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The Elephant's Foot - Corpse of Chernobyl 

Kyle Hill
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By the fall of 1986, the emergency crews fighting to contain the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant made it into the basement. They turned a corner into a steam corridor beneath failed reactor Number 4 and found not steam, but black lava that had oozed out of the core, eaten through meters of concrete, and settled on the floor. The largest and most famous formation in the corridor was a two-ton wrinkled mass that their radiation sensors firmly told them not to approach. With cameras pushed in from around a corner, the workers documented the dimly lit mass. This is the true story of the Elephant’s Foot.
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Комментарии : 14 тыс.   
@kylehill
@kylehill 3 года назад
Thanks for watching. The second in my "Half-Life Histories" series, let me know what you think of the new format!
@yahecker3515
@yahecker3515 3 года назад
I love it!
@bannaman4208
@bannaman4208 3 года назад
It looks great :D
@RenRen-zj8uv
@RenRen-zj8uv 3 года назад
It's awesome
@berthulf
@berthulf 3 года назад
These are amazing and I look forward to many more!
@pokehybridtrainer
@pokehybridtrainer 3 года назад
Keep 'em coming, man.
@chcknpie04
@chcknpie04 3 года назад
“This photo cost a man his life.” Chills, dude.
@WeskerZombieWanker
@WeskerZombieWanker 3 года назад
That photo didn't cost a life the guy who took it has a yt channel where he explored the inside for 20 min he made lots of pictures I forgot the name but I'm sure u can find it
@WeskerZombieWanker
@WeskerZombieWanker 3 года назад
@@DammedMan. Alexandr kupyi
@strifera
@strifera 3 года назад
Story was fortunately fake.
@WeskerZombieWanker
@WeskerZombieWanker 3 года назад
Alexandr kupyi is the guy who entered Chernobyl and took photos
@yenn9406
@yenn9406 3 года назад
Me too, me too...
@idkjordash
@idkjordash 3 года назад
I feel like I’m gonna get radiation poisoning just from watching this video
@ddlcfan5539
@ddlcfan5539 3 года назад
Every Karen: 5G CaUsEs CaNcEr
@MrHack4never
@MrHack4never 3 года назад
This reminds me of Styropyro's video about going blind from laser videos, except this has a much darker tone
@damonpono8337
@damonpono8337 3 года назад
Like watching anything horror feel like you’re getting cursed just watching
@somebody4942
@somebody4942 3 года назад
@Porl Inch How?
@laze1000
@laze1000 3 года назад
@Porl Inch but it’s just a video
@tmc8724
@tmc8724 Год назад
It's crazy how far the radiation actually reached. I have family in the Black Forest at the border to Switzerland and you're STILL not supposed to pick mushrooms in that forest because of the radiation.
@bobcondon9602
@bobcondon9602 9 месяцев назад
What distance is that from the site of the reactor?
@margaritapeggyschuylervanr2486
@margaritapeggyschuylervanr2486 8 месяцев назад
@@bobcondon9602roughly 2000km
@EtherealSunset
@EtherealSunset 4 месяца назад
Even in the UK lamb and milk were banned from parts of Wales and the Lake District until pretty recently due to radiation. The wind was blowing this way at some point and it rained and they were the worst hit areas in the UK. That I know of, there's now nowhere with high enough radiation here that there are restrictions (I could be wrong), but it's only been a few years since restrictions were lifted.
@martyvirtue4051
@martyvirtue4051 4 месяца назад
Hahahaha what a joke
@danielbuchanan1560
@danielbuchanan1560 4 месяца назад
​@martyvirtue4051 evil much?
@georgemccartney8906
@georgemccartney8906 9 месяцев назад
10:13, knowing that the photographer died taking this picture, it's just uncanny knowing that if you were actually there in that very perspective displayed in the picture, you too would basically be dead. Like just standing there seeing it ensures you're already in the clutches of the silent horror surrounding it. It's a quality that certainly makes a picture like this... difficult to look at
@billykulim5202
@billykulim5202 4 месяца назад
i'm sure the photographer are unknown to radiation danger at that time, he just being used and command to take a picture by a superior or something, what horrible is they look and picture and probably think that was alien lifeform and dont know it was corium
@reptyy4126
@reptyy4126 4 месяца назад
It just shows and proves not to underestimate radioactivity even many years after the reactor meltdown. Becuase it sticks around for so long
@tipwewurkk6639
@tipwewurkk6639 12 дней назад
1st camera man in history who didn’t make it
@NoahClendenen
@NoahClendenen 4 дня назад
@@reptyy4126yea but it also shows it’s not that dangerous. This is probably the worst it could get. Nuclear power overall is safe and radiation isn’t all that bad. It’s bad ofc but it’s blown wayyyyy out of proportion.
@jacobbrown3479
@jacobbrown3479 3 года назад
“Hi, I’m Steve-O, and today I’m gonna be sitting bare ass on the Elephant’s Foot”
@Bobbynarde
@Bobbynarde 3 года назад
HAHAHA
@lucretiavelvet9755
@lucretiavelvet9755 3 года назад
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
@Blakebaby
@Blakebaby 3 года назад
That shit funny asf 😂
@ahabduennschitz7670
@ahabduennschitz7670 3 года назад
The man who could sit everywhere.... dies of ass cancer 😞 History repeats itself
@redraiderrider3289
@redraiderrider3289 3 года назад
How many videos are you going to put this comment on? Do you have an extra chromosome?
@dadaniel2k11
@dadaniel2k11 3 года назад
Recently scientists discovered a fungus living there. It just decided to snack on the foot. What a madman.
@Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek
@Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek 3 года назад
We need to know more
@heyojayo8642
@heyojayo8642 3 года назад
Life finds a way
@proxy90909
@proxy90909 3 года назад
The "godzilla" fungus that use radiation as food ala plant using sunlight?
@childeater7327
@childeater7327 3 года назад
Rad rhodium fungus funk
@hexcarts5523
@hexcarts5523 3 года назад
Shit bruh got hungry
@spindle5087
@spindle5087 10 месяцев назад
My grandfather was a Latvian man who was sent to Chernobyl as a liquidator, recently I spoke to my nan about it and she told me what the general said to him when he arrived “you’ll face so much radiation that your bones will glow a hundred years in the grave” sure enough he died a few years later from heart failure
@lrkeribergaard6110
@lrkeribergaard6110 3 месяца назад
mmm....he helped...
@abhijitpodder9916
@abhijitpodder9916 Месяц назад
Respect for him! may his soul rest in utmost peace!
@lrkeribergaard6110
@lrkeribergaard6110 Месяц назад
@@abhijitpodder9916 mhm....
@victoriaelizabethwhitimaxw1613
@victoriaelizabethwhitimaxw1613 Месяц назад
Many thanks to your grand father it's horrifying to know that people died for lack of knowledge and power.
@ziyrns
@ziyrns 17 дней назад
Wow, my family is from Latvia as well, respect to him
@Bee-kb8tk
@Bee-kb8tk Год назад
As horrible as this incident was, it was important for us to realize what nuclear war could bring. No one wins, everyone loses.
@Supremax67
@Supremax67 10 месяцев назад
I also don't remember last time a solar panel exploded in my face.
@dianauwu1312
@dianauwu1312 10 месяцев назад
Except this wasn't a deliberate act of destruction. It was just human error at the wrong place at the wrong time.
@dantees5734
@dantees5734 10 месяцев назад
​@@dianauwu1312exactly. It was just a basic and simple accident that caused all of that. So the thought of what an INTENTIONAL nuclear strike would do....tends to spread awareness, yeah?
