Everything's Changed
Created on: November 2nd, 2007
These are some of the many victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Most of these pictures were taken about 20 years after the accident, which occurred on Saturday April 26th, 1986. These photos reveal the horrible long-term effects of this event.
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Eh, it could have been even creepier if he did it right. The first half of the ytmnd should have had bright colorful images of children rushing into classrooms, busy intersections, flowers, all that nostalgic "good ol day" feel. THEN he should have injected all those depressing images. It's still fairly creepy though. I give it a B.
Awesome site. i saw a video in HS which was kinda like this, only a little more f*cked up. In the 50's, they used to run drills in the desert which went as follows: our government detonates a nuke in the middle of the sand, then 5000 us army troops march in to the fallout, as if practicing to march into the demolished city. Needless to say, in the video the veterans being interviewed had the same hideous effects 20 years later as these people. I really will never forget seeing things like that.
well, it wasn't that they didn't know in the case of "Duck and Cover" as much as they were trying to keep the American people from panicking by lying to them. Kind of like now, when they tell us we can keep ourselves safe from terrorist biological/chemical attacks by using duct tape on our doors and windows.
How was I blaming Chernobyl? I am pretty sure the purpose of ytmnd to show what the nuclear disaster had done, not who's to blame. If you ask me, no one in particular is to blame. I am not going to say its the scientist and engineers, even though their lack of precautionary measures led to the explosion in the reactor, because they could not possibly be directly responsible for the havoc caused by the radiation. Its not like the scientists said: "oh hey, I feel like killing thousands of people today".
I have to be honest here...while that sh*t is disturbing, really this site is more desensitising than it is upsetting. I feel bad for those poor f*ckers, I do, but with the "ugly american" in me I just stopped being bothered by the end of the film. Thats not me, next subject. Nevertheless, 5'd for a WELL put together presentation of the seriously f*cked up sh*t that happens in the world.
I dunno. Personally I come on YTMND to cheer myself up, or if I'm bored. Came on today and saw this thing. Wasn't too thrilled. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a good site, but I'm not quite convinced it belongs on YTMND. Whether or not you're willing to accept it, it's a site that many generations visit, including children, who probably won't even understand wtf is going on here. But whatever, I'm not one to QQ in vast amounts. Either way, well done.
explain why your YTMND should exist in this form when it already exists in another. Icewolf lauds the 'creativity' of the site when it has anything but. just more evidence that anyone looking for more 'serioustmnds' to bring more 'class' or 'culture' to this site really has no f*cking clue what they are talking about.
Yeah, I wouldn't call it creative either. It is just well presented imo. And that is what I was going for. It doesn't have to exist in this form, but the Chernobyl Legacy project is more interactive, with voice over and text. The mood is a little bit different on that site. I prefer this audio anyway, and my site allows the pictures to speak for themselves now, since there is no longer a voice over. In addition, I added more pictures and they play out in different sequence than what was shown before.
I prefer original content too, but I wanted to try one of these for once. I figured it wouldn't be a big deal. I didn't expect something like this to get incredibly high ratings, I just wanted to show people these pictures. I think people take ytmnd too seriously sometimes. One well presented slideshow isn't a sin. But you make it seem as if I have committed a crime. If I had enough room on my description I would cite all my sources but I can't so, I should just delete the site then?
What kind of f*cking retard makes a reactor with a high positive void coefficient? Soviets really suck at safety. An RBMK design like Chernobyl generates more energy as coolant leaks out. Virtually all western designs decrease in power output as thy lose coolant. Pebble-Bed Reactors cannot meltdown, even if all the supporting machinery fails, the reactor will just go to a high standby temperature; as the power it generates drops as the temperature increases, eventually dropping to zero around 800C.
Yes, Ytmnd is for entertainment, but the thing that separates it from the ebaums of the world is that it can also be about art too, and art is about things that are part of our collective experience. Its about getting people to think and feel in different ways. If you shut yourself off from things like that you'll be a smaller person for it.
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