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  • Courtyards at Forestiere underground gardens: a hand built system of underground tunnels, courtyards and niches in Fresno, California, USA. Baldasare Forestiere was a Sicilian immigrant who arrived in Fresno in 1905 and spent 40 years digging the subterranean network planted with fruit trees and grape vines. Forestiere Underground Gardens.5021 W. Shaw Avenue,.Fresno, CA, USA93722.(559) 271-0734.
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  • Replete honeypot ants hang immobile from the roof of their underground chamber, with loads of delicious sweet nectar stored in their swollen abdominal pouches. North of Alice Springs, Central Australia. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Faith D'Aluisio lights incense underground in Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..The tubular iron detector of the Kolar proton decay experiment, 6,000 feet underground in a gold mine in India. The experiment consists of 150 tons of iron tube arranged in a cubic layout. Each tube is converted to act like a large Geiger counter, and is designed to detect the products from the decay of a proton. The half-life of the proton is estimated at 10 to the power 34 years, so the experiment has to contain as many protons as possible for the probability of an event occurring to be realistic.   India. (1985)
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  • Underground homes built into a hillside. Nice, France.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..Physics: Proton Decay. Ohio, Morton Salt Mine (1985). Proton decay detector located 600 meters underground in the Morton salt mine near Cleveland, Ohio.which consists of a massive tank containing 21 cubic meters of ultra pure water, its walls lined with photomultiplier tubes, which detect faint flashes of Cerenkov light emitted by the passage of charged particles
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..View of the entrance of Tokyo University's Proton Decay Experiment. 1,000 50-centimeter photomultiplier tubes line the 12-meter deep tank of water form the experiment. The water contains enough protons to provide an average of one decay event per year, an event that may be detected by these tubes as the particles from the decay cause a visible light phenomenon known as Cerenkov radiation. The experiment is taking place 914 meters underground in a zinc mine below Mt. Ikenoyama to minimize the effects of cosmic rays. Japan. (1985).
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..Mine workers passing the entrance to the Kolar proton decay experiment, 6,000 feet underground in a gold mine in India. The experiment consists of 150 tons of iron tube arranged in a cubic layout. Each tube is converted to act like a large Geiger counter, and is designed to detect the products from the decay of a proton. The half-life of the proton is estimated at 10 to the power 34 years, so the experiment has to contain as many protons as possible for the probability of an event occurring to be realistic. India. (1985)
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  • One of the many underground wine storage rooms of a castle being built in the Napa Valley  by winemaker Daryl Sattui California. Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amoroso, a version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. Under construction in 2003.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • One of the many underground wine storage rooms of a castle being built in the Napa Valley  by winemaker Daryl Sattui California. Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amoroso, a version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. Under construction in 2003.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Evan Menzel on the Metro (underground) Paris, France.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..Physics: Proton Decay. Ohio, Morton Salt Mine (1985). Proton decay detector located 600 meters underground in the Morton salt mine near Cleveland, Ohio.which consists of a massive tank containing 21 cubic meters of ultra pure water, its walls lined with photomultiplier tubes, which detect faint flashes of Cerenkov light emitted by the passage of charged particles.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. A technician checking Perspex plates at the IMB Proton Decay Experiment site. The IMB Project is named after the sponsoring institutions, University of California at Irvine, University of Michigan and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The experiment consists of a 60-foot deep tank filled with 8,000 tons of purified water, dug into the Morton-Thiokol salt mine at Painesville, Ohio, some 2,000 feet underground. The proton decay event will be detected by an array of 2,048 photomultipliers that line the tank. Proton decay is essential in most Grand Unified Theories of the fundamental forces, but to date no firm evidence of the decay has been found.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba, director of Tokyo University's Proton Decay Experiment. Dr. Koshiba is seen holding one of the 1,000 50 centimeter photomultiplier tubes that line the 12-meter deep tank of water that forms the experiment. The water contains enough protons to provide an average of one decay event per year, an event that may be detected by these tubes as the particles from the decay cause a visible light phenomenon known as Cerenkov radiation. The experiment is taking place 914 meters underground in a zinc mine below Mt. Ikenoyama to minimize the effects of cosmic rays..Japan. MODEL RELEASED (1985)
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..Proton decay. A technician [works with] a 20" (50cm) photomultiplier tube used in the search for proton decay. Hundreds of such tubes line a tank containing 9000 tons of water some 1000 meters underground in a zinc mine in Japan. Tokyo University's Kamiokande experiment was designed to look for decaying protons. If a proton decays, the charged particles it generates move through the water faster than light, and so generate blue 'Cerenkov' radiation. It is this that the photomultipliers detect. Computers then decide whether the event was a decay, or a collision with a solar neutrino. Japan. (1985)
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. .Proton decay. A technician holding a 20" (50cm) photomultiplier tube used in the search for proton decay. Hundreds of such tubes line a tank containing 9000 tons of water some 1000 meters underground in a zinc mine in Japan. Japan. (1985)
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  • Italian restaurant owner Gianni Paoletti and his wife in the caves of Paoletti Estates Winery. Napa Valley, California. The restaurant he owns is called Peppone and is located in West Los Angeles. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA.  ((PRIV)).
