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I live in Eastern Europe and long time ago, before the Internet and Netflix, I used to go to the library and read books for entertainment. I likes SciFi and at
by jowdones 6y ago
I live in Eastern Europe and long time ago, before the Internet and Netflix, I used to go to the library and read books for entertainment.
I likes SciFi and at some point I fell on some really weird anthology of Soviet stories from the 50s.
I remember one of them was about time relativity, a cosmonaut went with a rocket close to the speed of light and when he came back, on Earth have passed hundreds of years... jolly joy perfect, because in the meantime communism has become a reality. You know, the idea was socialism is temporary and only a stepping stone towards communism.
Well that's one story.. another one was about using nuclear blasts to level mountains and transform them into fertile plains for growing crops. That has stuck me as particularly idiotic: what the heck people, what sort of crops? Radioactive ones? They didn't know about radioactivity in the 50s?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI believe in the 50s it was still thought radioactivity was healthy for you - couldn't find a good thing on it - but I found this from earlier times https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-drink-radiation/ https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-...
- corty 6y agoRadiation isn't totally black and white. One can apparently exert some measure of control over short-term and long-term radiation effects by picking the right bomb (more fusion and higher neutron efficiency means less fallout) and the right surroundings (water dissipates neutrons without activation, thus preventing activation of the surrounding soil). ymmv ;)
- simonh 6y agoBathe yourself in Dr. Roentgen's invigorating rays! https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-0-387-49983-3_6.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-0-387-49...