What IS this?

[Shaman]

 

[MORIMOTOM]

a bigfoot?

 

[Grimes]

its a weather radar

 

[fudo]

Or a weather info instrument (instrument package inside.)

 

[atakach]

a gi-normous lolly-pop

ajt

 

[orthogonal1]

Well, you know them black heeeliocupters, well....

 

[Tim-Gabz]

A mine to sink airships?

 

[el dub]

Paul Bunyon's webber?

 

[Lycosa]

E.t.

 

[555]

Target Practice?

OR


A Target for those who take things to Sell on the Scrap Market.

 

[MikeH]

A USGS Temperature Station that has been abandoned because it wasn't giving the desired results?

 

[wintermute]

The torture droid from Star Wars - the one that you see floating into Princess Leia's cell with that big-a** needle!

 

[Mongo]

Besides out of focus?....

 

[Bob W]

A surveillance camera, like on the ceiling at WalMart.

Or a wasp trap, for really big wasps...

 

[Bronco]

A USGS Temperature Station that has been abandoned because it wasn't giving the desired results?

Exactly. It's replacement is now located eight inches above the asphalt parking lot at Target (directly beneath the air conditioning exhaust vent).

 

[gajinoz]

Damn, I thought it was the boys from Alpha Centauri coming to take me home. Looks a bit like their old wagon.

 

[beluga]

Geez... someone found it....gotta move it somewhere now...

Honestly, that be the place where I keep my nagging in-laws...

Don't tell anyone please....

 

[glockman99]

I think it's the planet Saturn that's been painted so's no-one will notice it (and it's been placed on that post to dry)...

 

[2brothers]

It is a lightning electrode that directs lightning strikes to itself rather than surrounding objects.
They are buried 20' into the ground.
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Florida receive the most lightning strikes and you can usually find them more in those states.

mike

 

[MikeH]

It's where Pluto is hiding out in shame since it got demoted from planet.