“BLOWUPS HAPPEN” by Robert Heinlein #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 131 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: "Blowups Happen" is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. The story describes the tensions among the staff of a nuclear reactor.
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“Blowups Happen” by Robert Heinlein, from the book “The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology”: https://amzn.to/3BsZ2mU
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| 0:58.7 | Stories and content and weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended |
| 1:04.0 | for mature audiences only. |
| 1:05.7 | parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 1:07.9 | Welcome, Weirdos. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 1:21.6 | Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, |
| 1:29.6 | mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. |
| 1:35.0 | Coming up in this episode, it's the Ruler Thursday and this week I'm bringing you some |
| 1:39.2 | dark science fiction, which ended up after the story was published being less science |
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