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The explosion would be closer to 3-5 megatons. It could be at first they may have exaggerated the number given the amount of unknowns and fear. Thare was a lot of water under the plant. Water expands 1700 times when turned into steam. Either way...most of Europe was on a brink of a total environmental disaster View Quote |
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And not 10min later! Ha https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/86022/6D166E45-578E-4458-A97F-0D14B1FEC5B9_jpeg-944566.JPG View Quote |
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Well, evidently you're able to recognize rhetorical-sarcasm... so there's hope for you, yet. Seriously though, lets get back to this theory about the KGB orchestrating the worst environmental and radiological disaster in the history of ever. On their own soil. For soviet greatness. Did the plan look something like this? GB PL GTSS: PS 1) L P L PS 2) ??? PS 3) PT I mean, shit... after that I'm genuinely interested in your thought on other theories. Click To View Spoiler View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I have said this many times before also. When you take a pause and really think about what they did, it appears that this was unlikely to be an accident. I believe there is a strong chance the Soviet government did this on purpose to undermine Western nuclear power efforts. What most people don't realize is how much time and effort the NKVD and KGB spent on undermining and obstructing the nuclear programs in France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, the UK, the USA, etc. Through any means possible. I would not put this "accident" above them, in fact, it is fits perfectly with their normal MO. GB PL GTSS: PS 1) L P L PS 2) ??? PS 3) PT I mean, shit... after that I'm genuinely interested in your thought on other theories. Click To View Spoiler Perhaps you should endeavor to learn a bit about the origins of the Soviet and how many of their own the Party liquidated in the cruelest manner for any and no reason at all, real or perceived. I understand this might be difficult for you to comprehend since you are lucky enough to have lived in a comfortable insulated bubble. Perhaps you should read book or two on the actions and history of the Communist Party in Russia and elsewhere. I understand books can be boring. Perhaps start with wikipedia?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin |
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The woman scientist said 3-4 Megatons if I heard her correctly. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The explosion would be closer to 3-5 megatons. It could be at first they may have exaggerated the number given the amount of unknowns and fear. Thare was a lot of water under the plant. Water expands 1700 times when turned into steam. Either way...most of Europe was on a brink of a total environmental disaster 3 to 4 megatons is just dumb. It wasn't even close to that. Don't believe everything you see on TV. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225731774_Estimation_of_Explosion_Energy_Yield_at_Chernobyl_NPP_Accident http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/alnoaimi2/docs/kr79.pdf |
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Ok, so I see that you have the mind of a child. I always hate to assume. Perhaps you should endeavor to learn a bit about the origins of the Soviet and how many of their own the Party liquidated in the cruelest manner for any and no reason at all, real or perceived. I understand this might be difficult for you to comprehend since you are lucky enough to have lived in a comfortable insulated bubble. Perhaps you should read book or two on the actions and history of the Communist Party in Russia and elsewhere. I understand books can be boring. Perhaps start with wikipedia?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin View Quote |
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The accepted estimates for the explosion at Chernobyl are around 10 Tons equivalent of TNT. 3 to 4 megatons is just dumb. It wasn't even close to that. Don't believe everything you see on TV. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225731774_Estimation_of_Explosion_Energy_Yield_at_Chernobyl_NPP_Accident http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/alnoaimi2/docs/kr79.pdf View Quote Try to keep up. |
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I have said this many times before also. When you take a pause and really think about what they did, it appears that this was unlikely to be an accident. I believe there is a strong chance the Soviet government did this on purpose to undermine Western nuclear power efforts. What most people don't realize is how much time and effort the NKVD and KGB spent on undermining and obstructing the nuclear programs in France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, the UK, the USA, etc. Through any means possible. I would not put this "accident" above them, in fact, it is fits perfectly with their normal MO. