11-28-2020, 09:59 AM
...the first 3 episodes of that miniseries, Chernobyl. There's only 5 episodes, so if you have YT and think you might be into it hurry up before the weekend is out. Â
Anyway, one thing becomes immediately clear from living in a socialistic state like that. Cover. Your. Azz. and party/state first is simply the reality those people lived under. Plant engineers would be asked what they saw and they were told over and over again that that didn't happen. Impossible, you didn't see that!  The main thing the engineers were saying was that the core exploded. So while I'm sure a lot of the doubt of them was science/experience based, the bosses stubbornly would not believe them which caused critical lost time and probably killed many more people than it had to. The core was blown wide open. There was graphite everywhere. Yet the plant bigwigs wouldn't acknowledge it. They ignored it to the point where outside people came and measured the radiation near the plant and they (the deniers) were then "sent to party head quarters." Ahem. Â
The cultish like behavior of denying objective reality was really striking, and it's something that concerns me about what may be heading in our direction. Â
Either way it's great stuff and I plan on finishing it tonight. First 3 episodes a definiteÂ
Anyway, one thing becomes immediately clear from living in a socialistic state like that. Cover. Your. Azz. and party/state first is simply the reality those people lived under. Plant engineers would be asked what they saw and they were told over and over again that that didn't happen. Impossible, you didn't see that!  The main thing the engineers were saying was that the core exploded. So while I'm sure a lot of the doubt of them was science/experience based, the bosses stubbornly would not believe them which caused critical lost time and probably killed many more people than it had to. The core was blown wide open. There was graphite everywhere. Yet the plant bigwigs wouldn't acknowledge it. They ignored it to the point where outside people came and measured the radiation near the plant and they (the deniers) were then "sent to party head quarters." Ahem. Â
The cultish like behavior of denying objective reality was really striking, and it's something that concerns me about what may be heading in our direction. Â
Either way it's great stuff and I plan on finishing it tonight. First 3 episodes a definiteÂ