A conversation about Chernobyl

By Serif Marak, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

Unrelated to Star Wars, but thought I'd share.

I was talking to my brother about movies that haven't been made and really should. He brought up that he had recently watched Chernobyl Diaries on Netflix, and I thought about how those events would work as a movie and realized that it has the potential of being an amazing movie.

The conversation began to digress, as conversations between us often do, and turned to how long that area will be uninhabitable because of the radiation. He said that he heard it would take about 10,000 years for the radiation to dissipate, to which I responded that the radiation would never completely go away, because the nature of a half-life is that it never reaches zero.

"I guess half-life doesn't reach three, either," he says to me, with a perfectly straight face.

'That doesn't sound right,' I think to myself, pausing in packing a box. 'It would drop below three, just never reach ze-'

That clever bastard.

Well you put a smile on my face so thanks for that.

That was one of the worst movies I ever saw by the way... My god did that suck!

Also what "diaries"???

Everywhere has a level of background radiation anyway, to a greater or lesser extent.

I saw a documentary some years ago that demonstrated that people who live in areas of high background radiation actually have less cases of cancer per population, probably because their bodies adapt to it.

Valve make a game with the number three in its title? Surely you jest.