I don't remember the PR man. Was this from the era where Mad Ave. thought they could program the proles to want what they wanted them to want?
In the text the scientists were baffelled as to the revitializers' power source, but didn't mention atomic until the dead ones were dissassembled.
And even then it was just the decay of radioisotopes, not fission or fusion.
It's hard to believe it was written in 1951 during the atomic age.
In the story, after Earth is stripped** of radioactive ores, they plan to use atom smashers to synthese atomic fuel. That's something the snails were unable to do, Once atomic spaceships are invented, they'd go to Betelgese and sell isotopes to them again, this time getting a better deal.
There's another story where Earthmen trade a worthless plant for a rather commonplace alien heater.
Each feels the other had no idea of the true value of what they had, and was eager to trade.
**What? Even under the ocean? The isotopes dissolved in seawater?
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I read the text version decades ago.
I don't remember the PR man.
Was this from the era where Mad Ave. thought
they could program the proles to want what
they wanted them to want?
In the text the scientists were baffelled as to the
revitializers' power source, but didn't mention
atomic until the dead ones were dissassembled.
And even then it was just the decay of radioisotopes,
not fission or fusion.
It's hard to believe it was written in 1951
during the atomic age.
In the story, after Earth is stripped** of radioactive
ores, they plan to use atom smashers to synthese
atomic fuel.
That's something the snails were unable
to do,
Once atomic spaceships are invented,
they'd go to Betelgese and sell isotopes
to them again, this time getting a better deal.
There's another story where Earthmen
trade a worthless plant for a rather commonplace
alien heater.
Each feels the other had no idea of the true
value of what they had, and was eager to trade.
**What? Even under the ocean?
The isotopes dissolved in seawater?
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