Just when you think humanity is doomed, you see tales of the selfless courage of regular people. Firemen rushing towards a burning reactor, miners digging under it, men volunteering to enter it, women comforting those dying from it

@toddjohnson271

4 ай бұрын

women....bwhahahaha

The radiation poisoning they showed in this episode was a family-friendly version. In reality, everything was much more terrifying. Vasiliy Ignatenko (the firefighter) was literally coughing up his internal organs and produced a bloody stool 20-30 times a day...

@panzerwolf494

5 ай бұрын

By the time they started interviewing the operators most of them could only blink responses because their mouths had swollen up. Nuclear power is a glorious thing. But when you disrespect it it comes back to take everything from you

"We're still wearing the fucking hats!"

There was a really powerful thought about the last scene that somebody wrote on the internet. It's a horrifying and unnatural death of your young beloved and father to your future child. And even more horrifying and unnatural burial where bones of your beloved will never mix with earth and become part of it. He's forever isolated in his lead and concrete tomb and you can't even be buried beside him to rest together for eternity. Nobody deserves that.

@myegyptiandadreacts4824

5 ай бұрын

💔

You were correct when you thought that radiation only damages you during exposure, but the individual cells start dying, that's why it keeps getting worse, the damage is already done. With that much exposure, the body dies, and decomposes, and literally starts falling apart all while you're awake.

@panzerwolf494

5 ай бұрын

Exactly, all the latency period is is the last of the healthy body struggling to fix the damaged portions before succumbing

@myegyptiandadreacts4824

5 ай бұрын

That is horrifying

@computerfis

5 ай бұрын

@@myegyptiandadreacts4824 One thing is radiation, but the dust which is radioactive and you carry on your body is the worst. That is they wash them so much to the tiny particles of dust that keeps radiating fallout. This is something you do not want on your body, or for that matter your lungs.

Maybe Gorbachev was right when he wrote that Chernobyl may have been the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. The true enemy in this series isn´t the radiation - it´s the ideology. The part I found the most moving was the monologue of the old farmer woman - and how the soldier ends it.

We appreciate your dedication and hard work. You'll always have our support.

Been waiting for this!! You guys are a great combo. Keep up the great work. Much love from Connecticut, USA 🇺🇸

Yeah, high level radiation poisoning has a period around 24-72 hours-ish into symptoms showing, where it all slows down. The sickness and pain goes away for a short time, but by then it is too late. All the effected skin is already 'cooked' and falls right off the bone. The DNA itself is destroyed until your own body does not recognise friend from foe and auto-immune kicks in, where the body attacks itself. Infections from the burns are uncontainable due to the collapsed DNA and auto-immune trigger. No pain relief will work since the veins are collapsing and can not carry medication around the body. At that point, the only thing to do is painfully "melt" to death. It is horrific.

@myegyptiandadreacts4824

5 ай бұрын

It’s scary that nature could be so brutal, in a way that almost seems meticulous

I’d highly recommend listening to the podcast after you finish the show. A lot of details and interesting stuff in it.

Be ready, cause episode 4 will be super difficult also

So sad. But be ready it only gets worse. They continue to use film makers license with the effects of the radiation. I hope you have read and understood my comments from previous episodes?

please react to prisoners or shutter island

You thought this one was tough.

about the firefighters looking fine early in the episode and then going straight to probably the worst death one can imagine is completely real. Acute radiation does that. First there's pain, burns and vomiting that seem to calm for a period of some hours or days, but then they return worse and worse till the horrible end. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome "Early symptoms are usually nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite.[1] In the following hours or weeks, initial symptoms may appear to improve, before the development of additional symptoms, after which either recovery or death follow"

@dramatticdevon4741

5 ай бұрын

This comment is as useless as me stating the video we are watching is from show is called chernobyl and the episode number is part 3 and this is my Egyptian Dad reacts. Yes, this is exactly the information that show presented to us. And in fact went into much more horrific detail. Talking about arteries spilling open so that morphine cannot be administered.