How many of you watch it & what is your favorite subject on it?
I liked the show that they did on Sunday, it was called; Life After People!! Did anyone else see the show? It was so neat & the CGI that was used was excellent!!
Here is a link to part one of it as seen on You-Tube,
you can find 2-9 on it as well, I think you will like it!! If you are like me it will make you think & will stay with you for a few days after you watch it!!
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My favorite program ever on History Channel was a special called Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked! It was a pretty comprehensive history of the American comic book superhero tradition from pre-Superman up to the modern-day Hollywood hits. I liked it so much, I bought the $40 DVD… and then proceeded to lose it. I really hope that thing turns up someday.
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I watch History Channel all the time, right now too.
I saw the Life After People too, it was very good. I thought that the visit to Chernobyl was one of the most interesting parts.
My favorite show, hmmm, I really like too many of the shows to pick a single one. (I don’t like it when they are showing movies though.)
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I agree with you, Val, the visit to the Chernobyl site was one of the best parts of the show!! Here is a link to see more of what that town looks like now…
A girl named Elena took a motorcyle ride through the Chernobyl site & took some great photos!!
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I saw Life After People, and it gave me chills… I LOVED it. I thought the CGI was first-rate, and I have ALWAYS wondered what would happen if humanity were to die off because of a plague or something.
I watch the History Channel, because I inherited my father’s love of history. My father, is a HUGE history buff. He LOVES to go out to the Liberty Bell in Philly, and visit the other landmarks there when he can. I love to watch Modern Marvels, I have the Autobahn one on tape, as my life-long dream is to take a Porsche, or some other fast car and cruise that highway.
I LOVE history.
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History Channel, and ESPNews are my favorite networks for cable.
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I agree with you, Val, the visit to the Chernobyl site was one of the best parts of the show!! Here is a link to see more of what that town looks like now…
A girl named Elena took a motorcyle ride through the Chernobyl site & took some great photos!![/quote]
I found that site a couple days before the first airing of Life After People. I was impressed with it, and would like to visit the area. The History Channel should have found her to do that segment.
Anyone interested in the area around Chernobyl should check out her site.
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This is scary, Val, you & I are on the same page on Elena & Chernobyl!! I, too, would like to visit the “ghost town” she went through!! I would have a camera & camcorder to document my trip into the town!!
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Me too. I remember Chernobyl, and I have always wanted to visit it myself. Maybe we all should go there sometime?
I would love to check it out, take photos of the only known modern ghost town caused by the worst nuclear disaster of all time. I remember having a mild obsession about it, and reading everything I could on it. I read a lot of books about nuclear war, nuclear accidents around '89, '90, and '91.
It fascinated me for some reason. I also remember getting chills every time I rode past the two nuclear power plants in Ohio on Lake Erie. Wondering what would happen if those two would ever go China Syndrome.
I only hope that humanity has learned from tne mistakes of Chernobyl.
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I watch the History channel. I also liked Life After People. It scared me lol because I didn’t like seeing everything go in ruins. Pripyat was my favorite part of course because it was all real. My parents knew about the disaster.
I’d love to go there and see the town.
Vickie: They do group tours to Pripyat because they know what parts of the city are safe and they don’t let you go off by yourself. I wouldn’t go there alone of course without a device that tells you how high the radiation level is.
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That’s the thing, it isn’t a “radioactive wasteland.” There is thriving wildlife in the area, on the History Channel show the person showing the area picked up an antler from a red deer that was quite large. There are places that you can’t go, but there are safe areas.
I understand that the thing is going to burn for 50 million years? And that in all that time, it will continue to eat at the concrete they used to cap it? Am I right about that? Won’t it sooner or later eat through the core of the earth and cause radioactive volcanism?
No it will not burn for 50 million years. :roll:
Chernobyl today
The Chernobyl unit 4 is now enclosed in a large concrete shelter which was erected quickly to allow continuing operation of the other reactors at the plant. However, the structure is neither strong nor durable. The international Shelter Implementation Plan in the 1990s involved raising money for remedial work including removal of the fuel-containing materials. Some major work on the shelter was carried out in 1998 and 1999. Some 200 tonnes of highly radioactive material remains deep within it, and this poses and environmental hazard until it is better contained.
