It not really all that dangerous unless you actually go into the plant, roughly equivalent to the exposure you get while flying, you can even take a tour of pripyat and chernobyl. And radiation causes radiation sickness and cancer. Not mutations.
On the Wikipedia page of the elephant's foot it says that it's able to be damage by a Kalashnikov rifle, meaning that somebody actually thought of and _did_ shoot the thing
So, hypothetically, we could mount modified kalashnikov rifles onto drones to heavily damage it, and potentially destroy it? Probably missing something, but maybe it’s possible. (Of course, the bits of chipped corium would be put onto some kind heat resistant and radiation stopping container)
Except, it's total BS. Corium is no longer "extremely hot" as he says. You can find some interviews with a guy who went inside the Sarcophagus. And there are articles on the issue. The Elephant's Foot is slightly hotter than surrounding area, but it's not melting. The New Safe Confinement was built to deconstruct the Sarcophagus and remove all the radioactive waste. They are already deconstructing it. So, don't worry.
"No one knows what happened to him" except we know his name, his date of death, and the fact that he visited the basement several times and lived to a respectable old age.....
@@ducminh7568 there's a youtube video of him inside the sarcophagus, climbing over the rubble, laughing, etc. It's insane. It's him and another guy, who I googled, but I can't remember his name off the top of my head.
Artur Korneyev wasnt the first one to take a photograph of the elephants foot though. he inspected it a decade later I think, when the radiation was already weakened. i read some articles saying months after the incident, some liquidators were able to explore the area and poked a camera around a corner to take a photo of what was causing the big radiation spike, and it was indeed the elephants foot. no records show who these liquidators were and it was understandable, since by that time they didn't even know how many workers were deployed or volunteered overall. one documentary stated that those who took photographs of it first, eventually died of damage caused by the extreme amounts of radiation of being exposed to the elephants foot.
@@kawaki1207 yeah the very first picture was taken in person, the guy ran around the corner long enough to snap a single picture and run back then died a few days later, after that was when they started using remote devices to take pictures!
my parents were in ukraine when this happened. they told me that the people who went there "to save the world" and all that just went to die. my parents didnt believe in the country and didnt want to die for it. i understand them. why would you want to die for someone else mistakes?
He's still alive but is riddled with health problems related go radiation. He is now banned from going near the site to prevent further radiation exposure which will likely kill him.
The man who took the picture of the “Elephants Foot” died not long after the picture was taken. You could say that this one picture, for the world to see, cost him his life.
4:00 Thath "ghostly" effect is caused by long exposure shooting. It was dark in there and he decided to open a shutter for a couple of seconds, so film could absorb the light and give a decent picture. But the radiation actually can make the photo grainy, because atomic particles are flying through the film and matrix penetrating them.
As you can see, the photograph of the Elephant’s Foot is grainy, distorted, and dotted with strange marks of overexposure. This is not the result of poor camera quality, nor some Instagram filter, it’s due to radiation messing with how the film developed. Remarkably, Korneyev is believed to still be alive. Although, perhaps surprisingly, he suffers from cataracts and other health problems due to his frequent run-ins with heavy radiation at Chernobyl. This is what I find. Maybe you just can't read..
@@MesIys i just wrote that this guy is still alive, and he is, so why do you think that i am not able to read? And while you may be partially correct about some sort of grain in the photo could come from radiation, the ghost-like appereance is clearly coming from overexposure and not from radiation. You can get the exact same effect without the presence of radiation.
Every atom of uranium is like a bullet, penetrating everything in its path - metal, concrete, flesh. Now, Chernobyl holds over three trillion of these bullets. Some of them will not stop firing for 50,000 years.
Hopefully a lot less. The New Safe Confinement dome doesn't just contain the dangerous material, it has equipment to demolish the old sarcophagus, and then clean out all the toxic material still inside. If all goes well that should be completed around 2065.
Mikey Walker ...the worse place in the world is the man shity stadium....omfg here's some money go win the epl says a arab billionaire.....club em ok ......wankers
Wasnt it a test that was supposed to prove that in the event of an emergency, the spinning mass in the plants generators could generate electricity for the coolant pumps until the backup diesel generators could start
For those wondering why we don't just remove the Elephant's Foot before it hits said groundwater: Russia found a Nazi prototype tank in the aftermath of WWII called the Maus tank. The Maus weighed over 100 tons, and even though the Maus is a vehicle that is made to move, they still found it much easier to just build a museum around it at it's present location instead of relocating it to a museum. Now imagine how hard it would be to move a subterranean wad of ultradense and ultrahot metal that is doing it's very best to actively kill you. It's likely going nowhere. (Except down, of course.)
No they did move it to Kubinka, It was tested at Kummersdorf and left it there. The soviet just moved it to Kubinka and gave it to the Kubinka museum..
SleepySkull and if you think the soviets didnt own germany after ww2 then your forgetting about the berlin wall, east germany, the warsaw pact, and the iron courtain. Soviet union could do whatever they wanted with their half of germany for nearly half a century.
4:10 the sight is "ghostly" because it's just a flashback from the mirror that was put on a wall to take a photo (RC camera was destroyed by radiation)
Guy: We can do it! Later... Pastor: We are gathered today because a dumbass died from extreme, radiation exposure when he attempted to relocate the Elephant's Foot in the basement of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that exploded back in 1986... :P
I think it’s because the bottom control rods have tips of graphite meaning when they are first put into the reactor to turn it off, there is a surge in energy meaning it overheats then explodes
In the reactor core, superheated uranium was used to cause immense heat and steam to power wind turbines for power and electricity. A very efficient way for providing power by the way. However, in this case, the graphite rods were used to position themselves inside the reactor to provide an equilibrium of power and properly dispersed heat. These graphite rods were not properly lowered into the reactor at the time of testing, and in turn it caused a massive flux in heat which actually melted the steam pipes beneath the core. This cocktail of steam, water and pressure caused a massive explosion releasing all of the contained graphite and uranium infused rods out of the core and radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere.
