Find the Building: Solve the Clues & Show the Map!

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In summary, the city is located in France, close to a river and a train station, and it is in the center of the city.
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tionis said:
Another one lol?

I drift in the silence
feeling, touching heaven
flying over the world.

Clue #1: A professor took a picture of me in the midnight hour
then I faded away like the freshness of a morning shower

Clue #2: You can see her complete lifetime
in pictures and graphs of her time around us

Clue #3: The professor tried to catch me gleaming
for he understood I was leaving

Clue #4: He ran outside but it was in vain
for she was carried away into darkness' chains

All sounds very poetic and mysterious, but very vague compared with the opening post of this thread which talked about providing answers by giving the Google Maps reference to a building or location. After a couple of astronomical objects, we now seem to be in the realm of something without even a definite location. I suppose "All around the world" could be taken somewhat literally to refer to the constellations of the Zodiac, or to the Milky Way (which I suggested earlier), but it isn't really a location.

Earlier I thought (somewhat desperately) of noctilucent clouds but those don't seem to fit much of the clues, and anyway they are gone before midnight as they appear during late twilight. Similarly, satellites in low Earth orbit (including ISS) are normally invisible by that time. Of course, if you're far enough north or south and on daylight saving time during local summer then you could still see noctilucent clouds or low satellites at midnight local time.

So basically, I'm stuck. It would be helpful to know some ordinary facts, like whether we are actually talking about something in the sky, and if so whether this is some definite object, or a type of optical phenomenon, or what!
 
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  • #807
Jonathan Scott said:
like whether we are actually talking about something in the sky,
Yes, most definitely.

Jonathan Scott said:
and if so whether this is some definite object, or a type of optical phenomenon, or what!
Yes, it's a celestial body. No optical illusion or anything like that.
 
  • #808
tionis said:
Yes, it's a celestial body. No optical illusion or anything like that.
It's nice to have PF visitors from other planets, but from mine I don't think I see anything which matches those clues. :smile:
 
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I'm thinking a comet may be indicated... but which one and am I barking up the wrong tree? :rolleyes:
 
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  • #810
1oldman2 said:
I'm thinking a comet may be indicated... but which one and am I barking up the wrong tree? :rolleyes:
Yes!
 
  • #811
tionis said:
Yes!
To...?
I'm thinking a comet may be indicated
am I barking up the wrong tree?
Lol...
 
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  • #812
OCR said:
To...?

See below.

1oldman2 said:
I'm thinking a comet may be indicated

ding ding ding ding :partytime:
 
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  • #813
tionis said:
Yes!
Progress! now to narrow the search ? :cool:
 
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  • #814
Hey, 1oldman2, it's your turn lol.
 
  • #815
I guess that means the answer was "A comet". Not as specific as I expected. And I've never personally seen one fade on a scale of hours (although I haven't seen many, and they have generally only been "fuzzy blobs").
 
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I saw one at night and in the morning it was gone.
 
  • #817
tionis said:
I saw one at night and in the morning it was gone.
And so was everything else in the night sky, until the next evening? It must be many decades since a comet passed close enough to be significantly different from one day to the next.

But this thread isn't about physics, so a bit of poetic language seems fine. I'm just a bit grumpy at being caught out by taking it too literally.
 
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  • #818
I would be happy if we stick to Earth bound riddles, other wise this quiz is getting to far out:biggrin:
 
  • #819
I wonder how 1oldman2 saw right through the poetic clutter. He had a flash of brilliance lol.
 
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Jonathan Scott said:
And so was everything else in the night sky, until the next evening?
Yes, but read clue #3 carefully:
Clue #3: The professor tried to catch me gleaming
for he understood I was leaving

:smile:
 
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wolram said:
I would be happy if we stick to Earth bound riddles, other wise this quiz is getting to far out:biggrin:
You mean all around the world does not extend to outer space?:frown:
 
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tionis said:
You mean all around the world does not extend to outer space?:frown:

Yes, we are stretching all around the Earth a bit and if one goes to outer space there is a bazillion possibilities:biggrin:
 
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Patience please while I whip up a new one. (Terrestrial will be the standard as wolram suggested) :wink:

tionis said:
You mean all around the world does not extend to outer space?:frown:
The thread wasn't intended to include outer space, that confusion is my fault as I used the ISS as a riddle and things sort of snowballed from there.
 
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  • #824
A mountain at the sea, neither lo nor hi,
in the middle you will find "I"
 
  • #825
1oldman2 said:
A mountain at the sea, neither lo nor hi,
in the middle you will find "I"
Hawaii!
 
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  • #826
tionis said:
Hawaii!
... And ?
 
  • #827
Did I get it right? Is it my turn lol?
 
  • #828
1oldman2 said:
A mountain at the sea, neither lo nor hi,
in the middle you will find "I"
is it Pu'unianiau on the main island??
 
  • #829
Odd - people seem to be missing the "lo" and "hi" bit of the clue.
 
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  • #830
Ni'ihau?
 
  • #831
JS I think your thinking correctly :wink:
 
  • #832
It is the youngest of it's ancient siblings.:cool:
 
  • #833
Hi’i’aka!
 
  • #834
tionis said:
Hi’i’aka!
Your in the ballpark but not there yet, think -975 meters.
 
  • #835
1oldman2 said:
Your in the ballpark but not there yet, think -975 meters.
Lōʻihi Seamount!
 
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1oldman2 said:
Your in the ballpark but not there yet, think -975 meters.
the loihi seamount
Hawaii_Island_topographic_map-en-loihi.svg.png
 
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  • #837
:partytime:Within 1 minute of each other! your going to have to arm wrestle to decide whose turn it is as the posts seem to be out of order.
 
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  • #838
OK. This one is super easy lol:

Though the Greeks called me a poison
And my name does rhyme with lore
There's a region on the planet
Where I'm blooming in the snow.
 
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tionis said:
OK. This one is super easy lol:

Though the Greeks called me a poison
And my name does rhyme with lore
There's a region on the planet
Where I'm blooming in the snow.
Hellebore ?
 
  • #840
1oldman2 said:
Hellebore ?
No.
 
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