Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again!

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?).

From our orientation on earth it is speeding along through space but so is the delivery vehicle, and its destination.

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?

It is a train on the space station, used to move equipment around.

NO to both

THIS IS RIGHT :slight_smile:

YEP

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.

I believe I answered everything correctly along the way!

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.

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.

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?

Was the skeleton human?

Was the skeleton of an extinct species?

Was the man hiding it?

Was Halloween involved?

Does it involve Native American burial?

In a way, but that wasn’t why the Arizona man was arrested.

No

No to both

Was it a model?

Was it complete?

Was it to scale?

If it wasn’t a corpse… it was inside a still-living person?

Did the skeleton cause a disturbance?

Did people think it was a real skeleton?

Were the authorities called to the scene?

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.

Yes to all