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  • Intended for surveillance, Urbie is a low-profile, remotely operated machine that crawls over obstacles on bulldozer-like tracks, beaming images of what it sees to its operators. The robot is intended to be exceptionally durable, capable of flipping over and surviving shocks that would destroy most other robots. In a simulated rapid-deployment mission from the comfort of a car, iRobot researcher Tom Frost guides Urbie up a flight of steps in Somerville, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 147.
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  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brown smoke rises from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
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  • Scientist Richard Turco and Carl Sagan were on the scientific team that devised the concept of nuclear winter. Turco is seen here at the Nuclear Winter test fire: where a canyon outside Los Angeles was deliberately set on fire to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
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  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brown smoke rises from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. They are visiting a MacDonald's near their home in Riverview, (near Brisbane) Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Brown family is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. They are visiting a MacDonald's near their home in Riverview, (near Brisbane) Australia. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Brown family is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On the way back from Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonald's), 15-year-old Kayla Samuals (in 50 Cent T-shirt) rips open the Spy Kids 3-D comic book that the restaurant awards to purchasers of Happy Meals. Like her half-sister Sinead Smith (drinking) and her friend Amelia Wilson, Kayla is from an Aboriginal family whose roots lie in the arid outback. But the girls have little interest in outback cuisine; at least for now, Mackas is their culinary mecca. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 13).  The Brown family is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brush fires deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_24_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: fire crews rest while monitoring the brown smoke rising from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
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