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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I'd argue that Radithor is more infamous, since that was the water Eben Byers drank before the radiation killed him.
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Jun 3, 2019 07:28
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore is an excellent read about radioactive horrors. Very similarily to the show, it covers everything from lead-up to aftermath in excruciating detail, very thoroughly describing the resulting health problems. Those are very distinct from ARS the firefighters and operators had in the show, because having radium accumulate in your teeth and face bones for years is something else entirely
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Jun 3, 2019 07:30
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Presented without commentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
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Jun 3, 2019 07:43
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Well, in the 1920s a german firm invented the DORAMAD toothpaste. Wiki-Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doramad_Radioactive_Toothpaste To translate the Poster: "creates natural freshness in your mouth" Maybe we could revitalise the product while simultaneously getting rid of spent fuelrods. Who doesn't want that glowing smile? 
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Jun 3, 2019 08:05
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bou posted:Well, in the 1920s a german firm invented the DORAMAD toothpaste. This is the best part imo: quote:During the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, one group of German scientists stole all the thorium they could while in occupied France. The Alsos Mission thought they were using the heavy elements for the refinement of uranium to be used in an atomic bomb, but they were only interested in using the thorium after the war in a patented brand of German toothpaste.
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Jun 3, 2019 08:30
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etalian posted:Also interesting article on all the eastern bloc cars featured on the show: It only addresses the first two episodes, but I thought it was a great touch how the miners arrived in cute, if loud, crappy and cramped PAZ buses. While the LAZ buses that the people were evacuated with were used for mid-range, city travel, then the real working class in rural routes were riding PAZ. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PAZ-672
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Jun 3, 2019 09:43
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:This is a good joke and I hope we can steal it: In the Soviet government system, radiation based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Pripyat, the dedicated nuclear physicists who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Radioactive Victims Unit. These are their stories
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Jun 3, 2019 09:46
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This seems topical: https://www.ebay.com/itm/original-S...-f282cxLZQOFLXE
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Jun 3, 2019 14:29
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Jun 3, 2019 14:30
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Gervasius posted:This seems topical: I'm gonna pass. I recently saw this show which gave me serious trust issues towards Russia's nuclear program and those specific reactors
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Jun 3, 2019 16:33
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Has anyone mentioned the radioactive Boyscout? I know it's different-ish, but seeing some of the other "related material" shared made me think of him and his lil hobby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn?wprov=sfla1 e; His later life is pretty WTF too. Terra-da-loo! fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Jun 3, 2019 16:40
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Terra-da-loo! posted:Has anyone mentioned the radioactive Boyscout? I know it's different-ish, bit seeing some of the other "related material" shared made me think of him and his lil hobby. I love the bit where the mom freaks out thinking she's going to lose her house so she collects anything that looks like it might be radioactive and dumps it in the local dump.
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Jun 3, 2019 16:41
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That Englishman in Belarus is some cool rear end videos
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Jun 3, 2019 17:21
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ANyone else think Danish people have a low average living age because of candle lights and the total ignorance towards Chernobyl disatorr???
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Jun 3, 2019 17:23
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Buller posted:That Englishman in Belarus is some cool rear end videos Yeah I watched all of his Belarus and Russia videos they're pretty cool.
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Jun 3, 2019 17:23
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The Atlantic has a photo article up today. The first image show rooftop liquidators. There's distortion at the bottom, but the caption doesn't indicate if it's from radiation as I've heard before. Quick edit: There's also a picture of the "Red Forest" (image 4), which I don't think I've seen previous. Holy crap, that's stark. That one's otherworldly. ZorajitZorajit fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Jun 3, 2019 18:39
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I've had the soundtrack to the show on loop all day pretty much and it's so drat good. Fantastic grim ambient that really shows how significantly the score emphasizes the dread of the show. I super recommend it.ZorajitZorajit posted:The Atlantic has a photo article up today. The first image show rooftop liquidators. There's distortion at the bottom, but the caption doesn't indicate if it's from radiation as I've heard before. Yeah, it's super unsettling to see something so astoundingly deadly manifest itself visually like that. Holy cow.
