;-;

Chernobyl was terrible, good choice of music, pure photos would be better in my opinion

strange, I thought this was a comedy site... brb emaumsworld

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Informative, unbiased, and smooth. Ironic that you used the music from Pearl Harbor though.

Good stuff.

Well played.

very nice history lesson. A rareity among this site

as good of a serious ytmnd as i have ever seen.

I was waiting for some sort of scare, I was pleasantly suprised.

A presentation, still earns a 5. No rule says it has to be funny.

"Expect your site to be deleted if it lacks humor and includes any of the following: anime, extreme racism, hardcore pornography, anything illegal, pictures of your friends, inside jokes, etc" emphasis on "AND"

+1

also radiated cocks and balls

+1

If only Stanislav Petrov, World's Greatest Hero, were at Chernobyl that day...

no pics of victims

My nomination for the Powerpoint award

People who don't know this should.

Clearly communism is the culprit.

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nuclear power for everyone! cept Iran that is...

Well done, but i dont like docu-mntds

I won't lie, I was expecting a screamer. Strong work, sir.

srsly.

Didn't the guy who took over after the other one was fired die like 2 days later? Just a thought. I saw this on the history channel. 'Tis sad. Good job on this. I give thee a 5.

Eep.

You're the documentarist now dog

4 stars for a site like this is alot. Nice presentation.

I can't watch the rest. It's probably a screamer... paranoia ftw.

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Blaming communism on a disaster is stupid. If you went ahead with that idea, then it was communism that prevented world war 3 when that one russian general refused to act on the united states when their computer systems were malfunctioning. It was the fau

I was actually doing a speech regarding Chernobyl for my speech class... =)

Also, cocks.

continuing my other comment; it was the fault of the superiors for going ahead. Other then that, good presentation.

i got to 190 pounds of uranuses and bailed

;)

Next on history ytmnd, the cuban missile crisis.

BOO HOO.

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When you die, I'm gonna run into your funeral naked, defecate on your corspe, rape your wife/girlfriend/mother, cum in your face, then yell "BOO HOO MOTHER F*CKERS!" and knock over your coffin.

+1

Well damn, didn't know about any of it. Thanks for the info.

Soon we no longer will have to use fission for our nuclear plants, and we can move to fusion. Fusion FTW

Lacking the funny?! IT WAS HILARIOUS!!!

owned?

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Appropriate music, somewhat a bit too fast at certain parts, and the "wtf russia/sorry, we f*cked up" kinda took away from the seriousness of the ytmnd. However, it is still good in my opinion.

Nicely done

Good documentary

Honorable. 5'd. I live near a nuclear power plant

Lots of BS in here. This YTMND is second rate propaganda at best.

interesting

An expert who has been working with the Chernobyl incident for 10 years says the death toll is around 10.000. Never listen to Greenpeace.

looked like a powerpoint for a class, but then i saw the "wtf russia" and lol'd.

Extremely well done.

It's also my Birthday but I'm 17.

This ytmnd is in desperate need of a better font. I suggest you read up on typography from various internet sources, because at the moment your seriousness is hindered by the nonchalance of your font.

pretty cool

I was gonna downvote this but...

i wasted my time on this, im glad they died you f*cking emo, die in a fire.

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" Lots of BS in here. This YTMND is second rate propaganda at best." This comment wins. Did I already say you're emo? Die.

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Dinkky, no propaganda here both sides are shown. Cute name is that what your dad calls your peep?

"Next on history ytmnd, the cuban missile crisis." lol

"Blaming communism on a disaster is stupid" In Grigori Medvedev's book he talks about how communism and the buracracy caused the rush of constructions on plants. Chernobyl was rushed for political purposes and problems were hidden out of fear.

The two controllers Toptunov and Akimov died about 15 days after.

Good job.

Just FYI, that piece of music is "Journey to the Line" from The Thin Red Line, done by Hans Zimmer. Other than that, good jearb

"Journey to the Line" I'll check that out.

Brilliant.

superbe

It was an awseome slideshow. Im gonna have to use this in a class. Byt Greenpeace is crazy, sorta an equivilent to PETA, but not as stupid

Thats why we can't trust numbers coming from Greenpeace.

a serious ytmnd?!?! I had no idea they existed. rock on sir.