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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This is my take... The RBMK reactor was designed for non-enriched (natural) uranium, so had a large fuel volume. Water cooling through the fuel tubes with graphite moderation. Sound familiar? Yes, just like the US plutonium production reactors at Hanford, and the Soviet's initial plutonium production reactor which was based on stolen design of the US reactors. The Soviets were using the RBMK power reactors as distributed plutonium production. But the reactor design was not suitable for the operating demands of power production as the operating envelope just wasn't flexible enough. My take on it is that they shut off all the safeties and flew it into a mountain...metaphorically speaking. They didn't melt it down...they blew it the fuck up. It's tough to call it an accident, everything they did, they chose to do despite it being against the operating rules. Negligence? At least. I've seen it called "a lack of safety culture"...I was a safety engineer...lack of safety culture doesn't cover it. It was criminal negligence bordering on a crime against humanity. Western reactors don't have the dangerous characteristics of the RBMK so I'm not sure you could blow up a Westinghouse BWR the same way...but put the backup gensets in the basement in a earthquake and tsunami zone and watch what happens. They survived the one of the largest earthquakes and tsunamis in history only to melt down because the power went out and couldn't be restored fast enough. When you take a pause and really think about what they did, it appears that this was unlikely to be an accident. I believe there is a strong chance the Soviet government did this on purpose to undermine Western nuclear power efforts. What most people don't realize is how much time and effort the NKVD and KGB spent on undermining and obstructing the nuclear programs in France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, the UK, the USA, etc. Through any means possible. I would not put this "accident" above them, in fact, it is fits perfectly with their normal MO. |
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This discussion of the possible explosion they're trying to avoid as of the end of Ep 2 interests me, because the truth is we still cannot understand some of the shit water does under extremely high temperature.
Remember those videos with thermite dripping through a bucket into ice? The crazy guy on the hydrolic press youtube channel even did one on a frozen lake. Pretty good sized explosions from a melt mass equal to maybe a few tablespoons of molten material at less than half the temperature of the Chernobyl melt. And the guys of Mythbusters said no one knows wtf is happening, although there are some theories. I think its a temporary confinement that lets water get into some sort of extreme superheated state followed by a BLEVE explosion. When I was in college a girlfriend's roommate nearly blew up their kitchen putting full sized tea leaves into an old 50s style screw on lid teapot. The leaves floated up and plugged the teaspout, and when the pressure got high enough it popped off the knob from the screw top letting the entire 3 or so cups of water instantly boil in the container. It blew the top off like shrapnel, blew the vent hood off their kitchen stove, and shot bits of metal through the ceiling. SHe said it sounded like dynamite. No add in that there was zirconium from the fuel cladding in that melt, and that Zirconium is a catalyst for popping hydrogen and oxygen atoms apart at high tempurature so you can add a hydrogen explosion to the mix too. It would not have been small, but not as large as supposed by the made-up scientist. One thing that's most interesting is that the fallout from whatever sized explosion it would have been. That was the bad part. The little Uranium bomb we popped over Hiroshima had about 55 pounds of Uranium. A mass equal to the dime in your pocket actually fissioned, the rest was just bathed for an instant in an insane neutron flux and them blown to pieces and spread. Now, remember those fuel bundles at Chernobyl (they look like a cluster of rods) EACH have over 300 pounds of Uranium. And there are like 1700 of those bundles in the RBMK reactor type. That is a whole lot of nuclear material, all angry and saturated with daughter nucleotide products from the fission that are insanely radioactive. The amount of shit that could have gone airborne if that mass actually plopped into a relatively confined pool of water... yikes. |
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Still waiting on that evidence that the KGB was responsible for Chernobyl... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Ok, so I see that you have the mind of a child. I always hate to assume. Perhaps you should endeavor to learn a bit about the origins of the Soviet and how many of their own the Party liquidated in the cruelest manner for any and no reason at all, real or perceived. I understand this might be difficult for you to comprehend since you are lucky enough to have lived in a comfortable insulated bubble. Perhaps you should read book or two on the actions and history of the Communist Party in Russia and elsewhere. I understand books can be boring. Perhaps start with wikipedia?