[Spooks] The Woodpecker

[john]

Very much so!


John K5MO





On 3/3/2019 11:02 AM, Tracy Johnson wrote:
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> Ah, but since the Soviet Union is no more, do the Ukrainians hate Russia?
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> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 9:37 AM john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Watched it last night via a Prime stream.
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>> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
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>> 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).
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>> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Oh, and the Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
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>> John K5MO
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>> 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
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>>> On Sat, 3/2/19, john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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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.
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>>>    Anyone seen it?
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>>>    John K5MO
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>>>    On 3/1/2019 6:06 PM, Dr Jim Kennedy via Spooks
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>> https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/duga-radar-chernobyl-ukraine/index.html
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>>>    > Dr. Jim Kennedy - K2PHD
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