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Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Ain't no one can eat 50 eggs.

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Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


At the least he must have swallowed a bottle of oil to prevent gagging.

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan

Inspector Gesicht posted:

At the least he must have swallowed a bottle of oil to prevent gagging.

This is better out of context.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Gaston looks a little different than I remember.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


When did I step into Arousing Picture Thread?

Unrelated-Not-Arousing-Content:


Elephant's Foot, Chernobyl

Nth Doctor
Sep 7, 2010

Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!


Inspector Gesicht posted:

When did I step into Arousing Picture Thread?

Unrelated-Not-Arousing-Content:


Elephant's Foot, Chernobyl

Wait, people got that loving close to it?

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

Inspector Gesicht posted:

When did I step into Arousing Picture Thread?

Unrelated-Not-Arousing-Content:


Elephant's Foot, Chernobyl

This is practically snuff. That dude died horrifically shortly after this photo.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Nth Doctor posted:

Wait, people got that loving close to it?

Yeah but they weren't people for very long afterwards :unsmigghh:

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

You can literally see them turning to ghosts in the picture.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
0.25 seconds on google says it's a man named Artur Korneyev that is still alive.

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


You could survive tens of seconds exposed to it and not be fatally poisoned, especially after the worst radioactivity had burned off. Those men probably ran like hell as soon as their work was done.

mostlygray
Nov 1, 2012

BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

Former DILF posted:

Interitu means extinguished or destroyed so it looks like it says "from extinguished life and death"

I read it as "Of the interned: life and death". As in, there is still some life in the eyes, but death is clearly there as well. I suppose I could look up what the painting is about, but I can't be bothered.

InequalityGodzilla
May 31, 2012

DandyLion posted:

This is practically snuff. That dude died horrifically shortly after this photo.
I realize this isn’t the “cool historical facts” thread, but one of my favorite tidbits of knowledge about the elephant’s foot is that it was so radioactive it fried whatever crude 1980’s robots they kept sending over to collect samples from it. So how did they manage to get proper samples?

They shot it with an AKM and then just used a long stick to sweep up all the bits that popped off.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

Inspector Gesicht posted:

When did I step into Arousing Picture Thread?

Unrelated-Not-Arousing-Content:


Elephant's Foot, Chernobyl

Someone who is good at science explain why that guy looks like hes in a Ghostbusters movie.

InequalityGodzilla
May 31, 2012

They were using old school film cameras and high levels of radiation plays hell with film exposure.

Edit: NASA released an entire study on how they had to experiment with many different brands of film to find one that minimized the problem when shooting photos in space:
https://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/trs/_techrep/TP-2000-210193.pdf

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RhomboidSphinx
Jun 17, 2013

Internet Kraken posted:

Someone who is good at science explain why that guy looks like hes in a Ghostbusters movie.

I'm probably completely wrong but didn't they have to use a series of mirrors to get the shot and the dude isn't actually standing anywhere near the Foot; he's just reflected that way?

InequalityGodzilla
May 31, 2012

No, the photo you’re thinking of was taken a few months after the accident occurred. The pic posted was taken sometime in the mid 90’s. The one from the 80’s is black and white and much clearer because there’s far less radiation exposure.

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009

InequalityGodzilla posted:

They were using old school film cameras and high levels of radiation plays hell with film exposure.

Edit: NASA released an entire study on how they had to experiment with many different brands of film to find one that minimized the problem when shooting photos in space:
https://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/trs/_techrep/TP-2000-210193.pdf

Since it's the person that's distorted, it's simply taken with a long exposure time. It's dark in there and they didn't exactly have the time to setup a lot of lights.
If radiation had been the problem, it would have fogged the whole film.

Alain Perdrix
Dec 19, 2007

Howdy!

DandyLion posted:

That dude died horrifically shortly after this photo.

The considerate thing would be to shoot him a quick email and let him know.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Alain Perdrix posted:

The considerate thing would be to shoot him a quick email and let him know.

Or send him a video with sound; apparently he has cataracts now and isn't allowed in Chernobyl anymore.

That Damn Satyr
Nov 4, 2008

A connoisseur of fine junk

Lurking Haro posted:

Since it's the person that's distorted, it's simply taken with a long exposure time. It's dark in there and they didn't exactly have the time to setup a lot of lights.
If radiation had been the problem, it would have fogged the whole film.

It's this. It's probably like a 10+ second exposure, meaning that guy had time to run over there, do the thing, and run back the entire time the shutter was open making the exposure. It's the same way people do those crazy night light-writing or steel-wool spinning photos.