@concept5631
@concept5631 10 месяцев назад
​@@dantees5734And hysteria
@azurekutella3812
@azurekutella3812 9 месяцев назад
Listen to the accounts of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@kellanfeng
@kellanfeng 2 года назад
"This photo cost a man's life." That is the most eerie thing I've ever heard
@theundeadthrasher
@theundeadthrasher 2 года назад
Damn, this shit is so cool the biggest planet in our solar system wants to comment
@adityagunjal7104
@adityagunjal7104 2 года назад
Jupiter is cool and all but I'm more interested in Uranus...
@kellanfeng
@kellanfeng 2 года назад
@@adityagunjal7104 lol
@JohnGardnerAlhadis
@JohnGardnerAlhadis 2 года назад
@@kellanfeng Thanks for sucking up all those Earth-killing asteroids, solar system daddy. ❤
@thevtuberchannelforwatchin7029
@thevtuberchannelforwatchin7029 2 года назад
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis Hmmm📸
@cameronmeade4200
@cameronmeade4200 3 года назад
The fungus that lives in the basement with the elephant's foot: "Finally some good fuckin food"
@suisiwara2036
@suisiwara2036 3 года назад
The fungus after seeing the humans not approaching the basement: “pathetic.”
@tripweed
@tripweed 3 года назад
The fungus after 38.000 years: "WAAAAAAGH DA ORKZ! KRUSH SMASH KRUMP STOMP!"
@Foga001
@Foga001 3 года назад
The fungus protected by the emperor
@davisdf3064
@davisdf3064 3 года назад
@@tripweed O h no
@501ststormtrooper9
@501ststormtrooper9 3 года назад
@@davisdf3064 Commencing orbital bombardment.
@Aviation_Fan_27
@Aviation_Fan_27 Год назад
"This photo cost a man his life" geez bro that gave me chills I hope that man rests in peace and calm
@Tonjit41
@Tonjit41 Месяц назад
Their heart isn't beating. Complete cognitive shutdown. Gone. There is no peace to be rested in as they have died. Just a little fun fact.
@doomstan
@doomstan 17 дней назад
​@@Tonjit41 edge lord
@vyrodwarvenking
@vyrodwarvenking 10 дней назад
@@Tonjit41ok pointdexter
@yuriyrusso7642
@yuriyrusso7642 Год назад
My great grandfather was a liquidator. She was a chemist and was one of the very first personnel to arrive at the scene and was responsible for removing contaminated soil. She survived Holodomor, WW2, Chernobyl, the fall of the soviet union, the Russian invasion, and died of natural causes yesterday at age 90.
@SentientMattress531
@SentientMattress531 Год назад
Grandfather or grandmother? I’m getting mixed signals. Still a chad.
@meganbermudez299
@meganbermudez299 11 месяцев назад
You mixed up the pronouns a lil bit but whichever way it is, your grandparent is a serious tank to be able to stand all of that. I commend them for their strength, they seem like they had so many stories to tell!
@weirdo5933
@weirdo5933 11 месяцев назад
Dude your grandparent was a fucking unit
@roaringthunder8069
@roaringthunder8069 11 месяцев назад
Brain.exe has ceased functioning.
@saft2529
@saft2529 8 месяцев назад
Umm... Grandmother or grandfather? You said "she" twice, but you said grandfather once.
@vishnuravi8910
@vishnuravi8910 3 года назад
Imagine if all the cursed objects in history are just radioactive things.
@sugaramped5544
@sugaramped5544 3 года назад
Probably lol
@hurryupdash
@hurryupdash 3 года назад
the fact you had 69 likes when i read this scares me
@purdysanchez
@purdysanchez 3 года назад
The ark of the covenant just had a highly radioactive chunk of metal inside of it. Maybe that's why they made it out of gold (radiation shield), and opening it would kill you?
@daemtime1782
@daemtime1782 3 года назад
Reminds me of being on the presence of the orb of confusion
@evergreenrider
@evergreenrider 3 года назад
Theres actually a lot of hypothesis that believe exactly that
@clawed50java71
@clawed50java71 3 года назад
In times I need to be humbled I can remember that a literal pile of goo would clap me into the next dimension after bout 2 minutes.
@patriciadobbins718
@patriciadobbins718 3 года назад
This comment right here sent me.
@silentxwxlf
@silentxwxlf 3 года назад
This sent me too
@Dennis19901
@Dennis19901 3 года назад
This is absolute nonsense and I don't get why this keeps being propagated over and over.
@silentxwxlf
@silentxwxlf 3 года назад
@@Dennis19901 what are you on about
@Dennis19901
@Dennis19901 3 года назад
@@silentxwxlf It should be pretty clear if you can read my and the OP's comment.
@DrummerJ
@DrummerJ Год назад
The amount of force required to explode the lid off the reactor through the roof was approximately 709 million Newtons. That means the lid accelerated at 391 m/s^2 which is equal to 875 mph. That’s insanity… I don’t think we can really even comprehend the shear magnitude of what was happening in the reactor. Great video, love you work!
@tamahagane1700
@tamahagane1700 8 месяцев назад
Lid was ejected by force of overheated and expanding steam only, not by nuclear explosion (as many still believe).
@vic_cresss
@vic_cresss 6 месяцев назад
You literally would not even be able to see it, it’s actually INSANE
@KadenHartley
@KadenHartley 4 месяца назад
Stop with your numbers math wizard and and explain it to me like im a 5 year old.
@vic_cresss
@vic_cresss 4 месяца назад
@@KadenHartley wild shit
@rorysloane904
@rorysloane904 3 месяца назад
@@KadenHartleythe lid went bing bang boop pop!
@AJ-mu3zm
@AJ-mu3zm 11 месяцев назад
Having the Elephant's Foot described as 'escaping confinement' gives massive SCP vibes. Honestly Corium feels like an IRL SCP and i think its wild that we exist at a point in history where we hear about manmade horrors beyond our comprehension and just carry on with our day lol. Sick video btw 👍
@iamarizonaball2642
@iamarizonaball2642 9 месяцев назад
I currently am trying to get an scp approved.
@smeksii_yozhik
@smeksii_yozhik 5 месяцев назад
IRL SCP is straight-up what cleaning up radioactive contamination is, now that you mention it. Special procedure(s) carried out to contain a strange hazard, preventing it from harming others with its destructive properties... such as rad emissions. It's literally the same thing... which is a little terrifying to think about lol
@LunarKittyLily
@LunarKittyLily 3 месяца назад
Does this include/related to asbestos removal?
@TransistorBased
@TransistorBased 2 месяца назад
Actual people died and were horrifically maimed by intense radiation, and you're here to make jokes about shitty creepypasta
@Antikyth
@Antikyth 24 дня назад
@@TransistorBased That's how we humans are. We always have, we always will. For many, even those involved in such events, it's a good coping mechanism. And people make jokes in far, far worse taste than this.
@dustyboi8975
@dustyboi8975 3 года назад
Corpse of Chernobyl is a pretty good name for a death metal band
@chilli3724
@chilli3724 3 года назад
There's a band called Cytotoxin that made a whole album about Chernobyl named "Gammageddon"
@maryjohnson5377
@maryjohnson5377 3 года назад
Damn, yes it is.
@nathanstroud2223
@nathanstroud2223 3 года назад
I was just thinking while watching this that there's probably a band out there named Corium.
@smokugoku
@smokugoku 3 года назад
I love how the acronym is CoC... the death metal band pronounced "cock"
@maxwain6069
@maxwain6069 3 года назад
@@smokugoku well that just makes it better
@patton303
@patton303 3 года назад
“Wow! Check it out guys! That thing looks just like an elephant’s foot. Lol!” *coughs blood*
@marycatherinegallagher238
@marycatherinegallagher238 3 года назад
Dang, right.
@TheArchivesOfAlex
@TheArchivesOfAlex 3 года назад
This shouldn't be funny, but it is.