Well, the video is highly misleading. I cringed so much when watching it. Elephant's foot is not nearly as radioactive as it was 40 years ago. This is not a most frequented place in Chernobyl, however the background radiation levels sit around 20-30 mSv\hour which is not THAT high - if you stay there for as long 24 hours you will barely reach the levels of mild radiation sickness.. Furthermore, the Foot is not melting through anything. It's temperature has fallen to acceptable levels as early as the first month after explosion. By know it is exactly as hot as the foundation of your home. but of course, I understand that shock content generates more views..
1:13 That's not reactor 4 that you're indicating, that's the New Safe Confinement arch under construction, prior to being slid over reactor 4 which is to the right of it.
the corium is not "melting through" the concrete anymore. it's long since cooled off from that level of heat. it's still REALLY radioactive... but that's about it.
If the elephant's foot were a 2 meter sided cube of pure uranium it would weigh pretty close to that. But it's only two meters long on its longest side and is mostly made from melted sand which is nowhere near as dense.
@@charleswalter2902 Thank you-didn't he also say you would die within minutes if you entered the control room? How many minutes? I guess that's possible but everything I have read about ARS shows death at a minimum of 3 days.
Omg as soon as you said that it was in Russia/Ukraine, I knew EXACTLY where this was going...(cuz I had this weird phase where all I wanted to research about was Chernobyl stuff, so I know A LOT about Chernobyl/the accident...)
TheEgg185 reactor rooms are large and heavy so anything under it would be far removed to keep safe from radiation, meltdowns, and general weight support of the reactor
biohazardlnf I can't even comprehend what you said. The elephants foot IS the uranium that was in the reactor. It supposedly melted straight through the floor. What's it doing in the next town over?
1:12 The red box there wasn't drawn around Unit 4 (the exploded reactor), it was drawn around the New Safe Confinement building before it was completed and moved into position to enclose Unit 4 and the Shelter Structure (Sarcophagus) built by the Soviets. Unit 4, covered by the Shelter Structure, and its associated section of the Turbine Hall is the lighter coloured section at the left hand end of the long grey structure, to the right of the area indicated.
I thought the same thing, it'd be nice if he got deeper in what could happen in the future wit "The elephant's foot" and how big of an explosion it would be if it reached the water.
Bill Sci The Nyeence Guy Death wouldn't be a problem since they could use robots to dig it. It collapsing is a problem though. But they'll eventually need to dig under it to prevent it from hitting the ground water.
If the elephants foot is melting through the ground under it, can't there be things like it that aren't even in rooms? Ones that are incompletely unknown?
Later in heaven: “How did you die?” “Oh, the elephant’s foot” “You got trampled to death? “No, just the elephant’s foot” “Is that a euphemism or something?” “No, it’s a radioactive blob that is in a basement” “Ha!” “No, seriously” “I’m glad I died when I did. I do not want to live in THAT future.
It isn't Chernobyl itself, it is the the CNPP that is dangerous. You can go around Pripyat and the surroundings as long as you have proper equipment, it is just that the CNPP and the Sarcophagus that is deadly
Not really either tbh, around the plant you actually get pretty low doses, a few micS/hr. Even inside it's fairly ok, depending on where you are. People work there after all. Even the control room and the other reactor halls are pretty ok. Of course other areas aren't that great to stay in for more than a few minutes.
Yeah, the tourist information is "do not wear shorts", don't pick up anything or make dust rise. It's not the radiation as much as the heavy metal toxicity in tourist tour... So if you drop by Pripyat and take a look at the sarcophagus wash your clothes afterwards. My cousin went there with his wife two years ago, it's just one day trip from Kiev.
I've been there literally just today, funnily enough! Most places are just normal background, around 0.20micSv/hr. There are a few places like the red forest you drive through, where it's around 12 or so though. But even there you wouldn't pick up anything since the topsoil has been removed and all the radiation is coming from below the fresh soil. The only place in Pripyat you shouldn't walk through is the schoolyard since it is surrounded by buildings and thus the soil could not be removed. Levels there are actually also pretty low, around 0.4 I measured. But you might pick up some particles with your shoes and then fail radiation checks on the way out. You can clean it off, but it's a hassle.
Harry Marshall cherynobl is now a tourist sight everything but drinking the water there or going near the elephants is safe now hence why animals live there
I remember that some guy on youtube actually made a video where he took a radioactive piece of (something?) near his camera and it caused the grain effect. The grain is purely from radiation and it effects even modern cameras.
It's also long exposure, the ghostly figure is someone standing next to it for a short period during a longer exposure time. The bright lines is probably some moving light source.
Shayan Ali the moment i saw Pripiyat it reminded me of CoD: 4 i love love that game!! But hate that it is filles with hackers now, i cant multiplayer brcause i killed a hacker and got negative score like -4000000 which blocked from the multiplayer
It can only be an SCP if it shows anomalous properties that cannot be explained by science. This is as simple as radiation from a meltdown taken to the extreme. Easy to explain. If an SCP becomes explainable by science it is considered explained.
But technically they secured and contained the Elephant's Foot, and continue to protect it to this day, so it's likely the closest thing we have (that we know of, of course).