Also I guess kind of spoiler, this is how a lot of "ghost" pictures are faked. :smith:

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.
Look, the elephant foot is shooting force lightning at that dude and you can't convince me otherwise.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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wyoming posted:

Look, the elephant foot is shooting force lightning at that dude and you can't convince me otherwise.

It kinda is.

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Solice Kirsk posted:

It kinda is.

yeah, just not, you know, visible spectrum force lightning...

RhomboidSphinx
Jun 17, 2013

InequalityGodzilla posted:

No, the photo you’re thinking of was taken a few months after the accident occurred. The pic posted was taken sometime in the mid 90’s. The one from the 80’s is black and white and much clearer because there’s far less radiation exposure.

Wait so he was actually standing that close to it, however briefly?

That's scary and cool as hell. Radiation stuff is equally freaky and fascinating.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.
Didn't the dude who did die just kinda... melt? Like the dude in Robotcop but a bit slower. His body just unwound on him, skin and flesh just slipped right off the bone.

Hiroshi Ouchi caused a nuclear incident and was exposed to an extremely lethal dose of radiation.

edit: Possibly THE most NSFW thing I've ever posted...

https://imgur.com/a/wEpiy

edit. gently caress me. Why did I pit IMG marks around that? Force of habit. Sorry.

Edit again.. That picture gets even more horrific. The doctors kept Hiroshi Ouchi alive for months in order to study the poisoning as they'd never get another chance.

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Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

Lasher posted:

Possibly THE most NSFW thing I've ever posted...

Prepare to be outdone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ohRxMYaR0&t=111s

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
That’s so much worse than death

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

Last time Mr. Ouchi came up (I don't remember whether it was in this thread or another PYF one), didn't someone point out that they stuffed him so full of the good stuff that he wasn't even conscious, let alone in pain? I hope I'm remembering that correctly.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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That's just a bunch of Red Vines and marinara sauce.

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Ariong posted:

Last time Mr. Ouchi came up (I don't remember whether it was in this thread or another PYF one), didn't someone point out that they stuffed him so full of the good stuff that he wasn't even conscious, let alone in pain? I hope I'm remembering that correctly.

they induced a coma. he wasn't feeling anything. still kind of hideous tho.

just realized I have a book about this poor bastard on my amazon wishlist. should get on that.

https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1942993544

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Ariong posted:

Last time Mr. Ouchi came up (I don't remember whether it was in this thread or another PYF one), didn't someone point out that they stuffed him so full of the good stuff that he wasn't even conscious, let alone in pain? I hope I'm remembering that correctly.

Yes, I believe that was the case. The internet is awash in gore-hounds and rumor-mongers so it would be hard for me to pinpoint the precise details, though, at least not without trying to dig up primary sources (or at least rooting around in the thread for someone else who has; the topic has come up at least twice now I believe).

Relevant details which I'm reasonably confident of as thus:

The prolonged study period may make this sound like something that happened in the laissez-faire era of sixties scientific research, or something like that, but the accident occurred in 1999.

He reported being in great pain at least once early on. I believe it was after this point he was heavily sedated and did not return to consciousness.

He lived for about three months; another heavily exposed worker was being treated with skin grafts and blood transfusions, and might have had some chance, but succumbed to infection.

He was supposedly revived from cardiac arrest at some point, but was allowed to pass away later at the wishes of his family.

At some point, genetic samples were taken, and his DNA was so thoroughly damaged that chromosomes weren't identifiable. His DNA was so scrambled it's kind of incredible/horrifying he lived as long as he did even with medical intervention.

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




Last time nuclear accident came up in...I can't remember if it was this thread or another one...someone recommended this book https://www.amazon.com/Command-Cont...25KV25GHWC6D1WQ

I got it for Christmas and it's one of the best books I've ever read so thanks to whoever it was that recommended it

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


uber_stoat posted:

they induced a coma. he wasn't feeling anything. still kind of hideous tho.

just realized I have a book about this poor bastard on my amazon wishlist. should get on that.

https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1942993544

Saw someone on Reddit talking about this, apparently they were attempting several treatments to save him as part of the study, so it's not nearly as ghoulish as it sounds.

The picture may also not be him, since a foot amputation was not part of his treatment.

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://i.imgur.com/jQmM2yS.gifv

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009



You gotta be fuckin' kidding...

Altared State
Jan 14, 2006

I think I was born to burn

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Comptroll The Forums
Apr 25, 2007

DON'T HURT MY FEE FEES!

Gonna show her my "O" face

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