

Landscaping with nuclear blasts constituted the premise of several projects that were almost approved, the most notable being the creation of a deep artificial harbor in Alaska. That being said- that could easily have meant Black Mesa was operating during the Atomic Age in which scientist were jonesing for anything to do with nuclear technology that was not mutually assured destruction. Black Mesa clearly has access to government funding on top of radioactive materials and, based on various snippets of character dialogue, has been arouns for a long while. triangles are the strongest shapes), and thinking about the context of Black Mesa's existence, it starts to line up. Tommy has a tendency to be right about things that sound silly (ie.

Not to pull an overly serious headcanon out of the Half Life funny men, but I think maybe Tommy was right about Black Mesa, at least one point, trying to dig a whole in the center of the Earth.
