Science!
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>This toy is looked upon as being dangerous because of the radioactive material in the set, but Gilbert claims that none of the materials could conceivably prove dangerous.
>Came with Four Uranium-bearing ore samples, Alpha particles (Pb-210 and Po-210), Beta particles (Ru-106), Gamma rays (possibly Zn-65), Prospecting for Uranium — a book
Sets like this used to be cool as fuck. What happened!
>>5297719
You could create better science kits out of material and chemicals you can find at the hardware store rather than the stuff they sell in kits today.
>>5297719
Anything that could be dangerous is a no-no.
>>5297723
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtntTvuv8Aw
>>5297719
How safe is safe also what's the 10 grand reward for?
>>5297719
>What happened!
Progress.
Why is Fallout the first thing that jumps in my mind seeing this?
>>5300198
>Why is Fallout the first thing that jumps in my mind seeing this?
Because your only significant exposure to 1950s marketing styles is through the homages which the Fallout art designers created. You see artwork of a boy with combed hair next to an atomic symbol, and only have one media property to link it to.
>>5299594
>That's what the United States Government will pay to anyone who discovers deposits of Uranium Ore! Full details in the book "Prospecting for Uranium", packed with this Atomic Energy Lab.
