UPDATE: It's Beckman Auditorium at Caltech, looking straight down from my drone. I've added a more normal angle below.
16 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo”
painedumonde
A temple?
Codswallop
A mobile chemical weapons lab in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
OverclockedApe
That's a lot of aluminum tubes.
stilesroasters
Caltech main auditorium
Traveller
What is this? Very cool is what it is~ Traveller
Steve_OH
Beckman Auditorium. Don't tell anyone, but I've been up on the service catwalks inside that roof. Late at night. When everything was locked up.
cld
With a date?
Steve_OH
That's not the word I would use to describe them.
cld
Either too much information or not nearly enough.
Kevin DrumPost author
Oh sure, just give it away.
cld
This is where the last remnants of humanity will go to climb into their sensory deprivation tanks and escape to a better world.
cld
Or else it's a way of executing prisoners without having to cruelly inject them with drugs or hang them or gas them or shoot them, society will just drop them on that.
Salamander
Now that's what Colin Powell was talking about! ... What, it's in California? Meh. Cue the bombers! Shockin'Awe!!
dspcole
From the top kinda looks like just one more pic of the coronavirus.
Dana Decker
When I was an undergrad at Caltech, a friend and I would toss a Frisbee in the green strip between the two buildings south of Beckman Auditorium. Usually at dusk.
Thanks for bringing back those memories.
allenknutson
I got married in Dabney Courtyard (not Dabney Hovse) near there, and we had a wedding cake shaped like Beckman Auditorium, complete with helicopter.
A temple?
A mobile chemical weapons lab in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
That's a lot of aluminum tubes.
Caltech main auditorium
What is this? Very cool is what it is~ Traveller
Beckman Auditorium. Don't tell anyone, but I've been up on the service catwalks inside that roof. Late at night. When everything was locked up.
With a date?
That's not the word I would use to describe them.
Either too much information or not nearly enough.
Oh sure, just give it away.
This is where the last remnants of humanity will go to climb into their sensory deprivation tanks and escape to a better world.
Or else it's a way of executing prisoners without having to cruelly inject them with drugs or hang them or gas them or shoot them, society will just drop them on that.
Now that's what Colin Powell was talking about! ... What, it's in California? Meh. Cue the bombers! Shockin'Awe!!
From the top kinda looks like just one more pic of the coronavirus.
When I was an undergrad at Caltech, a friend and I would toss a Frisbee in the green strip between the two buildings south of Beckman Auditorium. Usually at dusk.
Thanks for bringing back those memories.
I got married in Dabney Courtyard (not Dabney Hovse) near there, and we had a wedding cake shaped like Beckman Auditorium, complete with helicopter.