Chernobyl
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- grafician8
https://twitter.com/SlavaMalamud…
This guy on twitter posts reviews about how authentic this show really is so far...
- Nice findmaquito
- Read that earlier today .. very cool.Ramanisky2
- and what better way to post it than in 280 character long chunks on Twitterdrgs
- @drgs he reviews it scene-by-scene, tweet-by-tweet. Just so you guys know, most of what he says applies to most East-European countries under communismgrafician
- really interesting, thanksFax_Benson
- and there were people here so quick to write it off as biased and inaccurate without even seeing a single second of itmonospaced
- pr2-6
Since so many of you love to waste away your brains on HBO's fictitious interpretation of reality, let me steer your to a great book about the Chernobyl disaster. Reading it you won't be giving into simplistic Hollywood interpretations; instead of banality of most obvious feelings, you will be exploring thoughtful and great literature and as a side benefit, won't be looked down on by guys like me for willingly letting mass culture steering your understanding of reality. Winner!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc…- Hey, I've not travelled by rail since Rob Lowe's Atomic Train.see_thru
- how about your fictitious interpretations on socialism? do we look down on you?hotroddy
- hot, go ahead try from you "mounting" of 3 pages thick mountain.pr2
- And here I thought I was too full of myself.
Thanks pr2!deadsperm - Looks like a good book thoughsarahfailin
- Read this a few months back. https://www.chemistr… the HBO series doesn't seem that far off to meJerseyRaindog
- Bennn3
can't wait for the next episode! really good quality cinema
- ernexbcn8
hahah the salty peeps on this thread
- https://independenta…pr2
- PR guy is such a frustrated guy...tank02
- PonyBoy3
given all the heavy moments in this show I was grateful for the break this scene provided...
- Yeah. That episode had some funny lines and little set pieces. I like the sarcastic animosity between Legasov and Boris.Fax_Benson
- and the mine crew bossFax_Benson
- Miner boss was tops. It was funny, but like everything in that show it's tinged with sadness.PhanLo
- and with some of the heaviest moments so far it was almost a relief to see dozens of naked minersGardener
- Ramanisky21
The liquidators were in charge of cleaning up the rooftop of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. They earned a measly bonus of 800 Rubles for their effort. Wow!!!
- They would go in groups of 2 to 3 men for only up to 90 seconds at a time.Ramanisky2
- yep, its crazyBennn
- Such a crazy system.PhanLo
- teh0
Should have been subtitled. Do they all have English accents?
- drgs0
- teh1
We will have to wait 30 years for a story about Japan's?
- colin_s0
this is wonderful but everyone speaking in traditional english is strange. like, would doing russian accents be considered condescending or something? and obviously they wouldn't perform in american english, so traditional is just how it was decided for US viewership to both accept as foreign but still understand?
that's the one thing that distracts me - especially when the radio broadcast, or whatever, is obviously from the USSR but lacks subtitles ... everything else has been quite wonderful.
- it's not strange considering who's making the show and who the audience ismonospaced
- I just think that such a notable story wouldn't get the same traction for viewers if it used subtitles.mg33
- I do find the whole "english" accent as "foreign" funny though. That is used a lot in shows.monospaced
- READING SUCKS! :Dmg33
- It was the right decision. A whole series with subtitles make no sense.Bennn
- right but why not english with a russian accent?colin_s
- ^ I would blame Jennifer Lawrence for that one... if done poorly (red sparrow) it's probably even more distractingbogue
- Russia adopts american shows by dubbing them to their language, so you can watch it in Russian laterdrgs
- Personally I think there's nothing more annoying than when actors talk english with a russian / german accent in movies. Fuck that.haga
- Gnash0
I've yet to watch the show but this twitter thread has made me move it to the top of my watch-list.
Although I'm sure that pr2 has more direct and personal experience that easily dismisses this comrade's perspective
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" I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO. My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media..."
- lemmy_k0
Why is it that they had to kill all of the animals? Did I miss something?
- They were irradiated and needed to be culled so it wouldn't spread.Vandal7
- Gotcha. Thanks.lemmy_k
- Still seems a bit silly. What about all the soldiers getting irradiated? Will they get a bullet next?sarahfailin
- Bennn4
Plutonium is "the most toxic substance known to mankind"
- Bennn2
1. Plutonium (Pu)
All the elements with an atomic number of 84 and above are radioactive. The simplest explanation for this is they are too big and unstable and breakdown giving off lethal radioactive particles as they do.
The biggest and baddest of all the naturally occurring elements is plutonium with an atomic number of 94. Unlike other naturally occurring radionuclides Pu gives off alpha, beta and gamma radiation. As well as being highly radioactive this element is also toxic like other heavy metals are.
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Inhalation is the most harmful route for plutonium exposure and one estimate suggests 500g of plutonium dust released into the air would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people.If this is the case it is slightly alarming that there are several tons of the stuff in the biospheres thanks to weapons testing in the 1950s and 60s!
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#In addition to these toxic qualities plutonium is also the material of choice for nuclear weapons. Consider the one kilogram of pure plutonium – this contains sufficient energy to power a major city for several hours. It is also sufficient to make a 10 kiloton explosion, i.e. the same as 10,000 tons of conventional explosives. This is about half the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
- teh0
Anyone got a number for the comrade count?
- 31 dead liquidators (directly caused by the disaster) + 4000 later death from cancer etc. Interestingly, all 3 suicide divers lived til 2000's.drgs
- Not that many deaths, when you think about it (9/11 had more), but could have been million times worse, with whole of Europe being uninhabitable for centuriesdrgs
- Two of the divers are still alive today, one died of a stroke or something in the 2000's.raf
- raf0
A noticeable increase in thyroid disorders (mostly Hashimoto disease in women) in East Europe has always been attributed to the Chernobyl disaster.
It is now disputed whether it is a direct effect, or could it have been caused by mass-administered Lugol's iodine.
In Poland, some 18 million people, mostly children drank Lugol's iodine when the contamination was discovered.
- Nairn0
Anyone got a decent source on this assertion that Europe would've been rendered an unihabitable wasteland had Chernobyl really shit the bed?
All I could find was rebuttals, eg. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true…
- Read the same thing long ago, can't find the source now...OBBTKN
