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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 07, 2024 04:14 AM)
Chernobyl Created the World's Rarest Dogs
"The cities surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were forced to abandon their pets during the worldβs worst nuclear disaster. Today, a population of incredible, radioactive dogs need your help. The dogs of Chernobyl receive NO medical care outside of what CFF brings to them, and you can be a part of that care."
Guten Morgen!
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 07, 2024 06:34 AM)
by NZer June 07, 2024 07:20 AM
Member since March 21, 2017
That video leaves you with a lot to think about.
Amazing, wonderful dogs, but the cats didn't do as well.
Well, cats
and
dogs struggle for their lives there.
Of course other animals too.
As said in the video, they didn't meet any dog older than 5 years.
Most of the dogs aren't older than 1-3 years.
No food and no vetβ¦even without radiation that shortens a pet's life immensely.
In one older video they said that cats don't grow up around Chernobyl.
In this video (4 years old) the cat looks like an adult.
And given the circumstances pretty goodβ¦I think.
But true, one good looking cat means nothing.
Hmmm, perhaps I'll make a longer
'research'
later.
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After the polling stations are closed on Sunday (European election).
Against all oddsβ¦
Have a nice evening and happy weekend!
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NZer β 1 year ago(June 07, 2024 06:43 AM)
I get a hollow feeling in my gut seeing that ghost town, but it makes you realise that if humans disappeared from the Earth, nature in all its forms would take over very quickly.
I still have 7 chrysalises waiting to become butterflies and it's nearly at the shortest day, so not doing too badly!
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:01 PM)
NZer June 07, 2024 08:43 AM
Member since March 21, 2017
I get a hollow feeling in my gut seeing that ghost town, but it makes you realise that if humans disappeared from the Earth, nature in all its forms would take over very quickly.
I still have 7 chrysalises waiting to become butterflies and it's nearly at the shortest day, so not doing too badly!
It's difficult to find reliable info about Chernobyl's cats, but they do exist!
Clean Futures Fund
CFF (who created the dogs video above) estimates ca. 100 cats roam around.
https://www.cleanfutures.org/dogs-of-chernobyl/
No surprise that these cats are very shy, they don't want to become dog and wolf food.
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Kittens without contact to people while they grew up, often have trust issues as adults too.
Trap-Neuter-and-Release-actions
don't make them people-friendly either.
How to count the cats there?!
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2 Black Chernobyl Cats
Upload 2021, really Chernobyl?
Hungry Cats of Chernobyl
Upload 2022, really Chernobyl?
Wildlife Takeover: How Animals Reclaimed Chernobyl
50 mins
This docu 2007 was uploaded 2021.
Worth watching, some great pictures
and confirms what you already said:
Nature's Takeover.
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It also includes a cute story of a cat family with a kind of happy ending.
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βΒ³βxΒ² β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:06 PM)
They discovered some fungus around the Chernobyl area which manages to convert gamma radiation into an equivalent to solar radiation and it absorbs some of the more deadly stuff in the area.
It's still unknown how it came to be or how effective it will be in cleaning up the area to make it habitable again but it's going in the right direction.
Perhaps nature, cats and all, can all be part of the cleansing element which gets things going back to 'normal' again
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:27 PM)
by βΒ³βxΒ² June 10, 2024 12:06 AM
Member since May 7, 2024
They discovered some fungus around the Chernobyl area which manages to convert gamma radiation into an equivalent to solar radiation and it absorbs some of the more deadly stuff in the area.
It's still unknown how it came to be or how effective it will be in cleaning up the area to make it habitable again but it's going in the right direction.
Perhaps nature, cats and all, can all be part of the cleansing element which gets things going back to 'normal' again
Link? (fungus)
As explained in the OP's video, the area recovers even without that particular fungus.
Due to the long half-life of the radioactive elementsβ¦it just takes much time.
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βΒ³βxΒ² β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:36 PM)
It's quite a popular scientific piece these days and so reading somewhere which
translates it into an easy accessible friendly form
is probably best Tara.
