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  • Replica of an alien body (a movie prop donated to the museum) in the International UFO Museum and Research Center, 114 N. Main St., in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. Museum visitors begin their tour with a short talk by Dennis Balthaser, a "certified MUFON UFO-ologist" (Mutual UFO Network). The Roswell incident started on 2 July 1947 when UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Next morning a rancher, Mac Brazel, discovered strange wreckage in a field. When the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. (1997).
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  • Replica of an alien body (a movie prop donated to the museum) in the International UFO Museum and Research Center, 114 N. Main St., in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. Museum visitors begin their tour with a short talk by Dennis Balthaser, a "certified MUFON UFO-ologist" (Mutual UFO Network). The Roswell incident started on 2 July 1947 when UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Next morning a rancher, Mac Brazel, discovered strange wreckage in a field. When the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. (1997).
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  • Observers watching sunrise at Haleakala summit. Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii. USA.
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  • San Francisco Bay model, with the Golden Gate bridge. Sausalito. California. An engineer is taking a water sample.
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  • Pilar Sanchez giving a cooking demonstration (lobster soufle) at her restaurant called Pilar in downtown Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Lava flow on the summit of Mauna Loa, Big Island, Hawaii, watched by geologists. USA.
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  • Onlookers watch as lava spews forth from an eruption on the summit of Mauna Loa, Big Island, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • John S. Weber looking at a model of himself by German artist Karin Sander. Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) San Francisco, California. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Zaiger Genetics: Apricots in test tubes in the tissue culture lab run by Grant Zaiger, Floyd's son. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Tissue culture Lab. 1983.
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  • New York City at dusk, from the World Trade Center, looking north towards the Empire State Building in the center of Manhattan. USA.
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  • New York from World Trade Center, East river and Brooklyn, with the Brooklyn Bridge. USA.
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  • Roof Panel fire test at the Underwriters test Lab, Northbrook (Chicago) IL.
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  • Sushi chef Ken Tominaga of Hana and Go Fish restaurants prepares sushi at the home of Go Fish partner and chef Cindy Pawlcyn in the Napa Valley, CA..
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  • New York City, at dusk, from the World Trade Center, looking north towards the Empire State Building in the center of Manhattan. USA.
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  • In March, 1991, heads of the three Texas oil well fire fighting companies made their first trip to Kuwait to survey the damage of the burning oil fields set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in February. Here in the Al Burgan field in mid afternoon, it was as dark as a moonless night due to the heavy thick smoke. The only light came from the more than 300 flaming oil wells and the truck headlights. It was raining soot and unburned oil. It was estimated that 5 or 6 million barrels of oil were being lost every day in this field alone. Huge oil lakes were forming. The men in the photo are: Boots Hansen (white jacket, Boots and Coots), Raymond Henry (Red Adair Company, red coveralls), Joe Bowden (Wildwell Control, yellow coveralls), and Larry Flak (oil well fire coordinator, black jacket).
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  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water.? (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Weather: Rainbow and Mission San Xavier in Tucson, Arizona. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1986)
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  • Weather: Rainbow in Wooden Valley, Napa County, California. A rainbow silhouettes a turkey vulture. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1988)
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  • Weather: Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain or mist but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1980)
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  • Weather: Rainbow, Rio Grande Valley, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1988)
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  • Weather: Rainbow, Rio Grande Valley, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1988)
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  • Weather: Rainbow in southern Spain over hills with olive trees.  Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..The iron stack, which forms the proton decay experiment at Frejus, France. The stack consists of iron bars interspersed with Geiger tubes, and is designed to provide enough protons to bring the probability of observing a decay event into realistic proportions, made difficult by the half- life of the proton being ten to the power 34 years. (1985)
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Biosphere scientist Mark van Thillo is spearfishing, while a tourist observes, inside the artificial ocean of the Biosphere 2 Project during construction. The Ocean 'biome' provided a source of fish during the two-year duration Project. Water that evaporated from the surface of the 'ocean' was condensed and filtered to provide fresh water for consumption and to replenish the freshwater stream.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1992
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India. On the right is Sitarani Tyaagi, one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests (called Sadhus) that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. (Sitarani Tyaai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80Diets.) Generally he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds.
