Chernobyl
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- shapesalad0
Russian forces are flying above Chernobyl in a holding pattern while firing missiles at Kyiv. The Ukrainians are unable to attack back, in case they hit Chernobyl.
- shapesalad0
https://www.newscientist.com/art…
"Chernobyl radiation spike probably from Russian tanks disturbing dust
After Russian forces captured the ruined Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 24 February, sensors at the site report a spike in radiation levels"
Sounds healthy...
- drgs1
- SteveJobs0
Just finished this miniseries - all in one sitting. So good.
Anything else like this? Good documentaries/docuseries?
- I posted a few here: https://www.qbn.com/…utopian
- thanks, I'll check them out!SteveJobs
- _niko1
Late to the party was avoiding this because i knew it’d be hard to watch, and I was right, brutal viewing yet I can’t pull away.
One thing that amazes me is that people so close to the plant, either the firemen or the “three” or anyone else in the thick of it immediately afterwards somehow survived.
That it wasn’t an automatic death sentence to all.
- sted6
- Ramanisky20
- Welcome to the year 2019. It's all about the LIKES. The #1 drug : DopaminBennn
- Beeswax0
I remember how we got panicked in Turkey because of the clouds that came over the black sea.
Scientists said all the tea and nut crops on the black sea shores were contaminated.
The minister of Commerce went on the TV to drink tea to show people that it's all fine and a bit of radiation is actually ok.
3.5 months later after the incident they found out that the contamination is far more serious so they destroyed the crops or they told us that.
Same minister apologised years later that they were too slow to respond and some of the tea and other produce have already been distributed around the country.- I remember people were afraid of the radioactive clouds coming towards Canada! .. I was a kid and still remember itBennn
- I remember, that too, Bennn. I also remember my parents filling huge plastic containers of tap water, and deep-freezing it, just in case. Scary as a kid.Continuity
- sarahfailin2
I think that New Yorker article colin_s posted is pretty good. It's good to keep in mind what's fact and what is fiction. I also thought at times the character Emily Watson played was unrealistic in her demeanor and maybe a little trite in being the knowing scientist willing to confront directly the systems of power. Especially so because she was a *woman* scientist in the 80s in the soviet union. It felt like that was just a play to modern, western audiences who needed a woman in this drama that's otherwise a sausage-fest.
I think what the article gets wrong is that the show really DOES indict the system more than it does the individual men. The author claims that the show just vilifies a few bad actors and misses the system, but I thought that the show did just the opposite. The central thesis seemed to be that it was the system itself which created the disaster, and the people who played roles in directly causing it were following the design of the soviet system of lies and cutting corners.
It's right though to examine historical fiction and know exactly what is history and what is fiction.
- ernexbcn-4
What I find truly distressing is people yearning for communism and pissed because a show telling just one of the many failures that system caused. This comment isn't about anybody in this thread, just some personal observations from other social networks.
- Nobody wants Communism now do they?PhanLo
- socialism is bad because it has failed? capitalism is failing. bad!imbecile
- derpBusterBoy
- true nuclear fallout has never been triedGnash
- except for Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini Islands, Mururoa,...uan
- but those were from 'capitalism' so probably they don't count ;-Puan
- @PhanLo oh trust me, there are kids longing for communism, I haven't mentioned the word socialism btwernexbcn
- people who think communism and socialism are the same thing probably shouldn't comment about either.Gnash
- i believe i meant to write communism but was subliminally influenced by the social networks at the end leading to the error, either way it was a smartass remarkimbecile
- :)Gnash
- PhanLo3
Grim viewing. Crazy they filmed so much.
I wondered if the make up was a bit overkill, but it seems it wasn't.- Wow. Vom.maquito
- 4:50 is nightmare materialernexbcn
- Moar!drgs
- Is the unibrow a radiation side effect?milfhunter
- mg335
Fell asleep watching the last episode on the couch last night, but woke up in the flashback part of the story showing the explosion. Scared the living hell out of me - subwoofer was rumbling and as I had been asleep it was pretty intense to wake up to that.
- colin_s-4
https://www.newyorker.com/news/o…
I find it quite distressing that everyone is lauding this show, especially its 'accuracy' - when Emily Mortimer's character was a complete invention. there's a scary trend in American entertainment to want to "learn history" through fictitious stories, actualized for screen drama... we wonder why we have a reality TV show president, well. It makes for great TV.
- Emily Watson, excuse mecolin_s
- it's a single person, ffs ... it's impossible to have a ton of character development if you're going for 100% real people and interactions onlymonospaced
- it's lauded because it's a good show, and happens to be incredibly accurate to history big picturemonospaced
- incredibly accurateshoes
- strange example to get distressed about. It's really good and seems to be well researched and intelligently made.Fax_Benson
- also seems lots of people have actually been intrigued enough to find out the facts, and test how authentic the show really is.Fax_Benson
- Chances are that this fictitious character had experiences that were very likely to have had occurred.monospaced
- lol - Mortimer
To Fax's point, it spurred me to learn as much as I could outside of the show.Vandal7 - DIdn't they explain that her character was an amalgamation of lots of people. There were over 100 dedicated boffins and they can't show them all,Morning_star
- yes, her character was meant to represent the group of scientists/experts that were involved in dealing with the crisis, what's wrong with that?ernexbcn
- People like historic re-creation. Peaky Blinders, Westworld, etc. It’s not about “learning history”, but enjoying efforts to re-create nicer moments thanmaquito
- ...the actual shitty present we live in.maquito
- And besides, the art and cinematography are splendid. Really nice to watch. I enjoyed every single second of it.maquito
- kingsteven1
- adds nothing to the story, but his story could be something interesting on its own.tank02
- There were quite a few African Americans who moved to the Soviet Union, seeking escape from racism, I think it was ok for a while before they got Gulag'ed...PhanLo
- ...as the the authorities thought he was a spy.PhanLo
- ...'they were spies' sorry.PhanLo
- shapesalad0
Worth noting Fukushima is still ongoing:
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-fu…- Was thinking the same. But I guess ppl will notice Fukushima again when they drop a TV series about itgrafician