Tuva (or bust)

Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning scientist and his lectures on physics are still on the internet, but he is most known nowadays for his objections to the Challenger disaster report, which he dramatically showed to non scientists by putting an O ring into cold water and showing the press how it became stiff.

"For a successful technology," Feynman concluded, "reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

sound familiar? That is the theme of Chernobyl...

Richard Feynman was interested in everything, and once he decided to find out about the country of Tuva... a small independent country that got absorbed by the Soviet Union. His friend wrote a book about this, Tuva or Bust. and this Horizen video is about their quest.

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last year, that area had a celebration in honor of him, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

the Library of Congress has two videos about that country's culture:






another trivia: a lot of controversy about this, but there might be genetic links of the Navajo to the people of this area LINK LINK2

Tuva is listed as a Turkic language, but other native languages in that area of Siberia are thought to have links to the language of the Navajo.