Friday, April 20, 2018

Atomic Zygote--A Great Name for a Band

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Today's my birthday.
Spring is a good time to be born. You're birthday's usually pleasant, weather-wise, at least

I have the dubious honor of having been among the first post-nuclear zygotes to come into existence here on Terra..
I know this since, having been born 4/20/46, normal term, I had to have been conceived on or about July 16, 1945.
That was the date of the Trinity shot, the first atomic bomb test, in the desert between Alamogordo and Socorro, NM. My dad was home on his first (and only) "leave" of the war, since Jan, '43. My parents were in Santa Fe, where his parents lived, and which is about 125 miles--as the crow (or the atom) flies--north of the Blast.
Whence, a great band name was born: Atomic Zygote.
It is also the official, inaugural date of the "Anthropocene Epoch," the date from which the traces of man have become the ineradicable part of the geological record of the planet. Mankind's existence is forever stamped in the Earth. There's a song about itThe site is open for visitors twice a year, one day in May and one in October.
July 16, 1945 C,E.
The pylon in the photo marks the spot. It had rained that morning.

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