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  • Wine tasting in the Rudd Estate wine cave, Oakville, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Wine barrels in the Sattui Winery wine cave in Napa Valley, California.
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  • Crocodile Harry, an artist who has made his home and studio in an abandoned opal mine. Coober Pedy. South Australia.
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  • Wieliczka, Poland. Salt Mine Chapel of the Blessed Kinga (near Krakow).
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  • Faith Daluisio's profile and an abandoned Zoroastrian tower of silence. Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetary, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. Dr. Narasimham. Gold mine at Kolar, site of India's proton decay experiment. The experiment consists of 150 tons of iron tube arranged in a cubic layout 6000 feet (1828 meters) below ground. Each tube is converted to act like a large Geiger counter, and is designed to detect the products from the decay of a proton. The half- life of the proton is estimated at 10 to the power 34 years, so the experiment has to contain as many protons as possible for the probability of an event occurring to be realistic. India. MODEL RELEASED (1985)
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. View of the entrance to the French side of the Mont Blanc tunnel, inside which is located the NUSEX proton decay experiment. The tunnel runs between France & Italy under Mont Blanc. NUSEX is located several kilometers inside the tunnel, on the French side of the border, in one of the garage areas dug out of the rock at regular intervals along the tunnel. .View of the NUSEX (Nucleon Stability Experiment) proton decay detector located in a garage area off the Mont Blanc tunnel under some 5000 meters of rock which shields it from most cosmic radiation. (1985)
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  • Sewer inspection robot. Kurt I, a sewer inspection robot prototype. Here, the robot is moving through a simulated sewer at a German government-owned research and development centre. Unlike its predecessors, the Kurt I, and its successor, Kurt II, are cable-less, autonomous robots, which have their own power supply and piloting system. Kurt uses two low-powered lasers (upper centre) to beam a grid (red, lower centre) into its path. When the gridlines curve, indicating a bend or intersection in the pipe, the robot matches the curves against a digital map in its computer. It will then pilot itself to its destination. Photographed in Bonn, Germany.
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  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • Inside the Lava Tube Caves at Lava Beds National Monument, the largest concentration of lava tubes in the U.S. California.
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  • Far Niente Winery caves with oak barrels aging the wine. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Dolce desert wine aging room in the Far Niente Winery caves in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Clos Pegasse Winery banquet room in the winery caves. Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Far Niente Winery caves with oak barrels aging the wine. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Schramsberg Winery Caves, Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Betty O'Shaughnessy and her winemaker in the new caves aging rooms. MODEL RELEASED. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA.  ((PRIV)).
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  • Palmaz Winery under construction, Napa Valley CA. Ragsdale construction company digging caves, 2002.
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  • Barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountian Vineyards.
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  • Calistoga, California.In the wine cave of one of Napa Valley's oldest wineries, Schramsberg Vineyards. Napa Valley, California. A cellar worker will gently knock or "riddle" the collected sediment, which has settled in the necks of the countless wine bottles in the Schramsberg wine cave, one of the oldest in Napa Valley, California. Though it is a tedious process, riddling is a fundamental step in the time consuming production of sparkling wine.
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  • Jerry and Sigrid Seps who owns Storybook Mountain Vineyards display their wine cave which still shows pick marks left by Chinese laborers over a Century ago. Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alf Burtleson (center) stands with his partners Dale Wondergem and Jim Curry where they are expanding a wine cave belonging to Flora Springs Winery in Napa Valley, California.
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  • Palmaz Winery under construction, Napa Valley CA. Ragsdale construction company digging caves, 2002.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountain Vineyards.
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  • Oak barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountian Vineyards.
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  • Far Niente Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA.
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  • Wine tasting in the Rudd Estate wine cave, Oakville, Napa Valley, California.
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  • O'Shaughnessy Winery, Napa Valley, CA.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Faith D'Aluisio on lower staircase of Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • London tube station, subway escalator
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  • Wieliczka, Poland. Salt Mine Chapel of the Blessed Kinga (near Krakow).
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  • FRA_050524_026_x.Stacks of bones and skulls in the catacombs of Paris, France.  The catacombs are a vast network of tunnels and tombs below the city.  They were originally built from limestone quarries dating back to the Romans.  .
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  • Stacks of bones and skulls in the catacombs of Paris, France.  The catacombs are a vast network of tunnels and tombs below the city.  They were originally built from limestone quarries dating back to the Romans.
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  • Stacks of bones and skulls in the catacombs of Paris, France.  The catacombs are a vast network of tunnels and tombs below the city.  They were originally built from limestone quarries dating back to the Romans.
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  • Abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence. Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio inside the great pyramid of Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter..Entrance of the gold mine at Kolar, site of India's proton decay experiment. The experiment consists of 150 tons of iron tube arranged in a cubic layout 6000 feet (1828 meters) below ground. Each tube is converted to act like a large Geiger counter, and is designed to detect the products from the decay of a proton. The half- life of the proton is estimated at 10 to the power 34 years, so the experiment has to contain as many protons as possible for the probability of an event occurring to be realistic. India. (1985)
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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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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. View of the NUSEX (Nucleon Stability Experiment) proton decay detector located in a garage area off the Mont Blanc tunnel under some 5000 meters of rock which shields it from most cosmic radiation. (1985)
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  • Kurt I, a 32-cm-long robot, crawls through a simulated sewer network on the grounds of the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverabeitung-Forschungs-zentrum Informationstechnik GmbH (GMD), a government-owned R&D center outside Bonn, Germany. Every ten years, Germany's 400,000 kilometers of sewers must be inspected, at a cost of $9 per meter. Today, vehicles tethered to long data cables explore remote parts of the system. Because the cables restrict the vehicle's mobility and range, GMD engineers have built Kurt I, which crawls through sewers itself. To pilot itself, the robot?or, rather, its successor model, Kurt II?will use two low-power lasers to beam a checkerboardlike grid into its path. When the gridlines curve, indicating a bend or intersection in the pipe ahead, Kurt II will match the curves against a digital map in its "brain" and pilot itself to its destination. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 194
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  • The honey of Australian sting-less bees is so thin it pours like wine? the honey, called "sugar bag", is combined with whipped cream and a frozen honeypot replete for a sweet confection, Sydney, Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 29. See also Man Eating Bugs page 11).
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  • Faith D'Aluisio descending the stairs of the Menzel D'Aluisio cave in Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Oak barrels for aging wine in the wine cave at Storybook Mountain Vineyards.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio in their cave. Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Coober Pedy opal mine. South Australia.
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. Dr. Narasimham. Gold mine at Kolar, site of India's proton decay experiment. The experiment consists of 150 tons of iron tube arranged in a cubic layout 6000 feet (1828 meters) below ground. Each tube is converted to act like a large Geiger counter, and is designed to detect the products from the decay of a proton. The half- life of the proton is estimated at 10 to the power 34 years, so the experiment has to contain as many protons as possible for the probability of an event occurring to be realistic.  India. MODEL RELEASED (1985)
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. .Dr. Oscar Saavedra outside the door to the tunnel experiment with traffic streaming by. Oscar Saavedra, experimenter in the Mont Blanc Proton Decay group. The experiment consists of a 150-ton cube of iron sheets, interleaved with Geiger counter tubes. The cube has to be large enough to provide a mass of protons that will bring the probability of a decay event occurring within practical bounds, made difficult by the half life of the proton being 10 to the power 34 years.  (1985).
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  • Wine tasting in the Rudd Estate wine cave, Oakville, Napa Valley, California.
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  • A courtyard at Forestiere underground gardens: a hand built system of underground tunnels, courtyards and niches in Fresno, California, USA. Baldasare Forestiere was a Sicilian immigrant who arrived in Fresno in 1905 and spent 40 years digging the subterranean network planted with fruit trees and grape vines. Forestiere Underground Gardens.5021 W. Shaw Avenue,.Fresno, CA,
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  • A courtyard at Forestiere underground gardens: a hand built system of underground tunnels, courtyards and niches in Fresno, California, USA. Baldasare Forestiere was a Sicilian immigrant who arrived in Fresno in 1905 and spent 40 years digging the subterranean network planted with fruit trees and grape vines. Forestiere Underground Gardens.5021 W. Shaw Avenue.Fresno, CA, USA93722.(559) 271-0734.