That's not what makes an SCP. If that was the case prisoners would be SCPs. And SCP is an anomalous object/creature that cannot be explained by science.
The only useful thing I gathered from this video is that 1 rad per second in Fallout is more dangerous than this monstrosity *cough* *cough* searchlight *cough* the Couriers Mile....
I had foreseen that some dick head was gonna correct your English, before clicking on the "Read More Comments" option. People are too predictable these days.
Holy shit imagine if all humans disappeared and a new civilisation started in like 10 thousand years. Then they discover the place and think of it as the relic of a god or an alien artifact or maybe even an ancient, sapient being killing anyone in its presence.
Thank you for actually accurately explaining the disaster, especially in such a brief time. Its heartbreaking to see all the misinformation; its so disrespectful to all the victims
Because the room is full of huge TV’s that are playing Jacob Sartorious Musically’s and when you try to run away it Locks you in. *GOOOO TOOOOOOOO SLEEEEEEPPPPPP RIGGGGHHHHHT NOOOOOOWOWWOOWWO*
The guy in the photo is Artur Korneyev. He's one of the only people who had seen the elephants foot in person. The photo was taken in 1996 (ten years after the accident). He's still alive (as of 2016)
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Good point! Was just writing a comment to the same effect a as you posted. th-cam.com/video/wQtbbBWeLCM/w-d-xo.html&lc=UgzGX_BONw4M-HJpuhB4AaABAg
Also a salute to the brave men who died or were injured in attempts to contain the disaster.
Lauren :D shut up
@@laurend9170 haha dont be a dick.
@@laurend9170 yeah, fuck him for trying to be respectful!
Your profile pic disturbs me...
F in chats
I can count how many times I’ve been to Chernobyl on my fingers, 14
TheReal Dommy Saving this for later lmao
TheReal Dommy the joke is "on one hand"
LOL
THIS IS HILARIOUS!!!!
It not really all that dangerous unless you actually go into the plant, roughly equivalent to the exposure you get while flying, you can even take a tour of pripyat and chernobyl. And radiation causes radiation sickness and cancer. Not mutations.
On the Wikipedia page of the elephant's foot it says that it's able to be damage by a Kalashnikov rifle, meaning that somebody actually thought of and _did_ shoot the thing
Mad lad
The final boss of Chernobyl
lmao
Russia in a nutshell
So, hypothetically, we could mount modified kalashnikov rifles onto drones to heavily damage it, and potentially destroy it? Probably missing something, but maybe it’s possible. (Of course, the bits of chipped corium would be put onto some kind heat resistant and radiation stopping container)
"molten radioactive mass could contaminate groundwater"
That's another one for apocalypse bingo
*2020 Intensifies*
I agree.
Except, it's total BS. Corium is no longer "extremely hot" as he says. You can find some interviews with a guy who went inside the Sarcophagus. And there are articles on the issue. The Elephant's Foot is slightly hotter than surrounding area, but it's not melting. The New Safe Confinement was built to deconstruct the Sarcophagus and remove all the radioactive waste. They are already deconstructing it. So, don't worry.
That was very under exaggerated, if it were to touch the water it would essentially vaporize europe
@@ogen2065 that won't happen even a quick Google search could tell you that
Marvel Logic:
I'm gonna go there and get powers
Xavier Senining , "Elephant-man"
Gold, Just gold lol
Xavier Senining lol
Gold just gold
Good name, but it would be more like Raditation Man
Spell f**k without c k
Scientists : 300 seconds near it can kill you.
Dyatlov : not great, not terrible.
Oh ok
3.6 roentgen not great not terrible
I know a more deadly room!
A pit filled with spikes
@@asti5052 maybe its took longer to death than this room
blyatov
It’s only 3.6 Roentgens, I’m told it’s equivalent to a chest X-Ray.
Bbbut sir, i swear i saw graphite on the floor outside the reactor.
@Cool boi Hah, we are all gonna die from radiation poisoning anyway yeet
I’m guessing you’ve haven’t seen the Chernobyl mini-series
Yeah, the quote of 3.6 Roentgens being equivalent to a chest X-Ray is a propaganda line from the Chernobyl mini-series. It’s become a small meme.
@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated some prime r/wooosh material there
"No one knows what happened to him" except we know his name, his date of death, and the fact that he visited the basement several times and lived to a respectable old age.....
@Unknown Artur Korneyev in case you want to know. He still alive
@@ducminh7568 there's a youtube video of him inside the sarcophagus, climbing over the rubble, laughing, etc. It's insane.
It's him and another guy, who I googled, but I can't remember his name off the top of my head.
Artur Korneyev wasnt the first one to take a photograph of the elephants foot though. he inspected it a decade later I think, when the radiation was already weakened. i read some articles saying months after the incident, some liquidators were able to explore the area and poked a camera around a corner to take a photo of what was causing the big radiation spike, and it was indeed the elephants foot. no records show who these liquidators were and it was understandable, since by that time they didn't even know how many workers were deployed or volunteered overall. one documentary stated that those who took photographs of it first, eventually died of damage caused by the extreme amounts of radiation of being exposed to the elephants foot.
Clas raise your hand if you knew the most dangerous place on earth was Chernobyl
@@kawaki1207 yeah the very first picture was taken in person, the guy ran around the corner long enough to snap a single picture and run back then died a few days later, after that was when they started using remote devices to take pictures!
To the Chernobyl liquidators and all the explorers who died in Chernobyl, I salute you all.
It is a rather somber thing to think about
Indeed
there should be an international holiday of remembrance for the people who gave their lives.