To quote greenpeace, even with caveates, undermines your credibility. Also, TOO DAMN SLOW.

You can access the ghost towns in and around Chernobyl some how, there's a site some where with pictures, real cool place to visit I say... just stay away from the highly radiated areas....

5 for the subject, not the ytmnd.

Very nice tribute, fission accomplished.

To answer some questions, I don't advicate Greenpeace in anyway, I think Nuclear power can be safe, and No I did not make this in powerpoint. lol

No pics of victims shown cause this is YTMND. Victim photos aren't always respected here if you know what I mean.

I'm surprised that Its been 20 years. Thanks for the reminder. Very heart felt

a whole city, filled with infertile people. merely because of the russians.

f*ck Greenpeace. Otherwise, some skill.

What was that one slide that flew by really quickly between the truth lying somewhere in the middle slide and the one about remembering victims?

my opinion slide which I removed due to comments.

I knew most of this already

Very powerful.Hope to see more of these.

Well done.

5 for history -1 for being a damn hippy

You get what a non-YTMND deserves: no stars. If I want teh serious information, I know where to get it. The only reason you're getting stars is because most people don't. So yay ignorance.

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Two things that kept you from getting 5: you didn't proofread and although it wasn't meant to be funny, you tried some humor half way through.

Chernobyl was a terrible accident indeed, but it's a shame that humanities irrational response was a negative view of nuclear power. Chernobyl results from an experiment conducted with pure lack of ethics and safety. It's not a sign of the inherent evil

...the inherent evil on having retards run your power plants.. Make a YTMND about how fossil burning is choking us to death and killing our ozone..

Note: I'm not attacking you.

several grammatical mistakes and words missing... lol

Excellent. However, communism had nothing to do with the meltdown at Chernobyl. Communism had made things like those possible to construct. The Chernobyl incident was the result of stupidity, human stupidity.

Very good. Like other i expected some random Brian Peppers joke. But I was thankful for not having one

WonderWall I got more facts that you'll ever know ...if your so smart tell me whats wrong we can debate

Very emotional, My grandfather was in chernobyl the night before the accident happened. sort of makes me think if he were still there.

ITS NOT FUNNY. I COULD HAVE MADE THIS IF I GAVE TWO sh*tS. YOU SUCK.

NEEDS HORSEDICK

I could have sworn I saw a frame buzz by real quick near the end...OMG SECRET COMMUNIST HISTORYTMND?

Good one, but -1 for blaming communism

o_o -_- o_o -_- o_o -_- -_- -_- -_- -_-

check out this google map: http://maps.google.com/?t=k&om=1&ll=51.390637,30.102582&spn=0.018692,0.036392

Probably the greatest YTMND of all time.

communism wasnt one of the reasons reactor 4 exploded, jerk

Its Bushs fault

"Blaming communism on a disaster is stupid" In Grigori Medvedev's book he talks about how communism and the buracracy caused the rush of constructions on plants. Chernobyl was rushed for political purposes and problems were hidden out of fear.

More bodies means more meat. More meat means less hungry people. Therefore: Massive Atomic Radiation ==> Solution to world hunger.

its good and all...but umm this isnt james horner. Its Hans Zimmer. Its from the Thin Red Line soundtrack (one of my fav movies of all time)

Definately nothing you could ever see on video casette or anything

Some people are just soo poorly educated...

I changed the sound description

Well done! It's a good thing we learned from out mistakes and that nuclear power generation is much safer today than ever.

Its nice to see a seroius thing on ytmnd just dont make it a habbit

Dang, man. Bravo. I dunno about the WTF russia. Very informative though. One of the slides seemed to flash by very quickly. Intentional?

