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I suspect I have the same "nuclear archaeologist cyber-friend" as the author. I sent a Twitter "friend" (who labelled himself a nuclear anthropologist instead
by bigiain 2y ago
I suspect I have the same "nuclear archaeologist cyber-friend" as the author.
I sent a Twitter "friend" (who labelled himself a nuclear anthropologist instead of archeologist) a copy of a book called "100 Suns" by Michael Light, which is a coffee table sized book full of photos of nuclear tests. The book is eerily beautiful: http://www.michaellight.net/suns-intro http://www.michaellight.net/suns-intro
In return (and entirely unexpectedly) he send me a small package with a handful of small pieces of that Mark 17 bomb casing he collected in Albuquerque - just like that last pic in the article. They're sitting on a shelf with my piece of Trinitite and my pieces of Maralingite (sand fused to glass by an atomic test in the 50s/60s at Maralinga in South Australia)
I have some weird internet friends who know my weird interests...
- BonoboIO 2y agoHis photographs are breath taking http://www.michaellight.net/black-mountain http://www.michaellight.net/black-mountain I‘m stumbling down a rabbit hole of pictures
- shrx 2y agoThanks for sharing, amazing photos. I actually have his book "100 suns" but haven't got around to check out his other works until now.
- internet_points 2y agoMy browser didn't show the accompanying text at first for some reason, so I thought I was looking at some kind of experimental military base, so depressing "oh the workers get pools I guess they must be well compensated for working in such a bleak environment" and then at the end I click the (i) button and see it's a gated community for the ultra rich
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoHouses of the ultra rich usually are further apart, with much more space (green, forest, whatever) between them, not so densely packed.
- tetris11 2y agoThe scars we inflict on our planet for the sake of pragmatism I can somewhat live with. It's for the sake of vanity that makes me sick.
- FredPret 2y agoIs it much of a scar? Only future archaeologists will know when they dig up rocks from our era 1000 years from now. And the payoff has been no major war since 1945, despite infinite animosity and huge defense budgets on all sides.
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoI'm afraid you are preaching to the choir my friend, this is the platform of "entrepreneurs" after all.
- Syonyk 2y agoI forgot about that book. I'd seen a copy years ago. I didn't have anywhere near the money to buy it at that point. ... and looking at used copies, I'm still not going to drop that coin on the book. But thank you, I didn't know there were some online copies of the photos.
- bigiain 2y agoIf you're ever in Sydney Australia, you're welcome to look through my copy.