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 Wysłany: Pon 6:34, 18 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: jordan sc-1 Social Engineering In '50s Science Fic |
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A Foregone Transfusion
Amusingly, the 1st petition for the powerful machine that comes to Meacham's mind is the laying down of a six-lane expressway, aiding to concrete the basic theory that, despite pollution, sprawl and quickened oil depletion, owning a car is owning a chip of the future--a bias more differentiating than temporary.
And though they constantly invoked a higher power to demonstrate their humility ahead the wonders of Creation, this didn't stop 1950s scientific heroes from evangelizing in their own access about what American audiences should either hug, alternatively shun in post-war life.
"Trust us: we're scientists" hubris also surfaces in Universals 1955 extravaganza, This Island Earth.
Dismissing public panics of fallout as unwarranted, the heroes determine to secretly leave onward of timetable. Despite real-life abortive efforts toward ground-launched nuclear rockets, favor 1987's Timberwind project, a scenario reminiscent of Destination Moon's was played out in ten annuals after while NASA's Cassini space needle was fired, antagonism large outcry over its payload of plutonium creature of ample quantity to render Florida uninhabitable in the event of one explosion.
Cassini's Dubious Debt to Luna
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To the Moon via George Pal
The Blob (1958) makes further associations with transport, food and other emerging fixtures of modern life, but with a extra up-front consumerist slant. Produced in Pennsylvania, director Irvin Yeaworth [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Jr. cashed in both on the popularity of Rebel
From Metaluna to Levittown
Next to aerospace, the sprouting client merchandise mall and Marxism, one of the important shapers of the ten-year was, of course, nuclear stamina, as agreed via Eisenhower's domesticizing Atoms for Peace program.
For Hollywood's intentions, though [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the most dramatic reach to promoting atoms was space peregrination, as depicted in the 1950 prestigious, Destination Moon.
The 1950s witnessed the fruition of the car's distorting impact on the U.S. landscape, following 3 decades of incremental dismantlement of regional light rail systems along the United States, known as the "Street Car Conspiracy."
And, meantime the medium did its chapter to make this technology seem both safe and unavoidable, in reality, U.S. nuclear factories owed their whole subsistence to the Price-Anderson Act of 1957, which taxed a lacking hat aboard public amends in the event of an accident.
For its collusion in this social transformation, General Motors (in federation with Firestone and others) was fined the cost of an of its city buses. But along then the car was indelibly entrenched in the national psyche in enterprise with the strip market and the boon in tract housing that gave returning GIs and their young families either a area to live and a location to which apt steer their cars.
Exhibited just 5 years behind Hiroshima [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], George Pal's persuasive creation banked on the audience's approval of a rocket propelled by sustained nuclear reaction, by using the dramatic apparatus of pitting the astronauts against authorities decided to impound the Luna just hours before launch.
Fresh from an impromptu press conference on the golden old to come when "atomic power is grouped up with electronics," Cal Meacham, played by Rex Reason, becomes engrossed in the construction of an Interocitor, a sort of otherworldly Heath Kit distributed as a intelligence test, by a mysterious mail array electronics supplier.
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