Post #4279747
2026-07-31 11:38 UTC
#carbonBombing 1/n
Yesterday, I saw the phrase “carbon bomb” from Ketan Joshi, used with respect to data centres. It got me thinking about bombs.
When I was a kid growing up in the 70s I was in thrall to the heroics of Bomber Command, especially the Avro Lancasters that flew out of places like RAF Scampton in the north of my then home county of Lincolnshire.
It was of course a heavily romanticised childhood fascination, devoid of any sense of what happened beneath the bombs they dropped…
Replies (1)
-
@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 11:53
#carbonBombing 2/n …One of the heaviest bombed places in WW2 was Dresden in eastern Germany, near the borders with Nazi-occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden The distance from Scampton in Lincolnshire to Dresden is 1,000 km. Apparently, the incendiary bombs dropped typically weighed 1.8kg, although the RAF later developed a ‘Superflamer’ 14kg bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_device#Development_and_use_in_World_War_II