[libstripper]

Reminds me of an old Flash Gordon movie I saw on an American Airlines flight many years ago. He’d been captured by Ming the Merciless and put to work stoking radium furnaces on a planet that required the furnaces to stay in orbit. He and the other slaves stoked the furnaces by scooping the radium up in coal shovels and shoving it into the fireboxes, just like coal. The movie was made well before most people knew anything about nuclear reactors.

[Nowhere Man]

Reminds me of an old Flash Gordon movie I saw on an American Airlines flight many years ago. He’d been captured by Ming the Merciless and put to work stoking radium furnaces on a planet that required the furnaces to stay in orbit. He and the other slaves stoked the furnaces by scooping the radium up in coal shovels and shoving it into the fireboxes, just like coal. The movie was made well before most people knew anything about nuclear reactors.

I remember seeing that too, IIRC, that's where he met "Thun" who was a "Lion Man" and they somehow escape together. They worked in shifts and had like 15 minute breaks. I also remember in that movie where Flash was placed in this cagelike thing that resembled a cat scan or MRI to see what was wrong with him. I know it was done somewhat cheaply but you can see glimpses into the future in that film.