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He came up with other names during his brainstorming, including "Black Butte, Nuclear Missile Base" (located in Montana instead of New Mexico), "Sand Basin", "Diablo Mesa", "Mesa Diablo", "Diablo Plains", or "Fertile Plains".

Series' writer Marc Laidlaw coined the name "Black Mesa Research Facility".

Marc Laidlaw's brainstorm note from Raising the Bar. Such technologies could have possibly been early designs of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (noting the similarities on the muzzles and glowing barrels) However, Aperture Science remained mostly unharmed, due to the fact that their base was mostly deep underground, and apparently continued on testing protocols an unknown amount of time into the future.Ĭave Johnson claimed that Black Mesa had stolen technology from Aperture to be put on the market, a factor that contributed to Aperture Science's bankruptcy. The effect that the Xen invasion had on Aperture Science or any of Black Mesa's unnamed competitors is unknown as of now, although judging by the condition of the world after the Combine invasion, it is likely that any exposed infrastructure they could have has been similarly devastated.

In addition, according to potentially biased information from Aperture Science, Black Mesa received a much larger percentage of contracts than average. As the same announcement states, Black Mesa is an equal opportunity employer with ethnic minority such as Eli Vance and female scientists such as Gina Cross respectively.Īperture Science was competing with Black Mesa on various government contracts, including the development of portal technology. It is also said that jobs in low-clearance security and materials handling are available.

During the tram ride into the Black Mesa Facility that opens Half-Life, an announcement on the public address system states that the facility is seeking employees with backgrounds in theoretical physics, biotechnology, and various other high-tech scientific disciplines. A large amount of classified research is carried out, including the development of high-tech weapons and defense systems, research into extra-dimensional travel, teleportation, and the study of Xen. In addition to this legitimate research, several secret projects are also carried out at Black Mesa, which are deliberately left vague. The research is mostly conducted in the Black Mesa Research Facility and includes both pure research and applied science. So who will stop the aliens then? Only my hours spent gaming will stand between our world and total destruction on that day.ĭid I mention the giant sliding metal door? Dude.Black Mesa undertakes research in various fields from standard scientific research to radiation, rocketry, theoretical physics, lasers, experimental propulsion, hydraulics, robotics, hydroelectricity, genetics, zoology, applied mathematics, and a very wide spectrum of research into chemistry and all manner of physics research. I don't know if any my co-workers have even heard of Half Life, much less played it. Hideous monsters will come pouring out of one of those test chambers and run amok along these corridors.Īll I'm saying is, it had better happen on one of the days I'm working. So sue me if I can't help imagining that one day when I'm off in search of toner cartidges or something equally mundane, one of the labs will suddenly fill with otherworldly light. Workers on foot and in whirring forklifts wend their way through towering canyons of stacked boxes and metal fences with padlocked gates. If my errand takes me to the warehouse, a huge metal door slides up at my approach to reveal a huge, echoing space the size of an airplane hangar. Wooden packing crates are stacked against the corridor walls, just waiting for someone to dive behind them for cover or smash them open to get weapons or supplies. Scientists in white coats peer into eerily lit test chambers.

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My path takes me past windows looking in on laboratories with large signs warning of RADIATION and BIOHAZARD.

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Because then I have to take out my security badge, swipe it past a sensor, and enter a series of sealed corridors that look exactly like the ones at the Black Mesa research facility in Sierra's first-person shooter game Half Life. In other words, working here is no longer a big deal.Įxcept, that is, during the few times that my work takes me away from my desk and into another part of the building. This alone was pretty cool to me when I first got the job but over time familiarity bred-well, not contempt, but complacency. I work at a large biotechnology firm in San Diego.