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Grove Sh*tter

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There was a cool episode of Nova on PBS about the new structure they are building to protect the site which is crumbling. At first they slapped up a concrete "sarcophagus" which they knew would be temporary. Now they have built a new structure, just off site, on a sliding rail so they can work where there is relatively little radiation and move the enormous thing over the existing site.

Another awesome episode of Nova, btw, is on the Concord airliner. The complexity of design between engineers working with different measuring units (French and English cooperation) before computers (cool shot of a room with hundreds of drafting boards with a man on each one) is staggering. Throw in some industrial espionage via the Soviets... it's a cool story.
 
Xenomorph

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I've read a couple of books on Chernobyl. The things the Soviet government.. lead by Gorbachev.. did in the days after the explosion were unforgivable. If the HBO series is true to events there are going to be some scenes that are really tough to watch.
 
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Grove Sh*tter said:
There was a cool episode of Nova on PBS about the new structure they are building to protect the site which is crumbling. At first they slapped up a concrete "sarcophagus" which they knew would be temporary. Now they have built a new structure, just off site, on a sliding rail so they can work where there is relatively little radiation and move the enormous thing over the existing site.

Another awesome episode of Nova, btw, is on the Concord airliner. The complexity of design between engineers working with different measuring units (French and English cooperation) before computers (cool shot of a room with hundreds of drafting boards with a man on each one) is staggering. Throw in some industrial espionage via the Soviets... it's a cool story.
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I’ve seen the Nova episode on Chernobyl and it was interesting. I’ll look up the Concord episode.
 
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PineGroveBully

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I watched a really good documentary on the Concorde on the Smithsonian Channel a year or so back. I never really thought of the forces at play when you're traveling at that speed at that altitude. Seems like they said the jet expanded nearly 2 feet at cruising speeds. And I never realized it was only allowed to land at like 2 airports in the US. If y'all don't have the Smithsonian Channel and your provider has it I really recommend it. It's almost a cross of NatGeo and what the history channel used to be. It's part of a $5 pack on Directv.
 
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Some travel agency (tour group) brought the Concord into Jackson once for a group trip to Europe. We went out and watched it. Beautiful aircraft.
 
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PineGroveBully

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I'd have loved to have seen that. To blind to ever get a pilots license but I've always been enamored by any aircraft. Isn't the newest jet from Boeing supposed to approach the speed of sound? I knew they were gonna debut it a month or two ago before the 737 incidents happened, hadn't heard much since.
 
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Palos verdes

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MeridianDog said:
Some travel agency (tour group) brought the Concord into Jackson once for a group trip to Europe. We went out and watched it. Beautiful aircraft.
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I was there on the west side terminal loop watching it flyover and land. It was British Airways and I have a few pictures somewhere. If I recall correctly, it went subsonic from JAN to JFK, fueled up and off to Heathrow, supersonic.
 
DesotoCountyDawg

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The SR71 was the same way. It would actually leak a little at take off before expanding in flight.
 
Xenomorph

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That was incredibly well done. I love that they didn’t start with the build up to the explosion in the control room. . Showing it from town was a new way to present it.

So many chilling moments.. like everybody curiously tasting metal. All those folks on the bridge of death...

My one question is did Dyatlov really see chunks of graphite strewn on the ground as he left the control room? I’ve always believed he was in actual denial for several hours.

One thing is for sure.. as bad as the situation was in that episode it’s going to get a lot worse. Them opening all the valves. Ugh.
 
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PineGroveBully

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I don't consider this a hot take but you got a good glimpse at just how little the USSR valued human life, particularly those of its citizens. And I know a lot of the lower downs didn't realize the monster they were playing with. But the higher ups keeping themselves in the "safe room" while they sent the poor guy to the roof with a gun to his back while he knew it'd be the death of him was really disturbing.
 
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That late scene with the old guy speaking up in the conference room was as unnerving as it gets. Considering the way that he sat back and observed for much of the initial conversation, I fully expected him to be be the voice of reason that everyone ultimately ignored. However, when he started making comments about blocking all exits from city and such, it's just crazy to me that this is some actual recent history that went down just three decades ago
 
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PineGroveBully said:
I don't consider this a hot take but you got a good glimpse at just how little the USSR valued human life, particularly those of its citizens.
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This was posted here a while back, but this eye-opening video on WWII death statistics is surreal. I watch it every so often around D-Day and Veterans Day. If you haven't seen it, it gives you some insight into the Soviet Union's severe disregard for both civilian and military lives, which was characteristic for that paticular communist State. Chernobyl losses were pocket change to this regime.

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The Fallen of World War II
Vimeo · Neil Halloran · May 20,

https://vimeo.com/128373915
 
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She Mate Me

She Mate Me

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Yeah, making those who are knowledgeable about growing food enemies of the state is an ingenious way to kill off a nice portion of those pesky mouths to feed when setting up a future failed state...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932–33

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_famine_of_1932–33
 
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This interesting noting how limited the death toll from Chernobyl was compared to the show:

www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellen...because-they-kill-so-few-people/#65763f841fcd
 
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