HBO's Chernobyl

[Pannonian]

It had an impact everywhere - there were sheep in Cumbria who couldn't be sold or moves for decades after without special permits.

But funnily enough, the area around Chernobyl is now thriving with wildlife. Bad though a nuclear meltdown is, in the long run it's still less damaging than modern civilisation.

[drone]

Russian TV to create it's own Chernobyl show, with blackjack and hookers...
I guess the show's premise of humiliating a system that is obsessed with not being humiliated rings true. The HBO show makes heroes out of the people cleaning up the mess, but whatever...

I also take this time to admonish Valve for dropping the ball here. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bundle is $40 on Steam, even though the game came out in 2007. How about a quick sale to take advantage of the interest?

[the tokai]

Russian TV to create it's own Chernobyl show, with blackjack and hookers...
I guess the show's premise of humiliating a system that is obsessed with not being humiliated rings true. The HBO show makes heroes out of the people cleaning up the mess, but whatever...

I also take this time to admonish Valve for dropping the ball here. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bundle is $40 on Steam, even though the game came out in 2007. How about a quick sale to take advantage of the interest?

It's 70% off on GOG right now.

[CrossLOPER]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#28cfd4a7632f

It wasn't that bad. Nuclear power is great. Solar power kills more birds. Radiation sickness is perfectly survivable. Barely anyone got cancer.

[Husar]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael.../#28cfd4a7632f

It wasn't that bad. Nuclear power is great. Solar power kills more birds. Radiation sickness is perfectly survivable. Barely anyone got cancer.

Seems like a terrible author when you look up the institute he co-founded and what it does.
Btw, you can also survive cancer, so nuclear really isn't that bad.
I'm a huge fan of using that huge yellow nuclear fusion plant in the sky for energy...don't try to collect too much of it with your skin though, that way there's more cancer...

[Montmorency]

Seems like a terrible author when you look up the institute he co-founded and what it does.
Btw, you can also survive cancer, so nuclear really isn't that bad.
I'm a huge fan of using that huge yellow nuclear fusion plant in the sky for energy...don't try to collect too much of it with your skin though, that way there's more cancer...

Is he correct in evaluating the show's portrayal of radiation sickness, though?

Russian TV to create it's own Chernobyl show, with blackjack and hookers...

If the Russian mainstream despises the show, Gilrandir is obligated to like it.

[Husar]

Is he correct in evaluating the show's portrayal of radiation sickness, though?

Probably, but until he buys a house right next to the Chernobyl reactor to live there with his family, I'm not buying that the whole radiation scare isn't so bad.

[Gilrandir]

Probably, but until he buys a house right next to the Chernobyl reactor to live there with his family, I'm not buying that the whole radiation scare isn't so bad.

What if he wrote his book in this house? Can the influence of radiation account for his views?

[Husar]

What if he wrote his book in this house? Can the influence of radiation account for his views?

I think that is a possibility, you never know with quantum science.
A quantum science once fell on the head of the friend of my cousin's grandmother's barber's dog and he hasn't been the same since.

[Gilrandir]

A quantum science once fell on the head of the friend of my cousin's grandmother's barber's dog and he hasn't been the same since.

You mean "a thick book on quantum science"?

[Gilrandir]

If the Russian mainstream despises the show, Gilrandir is obligated to like it.

If you were observant, some days ago in this thread I claimed I didn't watch it. And my mind does not change with the setting and rising of a few suns. Since it happened so close (both in time and distance) I don't need any show to tell me the story of the tragedy again. I expect a Titanic survivor wouldn't like to watch the movie either. Although, I might be wrong in this. I wouldn't, anyway.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

But funnily enough, the area around Chernobyl is now thriving with wildlife. Bad though a nuclear meltdown is, in the long run it's still less damaging than modern civilisation.

This is not exactly true.

Some areas in the exclusion zone are thriving with wildlife, but the animals have been observed to not live as long, and other areas remain utterly dead.

The plant exploded but it didn't leave some sort of magical miasma in a perfect ring around the reactor dome - there are hotspots and coldspots of radiation. Some areas are entirely liveable, some a deadly within a few hours or less.

It's a widely recognised fact that the Nuclear Power we use is pretty much the most dangerous form of the technology, and we use it primarily because it doubles up as a way to make fissile material for bombs.