There is a cave in simi valley in an officially undisclosed location the chumash call it 'alapay a 'altuqipin there are paintings in the cave no one knows how old they are scholars estimate at least two thousand years old but they are possibly much older sometimes the word probably is used instead of possibly the paintings are described as raked anthropomorths there are repeating patterns concentric circles the figures are jagged white behind them spreads orange red they are like people but they are not like people the figures repeat and change the circles repeat and change there is a war in the eighteenth century the land where the caves are was conquered by a spanish expeditionary force and given to a soldier named pico there is a war in the nineteenth century it belonged to an oil company from philadelphia they must have drilled for oil then they filmed movies there they filmed westerns about indians killing white people and white people killing indians no one knows who knew the paintings were there maybe no one knew but there they were bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling bubbling there is a war a company called rocketdyne from canoga park built a commercial nuclear reactor there there is a war they built liquid-propelled booster engines for pgm-11 redstone ballistic missiles there is a war they armed one with a 3.88 megaton nuclear warhead and exploded it over the johnston atoll there is a war the atoll was seized from the hawaiians who called it kalama by the american schooner palestine for its nitrogen-rich guano deposits guano is birdshit it was the engine of nineteenth-century capitalist agrochemistry there is a war kalama was an oasis for reef and bird life home to coral and coralline algae 300 species of reef fish the great frigatebird the sooty tern there is a war the sky turned from light yellow to dark yellow to orange to red the red spread in a semi-circular manner until it engulfed the horizon there is a war the next year the commercial nuclear reactor experienced core melting power tripled in less than 8 seconds coolant channels were blocked radioactive gasses were secretly vented into the atmosphere for weeks there is a war the soil is contaminated the water is contaminated nearby residents experience especially rare and aggressive forms of cancer the pictographs are still there you can’t see them but they’re still there bubbling there is a war a replica of the pictographs can be seen on a six-foot-high wall in the magazine section of the simi valley public library a replica of the pictographs can be seen on a six-foot-high wall in the magazine section of the simi valley public library there is a war