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  1. Before making the final trek thru the streets of Los Angeles, CA to the LA Science Center on October 13, 2012 the Space Shuttle Endeavour rested for several hours in a parking lot in Westchexter, CA. This was the first time the general public could get up close and personal to a real space shuttle. The scale and size ...

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  2. The farmer obviously has an artistic flair

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  3. A brand new Bucyrus 8750 is ready to undergo trials at the Keephills mine west of Edmonton. It will be used to strip off the overburden to reach the coal for use in the thermal generating plant. The boom is 425 feet long.

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  4. Zu finden im Duisburger Industrie- und Landschaftspark / Germany. - Used the Canon EOS 5D-MKII, 100mm/2,8 Macro, Nodal-Ninja 5 with Rotator RD8 and EZ-Leveler MKII

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  5. In 1970, the Cosanti Foundation began building Arcosanti, an experimental town in the high desert of Arizona, 70 miles north of metropolitan Phoenix. When complete, Arcosanti will house 5000 people, demonstrating ways to improve urban conditions and lessen our destructive impact on the earth. Its large, compact structu...

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  6. The rainforest mesocosm, at the north end of Biosphere 2, was created to simulate several tropical rainforest habitats (figure 8). The biome can be divided into the following habitats: Lowland Rainforest includes most of the eastern part of the biome. It is dominated by large trees with a ground layer of aroids....

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  8. The savanna was designed to perform several different functions within Biosphere 2. Its primary goal was to provide a hydrological transition zone between the desert and rainforest mesocosms. The objective was to learn how to balance atmospheric chemistry by varying hydrological regimes within the tropical mesocosms. T...

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  9. The University of Arizona assumed management of Biosphere 2 in June 2007, with a 3-year lease of the 3.14 acre facility. The agreement to pay a $100 annual fee to owners CDO Ranching and Development may extend to 10 years. A $30 million gift from the Philecology Foundation, founded by Edward P. Bass, funds Bisophere 2...

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  10. The desert was designed to simulate an arid desert scrub ecosystem in a coastal climate with erratic winter rainfall and summer drought. Excessive rain and relatively low evapotranspiration during the initial two-year closure resulted in a dense scrub invaded by grasses. Conversion to a Mediterranean scrub woodland was...

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