14th September, 2019.
Yes: it’s true: I’ve seen a bit of news: and it’s got me thinking about one of my favourite novels.
Frank Herbert’s Dune.
The novel covers all sorts of territory.
But is, in part, the story of a group of religious fanatics — the Fremen — fighting for their freedom by destroying the substance that powers the Dune universe’s transport system.
The reason I got thinking about that … ?
Was that I saw news, today, that a couple of major oil plants in Saudi Arabia have been destroyed by Houthi rebels from the Yemen.
Fighting their Saudi oppressors by destroying the one thing that keeps the transport system going.
Not that I think there’s any similarities.
I just get annoyed when some one tells me “Science fiction has nothing to do with the real world …”
Ho …
Hum …
~≈√≈~
At any rate … ? It’s a Saturday night: one where I’ve just bought a Cabaret Voltaire album: as Spotify seems to be having issues playing the damn thing.
Oh yes …
~≈√≈~
Episode 3, Open Wide, O Earth, shows us that the basement has been drained … but that a meltdown has started, and urgently need dealing with.
The only way to do that, according to Shcherbina and Legasov (Stellan Skarsgård and Jared Harris) is to install a heat exchanger.
Doing that? Needs a lot of miners: a LOT of miners.
Meanwhile?
Dr Khomyuk (Emily Watson) is tracking down the staff who were on duty that night: and finding out from all three that a very specific button was pushed, well before the explosion.
And, finally … ?
Lyudmilla (Jessie Buckley), has managed to bribe her way into Moscow’s Hospital Six to see her husband …
Telling him, in the run up to his death, that she’s pregnant …
Things … are turning nasty …
~≈√≈~
Now …
Am I tired?
Yes: to the point I’m going to hit the sack, in a minute: whilst Cabaret Voltaire’s unnerving Chance versus Causality plays in the background.
But? Have I seen another fantastic episode?
Ye, gods, yes.
The next night off I get?
I’ll be watching more of Chernobyl
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