Long ago when Lake Lahontan still held water, Fire-Pod, a seed of flame cast into space from a distant galaxy, plunged into the lake, sunk to the bottom in a dormant state, and was subsequently buried in sediment over several thousand years. As evident today, Lake Lahontan has dried up and the process of Eolian Erosion, the removal of loose, fine-grained particles by the turbulent eddy action of the wind, is exhuming Fire-Pod from the playa. In the late summer of 2004, almost liberated from its earthly restraints, Fire-Pod showed its first signs of activity in over 12 thousand years. The world’s leading pyrotechnic scientists have been studying Fire-Pod and predict that it will blossom from this infantile pyrotechnic display into a full-blown maelstrom of flame. Scientists hypothesize that Fire-Pod could cast its legacy into space once again spreading flame to other parts of the universe.