@paprikaa117
@paprikaa117 3 года назад
*heart falls out*
@EORheartcartoons
@EORheartcartoons 3 года назад
I feel so bad for laughing at this haha
@thebluediamondgamer3634
@thebluediamondgamer3634 3 года назад
Lo
@jackstar7204
@jackstar7204 Год назад
If Lovecraft was freaked out by the color spectrum and air conditioners, imagine what story he'd write about this!
@xo-1320
@xo-1320 8 дней назад
He did. One of the Outer Gods is called the Nuclear Chaos adter all.
@tylerallison9735
@tylerallison9735 Год назад
Radiation poisoning and radioactive material is so fascinating for me. As a Native American descendant, I was always curious about my people’s history, stories, and folklore. And learning about just how much devastation can come from even a small amount of radioactive material makes me wonder if stories about dead lands or cursed bodies, caves, or objects were just how my ancestors came to understand radiation
@benjamindoyle668
@benjamindoyle668 11 месяцев назад
This is a really fascinating take. The idea would make a great book or TV series, with that unique perspective.
@tylerallison9735
@tylerallison9735 9 месяцев назад
@@benjamindoyle668 it would be now that you mention it
@benjamindoyle668
@benjamindoyle668 9 месяцев назад
​@@tylerallison9735 I would read it!!
@MarianaKross
@MarianaKross 9 месяцев назад
Radiation amongst other things. Indigenous knew humans are not meant to live in some places . Another reason is because of other beings who lived in such areas
@havi8-0-9
@havi8-0-9 5 месяцев назад
i highly doubt it, our ancestors were smart asf but not no Einstein an the folk lore is most likely just fiction
@cobbington773
@cobbington773 3 года назад
“The elephant’s foot” is the most ominous, terrifying name they could’ve chosen for that It sounds like the name of an scp
@alventuradelacruz522
@alventuradelacruz522 3 года назад
What is a SCP?
@Endymion766
@Endymion766 3 года назад
@@alventuradelacruz522 SCP stands for Secure, Contain, Protect. It's a fictional organization that tries to contain objects that violate natural law.
@kennylunacy
@kennylunacy 3 года назад
@@Endymion766 That's their motto. SCP stands for Special Containment Procedures.
@kyatonic1
@kyatonic1 3 года назад
Maybe it is a scp
@lPhoenixGloryl
@lPhoenixGloryl 3 года назад
I mean for all intents and purposes it might as well be one. It's just the Russian government containing it now instead of some hidden organization. Could either classify it as a very dangerous "safe" SCP or maybe "euclid". Depends on how much it costs to contain and how well they have it contained now.
@SerMattzio
@SerMattzio 3 года назад
"This photo cost a man his life." I think that might be the most poignant one sentence summary of the Chernobyl disaster I have heard.
@justforever96
@justforever96 3 года назад
Assuming it is true. It was just some shit the guy heard at third hand, and who knows how honest the second guy (or third guy) is. It came from a guy who claims that he got it from a guy who told him that "he heard" that it was taken by a man "they sent down" to snap a single photo. Any one of those people could be lying or mistaken, and who did he hear it from, the guy who held the photographers safety rope, or a guy who heard from a guy who heard a story once? They knew well enough to rig up a remote camera for the other photo, yet they are sending a man down to risk his life for an inferior photo at a later date? Seems implausible.
@HellfireRE
@HellfireRE 3 года назад
And it is attention grabbing bullshit like a lot of the rest of this sadly very unscientific video. Just a simple google of the "Elephant's Phoot Photo" dismisses this story every time it is posted. The guy that visited the Elephants Foot dozends of times over the years is hard to reach but was at least in 2014 still alive and giving interviews. If you want further examples in this video there is also the statement "Corium might be one of the rares artificial materials". By his own admission over 100t of corium had been created by Chernobyl alone, and then you have Elements like Oganesson or Astatine of which not even a single gram exist in the Earths crust at any given time and only micrograms have ever been artificially produced.
@RedAdmiral101
@RedAdmiral101 2 года назад
Had to comment, it was at 666 likes lol
@marcellkovacs5452
@marcellkovacs5452 2 года назад
There's also the urban myth that the 3 divers who volunteered their lives died, but actually two of them are still alive and the third one died in 2005 (aged 65). The lack of official communication from the Soviets resulted in an insane amount of speculation that are now often considered as facts.
@birisuandrei1551
@birisuandrei1551 2 года назад
It must've been terrifying for the guys who went down there when they measured the radiation just to find out it's Off the chart high... They either took the photo before measurements or that photo is not that old meaning it was taken at a time the elephant's foot wasn't nearly as radioactive anymore, cause you ain't gonna tell me some guys went down there saw radiation levels that would make a nuke blush and decided "well...we are going to die so might as well take a picture"
@Xandra1076
@Xandra1076 Год назад
One of my earliest memories is actually of the news coverage of this accident. I was 4 at the time. My mom, who had grown up in the darkest years of the Cold War, was horrified, which is probably why it remains a strong memory for me. It was a hell of a thing to see on the news, and how grim the newscasters were talking about the fallout.
@patchso
@patchso 5 месяцев назад
I remember it too although I was a little bit older. Terrifying. Even at the other side of Europe.
@user-wm3bf7pi3u
@user-wm3bf7pi3u Месяц назад
I remember hearing about a big time Hollywood movie that was filming in eastern Europe. They told everyone on set that it was a minor meltdown and nothing to worry about... but don't drink the milk for the next few weeks.
@cbsundance
@cbsundance 2 месяца назад
"CORIUM" what an awesome name for a hard/heavy rock band!🎉
@stankbox
@stankbox 2 месяца назад
Indeed.
@user-wm3bf7pi3u
@user-wm3bf7pi3u Месяц назад
Yea but how heavy? at the start he said it was 2 tons, then he said 4000 kg. That is 4 metric tons or 4.4 imperial tons.
@ztoogemcducc6360
@ztoogemcducc6360 2 года назад
Radiation poisening seems so unreal to me. It's hard to wrap your head around the fact that simply standing near the wrong kind of rock can kill you
@mennograafmans1595
@mennograafmans1595 2 года назад
And you don't even have the needed senses to notice it. You can't see or feel it. Nor smell, taste or hear. It's just there. And you'll only know when it's to late. (Edit: I have, after dozens of messages, learned that you can in fact taste radiation. The exact taste seems to differ per reaction, but sweet and metallic are named most. You can all now stop filling my inbox. Thanks.)
@TF2Scout..
@TF2Scout.. 2 года назад
And it burns like fire that you can't see. It's really bad. Only thing you can hear is the screeching of geigermeter.
@byrons1339
@byrons1339 2 года назад
Fission radiation does not really occur in nature, this includes the universe. its almost always man made.
@Chad-bc9vi
@Chad-bc9vi 2 года назад
@@mennograafmans1595 i heard plutonium taste sweet, i wonder if it'll be a good and healthy exchange for my sugar diet
@taraswertelecki3786
@taraswertelecki3786 2 года назад
@@mennograafmans1595 You can feel the presence of very high levels of radiation, because you smell it and it puts a metallic taste in your mouth. Air molecules are ionized by gamma radiation. However, by then you absorbed a serious, if not fatal dose of radiation.
@artemshevtsov6062
@artemshevtsov6062 3 года назад
It’s kinda scary to think that this thing is alone, sealed away in the cold, dark, wet basement of a power plant in a city that has long since been abandoned. And it’ll still be there when all of us are dead, in that cold, dark, wet basement
@Mr._L
@Mr._L 3 года назад
And its still eating its way down and down under the basement
@simplynotthere4726
@simplynotthere4726 3 года назад
Scary to think this thing will be there for so long. It could impact us, our children, our grandchildren.
@bianca952000
@bianca952000 3 года назад
I like this description. It's truly terrifiying and scarier than any horror movie ever made, IMO.
@saadhero9107
@saadhero9107 3 года назад
That is a scary way to put it, but i like it!
