You might get a kick out of this.
She should try Fukushima sushi.
I have watched these videos a while back. They are excellent.
I remember as a boy in the 50s playing with mercury all the time. You could buy it in some places. In my hands, fingers, etc..... 55-60 years later I write this.
Idiot. Ignoring the danger of radiation poisoning doesn’t make it go away.
If we embrace reality, does that mean that they will stop making Mad Max movies.
Think I’ll pass on the apples.
I realize that some material sheds radioactivity faster than others and are safer but I think the woman is a fool. She won’t develop cancer overnight but extended repeated exposure will probably end badly.
I’m 50 years old and could probably live out the rest of my natural lifespan there but I’m not going to have children or live forever.
When I was a kid (60s-70s) everyone had chemistry sets and we played with liquid mercury all the time. Yes it's poisonous as are many chemicals, but fear and hype over everything science related is way over blown these days.
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Freakishly large catfish? I’ve seen bigger.
What is her secret? “Push away your fears and everything you've heard, and embrace the Zone,” she writes Atlas Obscura in an email.
kooks love attention
I smell a new marvel superhero.
I saw the Chernobyl Diaries.........real creepy
I bet liberals absolutely hate her. These people live to come up with something new to be scared of just about every day. Apart from the nutty “global warming” scam, they want to ban dodge ball, soccer, football, and just about anything that’s fun.
She’s right - I’m sure the dangers have been totally overblown
Crossing a street is probably more dangerous than what she’s doing.
Just a few comments:
...she has shown herself getting injected with the radionuclide technetium (LOL, I presume she is getting that for a medical procedure, and millions of people do that with no ill effects, I know, because I have injected it into thousands of them myself)
...eating radioactive apples from a tree in Chernobyl (I probably wouldn’t do that, but...did they assay the apple? I know you probably wouldn’t want to eat wildlife up the food chain that might accumulate isotopes, but...not sure about an annual fruit.)
...being chased by a possibly rabid fox (okay, best steer clear of rabid foxes no matter where you live)
...picking up fragments of the nuclear plant’s reactor fuel with her bare hands (how do they know that is what it is?)
...When a freakishly large catfish appears on camera, she calmly explains that it’s probably not a mutant—“They are just that way because nobody catches them (This is most likely true. The Godzilla effect hasn’t been scientifically proven, but it works great in movies!)
...she pours liquid mercury over her bare hands, comparing the feat to smoking a single cigarette: not dangerous in limited doses, she claims (I don’t know if it is dangerous or not, but I do believe that it is the mercury vapor that is most toxic. And I can say that my siblings and I had a bottle of mercury my brother “found” (probably about 100cc) and we had it for about a year, and would pour it through our hands, onto the floor, watching it consolidate itself from many small pools into larger and larger ones until there was only one puddle of mercury. This was back in the Sixties, and none of us are dead...yet!)