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin I never said I could prove anything. I just said that knowing what was on the minds of the top Party men at the time, they saw western nuclear power as one of the biggest economic and military threats to them. They already had a large number of clandestine programs underway which included direct and indirect intervention including destructive sabotage of commercial and military nuclear plants. The anti nuclear "Green" movements in the UK, France, South Africa, Spain, and Germany were funded and enabled directly by the Soviet government through "Active Measures" type programs. They blew up plants, they sabotaged plants, they stole nuclear materials, they staged violent protests... the list goes on and on. They already knew through their success in Vietnam and elsewhere that controlling public opinion in the West was far more important and effective than direct intervention. Far more effective. The Chernobyl incident put all of Europe under a potential plume of contamination.... very scary sounding to the ignorant masses but at the end of the day really not that big a deal long term. You think the Soviets had any plans to close their plants or curtail their programs from an event like this? Not a chance. They are not beholden to public opinion. On the other hand, much of the Western world's nuclear program was mortally wounded by this single event. I would never put anything past the Party Apparatchik from that time. They were ruthless and intelligent and played the long game. See the following blurb from one of the links I posted above: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/alnoaimi2/docs/kr79.pdf "The Chernobyl accident was practically "planned". Its roots lay in the history of the RBMK development. The RBMK design was developed by the same organizations and specialists that were involved in the development of the Soviet nuclear weapon. Therefore, the same level of secrecy was brought in the development of nuclear power reactors for electricity generation. It was forbidden in the USSR to make public any information about incidences even at foreign NPPs. The former deputy head of the department for the NPP construction supervision in the USSR Ministry of Power, Grigorii Medvedev remembered that the technical information about the accident at the Three Mile Iceland NPP was classified in the USSR [11]. " I realize that I am going beyond what the author there is saying. But I am free to say what I want, that author wasn't. I have researched the history of the Soviet government for many years, and the actions of their leaders. Nothing they do or did would surprise me. Nothing. |
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It would help if you understood the context... he's referring to the potential steam explosion of the bubbler pools that they were worried about, not the initial explosion itself. Try to keep up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The accepted estimates for the explosion at Chernobyl are around 10 Tons equivalent of TNT. 3 to 4 megatons is just dumb. It wasn't even close to that. Don't believe everything you see on TV. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225731774_Estimation_of_Explosion_Energy_Yield_at_Chernobyl_NPP_Accident http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/alnoaimi2/docs/kr79.pdf Try to keep up. You will generate enough hydrogen to get a hydrogen explosion which still wouldn't come close to "megatons of TNT" range. |
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Just wanted to point out that the General reversed into the locked gate and didn't ram it head on with the dosimeter on the grill. That was a nice touch.
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This discussion of the possible explosion they're trying to avoid as of the end of Ep 2 interests me, because the truth is we still cannot understand some of the shit water does under extremely high temperature. Remember those videos with thermite dripping through a bucket into ice? The crazy guy on the hydrolic press youtube channel even did one on a frozen lake. Pretty good sized explosions from a melt mass equal to maybe a few tablespoons of molten material at less than half the temperature of the Chernobyl melt. And the guys of Mythbusters said no one knows wtf is happening, although there are some theories. I think its a temporary confinement that lets water get into some sort of extreme superheated state followed by a BLEVE explosion. When I was in college a girlfriend's roommate nearly blew up their kitchen putting full sized tea leaves into an old 50s style screw on lid teapot. The leaves floated up and plugged the teaspout, and when the pressure got high enough it popped off the knob from the screw top letting the entire 3 or so cups of water instantly boil in the container. It blew the top off like shrapnel, blew the vent hood off their kitchen stove, and shot bits of metal through the ceiling. SHe said it sounded like dynamite. No add in that there was zirconium from the fuel cladding in that melt, and that Zirconium is a catalyst for popping hydrogen and oxygen atoms apart at high tempurature so you can add a hydrogen explosion to the mix too. It would not have been small, but not as large as supposed by the made-up scientist. One thing that's most interesting is that the fallout from whatever sized explosion it would have been. That was the bad part. The little Uranium bomb we popped over Hiroshima had about 55 pounds of Uranium. A mass equal to the dime in your pocket actually fissioned, the rest was just bathed for an instant in an insane neutron flux and them blown to pieces and spread. Now, remember those fuel bundles at Chernobyl (they look like a cluster of rods) EACH have over 300 pounds of Uranium. And there are like 1700 of those bundles in the RBMK reactor type. That is a whole lot of nuclear