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Jun 3, 2019 18:49
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"Following orders issued by Soviet authorities to mark the end of cleanup operations on the roof of the No. 3 reactor, three men were requested to post a red flag atop the chimney overlooking the destroyed reactor, reached by climbing 78 meters up a spiral staircase. The flag bearers were sent despite the dangers posed by heavy radiation, and after a group of liquidators had already made two failed attempts by helicopter. The radiation expert Alexander Yourtchenko carried the pole, followed by Valéri Starodoumov with the flag, and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Sotnikov with the radio. The whole operation was timed to last only 9 minutes, given the high radiation levels. At the end, the trio were rewarded with a bottle of Pepsi (a luxury in 1986) and a day off." 
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Jun 3, 2019 18:57
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Collapsing Farts posted:"Following orders issued by Soviet authorities to mark the end of cleanup operations on the roof of the No. 3 reactor, three men were requested to post a red flag atop the chimney overlooking the destroyed reactor, reached by climbing 78 meters up a spiral staircase. The flag bearers were sent despite the dangers posed by heavy radiation, and after a group of liquidators had already made two failed attempts by helicopter. The radiation expert Alexander Yourtchenko carried the pole, followed by Valéri Starodoumov with the flag, and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Sotnikov with the radio. The whole operation was timed to last only 9 minutes, given the high radiation levels. At the end, the trio were rewarded with a bottle of Pepsi (a luxury in 1986) and a day off." A bottle of pepsi and a day off? Sign me up!
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Jun 3, 2019 18:58
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ZorajitZorajit posted:The Atlantic has a photo article up today. The first image show rooftop liquidators. There's distortion at the bottom, but the caption doesn't indicate if it's from radiation as I've heard before. The fact that it's the exact same distortion between the pictures argues against it being radiation. Even when the photo is taken at different angles it's exactly the same. You can see an increase in the grainy-ness between the black and white photos on the roof and the other photos, which is very likely to be radiation caused.
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Jun 3, 2019 19:11
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ZorajitZorajit posted:The Atlantic has a photo article up today. The first image show rooftop liquidators. There's distortion at the bottom, but the caption doesn't indicate if it's from radiation as I've heard before. It most definitely is. Each one of those brighter spots is the hole on the bottom side of the film the camera uses to advance it through the mechanical system. It's being hit from all the radiation below hence why it shows on the bottom, but not the top
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Jun 3, 2019 19:16
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Stare-Out posted:I've had the soundtrack to the show on loop all day pretty much and it's so drat good. Fantastic grim ambient that really shows how significantly the score emphasizes the dread of the show. I super recommend it. yeah the music is haunting, I love that stretched out synth sound
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Jun 3, 2019 19:38
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bring back old gbs posted:yeah the music is haunting, I love that stretched out synth sound I thought it was synth at first too but I finally fired up the high quality dosimeter they sent from moscow and Im pretty sure it's all or mostly cello. There's effects reverb and delay plus a loop pedal doing time stretching but I think the majority of what we're hearing is that.
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Jun 3, 2019 20:00
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Disaster response logistics is always so amazing to see. You can see in situations like this, people really want to help. I know someone who was involved with the cleanup of the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City in 1995. She had some wild stories from that cleanup effort. In a news interview, the first responders said they could use more work gloves. Within an hour, Wal Mart c-suite office called and said they had a truck with 5,000 pairs en route that will be there in a couple hours, but they could send more if needed. She was working for the coroner's office, and was one of two people who had to photograph every dead body. Nikon heard about it and immediately flew out an executive from Japan on their company jet with a state of the art 1 megapixel digital camera for them to use. 168 people died, including 19 kids and babies.  She and her coworker photographed them all. She got some pretty severe mental trauma from that, and was on disability and lots of therapy for several years after that.
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Jun 3, 2019 20:16
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Stare-Out posted:I've had the soundtrack to the show on loop all day pretty much and it's so drat good. Fantastic grim ambient that really shows how significantly the score emphasizes the dread of the show. I super recommend it. Listening to it now as well, I'm getting massive Half-Life vibes from this.
