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  • Sunraycer in traffic on a road test in the Simi Valley, California, USA. Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race, which began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. Strict rules were applied throughout the race. Entrants were permitted two 2-hour solar battery charging sessions per day, performed immediately before & after each daily stage of the race. (1987)
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  • Mana La, a Hawaiian entry owned by hair product millionaire John Paul Mitchell on the afternoon of day one of the Pentax Solar Car Race, Hayes Creek, Australia. Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles.
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  • Swiss crewmember gets in a spot of sunrise ironing, and electric shaving with the help of an electric generator on the road at the Pentax Solar Car Race. November 8, South of Glendambo, South Australia.  (1987) The Pentax Solar Car Race the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles.
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  • Swiss solar car entry, the Spirit of Biel, on a boat ramp before the start of the Pentax Solar Car Race. Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles. (1987)
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  • Mana La, a Hawaiian entry owned by hair product millionaire John Paul Mitchell for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race . The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Mana La was designed to utilize wind as well as solar energy. General Motors' entry, Sunraycer, was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. (Paul Mitchell)  1987
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  • Sunraycer is being followed by its support vehicle during a road test in the California Mojave desert USA. Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race, which began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. Strict rules were applied throughout the race. Entrants were permitted two 2-hour solar battery charging sessions per day, performed immediately before & after each daily stage. (1987).
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  • Mana La, a Hawaiian entry owned by hair product millionaire John Paul Mitchell for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar- powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Mana La was designed to utilize wind as well as solar energy. General Motors' entry, Sunraycer, was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. (Paul Mitchell)  (1987)
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  • Chisholm Institute's Solar Car #12, parked by the Mataranka Homestead, Northern Territories, Australia. Pentax Solar Car Race the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles.
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  • Lichtblick, a German entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. General Motors' entry, Sunraycer, was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour.  (1987)
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  • Swiss solar car entry, the Spirit of Biel, on a boat ramp before the start of the Pentax Solar Car Race. Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.  Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles. (1987)
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  • Dick Smith's solar car getting a tire fixed on November 7, Pentax Solar Car Race, near Kulgera, Australia. Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles.
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  • Canoe race across the frozen St. Laurence seaway during winter carnival. Quebec, Canada.
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  • Bay to Breakers annual race. Runners climb the Hayes St. hill. San Francisco, California.
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  • The "Just Magic" solar car from the UK at the start of the Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles.
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  • Patron saint festival horse race at Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Dressed in special holiday clothing for the All Saints Day celebration in Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala, a mob of men on horseback race back and forth down the main road into town between throngs of onlookers, stopping at each end of the course to take a pull of hard liquor before galloping at a breakneck pace to the other end. This exciting diversion goes on for hours as new riders enter the festivities and other riders fall off or just drunkenly give up. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 158).
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  • A racer in the World Cup mountain bike race at Skyline Park. Napa Valley, California. USA.
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  • A young boy jockey heads out for morning camel training at the Nad Al Sheba racecourse in Dubai with his breakfast snack of soda pop, chips, and candy. Although the practice of using children has been banned and declared illegal since 2002, young children from poor countries are still being used as jockeys because of their light weight and low cost. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Sand Hill Challenge Soap Box Derby in Menlo Park, California. Silicon Valley.
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  • Riders and stable boys prepare camels for an early morning training workout at the racetrack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • High school girls paddling an outrigger canoe. Kaunakakai, Molokai.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • Cyclist on Highway 6 near Route 139, S.W. Colorado. USA.
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  • Hal Hall riding his horse Francisco finishes the annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California in 1990.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses some very rugged terrain. .Hal Hall's winning horse Francisco takes a hay and water break as the full moon rises.near mile 78 in. (1990).
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses the Sierras near Cougar Rock.
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  • A belt buckle of one of the riders in a past annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California.
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  • Evan Menzel photographing trinitite at Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sailboats on a summer evening on Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, California.