Elite Funk exactly. They sacrificed their lives for the greater good.
my parents were in ukraine when this happened. they told me that the people who went there "to save the world" and all that just went to die. my parents didnt believe in the country and didnt want to die for it. i understand them. why would you want to die for someone else mistakes?
50,000 people used to live here
Now it’s a ghost town
Lol MW2
I mean MW1
Partha Sarma ?
Cheeki Breeki
cod 4
So it's not a "living room"
It's the opposite.
Guess I really can't escape a guy with a mustache huh
We meet again
found you again
Haha found you
I don’t even have to look to find you
The moment I saw this in recommended I was like 'Yep, it's gonna be the Elephant's Foot room.'
Sooooo diiiiiiddd iiiii
ME TOO BUCKAROO
The Fireman's clothes basement is probably the second.
@@iZynx_ The Fireman's clothes are probably nothing when compared to Elephan's foot
I wasn't thinking of it at first but when he said it I totally knew it
The man in the pictures is Artur Korneyev and he's still alive after several pictures taken with it.
How
mintycbo someone check that dude for superpowers, maybe he can defeat Thanos
He's got a grim humor, typically Russian, Google him for some amazing stories about the most badass dude
He's still alive but is riddled with health problems related go radiation. He is now banned from going near the site to prevent further radiation exposure which will likely kill him.
Also photo was taken in 96'
Can’t believe they forgot the Taco Bell bathroom
Oh god
Mhm...
omfg lmfoa
in there, lies the ''tun tun shit'' and it's soooo radioactive and dangerous, that one sniff of it, is enough to end your whole existence.
Lmfao
1:25 wow that is some dope editing skills, really makes u feel like u were part of the explosion......
violent translation with red shades!!!
Kidding?
Those god damn emissions in Clear Sky, I swear he got the explosion effects from that lol.
Nullik probably nothing at all
I have radiation poisoning now
The man who took the picture of the “Elephants Foot” died not long after the picture was taken. You could say that this one picture, for the world to see, cost him his life.
@Ninja Doge that video is by Kyle Hill.
@Ninja Doge stfu it doesn't matter
Are you talking about photo at 3:58? This is not true. His name is Artur Korneyev and he is probably still alive
@@subhanzulfiqar5768 :0 DOGE??? I like doge :3
Don't click a photo over there or...... DEATH💀☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
4:00 Thath "ghostly" effect is caused by long exposure shooting. It was dark in there and he decided to open a shutter for a couple of seconds, so film could absorb the light and give a decent picture.
But the radiation actually can make the photo grainy, because atomic particles are flying through the film and matrix penetrating them.
(Matrix) (CONGRATS)
Slav flex but ok
Ivan Sidorov stop being smart
@@thepersonoverthere6722 what's wrong on being smart huh
As soon as I heard Ukraine I knew it was the elephants foot
Abraham Hernandez liar ur moma
Nope
Some people already heard about it
Yeah me too XD
I knew it was the elephants foot the second I saw green goo in the thumbnail
Earth has a crazy good K/D ratio
Ting Tong The Russian Spy as sad as it is, it’s not the Earth who killed us, it was technically us...
this is a fucking gold comment
@@JuniorIDEK spanish flu was over 20 million
Junior Gutierrez Stalin went 30,000,000 and 1
Fuck off nerd
*Gets cancer*
*Walks down the basement*
*Walks upstairs*
Cancer cured.
😂
xD
*gets cancer again*
You dies and them the radiation resurrects you
Gets cancer
Walks in again
Cancer gets cancer
Cancer dies
Cancer cured
Lets give around of applause to the person who tried cleaning it up with a mop.
rookie mistake.
NO ELEPHANTS WERE HARMED IN THIS FILM
Was searching for this type of comment. Glad that I found out finally , lmaoo...!
Parthiv Chandra K lol
COUTION BIOHAZARD true
Except for your mom.
Oh yeah then how they get the foot?
Damn I tired of us humans hurting animals
Theres something even more dangerous than the Elephants Foot..
The Camels Toe
Moose knuckle??
One of the truest things I've ever heard. :D
Camels toe is so damn deadly dude im glad im a man 😂😂
Or a tent in pants near children
Is it’s 1.6 roentgens
Reactor:*goes nuts*
People:"Aight, we should cool it"
Cooling mechanism:*causes an explosion*
People:"oh"
Fun fact: The guy stood next to the elephants foot is still alive, and the photo was just blurry because he moved during the shot
Lmao I don’t know why but I’m laughing unreasonably hard right now
It is a real life cursed image
The film was expensive, and the guy had the nerve to move around.
Herra Huu exactly. That’s an entitled man right there
that doesn't explain why there's a bolt of lightning surging through his body like he's fucking Thor
This is the closest thing to a real life SCP.
It’s a keter class scp that will melt your dna if you get too close
@@aruce9 MELT YOUR DNA
Have you SEEN any of those haunted doll videos?
( O_〉O)? Yeah, but they are not contained
@@o_o-037 not scary
"Soviet radiation is the best radiation in the world" - Artur Korneyev, the man in the pic near the Elephant Foot
(quote is real)
Extremely high quality authentic radiation, buy now!
He's still alive too
Nigga actually said that I just looked it up damn
@@mightytax can you give me source of article or something, I'm curious.
haikal miftah they photoshopped the one where he’s getting gammafied
The guy on the photo is still alive and those effects are not from radiation, but because this photo is a long exposure photography.
Source?
This video is full of shitty misleading information.
As you can see, the photograph of the Elephant’s Foot is grainy, distorted, and dotted with strange marks of overexposure. This is not the result of poor camera quality, nor some Instagram filter, it’s due to radiation messing with how the film developed.
