Preserving Teslas Wardenclyf

[David Morris]

"Like" as in amused? Yes.  These associations are fun.

First, from Boing Boing:  "the [Tesla] tower with which, some of us
believe, Tesla accidentally caused the Tunguska Event."

Did Pynchon make this connection in AtD?  Or is this SciFi/Folk
"conventional wisdom" that Pynchon would expect his readers to find?

Then AtD portrays the real-life event of the collapse of Campanile, or
Belltower, in the Piazza San Marco, one of thw World's most
beautifully designed public squares:

http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/campanile_di_san_marco.htm

The present-day structure was built in 1912 as an exact replica of its
predecessor, which collapsed unexpectly on the morning of July 14,
1902. Ian Littlewood's Venice: A Literary Companion quotes an American
architect's eyewitness report of the slow-motion implosion in The
Times of London:

"Workmen had been repointing the Campanile, and had discovered a bad
crack starting from the crown of the second arched window on the
corner toward St. Mark's. This crack had shown signs of opening
further, and they feared small fragments falling down on the crowded
Piazza; so the music was quietly stopped in the hope that the crowd
would naturally disperse. The effect was exactly the opposite of that
desired. Every one rushed to the Piazza.

"At eleven I was under the tower which rose in the dim moonlight. The
crack was distinctly visible even in this half light, but apparently
menaced only a corner of the tower. On Monday, early, the Campanile
was resplendent in the sunshine. At nine my little girl Katharine went
off with her horns of corn to feed the pigeons. Mrs. -- was at St.
Laccana, and I was near the Rialto sketching. The golden Angel on the
tower was shining far away. Suddenly I saw it slowly sink directly
downward beneath a line of roofs, and a dense grey dust rose in
clouds. At once a crowd of people began running across the Rialto
towards the Piazza, and I ordered my gondolier to the Piazzetta. On
arrival the sight was pitiful. Of that splendid shaft all that
remained was a mound of white dust, spreading to the Walls of St.
Mark's."

And now you've found some crackpot (or genius?) who has associated
"Directed Free Energy" with the WTC collapse?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a noted inventor, scientist and
electrical engineer. He invented Tesla coils, transformers,
alternating current electrical generators and was the first early
pioneer of radio technology. Tesla worked on plans for a
directed-energy weapon from the early 1900s until his death. In 1937,
Tesla composed a treatise entitled The Art of Projecting Concentrated
Non-dispersive Energy through the Natural Media concerning charged
particle beams.[13]

Thank Jebus for the internet!

David Morris

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might like this:
>
> http://wheredidthetowersgo.com/
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> Remember the description in AtD of the destruction of the tower?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:34 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://boingboing.net/2012/01/03/preserving-teslas-wardenclyf.html
>>
>> Spider Robinson writes in with an account of a visit to Wardenclyffe,
>> Nikola Tesla's facility at Shoreham, NY, near the north shore of Long
>> Island: "I stood, gobsmacked, within a couple of hundred meters of the
>> base of the tower with which, some of us believe, Tesla accidentally
>> caused the Tunguska Event. The same tower whose admitted purpose was
>> to beam free electricity to the entire world. I wanted, badly, to get
>> closer, to climb the barbed wire fence (at 63!) and stand at the base
>> of that tower of power. But I didn't dare. Today it's a hazardous
>> waste Superfund Cleanup Site, thanks to its most recent owners
>> Peerless Photo Products and the Agfa Corporation, who both polluted it
>> with photographic chemicals. A group called Tesla Wardenclyffe Project
>> (and I've heard there are other groups, too) is trying to honour and
>> preserve Tesla's memory--get the site cleaned up, get it declared a
>> historical landmark, somehow find the money to buy it, maybe turn it
>> into a Tesla museum and scientific tourist attraction--and they could
>> use a shout-out."
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