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- ifruit, on 10/21/2009, -0/+28We cannot let Iran or North Korea get their hands on this cartoon!
- holychicken, on 10/21/2009, -4/+25Older than the internet.
- giz0r, on 10/21/2009, -0/+19This was actually pretty informing :)
- gordonp, on 10/21/2009, -0/+14Grandpa?
- theCoffee, on 10/21/2009, -0/+14Whatever happened to that voice? You heard it everywhere in the 50's. Now it is gone.
- decoy26517, on 10/21/2009, -1/+14Still waiting on nuclear powered airplanes.
- Awwzm, on 10/21/2009, -0/+13I feel like we should hear the chatter of the movie projector.
- TVarmy, on 10/21/2009, -0/+11The military briefly considered making an unmanned nuclear ramjet for dropping atomic bombs, but they gave up on it because it was ***** insane. The thing would basically poison the land below with fallout, and could easily become a flying Chernobyl going at mach 3.
Naturally, the scientists working on the project decided to pitch the fallout issue as a feature, saying they could cripple the USSR by having it fly circles over Russia to poison the people and farmland.
http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html - skipvt, on 10/21/2009, -0/+11I remember watching this in school!
- skipvt, on 10/21/2009, -0/+10Sonny?
- kook321, on 10/21/2009, -0/+8Wow, did you see the periodic table. A lot has been discover since. Damn you for making chemistry that much harder
- Hindermore, on 10/21/2009, -0/+8I learned more about atomic energy watching this than I ever did in school :o
- PhonicUK, on 10/21/2009, -0/+7We got nuclear subs though :)
- Ymeg, on 10/21/2009, -0/+6We need more cartoons like this.
- awtripp, on 10/21/2009, -0/+6A is for A Huge ***** explosion!
- inactive, on 10/21/2009, -0/+5I wish they showed this in school. Would have made chem. more intresting.
- giz0r, on 10/21/2009, -0/+4I knew something wasn't right, thanks :)
- mike42979, on 10/21/2009, -0/+4It amazes me how much we know about something that cant be seen.
- ayeroxor, on 10/21/2009, -1/+5<img src="clippy.jpg">It looks like you're trying to think of an adverb; would you like to try 'informative'?
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/21/2009, -0/+4All the radioactive fallout in the air from the atomic tests made everyone's voice sound like that back then.
- gllopc, on 10/21/2009, -0/+4Atoms makeup sealing wax, not ceiling wax (as I stupidly heard):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealing_wax
"Sealing wax is a material which, after melting, quickly hardens (to paper, parchment, ribbons and wire, and other material) forming a bond that is difficult to separate without noticeable tampering. Wax is used to verify something such as a document is unopened, to verify the sender's identity, for example with a signet ring, and as decoration. Sealing wax can be used to take impressions of other seals. It can be used to create a hermetic seal on containers[citation needed]. Wax was used to seal letters closed and later (from about the 16th century) envelopes. (Before sealing wax, the Romans used bitumen for this purpose.)" - PBRbeer, on 10/21/2009, -0/+3These old school cartoons were so great, and informative. Now cartoons are more about teaching political correctness than teaching math science or english.
- mekkamen, on 10/21/2009, -1/+4A is for Atom :) I want that OST for my ringtone)
- inactive, on 10/21/2009, -0/+3I was thinking the same thing but it may be the recorder making everyone sound the same.
- rizzo2008, on 10/21/2009, -0/+3they do for a variety of medical diagnosis procedures but the half life of the dyes and whatnot that they use so short they don't hurt the patient.
- ayeroxor, on 10/21/2009, -0/+2Link to archive.org mirror (archive.org is timing out right now)
http://www.archive.org.nyud.net/details/a_is_for_a ...
/coral cache ftw - D4RK354B3R, on 10/21/2009, -0/+2Radium is one classy atom.
- dougm68, on 10/21/2009, -0/+2i think my teacher needed to watch this cartoon.
- rusty0101, on 10/21/2009, -0/+2They put anti-matter in people's brains to do PET scans. If you think radioactive substances are dangerous, feel free to have a look at the energy released that way.
Radioactive Iodine is used to destroy hyperactive thyroids.
If you get a stress test done with scans, you will be injected with radioactive isotopes that are used to evaluate how efficiently the heart and major aortas are functioning.
In fact these both can make it difficult to fly for several days to months as you are likely to set off nuclear radiation detectors.
On a day to day basis, you probably ingest more radioactive substances over your lifetime than you will receive as a diagnostic procedure, though hopefully less than you will get if you have a hyperactive thyroid. - rusty0101, on 10/21/2009, -0/+2Then stick with organic chemistry, it doesn't tend to work well with heavy elements anyway.
- shedtroll, on 10/21/2009, -0/+2What made me watch this and think it was a propaganda film?
- overridemymind, on 10/21/2009, -1/+2Do not want.
I actually lol'd at that part of the video. Turned to my wife chuckling and said "That's a horrible idea!" - ivosilva, on 10/21/2009, -0/+1Ah, now I know where Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons got the ideia for Dr Manhattan!
- Csaliture, on 10/21/2009, -0/+1That you still remember anyway. Science class went into atoms in much more depth than this video. Maybe that was just at my school though.
- guttersniper, on 10/21/2009, -0/+1Sucker, they totally showed this to me when I was at school. We also got to watch one that used snazzy mid to early 90s computer graphics to represent all the elements - they were just floating balls with different voices. I think we just had lazy teachers.
- majordanger, on 10/21/2009, -0/+1MCMLII is 1952 on my Roman Calculator.
- dougm68, on 10/21/2009, -0/+1I wish he could have invented radioactive resistant jockey shorts.
- inactive, on 10/21/2009, -0/+0"And cabbages and kings" lol
- theCoffee, on 10/21/2009, -1/+1Is it really okay to put radioactive material inside someone's brain?
- TVarmy, on 10/21/2009, -2/+1Don't worry. It only describes peacetime uses for atoms. And as they're the 1950's uses, chances are half of them will get the people using them killed.
- Grymus, on 10/21/2009, -7/+2Buried for:
1: Linking to SheepSheep
2: Should have linked the Original site (Archive dot org )
3: Xeni is Old hag trying to act like a kid.
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