With Chernobyl, the "test" was seeing how the reactor would respond to removing all water and cooling systems, and so the reactor wasn't being cooled at all. Communism wasn't at fault, the idiots were. Furthermore, a nuclear meltdown isn't an explosio

who said meltdown? Chernobyl was no meltdown. Three Mile island was. Communisim is one of the many factors. You have to remember that little bits of the accident were planted when the reactor was being constructed. Excuses were not tolorated.

the truth, 5'd

I have friends in the nuke field and they say that the reactors have no changed at all since the 80s thanks to whacko groups like greenpeace that don't let them advance... that in itself scares me

same as gas being more expensive due to strange "environmental" laws that were pushed through because of senators wanting reelection. If you have a problem with how energy works, let the people who do it for a living have a shot at making it better

The experiment had nothing to do with cooling systems! If the reactor has no outside power, it cannot run, and the cooling systems would stop, causing the reactor to overheat and people not having fun.

The test would determine whether the turbines could create enough energy while spinning on its own inertia in order to keep the pumps going and prevent an accident.

The automatic emergency cooling system was disconnected so that it would not interfere with the experiment. The experiment was NOT to test the cooling systems.

Jimiisama wow you know your stuff. I was thinking of making a YTMND about the 8 days after the accident and how they put out the fire. It gets kinda boring there. Bryukhanov and Fomin f*ck up big time assuming the reactor is intact.

Very informational.

since when is ytmnd an educational site

A day may come when the courage of men fails. But today is not this day. THIS DAY, WE REMEMBER! For all that you hold dear, I bid you FIVE! VOTERS OF YTMND!

Superb.

I guess I should applaud.

Sweet, the anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident is on my birthday.

well done!

touching

Brilliant

Amazingly done, you are well informed and your choice of music is excellent, I applaud you.

very well done, thanks for the comment on my site

Very well done. Most of the downvoters probably werent even born when Chernobyl happened and have no real comprehension on what it did.

Remove the goddman netspeak that spoiled the thing, it seriously spoiled it for me :(

This isn't school.

Excuse me, professor? No, wait, this is YTMND -- not History class. Insta 1'd

I was born on that day

@Abel2: I'm not slamming your site. It's excellent. It's just not a YTMND, and I'm slamming the people who 5 this because they don't know sh*t and they need YTMND to educate them. Now that's just sad.

Nice work. More people should be aware of this event and it's future problems.

You make me feel like crap, LOL. =)

I like serious ytmnd's from time to time.Its not all fads and porn. Why are you so passionate about Chernobyl?

I'm fascinated by something that happened 20 years ago that still emits radioactive particles. It's odd to think that one part of the world would have an effect on the rest of the world, politically, emotionally and environmentally. So I researched.

I 5'd this and added "Extremely well done." on 4/26. And, that still stands. It's informative, simple, and, if nothing else, it's a solid change of pace with a good musical choice... plus, it's a topic that interests me. Again, well done.

One of the frames near the end is too fast.

whaaa!....we have radiation poisoning

Deserves a 3, but not a 5. I don't understand why people vote everything so high. 5 should be reserved for the BEST ytmnd's.

Great site, nuclear power is great, its just that it REALLY needs to be controlled.

5'd

Yay you read National Geographic

That is some Good Stuff. My parents were just over in the ukraine for Missions.

I learned something. Good work.

lol i didnt even watch it but lol 5 star

I don't like to talk about my third eye....

i learned something

I stand educated

why do people make serious ytmnd's like this? seconds after people watch this, they will watch ronald mcdonald ride a car into jean luc picard. disco rage put it best.

i downvote it for 2 reasons. 1.) this is a funny site, not school. 2.) it says "downgrader descretion advised." how out of place could this be?

Bad taste! And Up Your ass!

solid work

People only one this kind of things because they have no clue what radiation can do. Anyways 3 for originality, 1 for dealing with a disaster in a mature manner, and 1 for WTF Russia

You took chernobyl, a topic that is pure comedy gold, and f*cked it up. Good job, good job.

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This is not a currently important event, it doesn't warrant a lame gif documentary. This YTMND accomplishes nothing but wasting my time.

That's me, downvoting your sites. 1'd.

Nice Powerpoint work there... How 'bout some effort? Before long the whole top 5 will be filled with pamphelts

are you kidding?, you didnt even include a pic of the 'fishbaby' - or the 'cyclops baby'???,, WTF Abel2.

and i could not play in any sandbox for some time.

