Posted on 05/20/2020 9:16:09 PM PDT by rktman
Three decades after the Chernobyl disaster—the world’s worst nuclear accident—signs of life are returning to the exclusion zone. Wild animals in Chernobyl are flourishing within the contaminated region; puppies roaming the area are capturing the hearts of thousands. Tourists who have watched the critically acclaimed HBO series Chernobyl are taking selfies with the ruins. Once thought to be forever uninhabitable, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become a haven for flora and fauna that prove that life, as they say in Jurassic Park, finds a way.
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was it that long ago? Wow- seems like just yesterday that that tragedy happened—
I thought it was 20,000 years... and that number’s wrong. It’ll be much less - as per this story and radiation eating fungus etc. Mother nature has many tricks in her bag...
I watched a show about the animals there.
The descendants of the dogs people were forced to leave behind are flourishing.
But the videos of the people crying as they were dragged away from their dogs who tried to follow were heartbreaking.
Remember, NOTHING was expected to grow in Hiroshima or Nagasaki for 92 years! Yet the next year plants sprouted and trees grew.
Back in the early 1960s, I took the magazine PROGRESSIVE FARMER. In one issue was the story of OLD GRANNY, a cow that had been exposed to radioactive fallout from the first nuke test in New Mexico. Moved to Oak Ridge, Tenn, she continued to drop normal calves for the next 19 years.
And by the end something that is a bit of a nuisance becomes "THE END OF ALL LIFE" tm.
Will they be in the next X-men movie?
Nukes are GNARLY in large doses in SHORT periods.
You get a couple 100 Rems once. Goodbye !
BUT. After a short period. They degrade and give off low doses
Understand ?
- nuke engineer
But it seems that all the "experts", by which I mean people who are not actually engineers but who are academic type who rarely go outside, don't get that.
And they are the ones who build the models that apparently all policy is based on.
Yet another example demonstrating that the “trust the science” dolts are usually social studies majors who never passed a high school chem course. Science doesn’t require trust or faith - it’s verifiable. If it’s not verifiable, it’s not science, it’s just some gibberish that people calling themselves scientists have spewed.
I challenge you to serve one up for your dinner.
Elena Filatova is the daughter of a nuclear engineer who has been riding her motorcycle through Chernobyl taking videos and pictures since the 1990s.
She illustrates the 34 year history of the site since the accident at her website (commercial, spam, and popup free) https://www.elenafilatova.net
Wow! I will remember that
Doesn’t it? It really feels like it was just yesterday.
The good Lord made life to be resilient.
It is pretty amazing.
I saw that and it was incredible!
Zooming around on her motorcycle...looks like she had a lot of fun.
Pretty brave, too. Not sure if I could do it.
EXACTLY. FYI, I’m a former social science major with a MSEd in Junior College teaching & I do NOT trust other social science “scholars” outside of their own narrow field of expertise.
Btw, I also do NOT trust chemists/engineers/math geeks to make policy decisions on public health and/or on teaching 19th & early 20th Century US diplomatic history, which is my field of expertise.
Note: My lady would tell you to NOT ask me about the Boxer Rebellion, gunboat diplomacy in China and/or the S-A war UNLESS you have LOTS of time. = She says that I tend to be “a bore”.
(CHUCKLE)
Yours, TMN78247
“The EXCLUSION ZONE” has a HEALTHY & relatively large herd of WILD HORSES.
Some horses there are NOW close to 20YO & according to local veterinarians the herd shows NO signs of abnormality.
Give the “scientists”, who are “KNOW IT ALLS” on ALL subjects, a ZERO for guessing the outcome of such situations.
Yours, TMN78247
She had a site on anglefire “kidofspeed” now. She also did a site of a tour of the Gulags.
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