But us, we hightailed it to the bus, just ahead of the expanding dust cloud from the stacks. I'd seen pictures of the canisters, and they do look like the pictures, but the pictures did not prepare me for HOW MANY canisters there are. They went on and on, they seemed to cover the better part of the area of a football field. Here was a case where, I think, you have to see the thing to comprehend it. Numbers don't describe it.
Photos place an artificial frame around a small part of something very, very big.
Bigger than the human beings that made it, I fear. And these were the intact canisters, not the rotting, rotten, and decrepit ones of the East K-basin. Tons of stuff, just about the nastiest stuff one could imagine. They're going to work on the West basin first, to try to develop some experience and expertise, before they tackle the East basin. Of course, the more time passes, the more decrepit those canisters get.