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  • Riders take camels to an early morning training workout for camels at the racetrack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Early morning training workout for camels at the racetrack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Internet Shop Communications. Internet software; Stephan Shambach, 27, president and CEO drives to San Francisco from his San Mateo home. He often stops on I280 to make phone calls or read papers in his Mustang convertible. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Start-up asimba.com; CEO Scott Hublou (on right) biking, Los Altos, Iron-man training 6:50 am. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Jay Eisenlohr, VP of marketing for Rendition Software of Mountain View, maker of 3-D graphic chips for games. Eisenlohr in his living room playing an on-line racing game while his wife and daughter watch TV (classic old US TV shows on Nickelodeon). Model Released. (1999).
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  • ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), is the newest addition to the Honda Humanoid Robot family. It is on display daily at Suzuka City Circuit, where young and old converge to watch racing, ride amusement park rides, and also watch this child-sized robot introduced by a beauty queen walk, wave, and dance four times daily. The press literature for ASIMO states "By helping people, and becoming their partners, Honda robots are opening the door to the 21st Century." Honda R&D expects that "ASIMO will help improve life in human society.".
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  • Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race, which began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. Strict rules were applied throughout the race. Entrants were permitted two 2-hour battery-charging sessions per day, performed immediately before & after each daily stage of the race. 1987, south of Coober Pedy.
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  • Winner's Trophy of the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. Photographed November 1, 1987, the day of the start of the race, in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.  Cars raced 1,950 miles across Australia (north to south) using only solar energy to power the cars.
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  • Paul MacCready, head of Aerovironment Inc, a member of the design consortium of Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. MacCready is photographed next to GM Sunraycer (not seen in this photo), which won the first Pentax Solar Car Race taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. MacCready is ?capturing the light': he is holding a pencil light flash tube. 1987, 100 kilometers south of Coober Pedy, Australia. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Paul MacCready, head of Aerovironment Inc, a member of the design consortium of Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. MacCready is photographed next to GM Sunraycer, which won the first Pentax Solar Car Race taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour.  1987, 100 kilometers south of Coober Pedy, Australia. MacCready is ?capturing the light': he is holding a pencil light flash tube. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Paul MacCready, head of Aerovironment Inc, a member of the design consortium of Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. MacCready is photographed behind the GM Sunraycer, which won the first Pentax Solar Car Race taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. MODEL RELEASED. (1987)
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  • Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race, which began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Sunraycer (bottom left) is shown here on the 3rd day of the race, moving along a dead straight section of the Stuart Highway (Route 87) in the outback 100 km south of Devil's Marbles. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. Sunraycer's power source was an array of 7,200 photovoltaic cells, joined to form a hood over the top and back of the vehicle. (1987) .
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  • Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race, which began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Sunraycer is shown here on the 3rd day of the race, moving along a dead straight section of the Stuart Highway (Route 87) in the outback 100 km south of Devil's Marbles. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. Sunraycer's power source was an array of 7,200 photovoltaic cells, joined to form a hood over the top and back of the vehicle. (1987)
    AUS_SCI_SOLCAR_02_xs.jpg
  • Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race, which began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. Sunraycer is shown here on the 3rd day of the race, moving along a dead straight section of the Stuart Highway (Route 87) in the outback 100 km south of Devil's Marbles passing the skeleton of a kangaroo. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. Sunraycer's power source was an array of 7,200 photovoltaic cells, joined to form a hood over the top and back of the vehicle. (1987)
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  • Starting line of the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race, November 2, 1987, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Cars raced 1,950 miles across Australia (north to south) using only solar energy to power the cars.
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  • A dead bloated cow on the Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs, southern Australia during the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles. (1987)
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  • Display of solar cars that will participate in the  Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race . Seen here in the Casuarina shopping mall, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.  (1987)
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  • The horse race at the All Saints Day celebration in the town of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, finds many lively participants. Dressed in special holiday clothing for the All Saints Day celebration, a mob of men on horseback race back and forth down the main road into town between throngs of onlookers, stopping at each end of the course to take a pull of hard liquor before galloping at a breakneck pace to the other end. This exciting diversion goes on for hours as new riders enter the festivities and other riders fall off or just drunkenly give up. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A dead kangaroo, hit by a vehicle just before dawn on the Stuart Highway, South of Glendambo in Southern Australia during the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. (1987)
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  • Paul MacCready, head of Aerovironment Inc, a member of the design consortium of Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. MacCready is photographed next to the unfolded array of some 7,200 photovoltaic cells that comprise the vehicle's power supply. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. MODEL RELEASED. (1987)
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  • The Stuart Highway near Devil's Marbles rock formation, Northern Territory, Australia. Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • Devil's Marbles rock formation. Northern Territory, Australia.  Shot during the Pentax Solar Car Race. Australia landscapes.
