And on a smaller scale, the Texas A&M University Bonfire exhibited these every year, which is why the Cadets in charge carried axe handles to encourage the crowd to stay far back from the log pile.
…Vid has been taken down. John Smith’s comment reminds me of the description I read of Hamburg in “The Making of The Atomic Bomb”, by Richard Rhodes. One eyewitness who survived the firestorm in a heavily walled cellar described the world outside as looking like the inside of a kiln, where everything inside has reached equilibrium and just gave off a ghastly orange glow…
September 19th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Reminds me of WW 2 Hamburg operation Gomorrah…
September 19th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
And on a smaller scale, the Texas A&M University Bonfire exhibited these every year, which is why the Cadets in charge carried axe handles to encourage the crowd to stay far back from the log pile.
September 19th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
It’s old. I saw it with Charlton Heston in it.
Damn. Now I miss Charlton Heston.
September 20th, 2012 at 11:53 am
…Vid has been taken down. John Smith’s comment reminds me of the description I read of Hamburg in “The Making of The Atomic Bomb”, by Richard Rhodes. One eyewitness who survived the firestorm in a heavily walled cellar described the world outside as looking like the inside of a kiln, where everything inside has reached equilibrium and just gave off a ghastly orange glow…
September 20th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
That was a good book…
September 20th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Didn’t Bomber Harris pull it off in Dresden also? Or was that Lemay’s work?