“To John Dillinger and hope he is still alive.
Thanksgiving Day November 28 1986″Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shat out through wholesome
American guts.Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.
That amount of oxygen would be enough to support more than just microscopic life-forms: At least three million tons of fishlike creatures could theoretically live and breathe on Europa, said study author Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
via National Geographic.
Absence of Light
by -L. Smith
oldnumberseven@oldnumbersven.net
Chapter I
Then I was the night manager of a tall hotel along the Monongahela River in Morgantown West Virginia. The building was five stories tall, and the top floor was large apartments full of people who could afford the space. The Monongahela River was mostly muddy and crawled north. The river valley was narrow with creek tributaries, the hills were close to the river, wooded, with little bottom land. The river crossed the border into Pennsylvania and met the Allegheny, formed the Ohio at the triangle at Pittsburgh. The Ohio flowed west. The people who leased the large apartments spent warm evenings lodged on their balconies with their invited guests, listened to music, and served drinks. The river flowed beneath them. When the snow fell the balcony parties were over. Few lights shown on the far riverbank. The equipment and the workers of Oliverio and Son Builders threw up new apartments on the far bank in the daylight. The Westover bridge spanned the river.
