Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
@Ixions because then you get manipulated by politicians and religious figures into thinking the possibility of each thing is several thousand percent off what reality is. And then you become an ignorant uneducated fool who is so ignorant that they convince themselves they are the expert themselves
Actually these three arrogant men were themselves victims of other people's lies. They were never told that their fail safe could actually explode. Dyatlov might not have been so aggressive if he was not lied to about the safety of their fail safe button.
Yupppp. Really does show how insane they are in thinking that they’re absolutely perfect. And also exposed how they view people as nothing more than animals and slaves.
Excellent movie reflection of the human capacity to deny obvious truths that don’t fit your worldview. A lesson that few ever take to heart. RIP the liquidators of Chernobyl.
There's just something so dark and extra-disturbing about the way he pukes. The moment I first saw this scene, I KNEW I was in for a fucked-up journey.
Because if they were to admit that they screwed up, the responsibility would fall on the government since they were promoted to such positions. And since the government can't do wrong, any evidence would be eliminated... including people.
My Dad was in college during the incident and later joined the US Military after graduating. He eventually became part of a nuclear defense department. I showed him this and when he heard that the 1000 roentgen dosimeter breaking and the fire department dosimeter maxing at 200. He was incredulous. When it was over 15,000 roentgen I will keep to myself. He had no idea quite how bad the incident was.
I’m surprised the possibility of a bomb wasn’t brought up. If something explodes that can’t explode, that’d be my first thought, and there were Soviet conspiracy theories for years that it was a bomb. (N.B. - I’m not saying it was, I don’t believe for a second it was…but it does seem like something that would be discussed).
When I see this scene, it looks to me like upper managers are role-playing the process that is ahead of them... your equipment is wrong... what game are you playing... you didn't see that... and, finally, tell me how an RBMK reactor explodes. These are all the questions they will be confronting in the hours and days ahead as the bad news works its way up the structure.
Surprised there is only one projectile vomit scene in the whole series.... you can tell there was probably meant to be more, with the vomit on the floor in the firefighter hospital scene as well as first episode with the guy who looks for the dosimeter.
I knew Chernobyl was awful, but this scene alone was causing me to fume...the arrogance and pride in these 3 men...and the 1 man in this room who died trying to let the truth come to fruition sooner. This was an even bigger eye-opener to why Communism just doesn't work...ever. Great scene, but man was I just wanting to punch the wall...they took every opportunity to deny, cover up, and call the engineer delusional, when the reality is that they needed to be open-minded and practical, not trying to secure their position in the gov't.
They deep down knew, but couldn't risk admit that they were the ones responsible. Because if they did, the government would make them dissapear since everyone connected to the Party can do no wrong.
They are the equivalent of a DEI hire. Hired for toeing the party line, not because of expertise. Then, of course, there's the complete denial of reality because it can't match their fantasy of always being right.
Can someone explain this scene to me? Do they genuinely not believe him or are they telling him not to believe his lying eyes because the news is decidedly inconvenient?
This is an infuriating show about the shortcomings of people. They want to argue with the guy who just told them what he checked out with his own eyes. They want him to go look and tell them what he see's after he walked around and saw all he needed to. Truly useless.
As someone who was bor. And grew up after the fall of the USSR, its hard to undetstand why people just went to their death without fighting back or at least spoke their mind if they knew they were about to die. Really makes the USSR seem far more controlling and corupt than it probably was.
