Comments on: Even in Buscot Park, the course of true love never does run smooth

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:53:13 +0000

Adam, what about Christine’s comment on another post today as a caption:
‘In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband.’
See http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2011/03/14/how-should-a-city-meet-its-landscape-in-the-twenty-first-century/

By: Adam Hodge

Adam Hodge — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:37:05 +0000

To lighten the tone of these noble considerations could our loyal Gardenvisit readers perhaps think of some intriguing alternative captions to that set by Tom about the love less Pigeon..m’thinks looking at the wing arrangement of the bird in flight he might even be flying TO the statonary one, so a caption could be I’m coming ..I’m coming !! I’m sure many of you can come up with something far wittier !

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:29:40 +0000

If they do so, and dig it up sometime before the specified 25,000 years lets hope the archaeologists don’t subscribe to a theory like the curse of the pharaohs!
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs ]

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:07:18 +0000

I have been reading about causewayed enclosures recently and it is odd that so little is known about their function. They were made in many parts of Europe 5000+ years ago. Imagine a future generation of archaeologists finding Runit Island, when our discs have stopped spinning and our books have rotted. What will they think it was for?

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:10:38 +0000

The underground dome is located on the tip of the island. [ http://wikimapia.org/3930649/Runit-Island ] I don’t know whether the wildlife is aware that the island is off limits for the next 25,000 years! [ http://www.underwaterkwaj.com/enew/runit.htm ] Or the humans…[ http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3517107 ]

However at present the marine life seems to be doing OK. [ https://marshallislands.llnl.gov/photos05.php ]

Also you have question the cinematic value of a nuclear test explosion!? [ http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KYc8OTJXlWQ/S2ClufzOUEI/AAAAAAAABWo/Mq9ARwtlMl4/s1600-h/visiondivision_vd_guide_nuclear_vault.jpg ]

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:46:44 +0000

Runit island is amazing. I wonder if they are monitoring the wildlife.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:07:28 +0000

Animals have a particular relationship with the natural environment and one another which is worthy of interest. [ http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/unlikely-animal-friends-4317/Videos/07217_00#tab-Photos/4 ]

It is worth wondering about the effects of sea level rise on Runit Island and the surrounding marine habitat.
[ http://tickleblog.com.au/2010/11/30/nuclear-landscapes-2/ ]

John Willis in his paper written in 2001, ‘Welcome to Atomic Park: American Nuclear Landscapes and the Unnaturally natural’ explores the conceptual thinking behind nuclear landscapes, conservation landscapes, the idea of the wasteland and the convergence between natural regeneration and nature conservation.