AtDtDA(28): A Heavenwide Blast of Light

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

       Yes, and that lil' accident of 1986 was also "a huge humanly created (...) tragedy" that
       could have even been much worse. I guess that's why the name "Tchernobyl" is mentioned
       more than just once or twice. Makes me think of Homer Simpson scratching his itch with 
       a glowing Brennstab ...
 
       Kai
 
        "Was it Tchernobyl, the star of Revelation?" (AtD, p. 797)
 
 


       Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:35:54 -0800       From: markekohut at yahoo.com       Subject: Re: AtDtDA(28): A Heavenwide Blast of Light       To: pynchon-l at waste.org

Heavenwide blast of light.................has to remind of an atomic bomb, yes?
 
If it was anything but a naturally caused event, it was a huge humanly-created potential traegedy, yes?.........like A-bombs are......??
 
Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

"A heavenwide blast of light."As of 7:17 A.M. local time on 30 June 1908 ..." (AtD, Pt. IV, p. 779)"A heavenwide blast of light"http://www.tunguska.ru/http://omzg.sscc.ru/tunguska/The Tunguska Event, sometimes called the Tunguska explosion, was amassive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony)Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around7:14 a.m. (0:14 UT, 7:02 a.m. local solar time) on June 30, 1908 (June17 in the Julian calendar, in use locally at the time)....[...]The explosion felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 squarekilometers (830 square miles). The earthquake from the blast measured5.0 on the Richter scale.The Tunguska event was the largest impact event in Earth's recenthistory. An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying alarge metropolitan area....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_eventhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071114.htmlhttp://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_768-791#Page_779Sandia supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disasterALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The stunning amount of forest devastation atTunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroidonly a fraction as large as previously published estimates, SandiaNational Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest....http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/asteroid.htmlAssociating Tesla with the Tunguska event comes close to putting theinventor's power transmission idea in the same speculative category asancient astronauts. However, historical facts point to the possibilitythat this event was caused by a test firing of Tesla's energyweapon....http://www.frank.germano.com/tunguska.htmPadzhitnoffRandolph St. Cosmo's "mysterious Russian counterpart"; "semi-mythicalaeronaut" 761; disappearance in 1914, 1022; c.f. Alexey Pazhitnov,inventor of Tetris.http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P"a contract employee of the Okhrana"The Okhrannoye otdeleniye (Russian: Охранное отделение, literallymeaning Protection Section), usually called the Okhrana in Westernsources, or Okhranka by those dissatisfied with the czarist regime,was a secret police force of the Russian Empire and part of theMinistry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in late 1800s, aided by SpecialCorps of Gendarmes....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhranka"contract employee"http://foia.fbi.gov/guantanamo/122106.htmhttp://www.americancontractorsiniraq.com/http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=10828http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/13/3138/"at least thirty extra poods, roughly half a ton"Russian measure of weight. One pood = 16.38 kilograms; 30 poods = 491kg = 1081 pounds, pretty close to half a tonekipazhRussian: crew, team."Právil'no!"Russian: all righthttp://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_768-791#Page_779"Russian design philosophy ..."The Soviet space design philosophy has always been evolutionary versusthe American style of revolutionary. The American manned program wentfrom a reliable Apollo system to the quite untried and revolutionarylifting body Shuttle system. The Soviet system can be seen in thedesign evolution of both the Soyuz and Salyut space stations....http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/AppA/Part1_12.html... as long as it kept working the Russians kept on using it.That kind of design philosophy applies to Russian ICBMs as much as itdid to the Mir space station or the Baikonur launch pad....http://www.spacewar.com/news/icbm-05e.html"The Russians don't worry about cosmetics or workmanship," says plantmanager Steve Blake. "They build the thing and test the shit out ofit...."http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/rd-180.htmlBol'shaia IgraRussian: the Great Game; Padzhy's ship, counterpart to theInconvenience, at the North Pole, 123; in Venice, 245; at Taklamakan,having left Tian Shan, 754; at Irkutsk, 779http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B"the aeronautics of other lands"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronauticshttp://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Science_and_Technology/Aeronautics_Technology.htmhttp://www.literature.at/elib/index.php5?title=Aeronautics_History_-_Charles_Vivian_-_1920RazvedkaRussian: intelligence (in the military-political sense).http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_768-791#Page_779
 


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