Posted in Travel on Oct 19th, 2017
I forget how I came across it, probably Reddit, but I watched the movie Command and Control. It was a documentary focused on an accident in 1980 where a Titan II missile exploded in the silo outside of Damascus, Arkansas (wiki article). I was surprised I’ve never heard of the incident before because I grew […]
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Posted in Travel, Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2017
[flickr: trinity site] [flickr: white sands missile museum park] [flickr: new mexico museum of space history] [flickr: titan missile museum] The very first detonation of a nuclear device happened in New Mexico and was called “Trinity”. Two times a year people can go out onto the White Sands Missile Range to visit the Trinity site. […]
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Posted in Travel on Sep 24th, 2017
[flickr: Idaho solar eclipse] I figure I had better write about this before I forget even more about the trip! I was mildly interested in the solar eclipse this year, had finally heard enough people talk about how awe inspiring a totality is and decided to go check it out. I vaguely remember seeing a […]
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