material, all angry and saturated with daughter nucleotide products from the fission that are insanely radioactive. The amount of shit that could have gone airborne if that mass actually plopped into a relatively confined pool of water... yikes. View Quote Water somehow being the fuel in a BLEVE? Usually the BLEVEs I worried about and trained on involved a substance that was flammable...maybe the high temp and various elements like zirc could cause water to disassociate and create hydrogen..not sure if that could have happened practically in the bubbler pool situation but even if it didn't the simple steam explosion would have doubled the disaster. They've gotten enough right..or at least possible in this show that I'm inclined to believe that the 3 megaton number was briefed. Why it was briefed is an open question. Scientists, recognizing the inertia of the bureaucracy, may have done that to motivate action. |
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Did a helicopter really go down like they showed? View Quote Chernobyl. Helicopter crashes. |
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Rule number one when talking to Russians: Don't ever ask them how their day is going. Because they'll fucking tell you. Rule number two when talking to Russians: Don't expect them to jump on your anti-communism bandwagon. Because it's human nature to be defensive. No matter how shitty it was, look, it was their system, and they're going to take offense to some fucking outsider who wasn't there telling them how their lives were. They lived it. And they'll circle the wagons from outsider criticism. Even people "from Russia, but not Russian", those out in the Urals, out in those areas that supported those military-industrial-complex cities out there, people who really dislike Russian Russians, even they will get defensive when you screw up the beginning of a touchy conversation. People who grew up in the Soviet satellites are a bit different. It wasn't their system. It was a system imposed upon them, and their memories are far less "fond". tl;dr I wouldn't ask Russians what they think about it. It's just an unnecessary complication in the workplace. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Wonder what they(Russians) are saying about the show? Don't ever ask them how their day is going. Because they'll fucking tell you. Rule number two when talking to Russians: Don't expect them to jump on your anti-communism bandwagon. Because it's human nature to be defensive. No matter how shitty it was, look, it was their system, and they're going to take offense to some fucking outsider who wasn't there telling them how their lives were. They lived it. And they'll circle the wagons from outsider criticism. Even people "from Russia, but not Russian", those out in the Urals, out in those areas that supported those military-industrial-complex cities out there, people who really dislike Russian Russians, even they will get defensive when you screw up the beginning of a touchy conversation. People who grew up in the Soviet satellites are a bit different. It wasn't their system. It was a system imposed upon them, and their memories are far less "fond". tl;dr I wouldn't ask Russians what they think about it. It's just an unnecessary complication in the workplace. You aren't totally wrong, and outsider criticizing goes over like a fart in church (I have some special treatment with this topic with her- criticism of communism, not farting ) BUT asking a simple question like "what do you think about the show" would be totally fine with about any Russian. You may not like the answer, but asking is fine. TL;DR- there's a LOT of anti-communist Russians |
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That describes the initial accident. I'm talking about the briefing they gave to Gorby. The estimate of the steam explosion if the corium reached the bubbler pools....it was massive...and I can't see why. I'm just trying to determine if I'm missing something or its creative license. I'm thinking the megaton level explosion and the visible ionization above the reactor in air are a little over the top but that's really picking nits...overall I think they've done a good job. The next episode seemed like they might deal with the causes of at least start down that road. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The Party Officer actor did a great job. View Quote I don't know how accurate the portrayal was, but it was something that definitely resonated: you've got somebody who isn't an SME, but he becomes your boss in very adverse circumstances, adversarial circumstances, and then becomes your best champion for getting stuff done in the situation. |
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Completely agree. I don't know how accurate the portrayal was, but it was something that definitely resonated: you've got somebody who isn't an SME, but he becomes your boss in very adverse circumstances, adversarial circumstances, and then becomes your best champion for getting stuff done in the situation. View Quote To get you 5000 tons of sand and boron. |
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Where are you going? To get you 5000 tons of sand and boron. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Completely agree. I don't know how accurate the portrayal was, but it was something that definitely resonated: you've got somebody who isn't an SME, but he becomes your boss in very adverse circumstances, adversarial circumstances, and then becomes your best champion for getting stuff done in the situation. To get you 5000 tons of sand and boron. |