The alpha and beta radiation will always be a problem (Well beyond our lifetimes at least) but the gamma being absorbed is good because that really doesn't stop much for barriers like air or concrete and can travel like light in a straight direction irradiating everything in its widening, yet softening, path.
If the gamma gets soaked up then the alpha and beta radiation emitters can be boxed up and kept away from biological entities until it eventually runs tame.
And as you'll see from the article this fungus could be useful to gamma radiation from the sun whilst travelling in space or living on Mars.
Every cloud has a silver lining, even a nuclear mushroom cloud it seems
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:51 PM)
by βΒ³βxΒ² June 10, 2024 12:36 AM
Member since May 7, 2024
It's quite a popular scientific piece these days and so reading somewhere which translates it into an easy accessible friendly form is probably best Tara.
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/radiation-on-mars-fungus/
The alpha and beta radiation will always be a problem (Well beyond our lifetimes at least) but the gamma being absorbed is good because that really doesn't stop much for barriers like air or concrete and can travel like light in a straight direction irradiating everything in its widening, yet softening, path.
If the gamma gets soaked up then the alpha and beta radiation emitters can be boxed up and kept away from biological entities until it eventually runs tame.
And as you'll see from the article this fungus could be useful to gamma radiation from the sun whilst travelling in space or living on Mars.
Every cloud has a silver lining, even a nuclear mushroom cloud it seems
Thanks for the link.
I'm able to read the article, you don't need to explain it to me, Juanita.
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And as said in that article, the fungus absorbs the radiation.
It doesn't turn it into "
an equivalent to solar radiation"
as you said before.
THAT
would've been really interesting, because that could've made the fungus a radioactivity absorbing and also a
'solar engergy module'
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βΒ³βxΒ² β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 11:01 PM)
Thanks for the link.
You are welcome
I'm able to read the article, you don't need to explain it to me, Juanita.β
Ah, OK
It doesn't turn it into "an equivalent to solar radiation" as you said before.
Ermβ¦
THAT would've been really interesting, because that could've made the fungus a radioactivity absorbing and also 'solar energy module'.
OK, so you don't know what photonic emission is and how everything in the electromagnetic spectrum is comprised of it
I take it then that the first law of thermodynamics is probably beyond you too
Ah well, I tried being nice but that's clearly not something you are used to from me.
Won't happen again!
Pip pip!
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 11:19 PM)
by βΒ³βxΒ² June 10, 2024 01:01 AM
Member since May 7, 2024
You are welcome
Ah, OK
"It doesn't turn it into "an equivalent to solar radiation" as you said before."
Ermβ¦
"THAT would've been really interesting, because that could've made the fungus a radioactivity absorbing and also 'solar energy module'."
OK, so you don't know what photonic emission is and how everything in the electromagnetic spectrum is comprised of it
I take it then that the first law of thermodynamics is probably beyond you too
Ah well, I tried being nice but that's clearly not something you are used to from me.
Won't happen again!
Pip pip!
Maybe I'll read that article later again.
"Won't happen again!"
I appreciate that.
Gute Nacht,
Juanita
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NZer β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:20 PM)
Nice videos! I haven't watched the last one yet, but I noticed in the one where the cats were feeding that there was no fighting for the food and they shared what they had with each other without contention. Considering how tough their lives are, and how hungry they must be, I think that is worth taking note of.
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:33 PM)
by NZer June 10, 2024 12:20 AM
Member since March 21, 2017
Nice videos! I haven't watched the last one yet, but I noticed in the one where the cats were feeding that there was no fighting for the food and they shared what they had with each other without contention. Considering how tough their lives are, and how hungry they must be, I think that is worth taking note of.
Now that's true! (without contention)
Hmmm, do you think that those
'feeding cats'
are really cats of Chernobyl?
They were amazingly trusting and given the circumstances in a good shape.
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 09, 2024 10:59 PM)
NZer June 10, 2024 12:36 AM
Member since March 21, 2017
I wondered that too. I think there are a bunch of lovely people who feed them every day and the cats are very relaxed around them.
That makes sense.
Now that you said that I remember people living in that area again for many years.
Some of them returned because they didn't like to where they were
'deported'
.
They preferred to accept the danger of radioactivity.