HBO’s Chernobyl (2019)

[jpmuscle]

Radiation is scary? Like most of other similar attempts of man to harness nature, there is risk in tickling the dragon.

Have you read the SL-1 reactor meltdown story? That is horrifying. However, the US tragedy led to improving safety standards the world over. Even the supercritical incidents involving the Demon Core of the Manhattan Project meant that lives lost would push safety developments.

True but in both of those incidents the resounding response is DUH

Like given how SL1 was designed nobody had the foresight to think hey, you know what maybe we shouldn’t design this thing in such away that pulling the MAIN control rod just a little to far will cause the reactor to go critical.

As for the plutonium core in the Manhattan project those incidents read like hubris and really smart people combining. Like here let’s see how close I can get to cheating death and oops, to far.



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[bp7178]

No these were full grown Moose, Bears, deer, adult mise...etc...

None of those animals live as long as humans. IIRC, the upper end of life expectancy for moose is 25 years. Consider that the general expected lifespan for a human is 79 years.

[MountainRaven]

None of those animals live as long as humans. IIRC, the upper end of life expectancy for moose is 25 years. Consider that the general expected lifespan for a human is 79 years.

Well, 69.79 years for someone born in Ukraine in 1986.

[Alex V]

Well, 69.79 years for someone born in Ukraine in 1986.

What about born in Ukraine in 1982?

[MountainRaven]

What about born in Ukraine in 1982?

68.90. :P

[Alex V]

68.90. :P

Shit... I'm middle aged. Time to buy a Corvette.

[HardToHandle]

Wow, I just saw the scene where they pick the swimmers to drain the tanks. Intense.
Also speaks to the courage and sacrifice made to save millions of lives.

Favorably impressed with the writing, production and acting. Fitting to tell the story.
Worth the watch, totally.

[Firefly]

I just want to see an epilogue with dudes in gas masks shooting mutants with LR-300s

There I said it

[TexHill]

There's also an accompanying podcast that goes a little deeper into events and the making of the series.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...t/id1459712981

[sundance435]

Wow, I just saw the scene where they pick the swimmers to drain the tanks. Intense.
Also speaks to the courage and sacrifice made to save millions of lives.

Favorably impressed with the writing, production and acting. Fitting to tell the story.
Worth the watch, totally.

I like that aspect of the show - contrasting the inhumanity/stupidity of the regime with individual acts of bravery. The little speech by the Politburo guy to get volunteers really summarizes what I know of the Russian ethos.