@fusrosandvich3738
@fusrosandvich3738 3 года назад
I wonder... Will it run out of steam before it reaches the core? Is it even possible for it to do that? If it does, what would happen, if anything?
@Rndmstff737
@Rndmstff737 4 месяца назад
The corium deposit below chernobyl is one of the only things on this planet that can still kill after it’s dead
@zackstaa7826
@zackstaa7826 9 месяцев назад
I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of the Elephant’s Foot. I can’t get enough of it. This is my favorite thing right now.
@MarzzRover
@MarzzRover 5 месяцев назад
I’m going down the same rabbit hole right now. It fills me with so much dread, but I just can’t get enough!
@AaronPaulIbarrola
@AaronPaulIbarrola 3 года назад
"This picture cost a man his life. End quote." That really affected me.
@azzajohnson2123
@azzajohnson2123 3 года назад
Same.
@geonite2072
@geonite2072 3 года назад
Chills!😱
@odgie9915
@odgie9915 3 года назад
Affected you how? Where is the proof of it killing the man, just a story.
@AaronPaulIbarrola
@AaronPaulIbarrola 3 года назад
@@odgie9915 I was deeply saddened by the simple notion of unintended sacrifice. Being in the military, I had lost someone I knew through something similarly unecessary. Whether the photographer in this story actually died or not with vetted evidence is inconsequential to the quote and idea "affecting" me.
@scottycranmer8548
@scottycranmer8548 3 года назад
@@AaronPaulIbarrola and that's why not to join the military
@kyrox6499
@kyrox6499 3 года назад
Can't believe this is what my parents walked through to get to school
@audrey2658
@audrey2658 3 года назад
uno reverse
@abbrah90
@abbrah90 3 года назад
underrated comment
@umiefatihah3212
@umiefatihah3212 3 года назад
ikr
@alexandrapetersen8582
@alexandrapetersen8582 3 года назад
This.....this comment right here...... chefs kiss
@AverageJ03Gaming
@AverageJ03Gaming 3 года назад
Oh this is the one right here yall
@hamper3985
@hamper3985 Год назад
I find it ironic the best way to block radiation is another dangerous rock
@user-wm3bf7pi3u
@user-wm3bf7pi3u Месяц назад
Which dangerous rock were you referring to?
@hamper3985
@hamper3985 27 дней назад
@@user-wm3bf7pi3u Lead
@birky0191
@birky0191 19 дней назад
​@@user-wm3bf7pi3u lead
@jackradzelovage6961
@jackradzelovage6961 14 дней назад
@@user-wm3bf7pi3u probably lead or graphite, if you count either material as a rock
@user-wm3bf7pi3u
@user-wm3bf7pi3u 14 дней назад
@@jackradzelovage6961 Or dangerous, OK don't like the lead but we ARE graphite.
@coryschallert8915
@coryschallert8915 Год назад
As someone who was born less than 100 miles away. Its terrifying but also informative as well. Thank you.
@Someone89a
@Someone89a 3 года назад
“Could be dubbed as the most dangerous piece of waste in the world” My parents would beg to differ
@Beef1188
@Beef1188 3 года назад
Why is that? Haven't cleaned your room again?
@Someone89a
@Someone89a 3 года назад
@@Beef1188 I mean more being a dyspraxic with a music degree. I’m either gonna be broke or I’ll break my neck falling down stairs.
@T.Knight0712
@T.Knight0712 3 года назад
@@Someone89a nearly thought you were a serial killer, mate.
@marcusalexander7088
@marcusalexander7088 3 года назад
:)) Good one!
@TaveZgg
@TaveZgg 3 года назад
@@Someone89a im currently majoring in music so.... same
@The_Keeper
@The_Keeper 2 года назад
Nuclear power is like Airplanes; Extremely safe, but when it *Does* go bad, it goes bad big time.
@echoofdawn7209
@echoofdawn7209 2 года назад
and both are used in civil and military stuff
@carlg4544
@carlg4544 2 года назад
Anything that dangerous has to be super safe but it seems that if anything is extremely safe and it fails, it's always a big disaster. Oil rigs, space shuttles, or anything of the sort basically means certain death but nuclear reactors take the number one spot of the worst man-made disaster that could happen. Well maybe the artificial disaster that was avoided when all of the world's flora would've died tops that.
@wolfetteplays8894
@wolfetteplays8894 2 года назад
Still would rather stick with steam engines, thank you very much
@CommissarChaotic
@CommissarChaotic 2 года назад
@@wolfetteplays8894 arent most energy sources just steam engines except with different ways to turn them?
@brianlam5847
@brianlam5847 2 года назад
@@wolfetteplays8894 which are more dangerous
@OzzyInSpace
@OzzyInSpace 2 месяца назад
I still often think about all the brave souls that put their lives on the line (and were frequently taken from this world as a result) to help clean this mess up.
@Kindaintersting
@Kindaintersting 3 месяца назад
I have to say, a lot of people who make these kinds of videos put on ominous music in the background and talk about the subject like at any moment it could break down your door and kill you. So it’s kind of relieving that you explained it so calmly.
@purplehaze2358
@purplehaze2358 3 года назад
There’s apparently some fungus growing on the elephant’s foot right now. If you ask me, that’s a seriously impressive display of the adaptability of life.
@TNM001
@TNM001 3 года назад
@The Once and Future King! well, that will make it even more impressive, we should study it ;)
@iforgot8376
@iforgot8376 3 года назад
I think that's the Hulk of fungus.
@melikshah4564
@melikshah4564 3 года назад
@@iforgot8376 it's a hulkus
@SMDTURBO
@SMDTURBO 3 года назад
@The Once and Future King! let's hope. I thought we would get aliens or some shit by now.
@explodingtomahawks7589
@explodingtomahawks7589 3 года назад
I'm sorry, WHAT? Fungus is growing on it??
@Dude-yo5ec
@Dude-yo5ec 2 года назад
The fungus near elephants foot: “Why is it spicy”
@XTCYDVL
@XTCYDVL 2 года назад
i can hear this comment nooo 😭😭😭
@Hesuklista
@Hesuklista 2 года назад
Spicy, burning cold, and tastes like a penny
@alHollandi_1998
@alHollandi_1998 2 года назад
@@Hesuklista Do you taste metal?
@pressftopayrespects6325
@pressftopayrespects6325 2 года назад
If fungus had a brain like ours, it would detect a metallic taste but in general, radiation has no flavor, it would be dead instantly anyway.
@user-km5pm7yz3e
@user-km5pm7yz3e 2 года назад
@@XTCYDVL same 😭
@UnSpamtomRandom
@UnSpamtomRandom 3 месяца назад
Just imagine the gorgeus amount of calories
@WHERE-IS-THE-LAMB-SAUCE
@WHERE-IS-THE-LAMB-SAUCE 2 месяца назад
Forbidden cheat meal
@julianstj
@julianstj Месяц назад
Quite spicey
@pascuala.
@pascuala. 17 дней назад
Yummy yummy in my tummy.
@jondellar
@jondellar Год назад
A really arresting and engaging piece of work, clearly based on some very solid background research for your original work. Thank you so much for posting this!
@TantalumPolytope
@TantalumPolytope Год назад
arresting? you mean interresting right?
@vic_cresss
@vic_cresss 6 месяцев назад
@@TantalumPolytopeor captivating
@purplehaze2358
@purplehaze2358 3 года назад
“The radioactive lava flow...” That’s three words that shouldn’t be in the same sentence.
@Ciaran.Ciaran
@Ciaran.Ciaran 3 года назад
God... "The" is so dangerous... Cant imagine what it's like whilst being radioactive AND lava
@GetawayFilms
@GetawayFilms 3 года назад
So why did you add a fourth? You looking for a sentence meltdown or something?
