cock hero flux posted:

i think you can forgive the guy having problems with perception of time when he's recounting a story about how he flew on a high speed aircraft to get roaring drunk in scotland 60 years ago

ElGroucho posted:

Goddamn lying fucks

Mao Zedong Thot posted:

What the ever loving gently caress is going on itt

Ograbme posted:

Why did they only have one accessible dosimeter? I have at least 2 thermometers, and I don't even work at a temperature factory.

Ograbme posted:

Why did they only have one accessible dosimeter? I have at least 2 thermometers, and I don't even work at a temperature factory.

Ograbme posted:

Why did they only have one accessible dosimeter? I have at least 2 thermometers, and I don't even work at a temperature factory.

Mao Zedong Thot posted:

I can't believe someone would do that just...... Lie....
on a television show and everything

Dr. Stab posted:

They had a bunch of thermometers, just not any that go above 50c.

atomicpile posted:

50C is hot, but survivable in short bursts. Not great but not terrible.

Mao Zedong Thot posted:

my god i cant believe teh firefighters widow could mix up such basic sciennce what a LYING PIECE OF poo poo RUINING MY IMMERSION

Captain Beans posted:

Related question-

Is there a general ambient air temperature that humans can’t compensate for by sweating? Let’s say you have unlimited water and no wind. I assume there is a point where you core temp will continue to rise no matter how much you sweat.

e: i guess you would need to consider humidity

sweet thursday posted:

This isn't TVIV. They care that the leather in Legasov's shoes came from the right breed of Soviet cow. We just want to talk about spicy rocks and nuclear science, man

And if we have drained the last drop of meme blood from that spicy rock then so be it

Jose posted:

i was away at a stag do and just got back home and saw 260 new posts so skipped to the penultimate page and saw 3 moridin posts in a row and gently caress that

Crazycryodude posted:

Yeah healthy non-old/child humans can survive absurdly high temperatures as long as it's dry and they have protective clothing and lots of water. The thing that gets you is humidity so your sweat stops evaporating, and if it gets real bad the inside of your lungs are the coolest, driest place the air touches so all the water starts condensing out of the air into your lungs. Anything over 100+ Fahrenheit with high humidity is real dangerous.

Now, conditions like this don't exist outside of labs, yet. Give it a few more decades of warming and you could have people drowning on air during humid heat waves.

PittTheElder posted:

I want to know more

quote:

Living organisms can survive only within a certain temperature range. When the ambient temperature is excessive, humans and many animals cool themselves below ambient by evaporative cooling (sweat in humans and horses, saliva and water in dogs and other mammals); this helps to prevent potentially fatal hyperthermia due to heat stress. The effectiveness of evaporative cooling depends upon humidity; wet-bulb temperature, or more complex calculated quantities such as Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) which also takes account of solar radiation, give a useful indication of the degree of heat stress, and are used by several agencies as the basis for heat stress prevention guidelines.

A sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature our bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it. Thus 35 °C (95 °F) is the threshold beyond which the body is no longer able to adequately cool itself. A study by NOAA from 2013 concluded that heat stress will reduce labor capacity considerably under current emissions scenarios.

A 2010 study concluded that under a worst-case scenario for global warming with temperatures 12 °C (22 °F) higher than 2007, the wet-bulb temperature limit for humans could be exceeded around much of the world in future centuries. A 2015 study concluded that parts of the globe could become uninhabitable. An example of the threshold at which the human body is no longer able to cool itself and begins to overheat is a humidity level of 50% and a high heat of 46 °C (115 °F), as this would indicate a wet-bulb temperature of 35 °C (95 °F).

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Red salute to the Soviet proletarians who worked together to contain the Chernobyl incident. I don't have anything to add though except to note the show has inspired jokes among my circle like when my bro blew a tire on the highway and I went to rescue him and demand he explain how an RBMK-powered Honda Civic can just "blow a tire" like that. Impossible if you ask me

My understanding is that the Soviet secret police had their last hurrah under ex-KGB chief Andropov when he tried to improve labor productivity by cracking down on playing hookie from work i.e. "social parasitism" which mainly involved sending out plain clothes officers to harass people in movie theaters at 2 p.m. on weekday and so forth like

"hey bub, what are you doing watching a movie it's time to get back to work!"

Hence why Andropov was nicknamed Bystropov which is a portmanteau combining Andropov with "bystro" or fast because people were go go go or else... well I think they'd put you in the equivalent of a county lockup for a week if you really didn't feel like going to work

Anne Whateley posted:

Robert Peter Gale is a US doctor who flew out to identify and treat Chernobyl victims immediately afterward.

And conveniently, he wrote a 4-part review of the accuracy of the series. Part 1

Anne Whateley posted:

I haven't heard anything about that but I skip rows of posts with incoherent screaming. Post it if you got it, I'm curious

Demon Of The Fall posted:

Help, I'm a goddamn skeleton by Fukishima guy

Michaeldim posted:

poverty goat posted:

lol his first name is hyman

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

If your friend has any mathematical skill, you can easily show the scale required for solar panels to produce enough energy to meet today's needs for the United States. It's not a matter of efficiency, there simply isn't enough energy reaching the Earth's surface.

You would need a solar array the size of Pennsylvania.

How do you
(1) Produce that many solar panels without an obscene expenditure of fossil fuel energy?
(2) Produce that many solar panels without an obscene amount of hazardous chemicals / waste?
(3) Have that much sunlight blocked from the land without the largest ecological disaster in history?
(4) Clean the birdshit off of them?

