is it a flight simulator? Or some to do with f1 vechicles?

  16. intelnm
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am

    i was going to say it was a gaming chair but the other comments about it being a trainer is also correct. it could be a drivers ed trainer.

  17. LisaL
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Looks like it should be part of a flight simulator.

  18. attilla
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am

    cropduster controls

  19. jimmy mustard
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am

    it is what was inside one of the original g-force machines that NASA uses.

  20. Miss Cellania
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    I believe that is a rather hi-tech instrument of torture.

  21. KIT CLOUD
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    Time Machine Simulator.

  22. Kevin
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

    Road line painter

  23. Randall
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    It’s a self emasculation chair with the claw removed.

  24. TronStuck
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    The worse enema you will ever get…

  26. Bobby the K
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    ~

    Yes some sort of training device. Either for pilots as someone suggested, or I will say for race cars.

  27. Woogie
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    The worlds most useless car.

  28. Kevin
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    I think I got it: It is the seat for the mid-air refueling booms in military tankers. The fixed booms (not the hoses with the baskets) actually require some dude to be back there and “fly” it into the plane’s refueling port.

  29. Christophe
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    A submarine “driving” set.

  30. LisaL
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    I took a nap a little while ago and actually had a dream that I figured out what this was ROFL… how sad is that…

    Anyway.. in my dream, this was someone’s “game chair”. They rigged it up to work w/ their console games somehow *shrug*
    I know that’s wrong but just thought I’d share lol

  31. Reba
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    A dentist’s torturing chair.

  32. Zane
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    Came here to submit SteveR’s answer. But after looking at the picks on the “What is it?” site, I don’t think that’sit, and don’t have an answer.

    I’ll guess a cockpit for an absolute land speed record vehicle.

  33. ted
    Jan 29th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    A very painful sex toy.

  34. Robert Parry
    Jan 30th, 2009 at 12:08 am

    a windows flight simulator?

  35. Rich
    Jan 30th, 2009 at 1:22 am

    Dragster/funny car simulator

  36. thisheregiraffe
    Jan 30th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    cockpit from and F1 racecar. palindrome.

  37. Alex
    Jan 30th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    Ooh, this was a good one! No one got it right …

  38. jm1656
    Jan 30th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    Millennium falcon touret seat. Great kid now dont get cocky.

  39. wok
    Jan 31st, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    I guess this makes up for the easy one “the katar” from back when.

  40. Tyler11
    Apr 24th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    Horace Grant


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