@purplehaze2358
@purplehaze2358 3 года назад
@@GetawayFilms The obvious highlight is “radioactive lava flow”. I’m sure the quote wouldn’t have made sense without the “The”.
@judithfarlow3326
@judithfarlow3326 3 года назад
@Insomnia_Gaming I don't have to worrie about that my mum has passed 20yrs ago
@fastmatt30
@fastmatt30 3 года назад
The.... WHAT
@Tantemify
@Tantemify Год назад
those brave souls who tried to contain the mess after the meltdown, they are truly selfless.
@JacketVR
@JacketVR Год назад
*were
@timba1181
@timba1181 Год назад
They had no idea what they were doing. The soviet union wasn't known for it's transparency.
@TerpSlerp420
@TerpSlerp420 Год назад
They had no choice
@wutzibu
@wutzibu Год назад
I knew a doctor specialized in geriatrics in my hospital, where I work as a nurse, who once briefly mentioned that he was a firefighter in That disaster. My respect for him maxed out at that moment.
@timba1181
@timba1181 Год назад
@@wutzibu I thought they all died..?
@ddviper8813
@ddviper8813 11 месяцев назад
THANK YOU so much for bringing context to some of the pictures. Always wanted to know more about how they came to be.
@robhall1
@robhall1 Год назад
What an amazing video. Never had the meltdown explained so well before. Thank you!
@buzzsburner.8286
@buzzsburner.8286 Год назад
I don't think as humans we can possibly grasp how ridiculously hot "half as hot as the sun" is
@TheMegaxPlus
@TheMegaxPlus Год назад
Yeah we can. Tungsten has a ridiculous 3400C° melting point, that's more than half as hot as the sun surface and hotter than the elephant's foot even been, yet we can melt it. Core sun temperature though, that is uh... 15 million C°. Kinda wild
@TerribleVA
@TerribleVA Год назад
Well yeah, just approaching the sun would likely disintegrate a human.
@Izanagioomikami
@Izanagioomikami Год назад
I think that everybody who had a girlfriend before grasps "half as hot as the sun".
@ryloaneheim1382
@ryloaneheim1382 Год назад
the sun isn't even that hot of a star, yet its still incredibly hot, also if you are curious about some man made hot temperatures, the guy mentioning tungsten has a point, but also, look up arc welding, its a nifty trick.
@deathkorpsgrenadier2894
@deathkorpsgrenadier2894 Год назад
I mean, a single lightning bolt of 5x hotter than the surface of the sun
@Hexra_
@Hexra_ 3 года назад
The elephant's foot is the closest thing we have to an SCP entry
@OtakuUnitedStudio
@OtakuUnitedStudio 3 года назад
There are a few but it's the best candidate.
@boop993
@boop993 3 года назад
Probably be like a Keter SCP due to probably how hard it would be to transport Edit: Thanks for replying to me everyone! I was rather new to SCPs so I was still confused. Thanks!
@socialhermit7144
@socialhermit7144 3 года назад
@@boop993 wouldn't it be safe? They dont need to transport it, they just have to keep people away. Edit: please stop replying, the debate was fun at first but now it is just kinda annoying.
@AmataTai
@AmataTai 3 года назад
As it is currently contained, but still deadly and approaching groundwater- I would say that it is currently Euclid class, but could potentially upgrade to Keter if it's determined it would explode again from the contact
@jambunboii4537
@jambunboii4537 3 года назад
Scp rating is based off of how hard it is to contain not how dangerous it is so it would be a safe as everything has already been evacuated meaning nothing else would have to be done to contain it
@hotshot461
@hotshot461 Год назад
Kyle im ngl. Youre like Bill Nye. You make science interesting, terrible, human-driven freak accidents and all. Keep up the good work man.
@sharkie-boo
@sharkie-boo 3 месяца назад
and to think that it is STILL "alive".... incerdible yet terrifying
@jordanthompson9930
@jordanthompson9930 Год назад
"this photo, cost a man his life." It was such a scary sentence to hear. I just began to imagine just what was going through his mind after seeing the elephant's foot and how he felt when he came back up. It was just such a terrifying sentence when lots of thought is put behind it.
@a.n.d.y.764
@a.n.d.y.764 Год назад
Especially when you know you have already received a death sentence and there is no way to escape
@dominickroberts4653
@dominickroberts4653 Год назад
He was a legend.
@charlesdemers1197
@charlesdemers1197 Год назад
He definitely was
@fortnight5677
@fortnight5677 Год назад
Chad cameraman goes down, takes a picture, refuses to elaborate. Virgin Elephant's Foot keeps standing there confused.
@Ember2168
@Ember2168 Год назад
This man would've likely felt nauseous at first, his skin reddening with a side of dizziness, but then after a few days it would seemingly disappear, until then he'd rapidly deteriorate and die. A horrible way to go.
@eugeneoliveros5814
@eugeneoliveros5814 3 года назад
If Chernobyl is a corpse, then the Elephant’s Foot is the Polonium bullet still stuck inside it
@vipr1142
@vipr1142 3 года назад
This guy literally stole another guys work - Fascinating Horror - channel. Disgusting.
@vipr1142
@vipr1142 3 года назад
@FettTheRanter Sorry I meant Dark5. The channel. This guy who uploaded this has basically just stolen another guys work.
@xenerath4952
@xenerath4952 3 года назад
@@vipr1142 this was adapted from an academic essay Kyle did in 2013. Way further back than even Dark5's first video on Cherynobyl
@KaiserStormTracking
@KaiserStormTracking 3 года назад
@@vipr1142 know the background behind the video before comparing it. Don't say comments like this without fact as someone said this video was based off a essay the guy made a while back
@shawnrobitaille2000
@shawnrobitaille2000 4 месяца назад
This is by far the best video I've seen on the internet about the elephants foot brother, thank you so much for learning all this info and then explaining in a way that is easy for me to understand. I would have been much smarter if I had a teacher that would have explained information like you do. Again, many thanx to you!!
@AGENT_02056
@AGENT_02056 8 месяцев назад
"This picture cost a man's life" The quote hit hard
@cheetodust03
@cheetodust03 3 года назад
I feel like im getting radiation poisoning just by watching this
@bruhhurb6907
@bruhhurb6907 2 года назад
Its literally so terrible
@strawberrycheesecake899
@strawberrycheesecake899 2 года назад
@Sjdidjcn Jdir9fj why....
@marcoasturias8520
@marcoasturias8520 2 года назад
You are oxidizing from breathing right now
@cheezew1zz
@cheezew1zz 2 года назад
Don’t worry nuclear energy is extremely safe 🥴
@Struggler_5
@Struggler_5 2 года назад
@@cheezew1zz it IS safe comparatively. Burning fossil fuels has killed and continues to kill many more people than nuclear energy ever did, not to mention burning fossil fuels is literally also killing our planet and could lead to human extinction. How can you not understand that?
@timbo752
@timbo752 3 года назад
What if one day, the elephant’s foot just started... moving around like a slug.
@yachiyous9110
@yachiyous9110 3 года назад
Why didn't you keep that to yourself
@sakshisuryawanshi648
@sakshisuryawanshi648 3 года назад
Lmao I don't why I imagined it to be funny
@ilovetweek000
@ilovetweek000 3 года назад
don't tempt fate
@dancingcarapace
@dancingcarapace 3 года назад
SCP 1984 (I know it’s not SCP 1984, but for the sake of the joke) HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT
@zachwatson2824
@zachwatson2824 3 года назад
I'm definitely going to have a nightmare fuel
@TheSecondKidNamedFinger
@TheSecondKidNamedFinger 8 месяцев назад
I remember my mom told me (she lived in a little town in Romania) that after they reported the incident in a few days lot of the trees were cooked by radiation. Bark turning yellow, leaves turning crimson red. And since they were town folk when the officials told them to stay inside they didn't listen and some they still turned out fine!