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Fucking powerful. And, that scene couldn't have been too far off the mark, because someone, somewhere got that stuff in there, stat. View Quote |
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Fucking powerful. And, that scene couldn't have been too far off the mark, because someone, somewhere got that stuff in there, stat. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Completely agree. I don't know how accurate the portrayal was, but it was something that definitely resonated: you've got somebody who isn't an SME, but he becomes your boss in very adverse circumstances, adversarial circumstances, and then becomes your best champion for getting stuff done in the situation. To get you 5000 tons of sand and boron. |
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Yeah that scene and the busses rolling into pripyat...the impressive thing about the USSR was consistently scale. They didn't do anything small. View Quote Shit. Got. Done. |
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There is certainly something to be said for centralized unopposed control. And a populace that toed the line. No fucking whining. No legislative debating. No cockholster Hawaiian judges. Shit. Got. Done. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Yeah that scene and the busses rolling into pripyat...the impressive thing about the USSR was consistently scale. They didn't do anything small. Shit. Got. Done. |
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This discussion of the possible explosion they're trying to avoid as of the end of Ep 2 interests me, because the truth is we still cannot understand some of the shit water does under extremely high temperature. Remember those videos with thermite dripping through a bucket into ice? The crazy guy on the hydrolic press youtube channel even did one on a frozen lake. Pretty good sized explosions from a melt mass equal to maybe a few tablespoons of molten material at less than half the temperature of the Chernobyl melt. And the guys of Mythbusters said no one knows wtf is happening, although there are some theories. I think its a temporary confinement that lets water get into some sort of extreme superheated state followed by a BLEVE explosion. When I was in college a girlfriend's roommate nearly blew up their kitchen putting full sized tea leaves into an old 50s style screw on lid teapot. The leaves floated up and plugged the teaspout, and when the pressure got high enough it popped off the knob from the screw top letting the entire 3 or so cups of water instantly boil in the container. It blew the top off like shrapnel, blew the vent hood off their kitchen stove, and shot bits of metal through the ceiling. SHe said it sounded like dynamite. No add in that there was zirconium from the fuel cladding in that melt, and that Zirconium is a catalyst for popping hydrogen and oxygen atoms apart at high tempurature so you can add a hydrogen explosion to the mix too. It would not have been small, but not as large as supposed by the made-up scientist. One thing that's most interesting is that the fallout from whatever sized explosion it would have been. That was the bad part. The little Uranium bomb we popped over Hiroshima had about 55 pounds of Uranium. A mass equal to the dime in your pocket actually fissioned, the rest was just bathed for an instant in an insane neutron flux and them blown to pieces and spread. Now, remember those fuel bundles at Chernobyl (they look like a cluster of rods) EACH have over 300 pounds of Uranium. And there are like 1700 of those bundles in the RBMK reactor type. That is a whole lot of nuclear material, all angry and saturated with daughter nucleotide products from the fission that are insanely radioactive. The amount of shit that could have gone airborne if that mass actually plopped into a relatively confined pool of water... yikes. View Quote And little boy had roughly 140 pounds of uranium. |
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Completely agree. I don't know how accurate the portrayal was, but it was something that definitely resonated: you've got somebody who isn't an SME, but he becomes your boss in very adverse circumstances, adversarial circumstances, and then becomes your best champion for getting stuff done in the situation. To get you 5000 tons of sand and boron. |
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This discussion of the possible explosion they're trying to avoid as of the end of Ep 2 interests me, because the truth is we still cannot understand some of the shit water does under extremely high temperature. Remember those videos with thermite dripping through a bucket into ice? The crazy guy on the hydrolic press youtube channel even did one on a frozen lake. Pretty good sized explosions from a melt mass equal to maybe a few tablespoons of molten material at less than half the temperature of the Chernobyl melt. And the guys of Mythbusters said no one knows wtf is happening, although there are some theories. I think its a temporary confinement that lets water get into some sort of extreme superheated state followed by a BLEVE explosion. When I was in college a girlfriend's roommate nearly blew up their kitchen putting full sized tea leaves