# Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 23, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193 "2019-10-23T21:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 100
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1981 "2020-01-29T06:37:04Z")
I see. It is travelling really fast along one orientation that is not the start and destination orientation. lol. Clever. Its some kind of delivery convey train flying through space but delivering things from one vehicle to another (space station?). ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1982 "2020-01-29T06:40:54Z")
From our orientation on earth it is speeding along through space but so is the delivery vehicle, and its destination. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1983 "2020-01-29T06:42:12Z")
Was the train orbiting Earth at some point? The Moon? Mars? When you talk about “short distance” you mean horizontal distance respective to Earth? Did it travel a lot more vertical distance? ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1984 "2020-01-29T07:07:19Z")
It is a train on the space station, used to move equipment around. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1985 "2020-01-29T12:46:02Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > I’m stumped. Are we talking about orbital rings here? > > Was the “track” carried by a rocket? NO to both > [@Isamu](#): > > I see. It is travelling really fast along one orientation that is not the start and destination orientation. lol. Clever. Its some kind of delivery convey train flying through space but delivering things from one vehicle to another (space station?). THIS IS RIGHT 🙂 > [@Isamu](#): > > From our orientation on earth it is speeding along through space but so is the delivery vehicle, and its destination. YEP > [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > Was the train orbiting Earth at some point? > > YES > > The Moon? > > NO > > Mars? > > NO > > When you talk about “short distance” you mean horizontal distance respective to Earth? > > I mean from its own perspective > > Did it travel a lot more vertical distance? > > NO > [@eschrodinger](#): > > It is a train on the space station, used to move equipment around. YES OK, we’ll call this one solved. \*\*It’s the train on the International Space Station(ISS). It only moves 1 inch per second, but is also moving 17,500 MPH attached to the ISS. It is a train attached(hanging?) from a rail and it is used to move pieces around the ISS. \*\* [It is called the slowest and fastest train in the universe.](https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/f_slowtrain.html) I believe I answered everything correctly along the way! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1986 "2020-01-29T13:07:12Z")
It never occurred to me the ISS would get big enough to require a train. Based on the videos I saw of it, I thought it was just a few modules nested inside a bunch of solar panels. Maybe we’re not as far away from Babylon 5 as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1987 "2020-01-29T13:50:03Z")
Fantastic puzzle Mahaloth! I’m enjoying bringing Mrs. Cheesesteak and Kid Cheesesteak into the puzzles as well. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1988 "2020-01-29T14:07:49Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Fantastic puzzle Mahaloth! I’m enjoying bringing Mrs. Cheesesteak and Kid Cheesesteak into the puzzles as well. I have learned that puzzles I think are great get solved in two seconds. Puzzles that I think are only “OK” end up being the better ones. I had this one labeled in my head as pretty average, but ended up being a fun one. The best ones lead people down a path, but require a little lateral type thinking to click things together. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1989 "2020-01-29T16:14:24Z")
I’ll try another one. **An Arizona man was fined because of a skeleton. Why?** ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1990 "2020-01-29T16:19:14Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I’ll try another one. > > **An Arizona man was fined because of a skeleton. Why?** Was the skeleton buried somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be? Was it supposed to be a fake but turned out to be real? Was it supposed to be real but turned out to be fake? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1991 "2020-01-29T17:41:28Z")
Was the skeleton human? Was the skeleton of an extinct species? Was the man hiding it? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1992 "2020-01-29T18:16:31Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Was it supposed to be a fake but turned out to be real? Was Halloween involved? Does it involve Native American burial? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1993 "2020-01-29T18:18:33Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Was the skeleton buried somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be? **No** > > Was it supposed to be a fake but turned out to be real? **No** > > Was it supposed to be real but turned out to be fake? **In a way, but that wasn’t why the Arizona man was arrested.** ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1994 "2020-01-29T18:21:36Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Was the skeleton human? **Yes, but it wasn’t a corpse.** > > Was the skeleton of an extinct species? **No** > > Was the man hiding it? **No** ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1995 "2020-01-29T18:23:14Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Was Halloween involved? > > Does it involve Native American burial? No to both ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1996 "2020-01-29T19:20:29Z")
Was it a model? Was it complete? Was it to scale? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1997 "2020-01-29T19:21:04Z")
If it wasn’t a corpse… it was inside a still-living person? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1998 "2020-01-29T19:33:16Z")
Did the skeleton cause a disturbance? Did people think it was a real skeleton? Were the authorities called to the scene? ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/1999 "2020-01-29T19:37:43Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > OK, we’ll call this one solved. > > \*\*It’s the train on the International Space Station(ISS). It only moves 1 inch per second, but is also moving 17,500 MPH attached to the ISS. It is a train attached(hanging?) from a rail and it is used to move pieces around the ISS. \*\* > > [It is called the slowest and fastest train in the universe.](https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/f_slowtrain.html) > > I believe I answered everything correctly along the way! I figured it out after my questions were answered, and after my last post I went and looked it up. (I was unsure if I should post the link after confirmatory Googling, so I didn’t.). Some things I thought were interesting about it. It is on the outside of the ISS. It does have 2 tracks, and has wheels above and below them, like a roller coaster car so that it doesn’t float away. Crew cannot ride the motorized car, but there is a hand-cart for crew to use on the tracks. The need for the train primarily arose because the ISS has a robotic arm that can reach 50 feet. Initially, it worked great for building big things, attaching things to the station, etc., and could reach what it needed too. Now, the station is too big, and they needed to be able to move the arm around the station to reach things. The train is controlled at mission control on Earth. Cool puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2000 "2020-01-29T19:40:25Z")
> [@kk\_fusion](#): > > Was it a model? > > Was it complete? > > Was it to scale? Yes to all [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=99) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=101)