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Things are breaking down everyday, and there is a large army of ants scurrying about keeping the lights on with shoe strings and bubble gum. Russia has been bo

by gsatic 4y ago

Things are breaking down everyday, and there is a large army of ants scurrying about keeping the lights on with shoe strings and bubble gum. Russia has been bombing Ukraine infra from Oct, used thousands of missiles and things are still running - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_strikes_against_Ukrainian_infrastructure#:~:text=Late%20February%202022%20the%20Russian,whatsoever%20to%20the%20civilian%20population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_st....

geepound 4y ago
>things are still running running from the radiation released from the shelling of nuke plants, not running in the "performing normally" sense "Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday" https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60528828 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c...
- whythre 4y ago
  Yikes. That’s what we need, a key European breadbasket country poisoned to hell in a needless war.
  - SapporoChris 4y ago
    "Close to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight." https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60528828 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c... 65 microSv or 65 µSv is a really trivial amount. It should inspire a yawn not a yikes. https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/
    - whythre 4y ago
      Doesn’t sound trivial. You go on enough high altitude flights, you will suffer cellular damage- and this dose is occurring daily. Furthermore, this current situation could easily worsen if further damage is done to the nuclear plants.
- marak830 4y ago
  "The rise was caused by heavy military vehicles stirring contaminated soil in the 4,000-sq-km (2,485 sq-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned plant, Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reported ." Seems it was not from the shelling.
  - geepound 4y ago
    >Seems it was not from the shelling. We think you're missing the larger point

by gsatic 4y ago

geepound 4y ago

>things are still running running from the radiation released from the shelling of nuke plants, not running in the "performing normally" sense "Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday" https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60528828 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c...

whythre 4y ago
Yikes. That’s what we need, a key European breadbasket country poisoned to hell in a needless war.
- SapporoChris 4y ago
  "Close to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight." https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60528828 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c... 65 microSv or 65 µSv is a really trivial amount. It should inspire a yawn not a yikes. https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/
  - whythre 4y ago
    Doesn’t sound trivial. You go on enough high altitude flights, you will suffer cellular damage- and this dose is occurring daily. Furthermore, this current situation could easily worsen if further damage is done to the nuclear plants.
marak830 4y ago
"The rise was caused by heavy military vehicles stirring contaminated soil in the 4,000-sq-km (2,485 sq-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned plant, Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reported ." Seems it was not from the shelling.
- geepound 4y ago
  >Seems it was not from the shelling. We think you're missing the larger point