The debris includes fences and walls, dams, stadium lighting, surveillance towers, diverted floodwaters, intrusive signage of prohibition, landfills, airborne surveillance, drones, custom-built access roads, staging areas, parking, internal checkpoints, endless vehicular patrols, armed foot patrols, large-scale earth removal, warehousing, and heaps of trash.
Off on one side, partly obscured by the curvature of the earth, you will see a sneaker warehouse big enough to qualify for membership in the United Nations, and then at the other end there will be a Home Depot.
"The Chain Mail Coif is honest-to-goodness real metal chain mail hand forged by dwarfs in forbidden mines near the center of the earth and delivered to the ThinkGeek warehouse by shrieking black apparitions in the dead of night.
Inside a small warehouse where the rare-earth oxides are dried and packaged, Molycorp CEO Mark Smith dips his hand into a barrel to scoop up a handful of tan-colored powder.
The change is visible in the supply warehouse here of one of the world's few factories producing rare earth powders for use in very powerful magnets.
A Google Earth view of Khorgos shows it all: factories and warehouses on the China side, vast land and natural resources and open spaces as far as the eye can see on the Kazakh side.
I mean, when you're in his warehouse you think they're these old relics from earth, and he's on Mars.
Those without Google Earth can see aerial views of the models by going to Google's "3D Warehouse" website and searching for the Stanford University collection.
As an additional precaution, Bachhuber sprinkles a thin layer of diatomaceous earth, which is harmless to humans but kills bugs on contact, in front of the warehouse's doorways.
Julia Carneiro visited an old coffee warehouse in Rio where visitors will be able to observe archaeologists at work, sorting through the mounds of earth excavated from the construction sites.
