I was watching this video expecting to see mutants and bandits. But it looks like the land and animals are all healed up.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d40_1458333988
So what do you think /his/? Is nuclear fallout a meme?
Also post interesting stuff and pictures.
bumping for artifacts
Do you also think Godzilla is real?
nuclear war isn't that bad, just after WW2 we should have threatened to use the A-bomb on the red army to get them to retreat to pre WW2 borders, patton was right all along
>>857087
I remember reading that the leaf litter has barely decayed at all compared to surrounding areas (killed off bacteria and fungi?)
>>857096
Interesting, I wonder if the plants and fauna are actually healthier. In the video it says the reproductive rates of the mice actually improved.
>>856632
>Is nuclear fallout a meme?
Not really, we can observe some pretty huge effects of radiation on people who live is areas that have been affected by fallout. Thyroid cancer is just one of these and the rate of thyroid cancer in towns near Fukashima has skyrocketed since the accident there.
>>857198
wow, people get cancer at their 50's, not 60-70's as before. that's pretty far from those radioactive deserts that are inhabited only by mutants and ghouls that actually still is the image of radioactive fallout in most people's minds.
>>857260
Radiation, particularly gamma radiation, zips straight through your body and deposits it's energy into the molecules that make up your body. This will cause the molecules to break their bonds die to the gamma ray dumping energy into it.
When this happens to molecules that make up your DNA, you have a mutation where part of your DNA in that spot has changed from "normal."
This generally causes cancer.
For mutants and other strange creatures to form sue to radiation, you would need the radiation to change enough of a creature's genes that will change the offspring into something that is viable and and doesn't kill it before it can reproduce.
Very unlikely since very high does of radiation just kill you.
>>856632
Radiation and its effects definitely has been overplayed by sci-fi media, but it doesn't mean radiation-induced mutations and other effects don't exist.
What mutations that did happen at Chernobyl, mostly as a result of birth defects, were generally grotesque and the children never lived long at all due to cancer and other such complications.
That's only a small minority though, most people who were exposed to Chernobyl-level radiation experienced hair falling out, intense sickness, uncontrolled vomiting and muscle pain until you died.
and typical recipients of nuclear fallout would just get cancer and die a slow death that way.
>>858578
It's more about the lack of human involvement than anything. It is interesting how fast nature can grow back on its own.
>>858602
Fair enough, nature is scary mang.
>>858578
>So why does it seem that most of the animals have no ill effects.
Oh, they have.
Cancer, mutation, smaller brain size, diformities in large mammals(wolves are bigger, but their bones are spongy), gigantism and albinism in the plants, soil level ecosystems are very screwed etc.
Some small birds are adapting to an extent, but no, they are not doing just fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disaster#Plant_and_animal_health
>>858578
mutated animal puppets just die off. Unlike human babies.
>>858578
No one notices when a rabbit gets cancer.