3'd for site, 1'd for WTF Russia and 1'd for music

That's right. COMMUNISM is to blame!

lol, downvoting.

Very good. Just one frame skipped over near the end. I just wish people would not be dicks about this. On the offhand though, we need Nuclear power if we want to overcome our energy deficiencies.

Clearly communism is the culprit.

That's right. COMMUNISM is to blame!

If possible, read the nat'l geographic of this situation. To this day folks are in trouble and still suffering from this most terrible and tragic of accidents...but they stay in the city anyway. Courageous or crazy, they stay.

ps. I'm really glad you mentioned what you call the "liquidators." They dropped from helicopters and could only do their work for minutes at a time. They saved lives by sacrificing their own.

BTW, 5'd for powerful

fine good fair my sir, win.

wow, good site and 5 for remembering.

Pathetic!! 1/5

Oleander=stupid. Communism isn't "the culprit." Ideologies don't make engineering decisions. People do. Horrible trajedy, but very abreviated facts that leave us hanging. I recognize tht you did not want to make a long site, and that's why it's so abbreviated, but that's also why poeple don't get their hitorical analysis through flash presentations.

1 star for respect + 1 star for research + 1 star for unbiased report + 1 star for arrangement = 4 stars. How'd I arrive at 5 stars, then? "WTF, Russia?"

Forgot to add: Anti-Communism = +60 stars.

I was born in Belarus. Specifically, in the part of Belarus which was greatly affected; the city called 'Gomel'. My parents moved there from Minsk, after the accident had actually occured, but I was born in Gomel. I knew alot of people who had been born with missing limbs due to the radioactivity in the area and in the people. I left to immigrate to the United States with my family because of this, but I will NEVER forget the victims of this terrible accident. May they rest in peace, and may the rest of the

..people who reside there, stay healthy and live long. god bless everyone in that region, and may god bless the fallen's souls.

eveybody who 1 starred this is just a plain old frontpager, good job anyways

" Ideologies don't make engineering decisions. People do." Ideologies put people in charge who make engineering decisions based on political expediency rather than engineering. Communism always does this. Accuracy in a nutshell.

Well Done.

WTF?! The information in this YTMND is completely wrong! Only about 40 people have died since the incident as a direct result of the radiation, and nobody involved in the accident was exposed to more than 500 millisieverts of radiation but on average those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki recieved 2000 millisieverts. This is just f*cking propaganda bullsh*t.

informative :) although i think one of the frames was skipped, the one after saying the answer lies in the middle, what is the answer?!

The truth of death toll and number of people affected lies between IAEA's numbers and Greenpeace numbers. Both sides have reason to exaggerate the effects. IAEA to lesson the impact. Greenpeace to increase the inpact. Both cannot be trusted. After reading information form BBC Two Horizon documentary, it sounds more like they are endorsing IAEA's results.

Good work.

Fight the war on ignorance. You did good.

Decent, good attempt at neutrality. However: some grammar errors, and there's one frame full of text near the end that I'd like to read, except that it blinks by in a split second.

Very informative, something I wouldn't have expected from a YTMND. Fived for telling me things I didn't already know.

the balogna is in the nest, the pastrami is recyclable.

Fived for dumbass downvoters accusing you of emoness. When we reflect on the deaths of others because of stupid mistakes, like here major engineering mistakes, it doesn't make you emo, it makes you human.

+1

5'd. Downvoters, GTFO my Internet and take an extended vacation to CHERNOBYL. f*cking retards. Why don't YOU go see how fun it is to have a Nuclear Reactor blow up near you. Then when you get cancer I'm going to laugh at you, because you're a f*cking moron. And then when you're dead I'm gonna replace your headstone with one that says PISS ON ME.

I don't see the need for everything to be funny. At the very least it should be interesting, and this was. Regardless, "WTF Russia?" got a laugh out of me. I wish you would fix the typos though.

i'm not against serious ytmnds per se, but this is no unfunny truth.

A true man-made preventable disaster. Happened exactly a week after I was born, but I still remember the news reports :-

nice slide, would of been better with pic of vitims though. 5'd

Гениально!

They were all Commey bastards.

