Chernobyl was 30 years ago today

[Izuno]

4/26/1986  (or if you prefer 26/4/1986)

I know many people here were not even born yet, but this event had a profound future effect on the video game industry, and I don't mean just S.T.A.L.K.E.R.  The idea of post-apocalypse in art/cinema/gaming wasn't new when Chernobyl happened but when it did, suddenly there was a place on Earth that was an actual real slice of what a post-apocalypse might be like.

[will2k]

1 hour ago, Izuno said:

4/26/1986  (or if you prefer 26/4/1986)

I know many people here were not even born yet, but this event had a profound future effect on the video game industry, and I don't mean just S.T.A.L.K.E.R.  The idea of post-apocalypse in art/cinema/gaming wasn't new when Chernobyl happened but when it did, suddenly there was a place on Earth that was an actual real slice of what a post-apocalypse might be like.

 

This event had a profound future effect on humanity and the whole world; fixed it for you

But seriously, a nuclear disaster was then a reality instead of just a possibility and people had to deal with actual heavy consequences. The world started panicking and the fact that East Europe had similar poorly-maintained nuclear plants only made things even worse.

I was in elementary school at the time and I still remember my parents and adults in the neighborhood clearly worried whether the nuclear fallout will reach us (roughly 1200 miles/1930 km from Chernobyl), especially after news started pouring down that the radioactive particles reached Sweden located at 680 miles/1100 km from the ground zero.

And it was the 80s, so communication and news were slow compared to today, which made uncertainty even scarier.

STALKER is awesome btw

 

[D3ads]

The only Level 7 Radioactive disaster other than Fukushima in world history, hopefully there will be no more...

I wonder how many of you know about the 1957 disaster at Mayak, Ozyorsk in Chelyabinsk Oblast in then Soviet Russia. Rated 6 on the INES, it's virutally unknown to a lot of people (probably because it happened in a closed city and was largely covered up) yet resulted in several towns and villages evacuated and close to 10,000 deaths;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

 

Edited April 27, 2016 by D3ads

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[Izuno]

Didn't know that about Mayak. Scary stuff!

[clankill3r]

I have found chernobyl always fascinating. People had no idea what was going on.

A lot of people watched the fire from this bridge, having no clue it was killing them.

[FMPONE]

8 hours ago, clankill3r said:

I have found chernobyl always fascinating. People had no idea what was going on.

A lot of people watched the fire from this bridge, having no clue it was killing them.

Feels weird "liking" a post like this, but the beauty of this scene rivals the tragedy of it.

I always found it amazing that people went into the reactor to build the sarcophagus, it's just such a dramatic series of events, sort of like a Russian 9/11 but even more insane because the enemy is nature/mankinds own technological hubris

[D3ads]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/photos-of-everyday-life-in-pripyat-before-the-chernobyl-1618107860

[-HP-]

Leave it to russians to make a creepy fucking mickey mouse

Also:

http://imgur.com/a/trm7p

and

 

[D3ads]

Some old photos of the famous Azure Swimming pool;

 

Even video footage:

 

Lots of old photos of Pripyat again here:

http://pripyat-city.ru/photo/

Edited May 5, 2016 by D3ads

[RaVaGe]

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Geiger reading in the Red Forest, on our way out of the exclusion zone. One of the most contaminated areas in the world.

What a fucking BS, these scrubs know nothing about radiation yet makes a claim like that.

Oh shit, actually you get more radiation during a plane flight than being at Chernobyl ? wat ?

[-HP-]

Well, a flight only lasts a few hours. I can imagine that living under those levels of contamination for days, weeks or months can fuck you up bad.

[RaVaGe]

12 minutes ago, (HP) said:

Well, a flight only lasts a few hours. I can imagine that living under those levels of contamination for days, weeks or months can fuck you up bad.

What about a pilot then ahah, the thing is, we're irradiated everywhere, when you eat a bannana you're irradiated, when you smoke you're irradiated (smoking 5 packets is equal to the annual maximum permissible dose for a person). The average annual dose for a french is ~2,4 mSv/year, everything is contaminated man, you won't find something on earth that is not irradiated.

I'm not sure if it's advisable to live at Tchernobyl tho, but it's not as bad as most people assume.

[-HP-]

Yeap, absolutely. Both pilots and crewmembers are considered as radiation workers by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/11/14/245183244/cosmic-rays-sound-scary-but-radiation-risk-on-a-flight-is-small

Maybe Tchernobyl is not as bad as many assume but who's willing to find out? That's why there's so many studies done to the flora and fauna over there, and what's funny tho is that it seems that some species like worms are actually mutating to adjust to the high radiation. It's the same fucking problem with Fukushima, we know what the short term problems are because there's dozens of confirmed deaths with radiation as it's cause but the big questions has always been long term repercussions of radiation.

[RaVaGe]

1 hour ago, (HP) said:

Yeap, absolutely. Both pilots and crewmembers are considered as radiation workers by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/11/14/245183244/cosmic-rays-sound-scary-but-radiation-risk-on-a-flight-is-small

Maybe Tchernobyl is not as bad as many assume but who's willing to find out? That's why there's so many studies done to the flora and fauna over there, and what's funny tho is that it seems that some species like worms are actually mutating to adjust to the high radiation. It's the same fucking problem with Fukushima, we know what the short term problems are because there's dozens of confirmed deaths with radiation as it's cause but the big questions has always been long term repercussions of radiation.

Yeah defo, if you want to live at  Chernobyl don't count me in ahah, but it's always nice to put things in perspective.

Also electromagnetic radiation is not the biggest problem, it's getting way worse when you inhale/digest a particle, it's causing wayyyy more damages.

Edited May 5, 2016 by RaVaGe