Four engineers borrowed mortars from the Sandia Explosives Lab and blew them up with a borrowed 20-kilowatt off-the-shelf laser from the Air Force Research Laboratory just hours after 80-mile-an-hour desertwinds whipped through.
Arizona also claims the third-fastest road: Route 77, which follows a narrow strip of green terrain alongside the San Pedro River as it winds through the desert.
Back in September, when we named Johnny Depp the highest paid actor in Hollywood, I wrote that his most intriguing upcoming film was the animated Rango about a domesticated chameleon who winds up in the desert town of Dirt.