Remarkably, Korneyev is believed to still be alive. Although, perhaps surprisingly, he suffers from cataracts and other health problems due to his frequent run-ins with heavy radiation at Chernobyl.
This is what I find. Maybe you just can't read..
@@MesIys i just wrote that this guy is still alive, and he is, so why do you think that i am not able to read? And while you may be partially correct about some sort of grain in the photo could come from radiation, the ghost-like appereance is clearly coming from overexposure and not from radiation. You can get the exact same effect without the presence of radiation.
@@CaptainMarci104 I don't know why I was so forceful, must be the times. I wasn't there so I'll give it to you. You're the captain
Basically video:
Humans made big oopsie
No go to big oopsie
Oopsie bad
That should be the official description of Chernobyl from now on
@@FloppydriveMaestro YES!!! YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People continued to work at the plant daily until the last reactor was shut down in 2000
Hulk angy
I'm dying😂😂😂 this is halirous
one mistake that'll last for 100k years
damnnn
@Jack Saindon lmfaoo
Every atom of uranium is like a bullet, penetrating everything in its path - metal, concrete, flesh. Now, Chernobyl holds over three trillion of these bullets. Some of them will not stop firing for 50,000 years.
Time flies so fast.. only 99,967 years left
That's not gonna buff out
Hopefully a lot less. The New Safe Confinement dome doesn't just contain the dangerous material, it has equipment to demolish the old sarcophagus, and then clean out all the toxic material still inside. If all goes well that should be completed around 2065.
*Most Dangerous Room*
Family from a Horror Movie: **knocks down door**
@Roland Deschain I CAN'T OH MY HOD 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
SomeBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD IS GONNA ROLL ME
"300 seconds" just say 5 minutes dude
@zztop3000 bro you're 3 years late
@@hazardperceptiontest lol you are too haha idiot
Jamey Cockrell yea me too
@@jameycockrell5481 your the idiot because how could he replied before it was made dumb@$$
i guess saying it in seconds helps stress how short it is?
*I thought it said The Room and I got confused to why tommy wisae was so dangerous*
hahaha
Xdd
I see you everywhere
Oh Hi, Mark
oh hi mark! how's your sexual life with your elephant foot?
VSauce's basement.
GeneralOwl 😂😂😂
hey vsauce is a nice guy lol
but what is a basement???
*Hey, Vsauce Micheal here*
“Hi, I’m Coyote Peterson and I am going to enter a basement”! 😂
Mikey Walker ...the worse place in the world is the man shity stadium....omfg here's some money go win the epl says a arab billionaire.....club em ok ......wankers
Have a good day mate. Hopefully you will learn to be a kind individual someday...
Peter Bernard u wot m8
Peter Bernard
Alright, who do you support then?
Peter Bernard what the fuck are you even saying?
“Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville and this is the elephants foot... welcome to jackass!”
Holy sh*t NOO DONT DO THIS EVEN IF ITS A STUNT DONT
NOOO
Wasn’t a “routine” check. They were doing a major stress test, and it failed, spectacularly.
Wdym stress test
ItsMeSwirl I think it was like an experiment or something. It’s probably seeing how much it could handle or something. I’m not sure.
@@aegiselle no I know exactly what it was, it was not to see how much it could handle, I just want to know what this person means by stress test.
Wasnt it a test that was supposed to prove that in the event of an emergency, the spinning mass in the plants generators could generate electricity for the coolant pumps until the backup diesel generators could start
@@jaakkojouppila9965 yes exactly
**travels all the way to Ukraine just to stand next to the Elephant's Foot for 300 seconds**
Did it feel good though
bye, have fun getting radiation sickness
Bring me a sample
Did you die? Plz answer if u died
Lol
For those wondering why we don't just remove the Elephant's Foot before it hits said groundwater:
Russia found a Nazi prototype tank in the aftermath of WWII called the Maus tank. The Maus weighed over 100 tons, and even though the Maus is a vehicle that is made to move, they still found it much easier to just build a museum around it at it's present location instead of relocating it to a museum. Now imagine how hard it would be to move a subterranean wad of ultradense and ultrahot metal that is doing it's very best to actively kill you. It's likely going nowhere. (Except down, of course.)
DIDN'T KNOW RUSSIA OWNED GERMANY
No they did move it, How the hell could it gone from Germany to Kubinka in Russia?
*cough* Germany invaded Russia *cough*
No they did move it to Kubinka, It was tested at Kummersdorf and left it there. The soviet just moved it to Kubinka and gave it to the Kubinka museum..
Couldnt you just douse it in water like they did after the fukushima meltdown? Afterall nuclear powerplants are cooled by water anyway
SleepySkull and if you think the soviets didnt own germany after ww2 then your forgetting about the berlin wall, east germany, the warsaw pact, and the iron courtain. Soviet union could do whatever they wanted with their half of germany for nearly half a century.
Me, walks into the Chernobyl basement: ow cool they have a bean bag chair
OH NO
its so dangerous that if you touched it you would have blisters in about 30 seconds.
@@panther8707 Ha! My oven gives me blisters faster than that!
Jk, don't send me to the creepy death room.
Logan Paul should make his next vlog about in this room.
seby theboss he does not deserve that much
Wow, what a hateful bunch below this comment.
seby theboss Woaaaaaaah, you're a little kid. Don't go too far man.
Empire Destroyer 51 sais the one that plays roblox
Simply Brothers I'm sure he would survive and come back stronger
Next Techrex video:
iPhone X vs elephants foot
I e underrated
I e YESSSS DUDE XDDDDD
They better call the ghostbusters.
