How great was it? Well, you had machines to do your counting for you:
While you hunted for uranium for pleasure and or profit.
Holy shit, there were really people who hunted uranium for pleasure? Maybe it wasn't such a great year after all.
(Both scanned pictures come from the Feb. 1956 edition of Popular Mechanics.)
8 comments:
Wow my 1956 sub. ended in Jan........Thanks for showing me what I missed
LOL
You've gotta wonder what's become of those uranium hunters now. Maybe they work for the government!
A million objects a second?! No way! Next they'll be inventing machines that cook your food in 5 minutes.
I bought uranium when it was 10 cents a ton! Worked out this special deal so that I only have to keep 2 tons of it at my house. {apologies to Steve Martin}
Yeah, the Society of Recreational Uranium Hunters just sort of died out, didn't it?
I heard there was a lot of infighting within S.O.U.R (Society of Uranium Recreationalists).
The more fundamentalist faction wanted nothing to do with the all that unnecessary protective gear, and wanted a more pure and "glowing" experience.
I heard some of them developed mutant powers from radiation exposure, and the rumour is that a few of them were hired on to help write some of the early Fantastic 4 comics.
Those uranium hunters needed that computer to count their cancerous tumors.
How the hell is hunting for Uranium ever going to be considered for "pleasure"?!?
finally talking about a year i was not around for!
yeah me for being so young
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