[Kzyxtalk] Battle of the Somme.

[Marco McClean]

We’re all just walking each other home." –Ram Dass


The recording of last night's (2016-07-01) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is available to download and keep and skip 
around in via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


To paraphrase wikipedia: It's the 100-year anniversary of the Great 
War's Battle of the Somme, fought by the armies of the British and 
French empires against the German Empire. It took place between July 1 
and November 18, 1916 on both sides of the upper River Somme in France. 
It was the largest battle of the First World War on the Western Front. 
More than one million men were wounded or killed, making it the 
bloodiest battle in human history. A literal /river of blood/.


Remember, that was the War To End All Wars. There could never be another 
war after that war. And thank God for that, because war is /terrible/. 
It's so great that humanity has outgrown it, and instead of spending our 
lives and treasure on fighting over trifles, we've had 100 years of 
unprecedented prosperity and scientific advancement, and we're 
carbon-neutral, and electricity is too cheap to meter, and we have 
cities in space, and thriving colonies on and inside all the rocky and 
ice planets, and we're on track to finish the third in a series of giant 
paradisiacal generation ships to other star systems. It's a glorious 
future because of how we finally wised up, a hundred years ago, and 
decided /no more rivers of blood/. Because we are just that smart.


Also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find links to a deluxe 
assortment of not necessarily radio-useful things to read and boggle at 
and learn about, such as:


Stolen and lost art recreated using stock photos.
http://tinyurl.com/hv2jmqu


Are you a fan of controlled explosive demolition events? Here is a 
soothing hypnotic shitload of those.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErWitThIOdw


Escher y el efecto Droste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHdyG9mJaI


And "Rhamphorhynchus, a long-tailed pterosaur, hypothetically feeding on 
squid."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/paleoart-julius-csotonyi-illustrations_n_5226787.html


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Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com