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Not great, not terrible

by kiryin 5y ago

canjobear 5y ago
No more than 3.6 roentgen
- cratermoon 5y ago
  Equivalent of a chest x-ray
  - trhway 5y ago
    you're about 3 orders of magnitude off.
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    - irthomasthomas 5y ago
      Those are all quotes from the Soviets during the event.
    - ZeroGravitas 5y ago
      Quote from the TV drama script being referenced: Valery Legasov : Yes, 3.6 roentgen, which, by the way, is not the equivalent of one chest X-ray, but rather 400 chest X-rays. That number has been bothering me for a different reason, though. It's also the maximum reading on low-limit dosimeters. They gave us the number they had. I think the true number is much, much higher. If I'm right, this fireman was holding the equivalent of 4 million chest X-rays in his hand.
    - cratermoon 5y ago
      It's not 3 roentgen. It's 15,000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGdKJWflEms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGdKJWflEms reply
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  - andrepd 5y ago
    Reddit-style no context movie quote thread x)
pasabagi 5y ago
Did anybody find it weird that a series that ended with a rousing affirmation of the value of truth was full of so much gratuitous falsehood? I was just reading the article and a name popped up: "Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov", who looked pretty flash in the series, so I looked the real guy up, and one commenter had this to say: "Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov, the coal industry minister, is portrayed as a young, weak and fop man who allegedly has nothing to do with coal mining and is far apart from the working class. In real life Shchadov was a strong, rigorous and togated minister who had worked in the coal industry since the age of 15. He was a former miner and mechanic in Siberia." Literally every time I've looked up something from that series, this has happened. And I've looked up a lot of stuff, because a lot of it didn't seem realistic. I get trying to make a story dramatic, but when the whole thrust of the movie is about the price of lies, what are we supposed to think? Genuinely baffled.
- lewiscollard 5y ago
  > Did anybody find it weird that a series that ended with a rousing affirmation of the value of truth was full of so much gratuitous falsehood? That rousing affirmation of the truth being in a courtroom scene that never happened - quite so, though "weird" doesn't quite cover it. On the subject of the individuals portrayed, I thought its depiction of Anatoly Dyatlov particularly slanderous.

Not great, not terrible

by kiryin 5y ago

Not great, not terrible

canjobear 5y ago

No more than 3.6 roentgen

cratermoon 5y ago
Equivalent of a chest x-ray
- trhway 5y ago
  you're about 3 orders of magnitude off.
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  - irthomasthomas 5y ago
    Those are all quotes from the Soviets during the event.
  - ZeroGravitas 5y ago
    Quote from the TV drama script being referenced: Valery Legasov : Yes, 3.6 roentgen, which, by the way, is not the equivalent of one chest X-ray, but rather 400 chest X-rays. That number has been bothering me for a different reason, though. It's also the maximum reading on low-limit dosimeters. They gave us the number they had. I think the true number is much, much higher. If I'm right, this fireman was holding the equivalent of 4 million chest X-rays in his hand.
  - cratermoon 5y ago
    It's not 3 roentgen. It's 15,000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGdKJWflEms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGdKJWflEms reply
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- andrepd 5y ago
  Reddit-style no context movie quote thread x)

pasabagi 5y ago

Did anybody find it weird that a series that ended with a rousing affirmation of the value of truth was full of so much gratuitous falsehood? I was just reading the article and a name popped up: "Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov", who looked pretty flash in the series, so I looked the real guy up, and one commenter had this to say: "Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov, the coal industry minister, is portrayed as a young, weak and fop man who allegedly has nothing to do with coal mining and is far apart from the working class. In real life Shchadov was a strong, rigorous and togated minister who had worked in the coal industry since the age of 15. He was a former miner and mechanic in Siberia." Literally every time I've looked up something from that series, this has happened. And I've looked up a lot of stuff, because a lot of it didn't seem realistic. I get trying to make a story dramatic, but when the whole thrust of the movie is about the price of lies, what are we supposed to think? Genuinely baffled.

lewiscollard 5y ago
> Did anybody find it weird that a series that ended with a rousing affirmation of the value of truth was full of so much gratuitous falsehood? That rousing affirmation of the truth being in a courtroom scene that never happened - quite so, though "weird" doesn't quite cover it. On the subject of the individuals portrayed, I thought its depiction of Anatoly Dyatlov particularly slanderous.