into an old 50s style screw on lid teapot. The leaves floated up and plugged the teaspout, and when the pressure got high enough it popped off the knob from the screw top letting the entire 3 or so cups of water instantly boil in the container. It blew the top off like shrapnel, blew the vent hood off their kitchen stove, and shot bits of metal through the ceiling. SHe said it sounded like dynamite. No add in that there was zirconium from the fuel cladding in that melt, and that Zirconium is a catalyst for popping hydrogen and oxygen atoms apart at high tempurature so you can add a hydrogen explosion to the mix too. It would not have been small, but not as large as supposed by the made-up scientist. One thing that's most interesting is that the fallout from whatever sized explosion it would have been. That was the bad part. The little Uranium bomb we popped over Hiroshima had about 55 pounds of Uranium. A mass equal to the dime in your pocket actually fissioned, the rest was just bathed for an instant in an insane neutron flux and them blown to pieces and spread. Now, remember those fuel bundles at Chernobyl (they look like a cluster of rods) EACH have over 300 pounds of Uranium. And there are like 1700 of those bundles in the RBMK reactor type. That is a whole lot of nuclear material, all angry and saturated with daughter nucleotide products from the fission that are insanely radioactive. The amount of shit that could have gone airborne if that mass actually plopped into a relatively confined pool of water... yikes. And little boy had roughly 140 pounds of uranium. I wont touch the GD bro science about "not understanding shit water does" or the spelling and grammar for that matter. All I can picture is ICP singing that Magnets song. |
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Completely agree. I don't know how accurate the portrayal was, but it was something that definitely resonated: you've got somebody who isn't an SME, but he becomes your boss in very adverse circumstances, adversarial circumstances, and then becomes your best champion for getting stuff done in the situation. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The Party Officer actor did a great job. I don't know how accurate the portrayal was, but it was something that definitely resonated: you've got somebody who isn't an SME, but he becomes your boss in very adverse circumstances, adversarial circumstances, and then becomes your best champion for getting stuff done in the situation. I'm wondering how intentional it is, as you almost seem to forget. I like him though, the line about how he knows concrete and it's not burnt concrete. . . . beautiful |
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This show is fantastic. I was planning on ditching HBO after GoT but we're hanging onto it now. So good.
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I've been watching it closely I'm really glad that it was nobody's fault, I mean the plant director and chief engineer were sleeping, how could they be responsible?
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You know how in the old Star Wars movies a Jedi master spent a lifetime to learn and perfect the Jedi arts? But in the new movies little Rey mastered the Jedi arts in two weeks of weekends just playing around with it. That's the new Hollywood narrative in all skill sets involving women. Marvel does it too. In season 2 of Iron Fist the Iron Fist dude, who had spent a decade mastering the power, transferred that power to a woman who didn't really believe it existed. And she mastered its use in 2 minutes. The narrative is all women, by virtue of their sex, are born superwomen. IOW, better than men at everything (except upper body strength and knowing when to STFU.) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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With all the SJW bullshit these days are we really supposed to believe a woman muscled her way through security zones and single handedly saved the situation? It's cool if she really did, but Hollywood's agenda has me second guessing everything these days. The guy that finally gets to the valve that diverts the water in the next episode will probably be a black transgender rusky. https://meaww.com/hbo-chernobyl-emilty-watson-spoiler-scientists-ulana-valery-legasov God forbid the majority of good shit and good deeds came from white men. But in the new movies little Rey mastered the Jedi arts in two weeks of weekends just playing around with it. That's the new Hollywood narrative in all skill sets involving women. Marvel does it too. In season 2 of Iron Fist the Iron Fist dude, who had spent a decade mastering the power, transferred that power to a woman who didn't really believe it existed. And she mastered its use in 2 minutes. The narrative is all women, by virtue of their sex, are born superwomen. IOW, better than men at everything (except upper body strength and knowing when to STFU.) |
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The USSR and their satellites produced a lot of female PhDs and academics in that era. Substantially different than what you'd see here in the US at the time. Think about it: they were top-down, command economies. View Quote The Russian Academy of Sciences did a post-war study that concluded 26.6 million people died throughout the Soviet Union, including 8,668,400 military deaths. |
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