A New Safe Confinement structure will be built by the end of 2011, and then will be moved into place on rails. It is to be a metal arch 105 metres high and spanning 257 metres, to cover both unit 4 and the hastily-built 1986 structure. The Chernobyl Shelter Fund, set up in 1997, has received EUR 810 million from international donors and projects to cover this project and previous work. It and the Nuclear Safety Account, also applied to Chernobyl decommissioning, are managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
As of 2006, some fuel at units 1 to 3 remained in the reactors, most is in each unit’s cooling pond, and some in a small interim spent fuel storage facility pond (ISF-1).
In 1999 a contract was signed for construction of a radioactive waste management facility to store 25,000 used fuel assemblies from units 1-3 and other operational wastes, as well as material from decommissioning units 1-3 (which will be the first RBMK units decommissioned anywhere). The contract included a processing facility, able to cut the RBMK fuel assemblies and to put the material in canisters, which will be filled with inert gas and welded shut. They will then be transported to the dry storage vaults in which the fuel containers would be enclosed for up to 100 years. This facility, treating 2500 fuel assemblies per year, would be the first of its kind for RBMK fuel. However, after a significant part of the storage structures had been built, technical deficiencies in the concept emerged, and the contract was terminated in 2007. The interim spent fuel storage facility (ISF-2) will now be completed by others by mid 2013.
Another contract has been let for a Liquid radioactive Waste Treatment Plant, to handle some 35,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level liquid wastes at the site. This will need to be solidified and eventually buried along with solid wastes on site.
In January 2008 the Ukraine government announced a 4-stage decommissioning plan which incorporates the above waste activities and progresses towards a cleared site.
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Dogfights. 'Nuff said.
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I never said that it was safe to set up residence there, although there are still several hundred people living in the area, eating the food grown there.
Reports on the health of the animals varies. Based probably upon the preconceived notions of the scientist doing the study.
I’m not sure of the amount of time for the radiation to become “safe,” but I don’t think 50,000 years will do it.
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I couldn’t find a precise figure on how long reactivity will continue, but I was quite interested in the lava!
Still, the reason I wouldn’t go near it is just because the sarcophagus is in such a bad state that it could be damaged by wind causing a whole new cloud of nuclear dust. Shotgun not me.
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Hey Icey
I watch it when my insomnia gets really bad. Seriously I used to watch Biography but have not watched that lately.
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Sounds cool, especially once I saw that it’s not $40 anymore (to which I was going to say that I thought HBO shows were expensive…), but it does somewhat irk me that, apparently, there’s no mention of Grant Morrison, nor anything about Alan Moore besides Watchmen. I’m sure there are some other of my favorite writers who go unmentioned as well, but none who have done quite so many interesting things with the medium. Ah well… I’ll probably still be on the look out for it next time I’m at the store/Blockbuster.
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If you can find it in a store or a rental place, go for it. If not… well, I know it can be downloaded, if you’re into that kind of thing. That’s all I’ll say on the subject publicly.
I was personally a little disappointed just how much attention Kevin Smith got, because I’m not as in love with him as the rest of comic fandom seems to be, but on the other hand, they can’t include everyone in a two-hour show. Some folks are just going to get more airtime than others. I would have loved to see some more Marvel writers from the modern era, but the show was pretty ambivalent about modern-day comics as comics (as opposed to movies). Maybe they’ll do a follow-up someday.
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I watched “Life After People” as well it was nice to see how earth might reclaim everything we done. Anyways I watch Modern Marvels and the universe. Sometimes I will watch Shockwave other then that I am either on Discovery Channel and Current TV.
I would watch the science channel and the military channel if I got those.
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i wouldnt mind seeing Chernobyl one day. it sounds really interesting. as for my favorite program, i mostly watch the ones on police raids(Waco, for example) and the military.
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For me it always used to be Modern Marvels. But it seems like now or these days they have run out of them and have started to come up with some pretty random crap to make a “marvel” out of.
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Sorry to ‘bump’ this, but has anyone been watching the new series of shows that are a spin off of the show, Life After People?
I have been really impressed with the CGI on the new series of shows!! Also with the visits to already abandoned places on earth, to show what no people being around & weather has done to them!!
I got a little upset at one of the scenes in one show, as it showed a decaying Gateway Arch in St. Louis!! I lived there for almost 10 years & love the Arch!! To see it reach the end of it’s life & collapse, even though it is only a show, kind of got to me a little bit!!