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5 for the informative and impartial presentation... and the Thin Red Line soundtrack.

http://www.pripyat.com/en/ go to this site and read it. man this was very good. i was thinking of making a trip to pripyat in the future. this convinced me. it is tragic what happen to them

*claps, and cries*

A worthy effort, but futile.

+5 for history. -2 for grammar. +1 for citing sources. +1 for "WTF Russia?"

This sucks.

applause...

To the people who said that this site is for humor, there are no rules saying that there can't be serious YTMNDs. Honestly I think there should be more of these.

Interseting YTMND. I pity Ukraine and Belarus. (Google Earth will not locate Pripyat, BTW.) While the incident sucks, you should note that nature is doing OK there. (Google the photos of "KidofSpeed." While her "tour" is fake, the photos aren't.) I have been facinated by the Chernobyl Reactor 4 incident since 1986. Also, Hans Zimmer kicks ass. Stronium and Graphite radiation suck, but the health affects are not as sh*tty as the WHO says. Great YTMND.

5'd for scaring me

A beautiful rendition.

Propaganda or not, it still happened, they still died. Personally, i dont really care who's fault it was, as long as we know better to make sure it doesnt happen again in (say) a larger populated area.

I'm actually crying.

I expected NEDM. I am disappointed.

The music is too quiet, consider editing the sound file to make it louder.

Coulda thrown an NEDM in there :p

this is lacking teh funny nuclear power is safe in the right hands you suck. +2 for wtf russia

You f*cked up Frame 43, the one containing your thoughts, it's set for 0 sec. according to imageready. Good presentation though.

The problem was caused by how the reactor was built, it was built to prevent accidents, and not stop them while they were occuring. BWR's PWR's and PHWR's all have many layers of redundant accident prevention systems as well as systems that correct and deal with a LOCA (loss of cooling accident) should it happen. (such as the vacuum building and the emergency coolant injection systems featured on all CANDU reactors)

I don't want to vote on this, but was wondering what was flashed really quickly. It was there for like 2 seconds. Also, people who downvoted this because it isn't "teh funny" are retarded.

tiny particle of nuclear sh*t sprayed all over the earth.... :(

FROM EVERY MISTAKE WE MUST SURELY BE LEARNING

Really good. I was expecting something along the lines of "WTF NUCLEAR POWER = BAD" but you were unbiased. This pleased me.

I like this, it's a f*ggy short film, but atleast it's interesting and isn't a fad compilation.

4 for effort, but greenpeace are a terrorist organization. so having a quote from them brings down the rest of this ytmnd

Well done, but you need to explain to people why it was being tested etc. Good job.

What was with that one really fast slide? Im still an advocate for nuclear power though.

I was in Ireland... and some group about chernobyl was bagging grociers for a fundraiser.. I droped a few Euro in and looked to my sister and said with a smirc "Cant have the radioactive kids going to bad schools"

good stuff

5 for the truth.

Damn. Depressing, yet still a great ytmnd. 5'd.

you should've spliced in some clips of jack bauer running from the explosion

I don't get it

I am from Ukraine. This touched me deeply. Thank you.

I lol'd

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I expected a surprise NEDM. ;_; Well the frame about "truth lying in the middle" was skipped past.

LOLOLOLOLOL

Wheres the point? Psuedo-deep.

Excellent work, well done.

I dunno, I thought it was pretty funny. BOOM! Cancer.

Soviets... not Russians. Soviets.

wait, how exactly did communism cause chernobyl? workers of the world unite!

powerful and moving.

Don't think it changed the world, much at all. Also, it takes a very narrow view on the disaster--COMMUNISM caused it?

WHEW, I was expecting a screamer the whole time, and right when It was about to end I was like CHECK THE REVIEWS CHECK THE REVIEWS FOR GODS SAKE, lol, and it was pretty funny at some points.

Time to f*ck up some downvoters. Firstly, if you think people dieing slowly due to cancer because of radiation is funny, you're some really sick f*cks. Secondly, YTMND is NOT, and I repeat for the twenty ninth time, NOT just funny sites. If you don't like educational videos, don't vote. Thirdly, communism was ONE part of the multi-part reason behind this explosion, not the only one. He even said that in the video.