![]() Prior to that she would carry around pieces of radioactive material to show to other people, because the glow was beautiful.Įven as recently as the 1980's. Marie Curie discovered a lot of the physics behind radioactivity but she only found out about the poisoning when it had already happened to her and her husband. By the end of the 19th century people were drinking uranium-enriched water as a health elixir, because it would supposedly kill harmful microbes in your body (never mind it kills the useful ones such as your gut flora as well, before also killing you). ![]() Something similar happened in the real world. How can I prevent the mineral from being useful outside of airship construction, or at least not useful enough to have a significant impact on the civilization and technology? Now though I imagine such mineral would find its use in other fields of the industry probably, which has risks of transforming the society and technologies in unpredictable ways, making them less "victorian" and "steampunk", which would be an unwanted side effect of the solution. So people would employ the material in the hydrogen-filled airships to greatly reduce their weight. It is relatively rare (does not occurs in dense enough veins to cause Avatar-like floating islands) but spread out evenly, with me also thinking that it might make it easier to explain certain quirks about the layout of the world (It can help to keep massive vertical cliffs of the setting from crumbling and eroding away). Maybe it's magical, maybe it's just an exotic form of matter, but there are deposits of it here and there in the rocks and people discovered its properties. I was thinking about ways to mitigate that and came to the idea of introducing some Unobtanium-like mineral that produces lift on its own, meaning it has negative mass. Airships are awesome, but making them realistic while retaining the awesome factor is hard due to how relatively little weight they can realistically carry.
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