One of my favorite sequences in any movie. I will never forget the visuals of workmen sweltering in front of flaming portholes in the bell's cast. Enduring a little inferno, to create the sound of heaven! Thank you for reminding me of it. :)
This may have contributed to the immiseration and decline of the Jamestown colony, some thirty-five million years later:
"Chesapeake Bay is the remains of a giant meteor crater. The impact shattered rock for miles, letting seawater infiltrate. Few Indian groups lived in the saltwater wedge, presumably for just that reason. Jamestown was bordered and undergirded by bad water. That bad water, the geographer Carville V. Earle argued, led to 'typhoid, dysentery, and perhaps salt poisoning.' By January 1608, eight months after landfall, only thirty-eight [of the original 144] English were left alive."
From Charles Mann's "1493", which is a fantastic read; it's full of satisfying connections between environmental and historical forces like the above.
> They also just don't seem to want to make enough of them or ship them to markets where people want them. Canada was starved for inventory all last last year. None went to Europe. Asia, where they'd make a lot of sense, got only a smattering. And they don't seem to be improving on this.
They lose several thousand dollars on each car, so the reluctance to expand production is perhaps unsurprising: