Doug Bostrom on Zumwalt Class Stealth Destroyers First US Navy Ships to Have Hypersonic Missiles Installed.Doug Bostrom on Waveline Magnet - Prototype Undulating Wave Energy Converter.More than half of the final tally - 439 out of 856 responses - voted for “Exploding Whale Memorial Park.” The city asked residents for suggestions for a permanent title, later narrowing those to a few in an online survey. The NY Times reports that after the park opened last May with a temporary name. The moment was caught on video and has since been memorialized on YouTube (see below.) The explosion instead spewed large chunks of decayed whale on curious bystanders and even crushed a nearby parked car. It turned out to be a really, really bad idea. At the time, Oregon beaches were under the jurisdiction of the state’s Highway Division, which, after consulting with the United States Navy, decided to remove the whale using dynamite – assuming that the resulting pieces would be small enough for scavenger animals to consume. On November 9, 1970, a 45-foot long, 8-ton whale, described variously as a gray or sperm whale, washed ashore at Florence on the central Oregon Coast. The residents have recently chosen to name a local recreational area “Exploding Whale Memorial Park.” Now, a half-century later they have named a park after that lesson. Fifty years ago this November, the residents of Florence, Oregon learned how not to dispose of a dead whale.