Re: [Epic] Nukes

From: Chris White <chris_at_...>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 13:41:29 -0700

At 01:48 PM 8/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Chris White wrote:
>>
>
>> These tests were performed near the Bikini Islands (an atoll,
actually).
>> That is where the name for the wildly popular (at least in my book) bathing
>> suit style came from: ironic...
>>
>> Maybe there was some collective subconscious thing about UV ray
poisoning
>> associated with the naming...
>>
>The bathing suit was named AFTER the test, not the atoll. The thing was
>it was supposed to have a "1 megaton effect on the male" or words to
>that effect. You have to recall this was BEFORE anybody, much less the
>general populas thought that above ground testing was a bad idea.
>
>
        That's what I meant: the suit was named for the test, not the atoll.
Sorry, gotta be more careful about my contexts (phew, try saying that word
out loud: contexts.).


Nickles
Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 20:41:29 UTC