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  • Uahoo Uahoo, a warden at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, stands in the back of his truck with his typical day's worth of food and observes a herd of springbok. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, India. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests?called Sadhus?that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. Generally, he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. Offer him more food than a plateful, and he will kindly say, "no thanks."  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_091_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_080_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
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  • Burying his face in a 3-D viewing system, Volkmar Falk of the Leipzig Herzzentrum (Germany's most important cardiac center) explores the chest cavity of a cadaver with the da Vinci robotic surgical system. Thomas Krummel (standing), chief of surgery at Stanford University's teaching hospital, observes the procedure on a monitor displaying images from a pair of tiny cameras in one of the three "ports" Falk has cut into the cadaver. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 176.
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  • University of California Berkeley biologist Robert Full analyzes centipede motion by observing the insect's movement across a glass plate covered with "photoelastic" gelatin. On either side of the gel are thin polarizing filters that together block all light coming through the glass. When the centipede's feet contact the gel, they temporarily deform it, altering the way light goes through it and allowing some to pass through the filters. In the test above, one group of legs works on one side of the animal's midsection while two other groups work near its head and tail. UC Berkeley (California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 94 bottom..
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  • Exemplifying the attempts by Japanese researchers to put a friendly face on their robots, DB's creators are teaching it the Kacha-shi, an Okinawan folk dance. Unlike most robots, DB did not acquire the dance by being programmed. Instead, it observed human dancers?project researchers, actually, and repeatedly attempted to mimic their behavior until it was successful. Project member Stefan Schaal, a neurophysicist at the University of Southern California (in red shirt), believes that by means of this learning process robots will ultimately develop a more flexible intelligence. It will also lead, he hopes, to a better understanding of the human brain. The DB project is funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Humanoid Project and led by independent researcher Mitsuo Kawato. Based at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 51.
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  • Readying for the RoboCup championship in Sweden, Jörg Wilberg (rear left) and his research team at the German National Research Center (GMD) outside Bonn, Germany review the prospects of their five-machine robot-soccer squad. The GMD team plays in the medium-sized division, which uses a real soccer ball on a field about a third as big as a basketball court. Each robot monitors the position of the ball with a video camera; special software lets the machine track its round shape. Kneeling on the floor, researcher Peter Schöll tests the software by observing the image of the ball in the monitor. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 215
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  • Especially fond of the children, Uncle Kinley Dorji (seated at right) has given up marriage to help with childcare in his sister Nalim's house. A typical task: feeding a weekend breakfast of sweet, thick rice soup to Tandin Geltshin, one of the two-year-olds. His namesake and nephew, Kinley (standing at left) observes the jumble of children from the lofty distance of his 17 years. A student at a boarding school an hour's walk away, he is home only for weekends. Namgay and Nalim's family lives in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages76-77.
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  • Prayer wheels at the entrance of Jambey Khakhang are filled with prayers, which are said as the wheels are spun by observant Buddhist visitors.
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  • Weather: Napa, California - rainbow at sunset. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the Sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1985)
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  • Weather: Rainbow over nature preserve researchers Holt and Quizenberry. Waikamoi, island of Maui, Hawaii. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain or mist but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1984)
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  • Weather: Rainbow, Dallas, Texas. Rainbows occur when the observer is facing falling rain but with the sun behind them. White light is reflected inside the raindrops and split into its component colors by refraction. (1981)
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  • Practical astronomy. A logbook and calculator used by a crewmember of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The logbook details the times at, which liquid helium and nitrogen were added to the cryogenic system of the KAO's far-infrared telescope. At right is a chart used to plan observations with an infrared polarimeter fitted to the telescope. The calculator, a programmable type, may be used for work on preliminary data. NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory: Astronomy from the stratosphere. NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Data gathered during a mission to be analyzed.
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  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_092_rwx.jpg
  • In his UC Berkeley, CA office, astronomer Geoff Marcy is discussing the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity in the measurements of the Doppler shift that allow his team to detect planets.   They make all of their observations from the Earth that moves so fast in its orbit around the Sun that they must include the theory of relativity in their calculations. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
    USA_060516_082_rwx.jpg
  • Jeeraporn Khuankaew's schoolmates line up outside on the athletic field each morning before class to observe the raising of the flag, the recitation of a prayer and to listen to the pricipal talk and talk. A few of the boys were singled out for having hair that was too long and they had their hair cropped very short on the spot. (From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions)
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  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water. (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water.? (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • A baker in Ujjain, India, drips milky sweet topping onto sweet fried dough to sell to passersby. He and other vendors reaps the benefits of the arrival of millions of pilgrims for the once-every-12-year occurrence of Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain for observant Hindus.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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