Anthony Hatchett Your the elephant then.
wow
Wait.. WHAT DID I EVEN MEAN BY THAT?! It makes no sense..
Anthony Hatchett because its a ghost town?
SOMETHING STRANGE!!!!......
4:10 the sight is "ghostly" because it's just a flashback from the mirror that was put on a wall to take a photo (RC camera was destroyed by radiation)
Are you sure his soul hasn't just thought, 'fuck that' and decided to seperate from the body? 😂
@@DanceySteveYNWA That is what happened
I knew it would be the elephant foot immediately!!!! I love this story, but u told it better!!!!!!!
Nuke Nation same
Nuke Nation zmankiller11 you both evil
Yeah
No he diden't this video was full of bull shit.
Ham549 why?
What if we take the elephants foot
And PUSH it somewhere else?
That one american yeah good idea
Because it weighs about 100 tons.
We would burn.
Guy: We can do it!
Later...
Pastor: We are gathered today because a dumbass died from extreme, radiation exposure when he attempted to relocate the Elephant's Foot in the basement of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that exploded back in 1986... :P
that idea might just be crazy enough
TO GET US ALL KILLED
Nahh, Elephant's foot is nothing when compared to TH-cam's comment section.
Asyraf Azman tru
+
Lmao
I never thought that I would receive this much likes.
yep
I would like to leave a note that I showed this video in class when I was in school. Felt proud to show it
Explain to me how an RBMK reactor explodes
Your watching the mini series on Hulu too?
I think it’s because the bottom control rods have tips of graphite meaning when they are first put into the reactor to turn it off, there is a surge in energy meaning it overheats then explodes
Juljan Biggs Jesus Einstein it was a joke
TheIdiotNextDoor mate allow yourself 😂 don’t have to be einstein to realise or even watch videos on it
In the reactor core, superheated uranium was used to cause immense heat and steam to power wind turbines for power and electricity. A very efficient way for providing power by the way. However, in this case, the graphite rods were used to position themselves inside the reactor to provide an equilibrium of power and properly dispersed heat. These graphite rods were not properly lowered into the reactor at the time of testing, and in turn it caused a massive flux in heat which actually melted the steam pipes beneath the core. This cocktail of steam, water and pressure caused a massive explosion releasing all of the contained graphite and uranium infused rods out of the core and radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere.
The second he said Ukraine I knew it was about the Elephant's foot room
Geometry dash
i had a very good feeling it would be about the elephant's room even before i clicked on the video
Fake Name same :P
FlamingLight yes geometry dash
Well, the video is highly misleading. I cringed so much when watching it.
Elephant's foot is not nearly as radioactive as it was 40 years ago. This is not a most frequented place in Chernobyl, however the background radiation levels sit around 20-30 mSv\hour which is not THAT high - if you stay there for as long 24 hours you will barely reach the levels of mild radiation sickness..
Furthermore, the Foot is not melting through anything. It's temperature has fallen to acceptable levels as early as the first month after explosion. By know it is exactly as hot as the foundation of your home.
but of course, I understand that shock content generates more views..
*O H H I M A R K*
Tony Davila yes
gosh you scared me
Hey
XD
Hey dogie
1:13 That's not reactor 4 that you're indicating, that's the New Safe Confinement arch under construction, prior to being slid over reactor 4 which is to the right of it.
bruh move from the video...
Only true Slavs live in that room
Vadim Blyat lives in that room
AREA 51 xD
With a strong enough squat, and a thicc enough track suit, you could sit in that room for years.
@All I can say is no shit
I live there, idiots. Sure, I got over 700 times the lethal radiation dos
True answer: the TH-cam comment section.
Felix Rock lol
XD
YES
True dat
Felix Rock wow that is OG
the corium is not "melting through" the concrete anymore. it's long since cooled off from that level of heat. it's still REALLY radioactive... but that's about it.
He also said it weighed 100 tons! Where does he come up with this shit?
@Yul Strokheet Al-Wauch please fucking explain someome
How about proof for some of your claims? The E.F. weighs 100 tons--- what evidence is that claim based on?
If the elephant's foot were a 2 meter sided cube of pure uranium it would weigh pretty close to that. But it's only two meters long on its longest side and is mostly made from melted sand which is nowhere near as dense.
@@charleswalter2902 Thank you-didn't he also say you would die within minutes if you entered the control room? How many minutes? I guess that's possible but everything I have read about ARS shows death at a minimum of 3 days.
Omg as soon as you said that it was in Russia/Ukraine, I knew EXACTLY where this was going...(cuz I had this weird phase where all I wanted to research about was Chernobyl stuff, so I know A LOT about Chernobyl/the accident...)
lol i'm in that phase rn
Could it melt a Toyota Corolla?
pomare kaire Hell nah
Toyota's never die
pomare kaire to be sure just use a Nokia
thats why the camera didnt melt...it was a nokia
pomare kaire no
Why is the basement so far away from the reactor?
TheEgg185 reactor rooms are large and heavy so anything under it would be far removed to keep safe from radiation, meltdowns, and general weight support of the reactor
biohazardlnf I can't even comprehend what you said. The elephants foot IS the uranium that was in the reactor. It supposedly melted straight through the floor. What's it doing in the next town over?
TheEgg185 yeah i thought about that too
idk
TheEgg185 probably just walked away idk😂
A tardigrade would be able to live there for 473828284 years
Best Zed EU True
No it’s all wrong.The most dangerous room is your father’s room when you gotta tell him that you failed the maths exam
-Two minutes near it...cells hemmorage
-4 minutes........diareaha
I think I stay around a bit longer to get the poop symptoms instead.
