In the September 2024 Reader’s Digest, we have a little aside that is a little incomplete.
The title of the 1970s movie The China Syndrome refers to the idea that if you dug a tunnel through the earth (ignoring the molten lava core), you’d end up in China.
C’mon, man. Who wrote that? Don’t answer; I know it’s someone who was born this century and does not know that China syndrome refers to a nuclear meltdown at a nuclear plant where the core would burn hot enough to descend into the earth. No, not all the way to China, but still, it would be bad. The young person would also not know that The China Syndrome is one of the reasons we don’t have nuclear power almost fifty years later.
