I'm not as into it anymore (i'm sure i'll eventually relapse), but my former obsession with various swaths of semi-forgotten 20th century media i think is pretty well summed up in like, slowly noticing the edges of a brief cultural obsession with radar for a while. when it was new, there was so much excitement to explain it

and then you watch a b movie from the fifties one day and they're like "we can kill the giant ant with radar" and you're like "YES THEY WERE STILL INTO IT"

@heatherhorns i wonder how long it was between the 50s and when the average person would understand just how much that entire concept is nonsensical
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@heatherhorns giant ant? sure, that's fine

killing things with radar? do you have any idea what radar *is*
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