@PaulPetrulis
@PaulPetrulis Год назад
This video was excellently narrated - thank you for sharing this
@sharlockshacolmes9381
@sharlockshacolmes9381 3 года назад
The name of the "elephant foot" and tone of the video make it look like an SCP, the terrifying fact is that it's an actual real thing.
@selalewow
@selalewow 3 года назад
Perhaps the origin of the flesh that hates?
@briannawarren4174
@briannawarren4174 3 года назад
Yeah, at 5:45 when he shows that diagram of corium dissolving concrete really reminded me of the foundation.
@umavasu766
@umavasu766 3 года назад
Ohh the SCP thing is blowing up
@zEternus
@zEternus 3 года назад
SCP-1986
@alventuradelacruz522
@alventuradelacruz522 3 года назад
What is a SCP?
@skellietheredd8982
@skellietheredd8982 3 года назад
It's hard to believe that one day this monstrosity might end up in a museum (if the human race survives long enough for the radiation to die off). Imagine how surreal it would be to look at it in person.
@varioustie3182
@varioustie3182 3 года назад
It would be like 2100 years in the future
@mateuszodrzywoek8658
@mateuszodrzywoek8658 3 года назад
@@varioustie3182 like 5 times longer my man
@varioustie3182
@varioustie3182 3 года назад
@@mateuszodrzywoek8658 oh lol
@TallCanDan02
@TallCanDan02 3 года назад
@Its me or whatever Visiting the elephants foot in a museum carrying 20 rad-aways like its fallout.
@abisspassenger
@abisspassenger 3 года назад
They say it's becoming full of little fractures. In the future, it might just fall apart due to radioactive decay, who knows...
@thedevourerofgods5910
@thedevourerofgods5910 11 месяцев назад
Honestly when i first heard about chernobyl like a few years back i thought there were like freaking zombies running around and that was the dangerous part, [yes i was stupid] but now i understand that radiation is even more disturbing than that
@TH3r14n_s0ul
@TH3r14n_s0ul Месяц назад
Yeah I thought there was some half life sh going down over there until like 2019
@omgIoIwtf
@omgIoIwtf 23 дня назад
“200 seconds in its presence” is a severely drastic simplification of what it means to even be near this thing. Search up some cloud chamber videos and take a look at what uranium 235 really looks like. Now imagine 200 seconds of being constantly bombarded by the energy THIS thing is putting out. I can’t even imagine what the room would look like if it itself were a cloud chamber.
@jimlynch8796
@jimlynch8796 22 дня назад
Yes it’s strange how we both watch very similar videos as close together lol but the cloud chamber is amazing to watch it makes it obvious how just been near is massively dangerous.
@princesscadance197
@princesscadance197 3 года назад
I feel like the Elephant’s Foot is something that idiot middle school boys would dare one another to touch if it weren’t (presumably) heavily-guarded.
@corbeaudejugement
@corbeaudejugement 3 года назад
yeah you can't go anywhere near reactor four without being forcefully escorted away or, if that doesn't work, outright shot. the nearby city of pripyat, now a ghost town because of the disaster, is open for tours (in case you wanted to visit).
@geonite2072
@geonite2072 3 года назад
We can't decide who deserves to die... But if anyone's dumb enough to touch that monstrosity *then* they deserve to die!😱
@hexaltheninjawow9531
@hexaltheninjawow9531 3 года назад
“Hey Jim, touch the Elephants foot.” Fuvkin dies.
@SHYGAA
@SHYGAA 3 года назад
cheese touch
@squiggymcsquig6170
@squiggymcsquig6170 3 года назад
I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!!!
@dudefuckingyoutube6024
@dudefuckingyoutube6024 3 месяца назад
Thanks for the work. Saw your short and now I’m here learning to prevent another rewrite of history
@sethwardell5269
@sethwardell5269 Год назад
Your very good at explaining things…..this was very interesting and informative I appreciate it
@Literallyuncleturtle
@Literallyuncleturtle 3 года назад
Can’t believe you left the best part about this thing out of the video. This thing is so dense that not even a drill mounted on a remote controlled trolley could break through it. It took an armor-piercing round from an AK-47 to even damage the surface, which means someone had to look at it and go, “What if we shot it?”
@lawfordgaming9307
@lawfordgaming9307 3 года назад
that was something I immediately thought about
@IaIaIanopipipi
@IaIaIanopipipi 3 года назад
I hope I don't sound weird, but it looks so smooth, as you could sit on it or something. I couldn't imagine it would be so hard and dense.
@f-j-Services
@f-j-Services 3 года назад
@@IaIaIanopipipi I imagine it is like slag on a fresh weld. Brittle, but super fucking hard.
@vsop187
@vsop187 3 года назад
that was literally my first question i had. what would it take to shoot a hole into it
@mutzy7849
@mutzy7849 3 года назад
I don’t imagine that would work because I imagine you do know how a ap round works but the outside jacket comes off and the inner one carries it’s motion and I can’t imagine that working agains something as thick or as hard as something that can withstand a drill as drills can dig into harder things than a bullet can shoot
@TheMr77469
@TheMr77469 3 года назад
I read a comment about this once: "The elephant's foot is the real Medusa from greek myth, to look at it directly you die."
@explodingtomahawks7589
@explodingtomahawks7589 3 года назад
Jesus Christ, that sent a shiver down my spine.
@ThePsychicCellPhones
@ThePsychicCellPhones 3 года назад
That could be a cool black mirror episode lol
@TheMr77469
@TheMr77469 3 года назад
@@ThePsychicCellPhones Oh yeah!
@TH3r14n_s0ul
@TH3r14n_s0ul Месяц назад
And the average human could only survive unblinking for about 200 seconds, way too similar, it’s like the Greeks found some Corium in a cave that had revolved around one of their raise or summin
@TH3r14n_s0ul
@TH3r14n_s0ul Месяц назад
Statue
@Rickfernello
@Rickfernello 3 месяца назад
Really epic stuff. Great writing and presentation, thanks for the videos.
@Vashocre
@Vashocre 11 месяцев назад
Well done as always science Thor! Your work has always brought me joy and kept me learning. I do have a question on this subject. Has there ever been speculation on utilization of corium for any nefarious purpose?
@dcdanger7597
@dcdanger7597 3 года назад
Did you know that one of the study notes on the elephants foot says “not penetrable by kalashnikov rifle”
@gonnegottkehaskamp1667
@gonnegottkehaskamp1667 3 года назад
Yeah they fired some shots at it and they all bounced off.🤣 Makes me wonder why exactly they carried AK's in the first place.
@on_jah
@on_jah 3 года назад
I saw that on the wiki page
@wrenseyllc
@wrenseyllc 3 года назад
Why not try shooting at it
@dancingcarapace
@dancingcarapace 3 года назад
@@gonnegottkehaskamp1667 it was Russia (Ukraine technically) in the *1980s*. You tell me why they had Kalashnikovs.
@gonnegottkehaskamp1667
@gonnegottkehaskamp1667 3 года назад
@@dancingcarapace What I meant was why did they carry AK's down there into the belly of the reactor? Thats about 3,5 kg of long, clunky and (in that situation kinda useless) weight. Still they carried at least one AK with them. Makes me wonder what they were expecting to find down there.
@constantinesharandak793
@constantinesharandak793 Год назад
My uncle was a liquidator of this disaster, he volunteered right after it became a public knowledge in the Soviet Union, he served in the "Chemical Troops" before, and knew what the radiation can do. He was one of the group which was tasked to spot and map out the places in and around Pripyat that were exposed to the highest doses of radiation, basically a radioactive intelligence. He was hospitalized and had his bone marrow transplanted, he was on a wheelchair for around a year. He's alive and feeling good now.
