What if the Chernobyl Disaster Was Far Worse?
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Published 2024-03-01
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Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Patreon Discord: 00:46
Disaster Day: 03:02
Weeks After : 08:05
Months After: 11:01
Year After: 15:54
Decade After: 18:56
All Comments (21)
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Oh boy. Got a Discord again. discord.gg/KYAdxWbGEP This time around we’ve knocked it out of the park. Make sure to check it out and grab the piece of land you like best, before someone else does.
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3:40 Gorbachev's birthmark is just Mexico lol
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Ah, Chernobyl, the nuclear disaster that became the reason why many people oppose nuclear power. Despite missing the added context that Chernobyl’s poor management was to blame. Edit: since people have been saying it a lot in replies, yes I am aware that the equipment at Chernobyl was faulty and not up to code. However, I false believes that putting it under the umbrella of “poor management” was adequate enough to summarize why Chernobyl is a bad excuse for why people are against nuclear power.
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It’s genuinely distressing that a disaster of that magnitude was only prevented because the firemen that charged into danger weren’t killed by the radiation until after they succeeded. But it also deepens my already great respect for the sort of people who do such dangerous work.
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3:40 new alternative history scenario; What if Gorvachev's birthmark was a perfectly detailed map of Mexico with major landmarks and highways that magically changed over time?
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What if Chernobyl did not happen? It would turn our view on nuclear power different.
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The lack of outro makes this video strikingly haunting
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Downside: we wouldn't be able to play Stalker in this timeline, as the programmers are either drafted into the Soviet Civil War, or emigrated to the West. Upside: You can LARP as a Stalker in the real Pripyat, firing live ammunition within the irradiated hellscape as you escape Soviet loyalists, seperatists, partisans and survivalists.
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Chernobyl did irreparable damage already. It turned people off from nuclear energy and ensured that Europe would continue being dependent on the latest strongman from that area of the world for energy.
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Right at 8:04 when He asked "How would the Soviet Union respond?" I got an ad for the Suicide Hotline. Funniest ad break ever. 😂
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Man Stalker is so cool, I wish Chernobyl was real
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Using Revelations imagery is appropriate considering Chernobyl is named after a variety of wormwood, the name of the fallen star that poisons the land.
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“In this timeline Nuclear Power would become a taboo” I mean in the US, it still is to a lot of people who don’t understand nuclear power.
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My parents recall getting alerts in the radio that they shouldn't eat any plant that grows out of the ground. My dad lived near the Matra mountains and my mom lived in the Kiskunság and they were still severely affected by it even though Chernobyl was more than 1000 km away.
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My mom was living in Poland at the time of Chernobyl, she told me about how they had to take pills to prevent sickness from radiation
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my grandfather was a fireman from LPSR, and he was needed to serve in the effort to extinguish the reactor, but for a blessing, he was relocated to Estonia as a ship was burning :D
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Don’t forget about all the nuclear warheads contained within breakaway post-Soviet states and allies. Even in the mostly-peaceful breakup of 1991 there were still a lot of lost warheads during the transition period, now imagine if the breakaway states are now so hostile against each other due to scarcity pressures that it’d be entirely feasible that post-Soviet Ukraine would start nuking Moscow, potentially via clandestine or guerilla means. It’d make NK seem like the Vatican.
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I remember when the Ukraine...fiasco began in earnest, my buddy was really concerned that the elephants foot would be used as a weapon. It’s crazy how quickly that time passed.
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Cody's scenarios are always top-notch, but I always love these little classic "what if" scenarios for specific little diversions in history - feels like an episode from a couple years back
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What's crazy is the other 3 reactors on sight produced electricity for almost 20 years after the explosion.
