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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...ignatenko.html
Here's some of the interview with the wife. The death of that dude sounds like the worst way to die imaginable. He was spitting up parts of his lungs and intestines. Jesus. |
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I have a coworker who is fond of saying "we don't know what we don't know" and that's the case here. These were highly trained, extremely intelligent people (though Dyatlov had some demons that I don't believe the show has explored yet) and they were simply certain that the reactor literally exploding was impossible. A melt down? They might have considered that possibility. But the kind of incident simply wasn't something they believed could happen so they were immediately skeptical of it. And then even when more information trickled in, they didn't want to believe it because of how dire it was. It reminds me of my favorite quote from Tom Moore. He was the OC with the Colts at the time and he was asked why Manning's backups don't get more reps: "Folks, if 18 goes down we're ****ed, and we don't practice ****ed..." Bottom line is that they were ****ed and they didn't practice ****ed. So they simply refused to accept is as their reality until they had no other alternative.
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It has something to do with how the radiation impacts you at a genetic level. It literally changes your physical makeup. Your body stops making blood cells, your skin is fundamentally altered. Your bone marrow is effectively rendered inert. I mean the things those massive doses of radiation do to a body are beyond comprehension; in some ways they make you simply not human anymore because your biological processes just stop. You're a walking corpse and you just haven't realized it yet so you start to rot while breathing. That's a completely different rabbit hole to go down but some of the things this disaster taught people about massive doses of radiation's impact on the body were simply staggering. I honestly believe the people that witnessed what happened to those exposed were completely unaware that it was possible.
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That's an amazing quote. I hadn't heard that before. Thanks. |
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I haven't gotten to episode 3 yet. It sounds pretty gnarly from the posts.
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Appears HBO has a companion podcast for each episode. Anyone try it yet and worth the time?
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Great series so far. I admittedly didn't know much about the Chernobyl disaster and have learned a lot. I've probably paused each episode a dozen times googling random things about nuclear power-plants, radiation, and Chernobyl itself.
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In my queue but haven’t listened yet.
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Chernobyl Heart
There is a documentary made in 2003 called Chernobyl Heart. It won the Academy Award for Short Subject Documentary. Very interesting. I used to show it to high school chemistry students when they were learning about nuclear reactions, power plants etc. It really sobered them up for a day.
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