Comics from the 60's are pretty lame. I've got 3 hardcover comic-collection albums (Plezier met Sjors 5, 6, and 9) and am leafing through to see what kinda comics they contain.
Half of those comics are pretty 50s-60s American and British in style. Other half are lame comedies. And a fair amount of those pages are written stories with sometimes a drawing included. Really old fashioned nowadays.
Most of those stories are fairly patronizing. Kid doesn't listen. Bad things happen. Afterwards the kid is like 'oh no, I have been so dumb, I will never do it again!' and becomes the best kid ever.
Most of those comics have 2 or 3 colors. Very sometimes more. Yes, this is seriously ancient. It's all pretty drab colors too. Could be the age, maybe.
Whatever puzzles or 'interesting facts' there are on some pages, they're really.. outdated. I mean, they assume that most kids won't know what an elephant is. And you can make a little couch out of matchboxes! Just follow those instructions!
All pages are present as far as I can see, but the books are heavily damaged. One has no spine, a couple have taped pages, and most pages are loose. Oh wait, there might be a couple of pages missing after all, unless I can find it elsewhere in the books. It's also got that dusty old paper smell, of which I am not really a fan.
Still a nice find from a little library, but I'm not sure I'll keep those around. Maybe they'll be better loved by someone else.
Oh lol, one of those 'interesting facts' is ... lemme translate this real quick.
In Yugoslavia they wanted to know which method was the fastest to send a message from Zagreb to Ljubljana, two cities about 130km apart.
They sent a car, made a phone call, sent a telegram, and sent four carrier pigeons at the same time.
The car won. It took one hour and half to arrive and deliver the message. The phone call finished after six hours. The telegram took two hours and fifty minutes. Two of the pigeons arrived in two hours and 49 minutes... the other two haven't arrived yet.
Pretty obvious internet wasn't around yet. 😆
@trinsec I rescued a textbook from a library that was being dissolved, dated 1953 by a professor at the library's host university. It was "intended for use primarily for students who seek an understanding of physical phenomena and the use of the scientific method as a part of a liberal arts education."
In the chapter Problems of Interplanetary Travel, it has the following to say about propulsion systems: "The maximum energy obtainable from alcohol is its energy of combustion which is 1.37*10^10 ergs/gram. This figure is typical. Although there are other fuels which have a larger energy of combustion, none of these differs from that of alcohol by a factor as much as 10 fold. This figure indicates that we have to start with several grams in order to get one away from the Earth. At its very best, therefore, the energy of chemical combustion is obviously inadequate for space rocketry. It is equally obvious that we must learn how to use nuclear energy for the propulsion of rockets."
With the benefit of hindsight, and the score of successful rocket launches standing at "chemical combustion: a whole lot, nuclear energy: nil", I always thought that paragraph was pretty funny.
@khird@qoto.org Hahahaha, and it's being so confident about it too!