The What is This Game?

[beagle]

You're both on the right lines, but it's not very mobile Swatopluk.

There's a clue in the British childhood riddle "Which two seas are separated by a river", but that may not help unless you're very well up on UK geography.

That last piece of machinery appeared on an album cover by Hawkwind, and the place is associated with another band's cover as well. (I love giving Swatopluk rock music clues  ).

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

In that case, I believe that this is a view from outside the "what is this":



It's the Battersea Power Station... and in the foreground is the bridge that connects the two seas (Chelsea and Battersea) that are divided by the river (Thames).


Edit: assuming I got it right, here's mine:


What are the names of the tests that generated the two "hump"-y curves in the middle of the graph?

I think Aggie's still away, otherwise this would be a very quick one.

[Aggie]

Hmm, can't name the tests, but have a good idea what the charts are about.  Will resist Googling for now.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Now that I think about it, I should've realized - tests like this really matter when you're putting stuff back into the ground.   

[Aggie]

Aye, suspected it was more to the geotech side than the environmental. 

[beagle]

It was indeed control room A from Battersea Power Station.
Now we're onto the hydrothingy test and the hydrowotsit test (maybe).

[Aggie]

Those be soils tables....

[beagle]

I'm confused...
How can you plot dry density against water content? Shirley the dry density is when there is no water content?

Good job I'm a small scale polluter rather than an environmentalist.

[Griffin NoName]

It's a camel race. Looks like the furthest one is going to touch the ribbon first but that could be just the effect of perspective.

In answer to Beagle's dilemma, the water is inside the camel's humps and as indicated by the word "content", how much remains. The dry density reflects the changing quality of sandy desert terrain over which the camels are racing.

The trick is to calculate from the information, which camel actually will win the race.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

It's actually the progress of the level of blood in my alcohol (the more I drink, the less blood there is) on Monday (the straight one), Tuesday and Wednesday.

But it has been disguised as something to do with density and water to fool my parents...

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I'm confused...
How can you plot dry density against water content?

Funny, I never thought of it that way before.

In this case, "dry density" doesn't mean "density of this thing that is dry", it means "density of this wet thing, not counting the water".

Shirley the dry density is when there is no water content?

Shirley may be dry, but I think she'd have words to say over you talking about her "density".   

Good job I'm a small scale polluter rather than an environmentalist.

Actually, tests like these are quite often done in aid of urban sprawl, covering pristine wilderness with asphalt (translation: tarmac), and other assorted pillaging of the natural world.

It's a camel race. Looks like the furthest one is going to touch the ribbon first but that could be just the effect of perspective.

Ack!  Now that I've started to look at it from different perspectives, all I see is Dolly Parton hiding under a blanket.   

[Sibling Chatty]

That's funny. I though it was a chart of my IQ in relation to my declining ability to stay awake...

Then I realized you can't chart negative numbers without red ink. It says so in the Moron's Manual.

I borrowed one from the White House.

[beagle]

Purdue TDR Method?

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Not exactly, but they're related.

That's the "after"... the graph above is for the "before".

Or to put it less obliquely, you would use the Purdue TDR test (or another in-situ density measurement) to gauge how well your construction crew did relative to one of the little humpy curves above.

Here's a hint: the difference between the two curves is that the lower and right-er curve is "standard" and the upper and left-er curve is "modified".

[Griffin NoName]

Here's a hint: the difference between the two curves is that the lower and right-er curve is "standard" and the upper and left-er curve is "modified".

"modified"? Is the second camel cross-dressing? or pregnant?