Me sitting in the elephants foot at chernobyl
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For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner--I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones
great poast every one👍
I have drawn him....
The High Geologist
For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner--I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones
great poast every one👍
I have drawn him....
The High Geologist
Can’t believe he’s ace
He is now
And here’s the photo evidence:
hey guys...https://twitter.com/MatthewLillard/status/1322648148364324864 so does this make it canon?
the high geologist has ascended
every time i see this post it gets.... better? but also weirder.
I don’t know what this is a picture of, but it sure looks neat.
The control room of Chernobyl
tumblr quality control centre
Timeline of the Universe: Beyond 10,000 AD
- 10,000-15,000 AD - The hypernova of Eta Carinae is affecting our region of the galaxy
- 19,500 AD - Betelgeuse is colliding with a dusty wall
- 22,000 AD - The Chernobyl disaster site becomes fully safe
- 30,000 AD - The first wave of sub-light vessels has reached the galactic core
- 35,000 AD - Ross 248 becomes the closest star to our Sun
- 42,000 AD - Voyager 1 is passing near the red dwarf star, AC+79 3888
- 52,000 AD - The KEO time capsule re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere
- 100,000 AD - The red hypergiant star, VY Canis Majoris, has exploded by now, producing one of the largest supernovas the galaxy has ever seen
- 200,000 AD - Constellations visible from Earth have been rendered unrecognisable
- 298,000 AD - Voyager 2 is approaching Sirius
- 1,000,000 AD - Planet-sized computers are dominating the Local Group of galaxies; humanity’s descendants are a Type 3 civilisation on the Kardashev scale
- 1,400,000 AD - The Oort Cloud is being disrupted by the approach of Gliese 710
- 2,000,000 AD - Pioneer 10 is approaching the Aldebaran system
- 4,000,000 AD - Pioneer 11 is approaching the Lambda Aquilae system
- 6,800,000 AD - DNA from the 21st century has completely decayed
- 7,200,000 AD - Mount Rushmore has eroded away
- 7,600,000 AD - Phobos is ripped apart by Mars’ gravity
- 8,400,000 AD - LAGEOS-1 returns to Earth
- 10,000,000 AD - Earth is being threatened by lethal levels of gamma radiation | Triton’s decaying orbit has led to it breaking up around Neptune, forming a new ring system
- 27,000,000 AD - Smith’s Cloud is colliding and merging with our Milky Way galaxy
- 30,000,000 - 40,000,000 AD - At some point during this period, an asteroid 10-20 km in size comes on a direct collision course with Earth
- 50,000,000 AD - Africa merges with Europe, forming a new mountain range to rival the Himalayas
- 100,000,000 AD - The Milky Way galaxy has stabilised from an earlier collision
- 150,000,000 AD - The Atlantic Ocean begins to close
- 225,000,000 AD - Sol completes one galactic year
- 250,000,000 AD - A supercontinent is forming on Earth
- 600,000,000 AD - Total solar eclipses are no longer possible on Earth
- 750,000,000 AD - The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy has been absorbed into the larger Milky Way
- 1,000,000,000 AD - Earth is becoming too hot to support liquid water
- 3,800,000,000 AD - The Andromeda Galaxy has begun to collide and merge with our own Milky Way galaxy
- 5,000,000,000 AD - Sol is a red giant
- 12,000,000,000 AD - Sol is shrinking to become a black dwarf
- 100,000,000,000 AD - The Virgo Supercluster is converging into a single galaxy
- 1,000,000,000,000 AD - Star formation is declining in many galaxies
- 2,000,000,000,000 AD - Galaxies beyond the Local Supercluster are no longer visible
- 20,000,000,000,000 AD - Red dwarf stars are dying
- 100,000,000,000,000 AD - The end of the stellar era
- 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD - The degenerate era of the universe
- 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD - The black hole era of the universe
- Beyond 10100 - The dark era of the universe
The photo above is the closest humanity has ever come to creating Medusa. If you were to look at this, you would die instantly.
The image is of a reactor core lava formation in the basement of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It’s called the Elephant’s Foot and weighs hundreds of tons, but is only a couple meters across.
Oh, and regarding the Medusa thing, this picture was taken through a mirror around the corner of the hallway. Because the wheeled camera they sent up to take pictures of it was destroyed by the radiation. The Elephant’s Foot is almost as if it is a living creature.
Friendly reminder that this blob of core material was so hot and dense, it melted/burned through three floors of the building before coming to rest in the lowest basement.
And there’s now a unique species of black mold that feeds off the gamma radiation it produces.
Is no one else seriously freaked out by that mold? No? Just me, then?
LOVE that mold!
okay but
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhy was someone shooting it with a kalashnikov
dps check
I mean, the Elephant’s Foot is very very dangerous, but it wouldn’t kill you instantly. When it was first created about a minute of exposure would give you a fatal dose (x, x). That number is now around one hour. And yes, that photo was taken with mirrors, but you know which one wasn’t?
Yeah, this is a selfie. The guy set the timer on the camera and went and stood by it, and it produced this horrifying image that now haunts my dreams. The reason all the photos from Chernobyl are grainy and poor-quality, by the way, is due to radiation. The cameras were fine; radiation just… does that.
Anyway, that guy’s name is Artur Korneyev- and I use ‘is’ because he’s still alive! He helped to build the original sarcophagus which encased reactor 4 after the meltdown, and kept going back inside with reporters to be like ‘look how fuckin weird this is’. He helped plan the New Safe Confinement which now surrounds the sarcophagus, and would probably have helped build it too if they didn’t full-on ban him.
A quote:
‘Korneyev’s sense of humor remained intact, though. He seemed to have no regrets about his life’s work. “Soviet radiation,” he joked, “is the best radiation in the world.”‘
Possibly the coolest guy alive? I’m tempted to think so.
Honestly, I feel like Chernobyl has been shunted into this category of like, ‘a lot of innocent and naive people died horribly’, when in reality a lot of tough as fuck people saved everybody else. The oft-told story of the ‘suicide mission’ to dive into the reactor and open the valves of the pool? Yeah, all three of the men who dove lived. One died in 2005 of heart failure; the other two are still alive.
A total of 31 direct and 15 indirect deaths are thought to have occurred from the Chernobyl disaster. Long-term deaths are… difficult to measure. Oh, and there’s a few hundred people still living in the exclusion zone.
If you’re at all interested, I really recommend reading up about Chernobyl- and, in particular, what was done to contain it and deal with the radiation. This is a beautiful write-up, and the wiki page is also worth checking out. A lot of people did absolutely incredible work and it goes unrecognised most of the time.
And yeah, fungus is always the fucking weirdest.
I know very little about the Chernobyl incident beyond the basics, but finding out that they built a sarcophagus to contain part of it is metal as fuck and I’m into it
One of the oldest diving suits in existence - called Wanha Herra from early 18th century, Finland
bananas in pajamas gritty chernobyl reboot
the chernobyl elephant’s foot looks like a big cozy beanbag and i’m going to sit on it if it kills me (which it will)
The stuffed chicken breasts did not go as planned
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were you cooking this in the sewer
Chernobyl fleshlight
[uses chernobyl’s elephant’s foot as a beanbag] whats up fuckers