# What's This in Tokyo Bay?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-in-tokyo-bay/346672>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-in-tokyo-bay/346672 "2006-03-01T21:29:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-in-tokyo-bay/346672/21 "2006-03-02T22:36:24Z")

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> [@Survey1215](#):
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> Meanwhile, I took a peek at the pics for my local airport (Lambert Field in St. Louis) and found what appears to be [one of those fancy new half invisible airplanes.](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.435463,59.941406&hl=en&q=Lambert+Airport&ll=38.741427,-90.359609&spn=0.001004,0.001829&t=h) Boeing does some of its high end military work on the other end of the airport - obviously this is some sort of civilian airliner cloaking device being tested.

Just north of that, in that area that looks like some sort if tear in the fabric of space and time, are those Langoliers?

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**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-in-tokyo-bay/346672/22 "2006-03-02T23:44:12Z")

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> [@Survey1215](#):
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> Meanwhile, I took a peek at the pics for my local airport (Lambert Field in St. Louis) and found what appears to be [one of those fancy new half invisible airplanes.](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.435463,59.941406&hl=en&q=Lambert+Airport&ll=38.741427,-90.359609&spn=0.001004,0.001829&t=h) Boeing does some of its high end military work on the other end of the airport - obviously this is some sort of civilian airliner cloaking device being tested.

Yipe! :eek: I thought you were _kidding_. But mebbe it’s just one of those Southwest Airlines planes with a paint job made to _look like_ a runway.

😃

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-in-tokyo-bay/346672/23 "2006-03-03T04:14:36Z")

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> [@scr4](#):
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> The line is called [Yurikamome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurikamome).

I had a minor freak-out the first time I rode that and realized there was no driver.

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-in-tokyo-bay/346672/24 "2006-03-03T07:19:47Z")

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Looking at them, they look like they could be some sort of platforms with containers stacked on top of them, but unless the containers are arranged in sets of matching colors and just LOOK like they’re much bigger than they should be, I don’t see how they’d fit on a ship like the one nearby.

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