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Art and interactivity are at the very core of the Burning Man ethos. The largest work of art on the playa might be the city itself. Theme camp groups must be entirely self-reliant, provide their own power source, and be able to protect its mechanisms and props against the elements, while ensuring safety. Villages and theme camps are located along the innermost streets of Black Rock City, and they usually provide entertainment or a service to the temporary residents. Theme camps are usually a collective of people representing themselves under a single identity.
38 The Southwest San Francisco Peaks Northern Arizona’s San Francisco lava field is an area of young volcanoes sprinkled along the southern margin of the Colorado Plateau. The vast volcanic field spreads over 1,935 square miles (3,100 sq km) and includes more than 600 vents and cinder cones. Most of the vents are erupted basalt lava flows, interspersed with scattered scoria cones. The individual peaks and vents are the eroded remnants of a larger compound stratovolcano, which is a moderately steep volcano formed by multiple eruptions.
Geological Survey topographic maps, this air base simply does not exist. The first wave of Area 51 notoriety came in 1989 when a man named Bob Lazar appeared in a broadcast on Las Vegas television station KLAS, claiming to be a physicist working on backward-engineered propulsion systems of various saucer shaped aircraft, supposedly based on recovered alien technology. The craft he reportedly worked on were kept in a secret complex called S-4 at Papoose Lake, a dry lakebed only a few miles south of Groom Lake.