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  • Palmaz. Doctor that invented the heart stent now makes wine underground in a huge cave complex in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Above ground view of underground storage of radioactive wastes for the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), 700 meters below ground. WIPP is a research project to determine the suitability of the local salt rocks as a storage site for highly- radioactive transuranic waste from nuclear power stations. Such waste materials may have radioactive half-lives of thousands of years, and so must be isolated in a geologically stable environment. On the left is an experiment testing the design of containers carrying vitrified waste. The mine is located near Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. (1998)
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Town Hall in Karaganda, Republic of Kazakhstan (former USSR]. (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk sauna: American and Soviet scientists and workers relax after a local sauna. (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk sauna: American and Soviet scientists and workers relax in the local sauna. (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Americans and Soviets gather for a group portrait at the Karkarlinsk Field lab. (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole seismic monitor. Jon Berger (left], with a technician checks the wiring as a heavy booted Soviet scientist descends the stairs. (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Staff at the Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole seismic monitor. (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole at dawn. The bore hole has seismic monitoring equipment in it. (1987]
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  • Physics: Scientist Hans Hofer at CERN..CERN is the European centre for particle physics near Geneva. L3 is one of 4 giant particle detectors at the LEP Collider. LEP collides electrons & positrons accelerated to an energy of 50 GeV in a circular tunnel 100m underground & 27km in circumference. L3 is a cylindrical assembly of many types of apparatus - hadron & electromagnetic calorimeters, drift chambers, & a time projection chamber - which fit together like layers of an onion around the point where the particles collide. L3 is a collaboration of 460 physicists from institutions in 13 countries..Geneva, Switzerland. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Physics: Patrice Lebrun works on the detector for the L-3 experiment at CERN, which uses a Bismuth Germanium Oxide (BGO) Crystal. BGO (formula Bi4 Ge3 O12) is used to detect electrons and photons generated by electron- positron collisions in the LEP Collider ring. When an electron or photon enters the crystal, its energy is converted into light. The light is channeled by the crystal to photodiodes, producing an electronic signal. 11, 000 crystals, totaling 12 tons in weight, are used in the detector, measuring the energy and position of the incoming particles at very high resolution. The LEP and L- 3 detector were inaugurated on 13 November 1989. Geneva, Switzerland..CERN is the European centre for particle physics near Geneva. L3 is one of 4 giant particle detectors at the LEP Collider. LEP collides electrons & positrons accelerated to an energy of 50 GeV in a circular tunnel 100m underground & 27km in circumference. L3 is a cylindrical assembly of many types of apparatus - hadron & electromagnetic calorimeters, drift chambers, & a time projection chamber - which fit together like layers of an onion around the point where the particles collide. L3 is a collaboration of 460 physicists from institutions in 13 countries. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Anita Flynn with vintage robot prototype "Gnat" at the M.I.T. Insect Robot Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Flynn was an Insect Lab scientist who liked to dream up possible jobs for tiny, cheap, throwaway robots.  She suggested that a gnat could crawl along an underground electrical cable until it finds a break, bridge the gap, and stay there as a permanent repair. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • Sitting on a mobile motorized cushion he calls a "vuton," Shigeo Hirose of the Tokyo Institute of Technology surrounds himself with some of the robots he has built in the last two decades. Beside him is the snake-bot ACM R-1, one of his earliest projects. It is made of modules, any number of which can be hooked together to produce a mechanical snake that slowly, jerkily undulates down its path. Hirose, who is primarily funded by industry, hopes to develop commercially useful robots; the snake, he thinks, could be useful for inspecting underground pipes. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 88.
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  • Winemaker Daryl Sattui, with his son Mario and dog Lupo, in one of the many underground wine storage rooms of a castle being built in the Napa Valley, California..Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amoroso, a version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. Under construction in 2003.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Nevada Nuclear Test site- Used drill bits in the drilling storage yard for underground nuclear tests. (1988)
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  • Road to underground storage of radioactive wastes for the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), 700 meters below ground (salt pond in foreground). WIPP is a research project to determine the suitability of the local salt rocks as a storage site for highly- radioactive transuranic waste from atomic power stations. Such waste materials may have radioactive half-lives of thousands of years, and so must be isolated in a geologically stable environment. On the left is an experiment testing the design of containers carrying vitrified waste. The mine is located near Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. (1988)
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  • Safety tour at underground storage of radioactive wastes. This is one of the chambers of the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), 700 meters below ground. WIPP is a research project to determine the suitability of the local salt rocks as a storage site for highly- radioactive transuranic waste from nuclear power stations. Such waste materials may have radioactive half-lives of thousands of years, and so must be isolated in a geologically stable environment. On the left is an experiment testing the design of containers carrying vitrified waste. The mine is located near Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. (1998)
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab. Soviet worker making a call from the camp phone. (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Jon Berger at the Karkarlinsk Field lab. MODEL RELEASED (1987]
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Seismic monitor station at Karkarlinsk, Kazakhstan. Ice crystals at dawn in the frozen landscape: -26F (1987]
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