Exploring All Around Here
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A one-to-one recreation of the set for Star Trek the Original Series
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Ticonderoga, NY
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- "Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's
- five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new
- civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
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- In spite of quite literally everything about the surrounding environment suggesting
- otherwise, this is not in fact a secret government super weapon or the home of a
- villain about to be thwarted by a British secret agent. Yes, the building is backed
- by a hundred foot cliff to a desolate ocean beach on one side and by an abandoned and
- overgrown military complex on the other. Yes, the low shrubs and thin trees
- surrounding the field are twisted and tangled and filled with thorns. And yes, the
- near constant wind and fog means the landscape seems to be constantly changing around
- you. But I can assure you that the enormously foreboding dome fifty feet above the
- ground serves a perfectly mundane and actually quite beneficial purpose.
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Wreck of a B-52 bomber deep in the backwoods of Maine
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Greenville, Maine
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- A little after noon on a windy day in January of 1963 a B-52C Stratofortress strategic
- bomber took off from Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts. The flight was a
- routine training mission intended to test a new low altitude approach radar system
- in mountainous terrain, a technique that could provide an edge in what was then the
- very real possibility of a mission in Soviet air space. Two hours into the flight the
- team began the first of their simulated low altitude approaches over the south side
- of Elephant Mountain in northern Maine, and about twenty minutes later disaster
- struck.
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- Two thousand three hundred and thirty nine miles away from Key West Florida is the
- very beginning of US Federal Highway 1. From Fort Kent Maine it is possible to drive
- all twenty three hundred miles south to Key West entirely on Route-1 making this the
- longest continuous north-south road in America.
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- Shelburne Farms is a fourteen hundred acre educational working farm space on the
- eastern shores of Lake Champlain. Since it's establishment in 1972 the farm has
- provided fresh produce and dairy to the local area and educational resources to
- people from all over. The farmstead was built as a testbed of sustainable living and
- offers educational programs on everything from bovine healthcare and grain storage,
- all the way to solar panel installation and water recycling.
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