Taco bell is much more severe. The bathroom is extremely dangerous
Most dangerous place on earth is a room filled with jake paulers 😂
Rudrashis Gorai agreed, 😂
Pussy
Rudrashis Gorai Lmfao 😂
Escanor the Boi Agree
old meme...
I got radiation watching this video
Theres natural radiation everywhere dumbass
Even bananas cause radiation :))
I cause radiation
That Cod King well that's unfortunate
1:12 The red box there wasn't drawn around Unit 4 (the exploded reactor), it was drawn around the New Safe Confinement building before it was completed and moved into position to enclose Unit 4 and the Shelter Structure (Sarcophagus) built by the Soviets. Unit 4, covered by the Shelter Structure, and its associated section of the Turbine Hall is the lighter coloured section at the left hand end of the long grey structure, to the right of the area indicated.
No actually it's my backyard filled with bees, yellow jackets & wasps
HakerSmacker bruh it’s a joke
Hey, as long as you only get stung once or twice a time, it's somewhat pleasant. An entire hive attacking you though would be hell
I have hornets in backyard, but they are rare I see them maybe only few time in Summer.
Have you seen my closet, it like the Bermuda Triangle what goes in doesn’t come back out
Valen The Chipmunk nah, you are wrong, it’s my radioactive barf
The basic necessities: food, water, shelter, AND MY TOYOTA COROLLA
4:54 When will it come into contact with ground water approximately at the earliest?
I thought the same thing, it'd be nice if he got deeper in what could happen in the future wit "The elephant's foot" and how big of an explosion it would be if it reached the water.
Yeh that scares me
Idk why they just dont mine under the elephant's foot and plant a lot of ultra rigorous material that wont let it through
Bill Sci The Nyeence Guy
Death wouldn't be a problem since they could use robots to dig it. It collapsing is a problem though. But they'll eventually need to dig under it to prevent it from hitting the ground water.
If the elephants foot is melting through the ground under it, can't there be things like it that aren't even in rooms? Ones that are incompletely unknown?
Later in heaven:
“How did you die?”
“Oh, the elephant’s foot”
“You got trampled to death?
“No, just the elephant’s foot”
“Is that a euphemism or something?”
“No, it’s a radioactive blob that is in a basement”
“Ha!”
“No, seriously”
“I’m glad I died when I did. I do not want to live in THAT future.
Knew what it was as soon as I saw the title/thumbnail. Dammit Chernobyl.
Jerry The Domesticated Snail true
Jigsaws basement
Onyx VII7 yuppp
lol it's funny cuz it's true
Or A Smegma’s Basement.
Onyx VII7 people survived that tho
Lol
I don't get it, he's talking about how dangerous Chernobyl is and before the video I got an ad about a tour of Chernobyl
It isn't Chernobyl itself, it is the the CNPP that is dangerous. You can go around Pripyat and the surroundings as long as you have proper equipment, it is just that the CNPP and the Sarcophagus that is deadly
Not really either tbh, around the plant you actually get pretty low doses, a few micS/hr. Even inside it's fairly ok, depending on where you are. People work there after all. Even the control room and the other reactor halls are pretty ok. Of course other areas aren't that great to stay in for more than a few minutes.
Yeah, the tourist information is "do not wear shorts", don't pick up anything or make dust rise. It's not the radiation as much as the heavy metal toxicity in tourist tour... So if you drop by Pripyat and take a look at the sarcophagus wash your clothes afterwards.
My cousin went there with his wife two years ago, it's just one day trip from Kiev.
I've been there literally just today, funnily enough! Most places are just normal background, around 0.20micSv/hr.
There are a few places like the red forest you drive through, where it's around 12 or so though. But even there you wouldn't pick up anything since the topsoil has been removed and all the radiation is coming from below the fresh soil. The only place in Pripyat you shouldn't walk through is the schoolyard since it is surrounded by buildings and thus the soil could not be removed. Levels there are actually also pretty low, around 0.4 I measured. But you might pick up some particles with your shoes and then fail radiation checks on the way out. You can clean it off, but it's a hassle.
Harry Marshall cherynobl is now a tourist sight everything but drinking the water there or going near the elephants is safe now hence why animals live there
I read the title and my brain was like “elephants foot”
The second they said Ukraine I thought of Chernobyl
Chernobyl is the only thing in Ukraine
Im just kidding, don`t worry. Radiation isn`t dangerous
Andrew Novitsky totally
imagine not being able to notice an obvious joke
Andrew Novitsky it is
Andrew Novitsky liar radiation is extremely deadly
Hey did u know atomic bombs dont blow u up
They tear the atomic structer and disintergrat i
3:58 from what I heard what they did used mirrors to look around the corner and due to mirrors (and radioactivon) it caused the ghostly grainy effect
I remember that some guy on youtube actually made a video where he took a radioactive piece of (something?) near his camera and it caused the grain effect. The grain is purely from radiation and it effects even modern cameras.
It's also long exposure, the ghostly figure is someone standing next to it for a short period during a longer exposure time. The bright lines is probably some moving light source.
I swear the reactor core is gone!
Dyatlov: He's delusional, take him to the infirmary.
As he vomits blood
50,000 people used to live here and now its a ghost town.
Shayan Ali "I understood that reference!"
never seen anything like it
Shayan Ali MW
Shayan Ali the moment i saw Pripiyat it reminded me of CoD: 4 i love love that game!! But hate that it is filles with hackers now, i cant multiplayer brcause i killed a hacker and got negative score like -4000000 which blocked from the multiplayer
No shit sherlock
50000 thousand people used to live there
Now it's a ghost town....
