Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

  • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Climate change, same sex marriage (though, perhaps not as shocking as some might expect, ditto anything trans related), potential mars colonization, coming off the heels of the Spanish flu, COVID news would probably freak em out. Ooh, the USSR being gone, and China being a world super power. The USSR would have been new to them, and it collapsing less than a century later would probably feel quite odd, especially if you could make them understand just how incredibly advanced the USSR got in such a short amount of time. Tons of stuff.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think Mars colonies would surprise them. If anything they’d expect us to have family resorts or Jupiter

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      ditto anything trans related

      In fact, German medical science was on the forefront of chemical and surgical gender therapies, riiight up until Hitler. Quite a lot of seminal research was burned by the doctors responsible - to protect the identities of anyone involved.