Friday, June 23, 2006

I Am Become Death, Destroyer Of Worlds

god, i finally get it now. well, i found it anyway. apparently it's a line from the Hindu holy book, Bhagavad-Gita, which Oppenheimer claimed he was thinking about when he watched the first Nuclear explosion. The Director of the Manhattan Project. that guy. In one of these alt-history books I obsees over there's an Admiral who has the line in his cabin somewhere, and i always thought it was cool, but now I know how relevant it is. another line from the book;

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one...

Woah. posted by Keegan at 10:51 pm

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