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  • Motorcycle breakdown on Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs. Shot during the Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • The rising sun scorches the landscape along the Stuart Highway during the Pentax Solar Car Race. South of Glendambo. South Australia.
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  • Golden sunrise over South Australia during the Pentax Solar Car Race. South of Glendambo.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses Emigrant pass near Watson's monument.
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  • Mr. Fullerton of Fullerton's camels, Northern Territory, Australia. 100km south of Alice Springs. During the Pentax Solar Car Race. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Stuart Highway near Devil's Marbles rock formation, Northern Territory, Australia. Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • Devil's Marbles rock formation. Northern Territory, Australia.  Shot during the Pentax Solar Car Race. Australia landscapes.
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  • Devil's Marbles rock formation. Northern Territory, Australia.  Shot during the Pentax Solar Car Race. Australia landscapes.
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  • Roadkill kangaroo along the Stuart Highway, south of Glendambo. South Australia during the Pentax Solar Car Race. Kangaroo jumped in front of this Toyota Landcruiser just before dawn and was killed. The Toyota's front end is protected by a Roo-Guard, just for this reason.
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  • Seppeltsfield Vineyard in the prolific wine-growing region of Barossa Valley, South Australia. The valley marked the endpoint of the Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • Close up view of some of the rectangular photovoltaic cells that comprised the power supply for Sunraycer, General Motors' entry for the Pentax World Solar Challenge, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia. An array of some 7,200 of these cells was arranged in a hood covering the front & back of the vehicle. Sunraycer was the eventual winner, taking 5 1/2 days to complete the 1,950 miles, traveling at an average speed of 41.6 miles per hour. (1987)
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  • Hundreds of swimmers participate in the annual 2-kilometer (1.25-mile) ocean race at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • In Suzuka City, Japan, ASIMO, (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), a humanoid robot designed by Honda stands with the Suzuka Circuit Queen, and waves to the audience. Honda's walking robot, is child-sized and has more maneuverability than it's predecessor, the Honda P3. Unlike the P3, which couldn't be stopped once it began it's programmed routine, ASIMO can be controlled by either joystick or computer program. Pictured here at Suzuka City (a race track and amusement park), Japan.
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  • Even someone who believes that in the future most humans will become the slaves of all-powerful machines has to have a laugh sometimes. Why not have it with toy machines? Taking a moment off from his work at the cybernetics department at the University of Reading in the UK, Kevin Warwick (on left), author of March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World, plays with Lego Mindstorm robots that his students have programmed to box with each other. The toys are wildly popular with engineers and computer scientists because they can be programmed to perform an amazing variety of tasks. In this game, sensors on the toys determine which machine has been hit the most. In his more serious work, Warwick is now trying to record his neural signals on a computer and replay them into his nervous system. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 222-223.
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  • Once intelligent robots are created, argues Kevin Warwick, (seen here clowning with a lab robot hand), of the University of Reading in the UK, it will not take them long to realize their superiority to flesh-and-blood beings. "The human race as we know it," he has written, "is very likely in its endgame" machines will wipe us out. Believing that this dreadful scenario is unavoidable, Warwick nevertheless continues his research into robotics. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 29.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nanette Watts of Texas was the 2004 Ms Plus America Woman. She was appearing at the Race For The Cure in San Antonio. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Patron saint festival horse race accident at Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • (1992) Dave Ford trains for the races with his Siberian husky team by the Santon Parish Church in Thetford, England. The team was DNA tested by Cellmark to determine their paternity. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • After the last jockey passes by, or out, everyone drifts off from the horse races to the town cemetery to celebrate All Saints Day. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 159). This image is featured alongside the Mendoza family of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemalal, images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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