@somemadsci1923
@somemadsci1923 Год назад
Your uncle is a badass, I wish you and him all best.
@gaelen5868
@gaelen5868 Год назад
A living legend with glow-in-the-dark bones!
@goofyahh8090v
@goofyahh8090v Год назад
@@gaelen5868 😐
@LPdedicated
@LPdedicated Год назад
That's amazing! What an absolute legend!
@Ember2168
@Ember2168 Год назад
HOW- That man is a legend, God bless his soul he's doing ok now
@BrianBHatteras43c
@BrianBHatteras43c 6 месяцев назад
Great synopsis of the disaster with excellent visuals, makes a complicated and tragic disaster understandable to the average person.
@wacoboyd2013
@wacoboyd2013 Год назад
that was extremely educational and something our society should know!!! Thank you for putting that out there for us!
@sturmley
@sturmley 3 года назад
So the elephant's foot is like the monkey's paw, except you only get one wish and that wish is required to be "I want to die horribly"
@GetawayFilms
@GetawayFilms 3 года назад
So you're the type of person that goes around comparing things that are totally different to each other, then claim they are the same... You should be in politics
@Jas13579
@Jas13579 3 года назад
@@GetawayFilms chill out lol. They were just trying to make a statement
@GetawayFilms
@GetawayFilms 3 года назад
@@Jas13579 chill out.. so was I
@GetawayFilms
@GetawayFilms 3 года назад
@Its me or whatever what? rofl, so is that
@El1society
@El1society 3 года назад
@@GetawayFilms you must be fun at parties
@StarTropicsKing
@StarTropicsKing 3 года назад
Someone actually did a worse job than Homer Simpson as safety officer. Let that sink in.
@braedonpaiyne9632
@braedonpaiyne9632 3 года назад
God damn
@crimsondynamo615
@crimsondynamo615 3 года назад
If this happened at the plant, Mr. Burns would destroy Springfield just so no one would ever know it connected back to him.
@brotatooflegend2927
@brotatooflegend2927 3 года назад
D'oh!
@silvory7021
@silvory7021 3 года назад
Dang it, what does that damn sink want this time?
@dpm2937
@dpm2937 2 года назад
@@crimsondynamo615 Well in the simpsons mobile game thats what happens. Homer blows up Springfield
@thewat3rcompany
@thewat3rcompany 5 месяцев назад
A lovely use for an otherwise forgotten personal essay! Great stuff.
@caiobelache1
@caiobelache1 7 месяцев назад
Very good video. I don’t really understand the science behind it, but it’s very well explained and shown. Great work.
@MizzzFizzz
@MizzzFizzz 3 года назад
There's not enough coverage of the brave ppl that sacrificed their lives to contain Chernobyl, everyone knows about the meltdown but not many people know of the dozens of people who knew they were going to die if they went in, but still marched in with 1 bag of sand, dumped it in the core then came back and waited to die. Amazing people and an amazing sacrifice I'm glad you mentioned them.
@DM-qp7do
@DM-qp7do 2 года назад
They dumped sand and Boron with helicopters on the core also. And an estimated 600,000 people worked on this project. And in my opinion this began the fall of the Soviet Union. And I agree, not nearly enough are these many heros who knowing gave their lives to save millions, possibly 10s of millions.
@lish8591
@lish8591 2 года назад
@@coffeetoffee0x019 🙄 Drink some coffee and chill.
@Al-jt3dw
@Al-jt3dw 2 года назад
The sacrifice is unbelievable. They did it because there was no choice, they could attempt to live but much of Europe would die instead. Not all of them did it being fully informed or with much agency in the choice to serve, though. We should remember them too. I remember an anecdote somewhere (maybe even this video? Idk) that Russian soldiers were offered a tour of 2 minutes on the roof of reactor building four or 2 years on the front in Afghanistan. Crazy.
@nemesis8671
@nemesis8671 2 года назад
The firemens clothes are also still in pripyat hospital and will be forever because its one of the places with most radiation
@casewhite-954
@casewhite-954 2 года назад
@@Al-jt3dw "but much of Europe would die instead" How?
@sublime4984
@sublime4984 Год назад
As a grown man nothing scared me more than playing the Chernobyl game and entering that room with the elephants foot
@billetede2peso113
@billetede2peso113 Год назад
Stalker?
@Fishfartyparty
@Fishfartyparty Год назад
A game?
@billetede2peso113
@billetede2peso113 Год назад
@@Fishfartyparty its possible hes referring to the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow Of Chernobyl where your last mission is to head inside the sarcophagus
@sublime4984
@sublime4984 Год назад
@@billetede2peso113 yea that's the one
@supervisionbeatss
@supervisionbeatss Год назад
@@billetede2peso113 liquidator simulator?
@JonTheGeek
@JonTheGeek 3 месяца назад
13:47 You are the sole reason I know about the elephant's foot, or the actual name of "that place from call of duty." That being said you are also the reason I Know how safe nuclear energy can be, how to keep it safe, and the puppieyts. As well as The Basalisk and a bunch of other science and etheical topics. AND I LOVE IT. Thank you so much Kyle
@LouT415
@LouT415 4 месяца назад
Video was well done & informative! Thanks!
@LimeDida
@LimeDida Год назад
It's just so horrifyingly fascinating that this terrible radioactive accident just... spawned this uncanny thing that kills you if you get near it. It's like a story straight outta comic books.
@nrg6245
@nrg6245 Год назад
It’s man made
@aperson5973
@aperson5973 Год назад
I think it’s called “the demon core” and it had the potential to be very radioactive and give you over 10 times the lethal dose within a fraction of a second.
@MultiTrollface999
@MultiTrollface999 Год назад
Halo Reach killball
@Feyqueen91
@Feyqueen91 Год назад
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." -Mark Twain
@carmarmarq
@carmarmarq Год назад
Bro it’s a irl SCP
@chillinvillain7800
@chillinvillain7800 3 года назад
My favorite tumblr shitpost: [teleports myself inside of the chernobyl nuclear reaction mere inches away from the infamous elephants foot] oh cool they got a bean bag chair
@noahcole4201
@noahcole4201 3 года назад
That's fucked up. Take my like and please stay away from me and my son.
@Niiue
@Niiue 3 года назад
i want you to take my funny internet point and let me take my leave safely
@yttrium7678
@yttrium7678 3 года назад
Doctor: you have ass cancer, now tell me have you sat on anything radioactive lately? This video:
@TheReapersSon
@TheReapersSon 3 года назад
@@yttrium7678 Plot Twist: The Ass Cancer can only be cured by sitting on the Elephant's Foot
@arkuai
@arkuai 3 года назад
The ass foot
@felixbecker8296
@felixbecker8296 9 месяцев назад
Just the thought that right now somewere in the world there is something so disturbing and scary gives me goosebumps now that I thonk about it. Especially the sentence at the end that it will sit there for centurys in the dark creeps that hell out of me
@jensalazar2303
@jensalazar2303 8 месяцев назад
I have to say I find your videos fascinating and to know the facts and relate them the way you do bravo.
@lt_chill7069
@lt_chill7069 3 года назад
35 years later and it’s affects are still being felt today. I give all my gratitude to all the liquidators who gave their lives for the world. They are all heroes. Edit:Thanks for all the likes, I think each one pays respects to the heroes who stopped this catastrophe from spreading.
@rampage3337
@rampage3337 2 года назад
most of them where fine afterwards.
@issatr4p
@issatr4p 2 года назад
@@rampage3337 actually, most of them either died or were sick for weeks afterwards and had to be in a hospital
@casewhite-954
@casewhite-954 2 года назад
@@issatr4p Source?