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Jun 3, 2019 20:34
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SeXReX posted:I thought it was synth at first too but I finally fired up the high quality dosimeter they sent from moscow and Im pretty sure it's all or mostly cello. There's effects reverb and delay plus a loop pedal doing time stretching but I think the majority of what we're hearing is that. It seems like it's only cello when it needs a melody, plus a few vocal parts. All the eerie background noises were apparently sampled in a working RBMK reactor.
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Jun 3, 2019 21:06
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I have been watching this show in horror and decided to take a look at Landsat imagery before and after the accident and saw some changes that even Landsat could detect. This is Landsat 5, Band 5, which is shortwave infrared. This is before the accident, in April 1986  This is May 1986, after.  It looks like the water (or what I think is water) which is dark below and right of the marker is absent in the after image. Just below and left of the marker there is also darker returns. I know these are subtle, but eh, at 30m pixels you get what you get. If there are other super gis nerds here, here is my Earth Engine script that I used to make these. https://code.earthengine.google.com/68b445acb7efdc788309f3be70eacaf6
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Jun 3, 2019 22:09
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TigerXtrm posted:Listening to it now as well, I'm getting massive Half-Life vibes from this.  You did not see a resonance cascade comrade, it is impossible for such an event to occur at Черно Столь
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Jun 3, 2019 22:32
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We don't go to Pripyet any more.
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Jun 3, 2019 22:36
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Anatoly Dyatlost was studying in his was studying laboratoried. Fellow scientist cow-orker Aleksandr said "Antony Dyatov what are you working on" "UI have discovered new radoactive isatope but it is so vollatile that it does not have a half-life but quarter-life so we must observe with hasty"
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Jun 3, 2019 22:43
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How do I watch this on Amazon Prime with HBO Go? Just load up the application at 9PM CST and hope the new episode shows up?
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Jun 3, 2019 22:48
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Tab8715 posted:How do I watch this on Amazon Prime with HBO Go? Just load up the application at 9PM CST and hope the new episode shows up? Yeah
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Jun 3, 2019 22:55
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spankmeister posted:
Obviously the resonance cascade was a operator error caused by Comrade Gordon.
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Jun 3, 2019 23:10
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spankmeister posted:
3.3 headcrabs an hour? Not good, but not bad either.
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Jun 3, 2019 23:18
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canyoneer posted:Disaster response logistics is always so amazing to see. You can see in situations like this, people really want to help. That's really cool to see so many people contributing for that. It's also weird to think about how the actions of one person, or a few people, that caused a disaster affect a person's view of humanity more than the much more numerous people coming together to help.
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Jun 4, 2019 00:07
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I watched the first season of The Terror yesterday and it was drat good, though I hated the supernatural aspect of it. I know it was based on a novel but the based-on-true-events stuff was so loving good and skillfully executed that the janky CGI polar bear spirit beast stuff felt like I was alternating between compelling historical drama and a crap b-movie from 1987. E: I should point out that I watched it because of the Jared Harris connection and people mentioning it in this thread.
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Jun 4, 2019 00:11
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Stare-Out posted:I watched the first season of The Terror yesterday and it was drat good, though I hated the supernatural aspect of it. I know it was based on a novel but the based-on-true-events stuff was so loving good and skillfully executed that the janky CGI polar bear spirit beast stuff felt like I was alternating between compelling historical drama and a crap b-movie from 1987. Yeah the real world story of the HMS Terror/Erebus is so tragic and terrifying you could almost do without the supernatural horror/creature feature element. 
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Jun 4, 2019 00:44
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etalian posted:Yeah the real world story of the HMS Terror/Erebus is so tragic and terrifying you could almost do without the supernatural horror/creature feature element. Completely. I appreciated both aspects separately but together they felt so completely off. I'll watch a low-budget gory monster movie any day just as well as I'll watch an impeccably written and performed true story historical drama but when the two are clumsily forced together, it's a big old shame. I was fairly familiar with the true story so when all the nonsense starts happening I drat near checked out and from there on in only paid attention to when it was just the characters interacting and actually creating drama.
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