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This reminds me of a short story about Earth being flung from the solar system by a rogue star. People survive, and one family in particular survives by boiling
by betawolf33 11y ago
This reminds me of a short story about Earth being flung from the solar system by a rogue star. People survive, and one family in particular survives by boiling frozen oxygen 'snow' over a fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air
http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6.htm http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6...
- serf 11y ago> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air Los Alamos, Argonne, and Tana Tuva. Was Tana Tuva a topic of discussion during this time period? I remember Richard Feynman wrote quite a bit about it, too.
- andyjohnson0 11y agoFeynman's friend Ralph Leighton wrote about Felnman's long-standing desire to go there [1]. The BBC Horizon programme had an episode called "The Quest for Tannu Tuva" [2] which might be on youtube. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuva-Bust-Richard-Feynmans-Journey/dp/0393320693 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuva-Bust-Richard-Feynmans-Journey/d... [2] http://sciencek.com/video/1151/horizon-1988x25-the-quest-for-tannu-tuva-1988-07-04/ http://sciencek.com/video/1151/horizon-1988x25-the-quest-for...