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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.
The area looks like Chernobyl.
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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'
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TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 10, 2024 06:04 AM)
by NZer June 10, 2024 01:35 AM
Member since March 21, 2017
That was a dangerous thing to do, but I understand why they might do it.
I wonder if they're still healthy and enjoying that amazing place.
Good question.
Here's an interesting article with many pictures.
The People who moved to Chernobyl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/moving_to_Chernobyl
October 12, 2018
Of course the next question arises, how everyone does since the Russian invasion in 2022. Unfortunately I don't have time to dig deeper right now.
The evaluation of the European election is in full play.
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At the moment I'm just happy about the high voter participation.
The dissolution of the French parliament with soon upcoming national elections there was shocking. -
TaraDeS β 1 year ago(June 10, 2024 10:59 AM)
NZer June 10, 2024 08:30 AM
Member since March 21, 2017
Thanks for the link. Some great info!
'Curiosity killed the Cat.'
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I should've stayed with the European election.
The 1st day of the Russian invasion February 2022 Chernobyl was captured.
Security guards and workers for the crashed plant were taken hostage.
Dedyukhin heard a Russian soldier who was manning a checkpoint say, as if to himself but loud enough for the engineer to hear:
"Iβd rather have all of these people here gunned down."
At first Dedyukhin froze.
Then he approached the soldier with a question:
"Would you rather go home in a coffin made out of zinc or out of lead?"
The soldier was briefly puzzled. Then he must've understood.
Lead coffins are meant for highly radioactive bodies. Dedyukhin reminded him that Chernobylβs staff, uniquely trained to contain the siteβs deadly potential, held a terrible shield of their own.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/russia-ukraine-chernobyl-disaster/675083/
The last Russian soldier left Chernobyl in April 2022.
The next videos are from
"The Atlantic"
article above (worth reading!).
The Red Forest after the Russian Takeover of Chernobyl
Russian Looting in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
In April 2024 the journalist Janice Dickson from Canada visited Chernobyl.
She describes in her podcast what she saw.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-in-chornobyl-after-the-russian-invasion/
Before I listen to that, I've to take a deep breath.