In that basement?
I’ve never seen anything like this
Danus Pianus no it’s from Call of duty modern warfare remastered from the mission all Ghilled up
Are you daft?! Stay away from the radioactive areas!
This sounds like a real life SCP
It can only be an SCP if it shows anomalous properties that cannot be explained by science. This is as simple as radiation from a meltdown taken to the extreme. Easy to explain. If an SCP becomes explainable by science it is considered explained.
IKR
But technically they secured and contained the Elephant's Foot, and continue to protect it to this day, so it's likely the closest thing we have (that we know of, of course).
That's not what makes an SCP. If that was the case prisoners would be SCPs. And SCP is an anomalous object/creature that cannot be explained by science.
the elephants foot could be an explained scp (using the designation XXXX-Ex)
"Hey, Ferb! I know what we're gonna do today!"
The most dangerous place is school
SO DANGEROUS
The dark & light Pomeranian especially with liberals
The dark & light Pomeranian Yeah, it makes you learn so you don't become a failure in life. So dangerous.
The dark & light Pomeranian so true
SO DANGEROUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
Ye
*because a toyota is a necessary precaution*
It’s a meme on this channel.
Theale a Toyota corrola was used by stalin to kill the Nazis in WWII
Most dangerous place is a room?
*well, it has to be my room*
Just fuck off scammer
Gwahaladur Y?
PogChamp
op's pfp is best pfp
Harvey Weinsteins room
0:44
RRL: does not include crimea as ukraine
Me: *angry ukranian noises*
Yeah, he should've at least made it a mixed color or like a checkerboard pattern or something
You: *cries in ukranian*
Well you don’t control it
its RLL not RRL
Me too,its kind of strange to see an American not on our side
3.6 roentgen
Not great
Not terrible
It's only about the equivalent of a chest x-ray
@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated Watch Chernobyl on HBO, then you'll understand it.
@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated i dislile u because of how u talk
3.6 roentgen? You should evacuate the city immediately
@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated It's from HBO's Chernobyl mini series
Not my bathroom? That place is toxic
wow.
Aiden Friel but it is :D
Mr Lennox My basement.
The only useful thing I gathered from this video is that 1 rad per second in Fallout is more dangerous than this monstrosity *cough* *cough* searchlight *cough* the Couriers Mile....
cough cough Vault 87 from Fallout 3
Kids Bedroom, you are just waiting for Ash to capture the hostage because you can't stay in a reinforced room safely.
*Throws Elephant In The Room*
Me: It should survive.
*Elephant Dies*
*Whats Left Is A Elephant Foot*
I had foreseen that some dick head was gonna correct your English, before clicking on the "Read More Comments" option. People are too predictable these days.
"Show More Replies" in case you wanna have a comeback, lol.
@ADEBISI ADEBISI shut the fuck up
#15 Burger King Elephant Foot Lettuce
@@Cjnw
Yes
Holy shit imagine if all humans disappeared and a new civilisation started in like 10 thousand years. Then they discover the place and think of it as the relic of a god or an alien artifact or maybe even an ancient, sapient being killing anyone in its presence.
Ken Kaniff basically the ark of the covenant
Ken Kaniff
If all humans disappeared, then civilization wouldn’t start.
Ken Kaniff how we know humans first intelligent civilisation on earth
Thank you for actually accurately explaining the disaster, especially in such a brief time. Its heartbreaking to see all the misinformation; its so disrespectful to all the victims
A lot of the description of the disaster was actually incorrect from a nuclear standpoint and most of the numbers were flat out wrong.
Yeah it was a horrific disaster that shaped the course of history, but this video does not respect what happened
@@aliceskye2416 Do you mind me asking what they got wrong? The last thing I want is to be spreading/supporting misinfo. Thanks!
You have to hand it to those people who risked their lives to fix other people's mistakes in order to save everyone else. True heros.
these people are getting a bunch of likes for saying Toyota corolla so
Toyota Corolla
please give me likes
4 likes
lol I never got more than 1
YESSS!
Artic claw a
Artic claw Hypocrite
Haise Sasaki Why ? Just , *why* ? 🤔🤔🤔
🤣 👌
Most dangerous room is my bedroom. NO ONE WILL COME IN HERE.
Carson Chandler why ??
Deni_ Ariyanto Cause he’s masterabating lol
Deni_ Ariyanto cuz his room has the elephants foot
Do you have a PS2?
Carson Chandler *mission impossible plays as I sneak in*
Because the room is full of huge TV’s that are playing Jacob Sartorious Musically’s and when you try to run away it Locks you in.
*GOOOO TOOOOOOOO SLEEEEEEPPPPPP RIGGGGHHHHHT NOOOOOOWOWWOOWWO*
I salute anyone that risked their lives in containing the disaster
The guy in the photo is Artur Korneyev. He's one of the only people who had seen the elephants foot in person. The photo was taken in 1996 (ten years after the accident). He's still alive (as of 2016)
Good point! Was just writing a comment to the same effect a as you posted.
th-cam.com/video/wQtbbBWeLCM/w-d-xo.html&lc=UgzGX_BONw4M-HJpuhB4AaABAg
That means he isn't alive, and you said that a day ago, you know it's 2017 right?
《Çhíľřęxìĕņ》 he's still alive...
If you want proof check reddit...
The reason I put 2016 is because that's the last time he gave an interview
" if you stay here more than 300 seconds , you will die in 2 days "
Are you challenging me?
no
Yeah i wanna see you due its will be fun.
I'm in the living room
3:47 the digital artist putting in the work 😂
I love that diarrhea emoji! 😄