W00t! It's time for another collaboration with the always-excellent What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this strange object is used for?
Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Please do not post any web link or URL - doing so will void your entry. You have until the answer is revealed on the What Is It? Blog tomorrow.
Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong one will win a T-Shirt from the NeatoShop.
IMPORTANT: Please write your prize selection alongside your guess, so visit the NeatoShop and take a look around. If you don't write your prize selection, then you don't get the prize. I think you'll like the selection of funny t-shirts and science t-shirts -or even t-shirts of your favorite blogs and websites.
For more clues, go to What Is It? Blog. Good luck!
Update: the pictured object is an exact replica demonstration model of the original Telstar satellite, launched in 1962. The real satellite was only about twice as big. Craig Clayton knew that, and wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer came from The Professor, who won a t-shirt when he said, "This is the Death Star's lesser known cousin, the Mildly-Irritating Toothache Star." There were a lot of other great guesses; you should read them all. See the answers to all this week's mystery items at the What Is It? blog. And thanks for playing along!
I hear Banjo paddle faster XL.
Craig Clayton
Neatorama Metal XL Black
Battle Damage L, please!
I'm Not Cynical, Everything Sucks! XL
Powered by Caffeine XL
Halloween Skeleton Shirt, 2XL, please.
PB Jellyfish, L, Serene Green
large black battle damage
Powered by Caffeine xl
Cold Hearted - I Only Look Sweet (medium)
Cold Hearted - I Only Look Sweet (medium)
Winter Is Coming, L, dark gray
i'd like "winter is coming" tshirt in XL please :)
AT-AT "Battle Damage" t-shirt (Medium)
of course it could just be Dalek killing Mechanoid http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Mechonoid, but no, no, those had triangles, TRIANGLES! ... Although it could be a clever disguise....
Battle Damage, L, military green
Schrodinger's cat - XL
passion for spherical design.
In every older person XL
Supposed to be the first Russian satellite but as you can see they forgot to put Wings on it.
T-Shirt: Math Puns are the First Sine of Madness
Size: Mens' M
Something Somewhere Went Terribly Wrong, Large black
Idiot proof, med.
(disguised as a Telestar model)
Hippocrates S
Felix the cat Ladies Med
Have a spacey halloween!
Cute But Psycho - Things Even Out ladie's fit m in the suggested colour
Unpredictable Swing voter, Ladies Med in grey