Thursday, April 15, 2010
Ivy Mike.
In 1914, James Joyce references early 18th century Friar Pacificus Baker's "The Devout Communicant" in his short story "Araby." Just 5 years later, Franz Kafka publishes a story called "Ein Landzart" (English: "A Country Doctor"). On November 1st 1952, the United States detonates its first nuclear fusion bomb codenamed "Ivy Mike" which vaporizes the island of Elugelab in the Enewetak Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. In 1998, the Mars Climate Orbiter disappears in flight. NASA claims that the probe disintegrated in the Martian atmosphere due to a "navigation error." On April 14th, 2010, a volcano near the Eyjafjallajökull glacier in Iceland erupts, spreading a cloud of volcanic ash over most of Northern Europe, including James Joyce's birthplace of Dublin, Ireland.
The evidence is irrefutable: Pacificus is a badass name.
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