Prav posted:

Hell Yeah posted:

nerds look at tv so wrong. they ruin everything

Baronjutter posted:

I don't know why this wasn't posted here yet.

Honky Dong Country posted:

If you're advocating for the abandonment of nuclear power then just be honest and throw your support behind continuing to set poo poo on fire to keep the lights on and ruining the planet. Because that's what you're doing indirectly. Renewables can't take the load, especially with the insufficient power storage technology we have. There's good things happening in that department as well, but we're a long way off to being ready to go all renewable and we need to stop burning poo poo as soon as possible. You won't pull that off with renewables.

ethanol posted:

a kitten posted:

feelix posted:

That is indeed a hypothetical considering I am a highly intelligent holder of a doctorate.

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Evil Agita posted:

Does my PhD need to be in nuclear physics or can it be in something else? Its currently in OPs mom please advise

Michaeldim posted:

Phanatic posted:

More like PhDeez nuts.

withak posted:

What the gently caress does HBO really know about making TV?

Irom posted:

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Forget radiation exposure, imagine how that unventilated tunnel smelled.

poverty goat posted:

here's a big album of pripyat/chernobyl pictures, starting before the accident w/ some pics of the npp under construction

https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

Michaeldim posted:

Just learned that the dude who made and wrote this show wrote Scary Movies 3 and 4.

Michaeldim posted:

lmao I just rewatched Ep. 3 and when the chief miner dude asks Legasov for a cigarette, Legasov hands him his pack and the dude loving pockets the whole loving pack and here I didn't think I could love this man any more.

Julius CSAR posted:

Party Aparatchik in Blue Suit Chased By Burly Radioactive Miner With Hat Then hosed

Blind Rasputin posted:

Russian Minister gets Filthy so 20 Miners will work his shaft.

Blind Rasputin posted:

White Hot U235 Absolutely Sizzling Between Two Black Graphite Moderators.

Julius CSAR posted:

Nuclear Physicist Arrested By KGB ASMR JOI With Steam Explosion Countdown

SeXReX posted:

when you SCRAM and she keeps criticality

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Vastarien posted:

https://webm.red/WtPv.webm

does this webm poo poo work?

RocketSurgeon posted:

How is babby (de)formed?

Julius CSAR posted:

TV show guy: “No, no, what unit were you in, in Afghanistan?”

Me: “lol this kid is so hosed”

Woof Blitzer posted:

Chernobyl Part 4:

AFewBricksShy posted:

"This is Fine!" BARF

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Dely Apple posted:

Julius CSAR posted:

Well gently caress Anne, I couldn't find that post. But I did go through and find some of the thread's greatest hits from the first 50 or so pages...

Colonel Taint posted:

This is uh... probably going to get taken down soon but I had this idea earlier today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDrsM5jv3mM

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

I can simplify things for you.

The baby in the Chernobyl series didn’t actually die of radiation poisoning in reality.

The writer, Craig Mazin, was going for a bullet motif:

“Every atom of U-235 is like a bullet, traveling at nearly the speed of light, penetrating nearly everything in its path: woods, metal, concrete, flesh. Every gram of U-235 holds over a billion trillion of these bullets. ... That’s three million billion trillion bullets in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. Most of these bullets will not stop firing for 100 years.”

This bullet motif is why all the characters are constantly, ahistorically, threatening to shoot eachother.

The notion of “three million billion trillion bullets” is deployed so that the radiation unleashed at Chernobyl can serve as a metaphor for the USSR’s entire violent history, and a general societal pressure / malaise. (The old cow woman treats Stalin, Lenin, the Czars, Gorbachev, and the exploded reactor as completely interchangeable because they all killed people with ‘bullets’. Guns are bad.)

Sometimes the radiation/bullet/history metaphor is very effective, as when the soldiers exterminate housepets while ruminating over the failed invasion of Afghanistan. But in some cases, like the magic radiation baby, it’s pretty weak.

Mazin is going for the idea (directly stated by the Emily Morton character, who often serves as Mazin’s self-insert) that the innocent baby heroically jumped in front of a million billion bullets and saved its mother - just like the miners, right?

But radiation doesn’t actually work that way at all. The baby’s death in reality was just an unfortunate coincidence. So you have the Emily Morton character endorsing a comfortable falsehood over the painful truth that the baby didn’t die a hero.

And there are two complementary issues here: Morton is ostensibly a composite of dozens of real-life hero scientists, so the false baby story is falsely attributed to them. And, at the same time, the basic decision to create a composite character generates a standard Hollywood narrative where the rebellious free-thinking individual faces off against the mass of sheeple. The real scientists didn’t strongarm their way through government checkpoints and so-on. They were working for the government.

It’s not a very minor quibble, since the Morton character literally gets threatened with the gulag/death over the radioactive baby, then gives a couple speeches about it. It’s a key part of her characterization.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

Couldn't the baby have absorbed a lot of the alpha/beta particles which were inside her, acting like a kind of dialysis/shield? It makes a certain kind of sense...


She certainly believes it, anyways.

Julius CSAR posted:

Well gently caress Anne, I couldn't find that post. But I did go through and find some of the thread's greatest hits from the first 50 or so pages...

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Reopened because those Russians are at it again!

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/09/radiation-spike-fuels-scramble-for-iodine-in-russian-cities-near-explosion-a66785