[Spooks] The Woodpecker
Ellen Cherpeski
eecherpeski at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 11:44:51 EST 2019
I mean, I don't really blame the Ukrainians, what with the Holodomor and
Chernobyl. But that's sort of disappointing. Give me an actual documentary
or something, not someone's conspiracy fanfic.
Ellen Andrew C.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 7:37 AM john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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> Watched it last night via a Prime stream.
>
> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
> It's a mixture of artsy conspiracy theory and anti-soviet documentary
> with a few min of Woodpecker quasi technical info mixed in. The photos
> of the antenna array (from which Chernobyl is visible) are staggering.
> It's all been left to rot (and apparently climb).
>
> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
> The premise of the movie is, the Woodpecker , which was enormously
> expensive (2x the cost of the Chernobyl nuke facility) never worked. In
> order to cover up this failure, Chernobyl was purposely melted down.
>
> Plausible, but a real reach. It could have been shorter than it was (I
> missed the point of the scenes of the main character randomly wrapped in
> Saran Wrap holding a torch. This probably explains why I became an
> engineer not an art major) . On the other hand, it's certainly the only
> video you'll likely see of the Chernobyl nuke site taken from the top of
> the Woodpecker antenna array.
>
> Oh, and the Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
>
> John K5MO
>
> On 3/2/2019 8:23 PM, Christmas Peter via Spooks wrote:
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> > Take look on RTVs web site. They did a good piece about it
> > 73
> > Doc
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> >
> > The DX TRAWLER....a good source for DX information
> >
> > http://wnydxa.blogspot.com/
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> > Subject: Re: [Spooks] The Woodpecker
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> > Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019, 3:48 PM
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> > Looks like the video is $2.99 on Amazon Prime
> > Video.
> >
> > Anyone seen it?
> >
> > John K5MO
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/duga-radar-chernobyl-ukraine/index.html
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 7:37 AM john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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> Watched it last night via a Prime stream.
>
> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
> It's a mixture of artsy conspiracy theory and anti-soviet documentary
> with a few min of Woodpecker quasi technical info mixed in. The photos
> of the antenna array (from which Chernobyl is visible) are staggering.
> It's all been left to rot (and apparently climb).
>
> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
> The premise of the movie is, the Woodpecker , which was enormously
> expensive (2x the cost of the Chernobyl nuke facility) never worked. In
> order to cover up this failure, Chernobyl was purposely melted down.
>
> Plausible, but a real reach. It could have been shorter than it was (I
> missed the point of the scenes of the main character randomly wrapped in
> Saran Wrap holding a torch. This probably explains why I became an
> engineer not an art major) . On the other hand, it's certainly the only
> video you'll likely see of the Chernobyl nuke site taken from the top of
> the Woodpecker antenna array.
>
> Oh, and the Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
>
> John K5MO
>
> On 3/2/2019 8:23 PM, Christmas Peter via Spooks wrote:
> > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe
> from this list
> >
> > Take look on RTVs web site. They did a good piece about it
> > 73
> > Doc
> > W2MFT
> >
> > The DX TRAWLER....a good source for DX information
> >
> > http://wnydxa.blogspot.com/
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > On Sat, 3/2/19, john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Spooks] The Woodpecker
> > To: spooks at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019, 3:48 PM
> >
> > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks
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> > Looks like the video is $2.99 on Amazon Prime
> > Video.
> >
> > Anyone seen it?
> >
> > John K5MO
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/1/2019 6:06 PM, Dr Jim Kennedy via Spooks
> > wrote:
> > > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks
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> > >
> > >
> https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/duga-radar-chernobyl-ukraine/index.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Dr. Jim Kennedy - K2PHD
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
> > >
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