After which, he proceeded to Nevada's
Black Rock Desert (where else?) to send a light bulb into space.
A good fire always attracts a crowd, and as the yearly event began to attract more people than the beach could support, it eventually found its current home in the
Black Rock Desert of Nevada, 100 miles north of Reno.
It clocked nearly 651mph in Nevada's
Black Rock Desert - a record that stood until 1997.
Four team members, including Deville and Mayback, traveled to Nevada's
Black Rock Desert to launch the rocket in the 2011 Carmack Challenge.
Possible Bloodhound Race Sites Site Scouting Report
Black Rock Desert surface crumbly, bumpy, soft, and uneven Bonneville Salt edges of salt crust thin Flats Hakskeen Pan 19 km (11.8 mi)-long track, hard and flat Lake Eyre uneven surface, thick salt Lake Gairdner 19 km (11.8 mi)-long track, areas turn to salt slush after rain Tuz Golu more than 32 km (20 mi)-long track, thick but soft salt Verneukpan surface covered in vegetation and small stones Source: www.bloodhoundssc.com/adventure/the desert.cfm [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
It was essentially an "Out of Office" note in the form of a Burning Man image from a gathering that Brin and Page were heading to in the
Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
Green set the current land-speed record of 763 miles per hour in 1997, in the
Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
That is the vehicle which, driven by former Marske schoolboy Andy Green, reached 763mph in the USA's
Black Rock desert in 1997.
The sculpture, which was featured at 2006's Burning Man Festival, a music and art event held in the
Black Rock Desert of Nevada, is called "Perhaps." It features a 12-foot-tall vase with mosaic daisies.
Over the course of 25 years, what began as an unusual San Francisco beach party has evolved into an annual event in which 50,000 people assemble a city in Nevada's
Black Rock Desert for one spectacular week.
The annual Burning Man festival at
Black Rock Desert in Nevada has been variously called an alternative community, pagan ritual (involving burning of a giant effigy), and post-modern theater.
Burning Man takes place in Nevada's
Black Rock Desert, about 120 miles north of Reno, Nev.