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Our Friend the Atom, and other Classics


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2018 Mar 3, 5:40pm   3,266 views  11 comments

by MisdemeanorRebel   ➕follow (12)   💰tip   ignore  

Working on giving my kid exposure to the great works of America's Golden Age, before it was ruined by Post-Modernist Third World Worshipers.

Maybe because I spent many afternoons as a kid digging through all the books my grandparents had (my Grandpa was a HS Dropout autodidact, my Grandma a librarian who picked up all the good discarded kid's books). My Grandpa obtained every one of those little books that were well illustrated for Geology, Astronomy, etc.

Just ordered the book linked to this Disney Classic:

Our Friend the Atom

We'll pick up where we left off, once we give Post-Modernism a one-way helicopter ride.

EDIT: @Patrick - eliminating the Youtube link from the new post allowed it to be published.

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2   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Mar 6, 2:28pm  

A hopeful message of progress and optimism.

Because Man doesn't live by Food Stamps or Free Hypodermic Needles alone.
3   Bd6r   2018 Mar 6, 2:39pm  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
Working on giving my kid exposure to the great works of America's Golden Age, before it was ruined by Post-Modernist Third World Worshipers.

I would not buy your kid one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory

Kits of this type (not radioactive) were the reason I went into science instead of engaging in usual East European entertainment of drunk fistfights. These days, obviously, nothing like this can be sold and used, so kids are left typing stupidities on their iphones.
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Mar 6, 2:43pm  

drB6 says
Kits of this type (not radioactive) were the reason I went into science instead of engaging in usual East European entertainment of drunk fistfights. These days, obviously, nothing like this can be sold and used, so kids are left typing stupidities on their iphones.

I was reading about German physicists, travelling all over Germany on Railroads, during University Tours with Radioactive Materials in their luggage around the turn of the Century.
5   RC2006   2018 Mar 6, 3:28pm  

My drB6 says
Kits of this type (not radioactive) were the reason I went into science instead of engaging in usual East European entertainment of drunk fistfights. These days, obviously, nothing like this can be sold and used, so kids are left typing stupidities on their iphones.


Remember these, they use to have all sorts of cool things that one could build.
6   RC2006   2018 Mar 6, 3:58pm  

Here is a pic of a VDG that I helped my oldest son build over winter break with mostly junk from work.

7   HeadSet   2018 Mar 6, 5:06pm  

Remember these, they use to have all sorts of cool things that one could build.

That went for model airplanes as well. I remember myself and other school kids making balsa wood Radio Controlled and string controlled planes.
Any one else remember the Cox .049?

RC model airplanes were the original "drones" long ago.
8   HeadSet   2018 Mar 6, 5:17pm  

Here is a pic of a VDG that I helped my oldest son build over winter break with mostly junk from work.

I remember assembling a pair of Van de Graffs in a first year physics course. We put together 2 so we would have the electric arc stream between the two spheres. Of course, being immature shits, we would use the VDG to charge up one of those goblet sized 3 piece capacitors and disassemble it, then give it to a buddy who would reassemble the capacitor and then get zapped.
9   RC2006   2018 Mar 6, 5:34pm  

HeadSet says
I remember assembling a pair of Van de Graffs in a first year physics course. We put together 2 so we would have the electric arc stream between the two spheres. Of course, being immature shits, we would use the VDG to charge up one of those goblet sized 3 piece capacitors and disassemble it, then give it to a buddy who would reassemble the capacitor and then get zapped.


Lucky nobody had a heart condition Leydon Jars can hold a lot of current. I was working on oil filled capacitors going into a filter on a missile and my boss this old Chinese man grabbed one and started screaming chchchcichchichi lol.
10   MAGA   2018 Mar 6, 5:35pm  

RC2006 says
My drB6 says
Kits of this type (not radioactive) were the reason I went into science instead of engaging in usual East European entertainment of drunk fistfights. These days, obviously, nothing like this can be sold and used, so kids are left typing stupidities on their iphones.


Remember these, they use to have all sorts of cool things that one could build.


My first Heathkit: HW-100

11   MAGA   2018 Mar 6, 5:37pm  

Who can forget Century 21 and Suzanne the Realtor.
www.youtube.com/embed/odQ7s85bk9s

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