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WB: The Gift of the Nile
Billmon:
It was then – half-hypnotized, my head drooping towards my lap – that I had a dreamlike vision of Egypt as a single, living organism, sustained by a vast circulatory system, comparable to that of a human body. The Nile was the heart, pumping water instead of blood; the main irrigation canals were the veins and arteries, carrying the Nile’s gift to the land; the wet fingers reaching into the fields were the capillaries, saturating the soil with life, while the Egyptians themselves were the individual cells at the ends of those dense filaments, drawing sustenance from the timeless trinity of earth, water and sun. Outside my window the sky seemed to expand while the train shrank, until it was just a fly, crawling slowly across the gray expanse of an elephant’s back. And then I really was asleep, gently rocked by the elephant’s rough steps as it ambled towards the edge of the world.
The Gift of the Nile
McCain Says Stay the Course in Impending Disaster
Impact Trajectory Little Changed
Wednesday 7 September 2011
API – Johnson Space Center
This Friday was supposed to have been a solemn ceremony reminding all
Americans that the price of Freedom(TM) is Eternal Vigilance. President John
McCain was supposed to speak at the Lincoln Memorial on the difficulties the
country is facing with a Second Iran War, and how we as citizens of the United
States must revive the Spirit of Our Forefathers(TM) to overcome Tyranny, on
this, the tenth anniversary of the Attack on the World Trade Center, aka ‘9/11’.
It was not to be.
Late last night an emergency declaration was issued from the Atacama
Cosmology Telescope in Atacama, Chile, warning the world’s leaders that
a darkfield imaging camera at the site had revealed the presence of a fast-
approaching asteroid which has been officially named ‘Chicxulub II’, although
scientists have dubbed the 16-mile diameter asteroid massif, “Colossus”.
Colussus’ calculated trajectory and time of re-entry is little changed from the
preliminary prediction made this morning, that it will impact somewhere near
the Brandywine Battlefield Park in Delaware County, PA. The impact has been
projected to be the equivalent of all thermonuclear weapons in world arsenals,
and has caused near panic conditions throughout the Eastern US, even though
the impact is not for another fifteen months, sometime around Christmas, 2012.
President McCain has issued a calming declaration, asking that business
and industry remain as they are, focused on the same profit and production
goals, in the event the scientists at Atacama are incorrect. He has called for
a world astrophysics federation meeting on October 15th to review the latest
estimates for trajectory, to redefine the location and time of projected impact,
and promised $10B in aerospace development aid to the first scientist who
proves the gloomy predictions are incorrect.
McCain also spoke to our military forces stationed overseas.
“I know our troops are hard-pressed, and stretched tight around the world,”
McCain explained, as Vice President Jeb Bush looked on. “Many of you are
on your seventh or eighth deployment, and this has been very hard on your
families, who now scarcely remember what you look like. I would remind
all active forces that, even though peace has been declared in Iraq, Iran
and Afghanistan, the US military command will continue to serve as the
peace keepers, right up until the moment of the Colossus asteroid impact.”
Republican US Senators were not so sanguine. Many of them were seen
this morning packing their Senate offices into Ryder vans with Wyoming
license plates, planning to move into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where
an entire underground city has been carved from solid rock, exclusively
for the political leaders and influential businessmen of America. Several
junior senators were seen in hot arguments over their places in the RMA.
Projections from the Fox Broadcast science advisor were shown on
national state television and cellular services this morning, showing
a computer graphic of Colossus striking central Pennsylvania in the
location where, on September 11, 1777, two hundred and thirty five
years ago, the British conquest of the US colonies was crushed.
The graphic shows most of the eastern Appalachians area being
subsumed under a massive shower of molten magma that will
swallow everthing between Philadelphia and Washington DC,
and generate a tidal wave estimated to be one thousand feet high
when it slams into Europe and Africa some twenty-eight hours later.
President McCain urged calm, and advised all Americans to remember
that the US economy depends on Christmas shopping. “Whatever you
do,” he extolled the crowd, “Don’t stop shopping! This too shall pass!!”
Gold futures were down on overnight trading and synthetic crude oil
was little changed from $235 a barrel.
Posted by: Larry Franklin | Jun 3 2006 5:33 utc | 18
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