19 responses to “Spine”
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and the subsequent memorial was held where? beautiful ferris wheel feel to this, perhaps that’s what compelled the dangerous? climb:)
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Much scarier than my "spelunking" days at Texas A&M, where we ventured through the steam tunnels between buildings on campus… fighting radioactive Rats, Opossum and Racoons. There were notes written in the dust on top of steam conduits by our predecesors from six years prior to when we ran the tunnels. One note said "Winter Tour 1972". That always amazed me and brought home just how few people actually did what we did. We surely would have been thrown out of school had we been caught.
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heh…. There’s some good spelunking on campus here too, but I did not get any photos. One tunnel goes under the main Meyer library, and dumps into a HVAC room that then gives access to a hidden network of stairs that leads to the roof. They store the strangest stuff in the library attic (it forms a ring around the perimeter of the building.
Then there’s the incredibly bizarre "End Station 3" nestled underground in the engineering campus. It’s a strange building with no windows and peculiar, yet fetching, warning signs ("no animal experiments in this area"). After going underground a bit, you find yourself on a metal gang plank overlook looking down into a cavernous football-field-sized room with 5-ton cranes overhead, and little people below. It’s an end station for the SLAC particle accelerator….
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Back doors are always the cool ones… always.
…looking down into a cavernous football-field-sized room with 10-ton cranes overhead, and little people below. It’s an end station for the SLAC particle accelerator….
The ‘little people’… Were they breeded ‘little’ there for experimental reasons? Were they real cavemen from another age? Was a consecuence of the particle acceleration on their bodies that shrinked them? Or was this littleness a matter of perspective?
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I just found you because I’m about to use your Paul Simon photo on my blog (Yours In Books), and I took a look at some of your other pieces. The story with this photo is amazing.
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