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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Fun fact: Gorbachev is still loving alive. another fun fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw
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The REAL Goobusters posted:another fun fact: Seems like a cool dude
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Despera posted:Seems like a cool dude From hit game Stalin vs Martians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mOFWV0x6ek
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Legaslov and Scherbina still cant beat Fomin and Bryukhov for laughs
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May 14, 2019 02:31
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The REAL Goobusters posted:another fun fact: Communists knew they were missing out on pizza after 7 and a half decades. The USSR was never going to last forever. Stuff like western music and pizza and blue jeans and a laundry list of other minor amenities we take for granted played a big part in the fall of that empire.
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May 14, 2019 02:37
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Still having a panic attack watching this... 
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This is a nightmare. Jesus Christ.
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May 14, 2019 02:40
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All is well. Everything fine. Continue work.
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May 14, 2019 02:47
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Well theres your non theoretical worse case scenario
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Imagine having to tell the leader of your country that you guys are mega ultra turbo hosed to a level not seen before in mankind's history.
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May 14, 2019 02:55
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400 Rubles wow big spenders.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Imagine having to tell the leader of your country that you guys are mega ultra turbo hosed to a level not seen before in mankind's history. My midlife crisis: should I buy a new truck? These guys midlife crisis: I'm about to murder 100,000,000 people.
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Skarsgard's acting his rear end off here.
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May 14, 2019 02:58
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Jesus at least give them Heros of the Soviet Union
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Despera posted:Jesus at least give them Heros of the Soviet Union Don't worry, some iodine will fix them right up.
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Is it spoilers to post the fate of these men?
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So like there are statues of these dudes right Because these three dudes are beyond heroes.
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Lol what’s even the point of carrying around Geiger counters here? You know you’re basically standing on the surface of the sun, there’s nothing you need to read. Probably just thematic license.
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This is literally a loving horror series.
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May 14, 2019 03:03
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May 14, 2019 03:05
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Dear HBO please greenlight more impeccably acted and directed miniseries on the most brutally horrific incidents in human history thanks
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Fresh Like Zafo posted:That sound is gonna haunt me in my sleep tonight. I’ve never heard a Geiger counter freak out like that before, my heart stopped
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Loved the "show, don’t tell" with the announcement during the evacuation. Other HBO shows could take advantage of this device! Also holy poo poo this show is incredible and I will be sad when it’s finished. Edit: The lady scientist that predicted a water-explosion in the 2-4 megaton range had to have known she was wrong. Did she lie and up the stakes so that the party members would take her more seriously? bobfather fucked around with this message at 03:15 on May 14, 2019 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Can someone post a nice Nuclear Energy 101 video for us dumbasses who don’t understand how these magic things called “atoms” make the electricity that makes my computer turn on? Imagine a big cube (of graphite) with a bunch of tubes running through it like a block of swiss cheese. Some of these tubes have radioactive material, which give off heat as they radiate, and when their radiation hits the other radioactive rods those rods give off even more radiation. This is the "chain reaction" of a nuclear reactor. When it happens very fast, you have a bomb. When it happens very slowly and in a controlled fashion, it just gives off a lot of heat, which is good for boiling water to run a turbine generator like any other power plant. This nuclear chain reaction is controlled by having a bunch of control rods that absorb radiation in the graphite block, and usually they are on a lift that pulls them into or out of the cube to speed up or slow down the nuclear reactor. There's usually a lot more control rods in the cube than there are rods of radioactive material. There's also a bunch of water flowing through the cube that picks up excess heat and carries it away. The flaw with Chernobyl's reactor was that if that water got too hot, the void of space from the steam caused the reactor to radiate more and get even hotter, which caused more steam, which caused a run away reaction. This combined with the test and ignoring other safety features is what caused the accident, when everything got too hot and caused (either a steam explosion or a small fission explosion, like a faulty atomic bomb; we aren't sure which) Modifications where made to other RBMK reactors throughout the USSR to fix this after Chernobyl's disaster. If you want a slightly more visual idea of what went wrong, I found a cool simulation: http://www.articlesbyaphysicist.com/ch2.html Scroll down to the image and type in and enter "rod 0", "target 700", "cool off", then wait a minute and type "eccs off". Then just type "rod 1" to reinsert the control rods if you see the power spike too much. 
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Minrad posted:Imagine a big cube (of graphite) with a bunch of tubes running through it like a block of swiss cheese. Some of these tubes have radioactive material, which give off heat as they radiate, and when their radiation hits the other radioactive rods those rods give off even more radiation. This is the "chain reaction" of a nuclear reactor. When it happens very fast, you have a bomb. When it happens very slowly and in a controlled fashion, it just gives off a lot of heat, which is good for boiling water to run a turbine generator like any other power plant. Are the rods the radioactive material itself or is it the graphite? Where is the radiation coming from?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Are the rods the radioactive material itself or is it the graphite? Where is the radiation coming from? There's two types of rods; the radioactive material, usually uranium or plutonium, and control rods, radiation absorbing material. Graphite is just carbon, like what you'd find in your pencil. It serves the purpose of slowing down the speed of the radiation so that it can more easily be controlled.
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If I read The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes will I finally unlock the mystery of the atom for myself? Because I’ve had that on a deep reading backlog for many years.
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So basically the graphite absorbed an absurd amount of radiation and basically became literal death rocks
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theflyingexecutive posted:I’ve never heard a Geiger counter freak out like that before, my heart stopped  Uh. That's horrifying.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:If I read The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes will I finally unlock the mystery of the atom for myself? Because I’ve had that on a deep reading backlog for many years. Probably! I spent like a week reading a ton of articles about radiation and nuclear bombs/reactors a few months ago to cap off a World War 2 history kick I went on, and I felt a lot of it started to make sense for me afterwards. 
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If anyone wants an  story about the three divers, I've spoiled the correction section from an online article.CORRECTION: This Trumpet article below was based on a 2011 report from The Scotsman, which says the three men died shortly after their foray into the radioactive waters at Chernobyl. However, since this Trumpet article was written, it has come to our attention that the three men did not die as a result of entering the waters, but survived the ordeal. In April of 2018, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko presented state awards to Alexey Ananenko and Valery Bespalov for their bravery, and posthumously to Boris Baranov (who had died in 2005). The fact that the three survived does not detract from the heroism they displayed back in 1986. The Trumpet regrets the error. The pump turner guys from the first episode, Akimov and Toptunov did die horribly like I said earlier in the thread, however. One article said (don't read if you don't want to read gross radiation stuff) 'Later, in hospital, Akimov tried to stand up and the skin fell off his leg like a sock.' But Goddamn, those three guys volunteering to go in there, even after the officials were like 'yeah, you got us, everything's hosed but a lot of people are gonna die if somebody doesn't go.' That is some fuckin fortitude. LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 03:29 on May 14, 2019 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:So basically the graphite absorbed an absurd amount of radiation and basically became literal death rocks Correct. Normally the whole reactor cube is encased behind a ton of shielding, and there's walls around the reactor room packed with sand, etc to keep everything contained and safe for humans to be near. Obviously all of that got blown apart when the core exploded.
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Show continues its horror-movie vibe in the last sequence: the monster was in the room with them... This is very my poo poo. I stan Jared Harris so hard.
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LadyPictureShow posted:If anyone wants an It’s crazy how so much about Chernobyl is still a mystery because of Soviet attempts to bury as much as possible. Like how well never accurately know how many people really died.
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