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We’ve just watched Behind Her Eyes, one of these psychological drama type of things.
We kept saying “Well this is a bit weird” but we were interested enough to find out what was going on.
Oh my goodness, massive massive twist at the end.
If you’re interested enough to watch then don’t be tempted to google anything about it in case you inadvertently come across any spoilers, it would totally ruin the ending.
Ahha! Maybe thats why, 8 remember sons friends photos/films of inside homes/school and a hospital, some of people looking after pets that had been left behind, but not the reactor. Interesting as though.This lady seemed to be be taking the tourist route. I understand Ben Fogle is going into the actual control room for the exploded reactor, i.e. inside the the building itself. I think I'd give that a miss.
About halfway through this video you'll see the young lady standing by a massive radio aerial array. This was the infamous Russian Woodpecker OTHR (Over the Horizon Radar) which plagued people like me in the 70's/80's by creating massive interference on HF (short wave frequencies) that sounded like a woodpecker pecking out the heart of a tree. At least Chernobyl put that bloody thing off the air.
Oooo @BobClay - the programme just showed the Russian woodpecker... It was classified as a children's camp... Amazing!This lady seemed to be be taking the tourist route. I understand Ben Fogle is going into the actual control room for the exploded reactor, i.e. inside the the building itself. I think I'd give that a miss.
About halfway through this video you'll see the young lady standing by a massive radio aerial array. This was the infamous Russian Woodpecker OTHR (Over the Horizon Radar) which plagued people like me in the 70's/80's by creating massive interference on HF (short wave frequencies) that sounded like a woodpecker pecking out the heart of a tree. At least Chernobyl put that bloody thing off the air.
There were two Woodpeckers, the other one was off down the far end of Siberia.Oooo @BobClay - the programme just showed the Russian woodpecker... It was classified as a children's camp... Amazing!
https://interestingengineering.com/...oviet-signal-that-could-be-heard-on-the-radio
It jyst played the sound too, jyst like the woodpecker that used to hammer on the metal ladder Nextdoor!
Ground-based systems will always be useful, Satellites may be effective, but they're hard to maintain, if things start to get awkward...I think the Duga 1 woodpecker near Chernobyl was the first one to go on the air, in the 70's. In fact there are OTHR's all over the HF band now used by any number of countries, but they tend to be less intrusive in terms of bandwidth as they use better technology. Whereas the woodpecker used literally megawatts of power and splattered itself right across the bands. You could hear it literally all over the world.
I can't help but think that the world is gearing up for another world war, given the amount of these things, the build up of military hardware by China, Russia and I note we're sending a naval force, including one of these new carriers to patrol the South China Sea. Apparently the 'send a gunboat' philosophy is making a comeback.
I'm minded of a quote from Albert Einstein: "I don't know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
If anybody hasn't seen the HBO series Chernobyl, I recommend it. Admittedly it is dramatized for the screen in terms of characters but the sheer scale of that disaster and how close we got to utter catastrophe is put across well.