More Updates and a cool magazine
And going on… This is actually quite boring to do :) I can’t wait until I can get started with new things.
I also updated lots of tiny things in A Simple UDK Game, Decals, Cutscenes.
A while ago I stumbled across a magazine from 1955 on Google Books: Popular Mechanics. Awesome!
| There is some seriously crazy stuff in it, and it is really interesting to read this and develop an insight in society of 50-60 years ago. They were obsessed by uranium for one, and didn’t really seem to understand the dangers of messing around with it. The magazine is full of uranium topics.
“If you are looking for a vacation in the open with adventure thrown in, why not consider prospecting for uranium? In on evening you can assemble a vacation geiger counter!” |
And the best one of them all: Forestry in 2005.
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“Like a giant eagle spotting supper from the air, the helicopter hovers over the densely timbered mountainside. As the pilot checks instruments, the logger members of the two man crew refers to a memorandum dated that day – August 12 2005…. Watching every flick of the helicopter’s supersensitive geiger counter, the pilot begins to “zero in” on a big pine. The tree is one that had been radioactively marked by a ground crew. With the helicopter over the marked pine, the pilot nods, and says “Hooks away!”.
They actually believed we were going to mark trees with a radioactive material in 2005, then detect such a marked tree from a heli, and then pull up the entire tree, roots included, right out of the ground with that very heli! “Not only possible, but probable”