@JV-bj4kx
@JV-bj4kx 2 года назад
@Todd La Rue Actually, during the actual explosion, no one died, all direct deaths during the fires were from radiation poisoning, but no one got liqudified. Liquidstors cleaned the areas of radioactive ash with water or something like that
@EthanMeatan
@EthanMeatan 2 года назад
@@JV-bj4kx except that one guy whose body is still in the reactor, just framed up in cement
@unicornman147
@unicornman147 Год назад
"Radioactive lava" has to be one of the scariest phrases I've ever heard. The way you described it oozing through pipes and consuming solid steel in its path definitely didn't help.
@Space_Vulture
@Space_Vulture Год назад
132
@rebel6301
@rebel6301 Год назад
yeah, i pray that i never come face-to-face with corium ever in my life (even if that's already insanely unlikely)
@connergalles7106
@connergalles7106 6 месяцев назад
What gauge or meter do you buy to find radioactivity? I dont know what levels are good or bad. But I dont know if it can do mold too around or under a house
@mariastevens6406
@mariastevens6406 5 месяцев назад
"Rabies went airborne."
@GetConfused8r0
@GetConfused8r0 3 месяца назад
​@@mariastevens6406"Corona become usain bolt"
@jimg6261
@jimg6261 8 месяцев назад
You're a very good storyteller. Entertained and informed by your narrative.
@mattgrandich3977
@mattgrandich3977 Месяц назад
Subscribed, god dang that thing is eerie, man made disasters are hell on Earth.
@Skibbityboo0580
@Skibbityboo0580 3 года назад
Imagine listening to a four million pound lid shoot through the roof of your job at the nuclear plant, then imagine your boss telling you to go look at it to see what happened.
@dataexpunged6969
@dataexpunged6969 3 года назад
Sounds like another day in the life of Homer Simpson
@Bxdarealest
@Bxdarealest 3 года назад
I quit then run very fast
@YavorM-Yash
@YavorM-Yash 3 года назад
On top of that the so called boss is in denial.
@BAGGStheAugmented
@BAGGStheAugmented 3 года назад
That's the part I actually remember the most about the Chernobyl TV series. When the guy told the other guy "go out there and see what happened", I was like........ you couldn't drag me out there with a gun pointed to my head. Might as well just pull the trigger and get it over with quick.
@ScarletImp
@ScarletImp 3 года назад
@@BAGGStheAugmented "There is no core! The core is gone!!"
@arjayvsthewhat406
@arjayvsthewhat406 3 года назад
This scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I thought the elephant's foot was a living thing and it would soon spread all over the world and melt everybody from existence
@MASTEROFEVIL
@MASTEROFEVIL 3 года назад
You sounded like a weird kid
@TheBlankInk
@TheBlankInk 3 года назад
Now THAT would be an interesting plot for a world ending story
@ienglish4203
@ienglish4203 3 года назад
Maybe the fungus on it will make it come to life :)
@kiwi3310
@kiwi3310 3 года назад
@@MASTEROFEVIL far from weird, I believed tectonic plates were plates in the sewers that cause earthquakes by rubbing against each other. But that's just stupidity on my part.
@MASTEROFEVIL
@MASTEROFEVIL 3 года назад
@@kiwi3310 That's pretty funny
@lancehiggins828
@lancehiggins828 Год назад
its terrifying to think about rocks that give off invisible energy that can kill you in minutes of exposure
@indiica-6998
@indiica-6998 9 дней назад
i watched the show chernobyl when it came out and when i wanted a deeper dive of info, i searched it on google and u came up. congrats seriously on becoming apart of such a historical legacy
@laniakeas92
@laniakeas92 2 года назад
It always fascinates me to listen about radiation Like it's something alive
@wilmagregg3131
@wilmagregg3131 2 года назад
in todays modern popculture its often depicted in such a way as something almost alive in the same way fire is almost alive but can change and mutate life fallout being the most common direct example
@isaacreichow3259
@isaacreichow3259 Год назад
Radiation is fascinating. Not really alive, but rather one of the fundamental forces that exist in the universe. Literally.
@22Chrome
@22Chrome Год назад
It’s not.
@halfbl00d55
@halfbl00d55 Год назад
@@22Chrome thanks captain genius
@22Chrome
@22Chrome Год назад
@@halfbl00d55 You’re very welcome
@Moontanman
@Moontanman 3 года назад
I'd like to hear about the fungus that has started growing on the walls of this place feeding on the radiation by using something similar to photosynthesis except it uses the ionising radiation and the pigment melanin.
@dislexicdicktionary
@dislexicdicktionary 3 года назад
Once you go black you don't go back
@ManThePlow
@ManThePlow 2 года назад
.....this is an absolute perfect example of the old saying...... "Once u go black...... U turn the hell around and run THE FUQ BACK!!!!!! "
@haka-katyt7439
@haka-katyt7439 2 года назад
Heck some fungi are growing on the elephants foot
@Fur_Striker
@Fur_Striker 2 года назад
@@dislexicdicktionary god to the people choosing their skin color:
@dannygreen5477
@dannygreen5477 2 года назад
That's very interesting!
@N.............................
@N............................. 2 месяца назад
its amazing to think that chernobyl site and surrounding evacuated area will remain inhabitable for next 10 to 20thousand years.. and we have so many nuclear reactors in so many countries
@user-cr6qv1bn2u
@user-cr6qv1bn2u 2 месяца назад
Soviets were too cheap to put a containment building. They wish choose poot design compared to other reactors of the time. Blame the Soviets, not the technology.
@iiSeesaw
@iiSeesaw Месяц назад
@@user-cr6qv1bn2uI think we can blame the soviets for a lot of horrible shit… lol
@crandalllogan584
@crandalllogan584 8 месяцев назад
Some rocks really do give off an "aura". But that aura is deadly anger
@noeybalbonzers9755
@noeybalbonzers9755 2 года назад
The explosion was so powerful it blew the 4 million pound lid off the reactor?? Oh my God, think about that.
@noeybalbonzers9755
@noeybalbonzers9755 2 года назад
@@VIVID816 bruh seriously.
@williamhaynes7089
@williamhaynes7089 2 года назад
@@VIVID816 - assembled it on site
@pancakemassager2188
@pancakemassager2188 2 года назад
@@VIVID816 LMAO
@walmartrotisseriechicken
@walmartrotisseriechicken 2 года назад
shit
@ttry1152
@ttry1152 2 года назад
And that isn't the most impressive/scary thing nuclear weapons have done.
@warninja288
@warninja288 3 года назад
The Elephant's Foot such a weird story to think about. I'd say it's probably the closest thing we have to a cursed artifact.
@FALgamingContents
@FALgamingContents 3 года назад
its next to harmless today. would need to stand next to it for about a day for it to have any impact now.
@TonyBMan
@TonyBMan 3 года назад
A techno-molecular artifact...mmmyes
@GabrielRodriguez-xm8gr
@GabrielRodriguez-xm8gr 3 года назад
@@FALgamingContents source?
@koju3891
@koju3891 3 года назад
@@FALgamingContents no even thought it’s toxicity has faded it’s still highly deadly and can give a lethal dose in around 1-3 hrs nowhere near a day
@FALgamingContents
@FALgamingContents 3 года назад
@@koju3891 yea no, it's been around 35 years. most radioactive components have broken down after a year the majority of remaining radiation remaining is from uranium. unless you breathe it in or consume it poses little hazard today.. i don't see immidiatly what still remains that could make it nearly as deadly as depicted today.
@jessesmith-garcia5313
@jessesmith-garcia5313 6 месяцев назад
Truly the stuff of nightmares...Unreal to know that it still poses a grave danger to others even to this day!
@maxhonneger2761
@maxhonneger2761 2 месяца назад
And it will continue to present a danger for thousands of years to come.
@H33333
@H33333 Год назад
This guy had the balls to address the elephant in the room I am so sorry
@SentientMattress531
@SentientMattress531 Год назад
(cymbal crash meme sound)
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