Sincerely, I think that you should start planning something absolutely spectacular for the day that YOU the host of Thoughty2 turns 42 irl. I know, it's still a few years away. Sure, you do have sometime to think about it. Perhaps a massive collab of internet people should send you in their most favourite puns & 'dad jokes'? You know, just to make you really know that you are special. This could be amazingly silly & fun for all involved. That particular day, is gonna go down in history, right? 😂😂😂😂❤ **And, THIS is why I should probably drink from time to time, even if it's _just_ a wee little bit! 😭💀
the ai thumbnails gotta have something to do with boosting the algorithm... same with changing the video names after release! that one drives me nuts because I can't remember if I've seen it or not, red line underneath isn't always there for me and my memory suuuuuucks lol
What a terrible way to go 😥 Maria is the unsung hero in this as she pieced it together, albeit unwittingly. She inadvertently saved the city. Such sweet sorrow for her and her niece. Tragic, just tragic 💔
My mother is a survivor. She lived in one of the areas evacuated. Not far from the house where it was considered the epicentre. She was tested in that football stadium and had all her belongings taken away and tested for radioactivity. The fact that I'm here should show that everything turned put fine for my mother. I'm glad that it is taken serious in this video.
Thanks. I am from Brazil and remember when this happened. It was such a sad event, and it enraged the public as to how this kind of dangerous material could have been left vulnerable like it was. You are right that the majority of people affected were poor and many had little or no education. I appreciate you addressing the aftermath of those tragically displaced, despised and left to fend for themselves, as this is often left out of accounts of this horrible event. Thousands sufferedseverely, even if not directly exposed to radiation. Truly one of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Here's hoping there is never another one. Great job on the video. The subtle sound effects were a nice touch. Cheers!
I’m from Goiânia. When I was in highschool my chemistry teacher said something that marked me about this case. The body of the poor girl Leide Das Neves is probably well preserved till this day in her sarcophagus,that is because she had so much,SO MUCH Cesium-137 on and in her body that most of it simply can’t be decomposed by microorganisms because they can’t survive the environment. It’s pretty sad that even after her death her body still suffers the consequences of what happened to her…
Could the original owner of that clinic have prevented this disaster if he had done what Wagner and Roberto had done, snuck into the clinic at night, and taken back that device with knowledge on what it was? I mean, I hear that it’s better to act first and ask for forgiveness later than to ask for permission in certain instances…
Wow. You nailed the tone in this video. I didn’t know about this incident and you transported me there. I shed a tear for the little girl. I have a 3yo boy and the thought of bringing home something for him that would end up being his demise AND that of my wife… that caesium would have filled that little girl’s heart with wonder perhaps more than anything she had ever seen before. She literally rubbed it all over herself because it made her believe she was a fairy. The most brilliant moment in her tiny life… ending up being the moment that would seal her fate… I can’t even… The father must have been completely crushed. He found something magical and it destroyed his family. I don’t know how I’d live with myself. Moreover the owner of that device should probably have been held liable. Sure they tried to get rid of it 4 months earlier but not before it sat there for a decade. Unbelievable. What a story. Thanks for sharing Arran.
Hi. I'm Brazilian, born and raised near São Paulo. I was 12 when this happened and I still have vivid memories of the news and the series of special lessons and new procedures at school, even so far away from Goiânia. Congratulations on the research and the (mostly) accurate Portuguese. Also, thanks for talking about it and being as amazingly factual and sensitive as always. It's important to remember the past.
I live in Goiânia today and lived here during the events mentioned. There is speculation that the entire city was affected as the cesium spread throughout. At the time, my whole family traveled to São Paulo, where people avoided us in the streets as if we were radioactive. The story of what happened is scattered across the city, in memorials and radioactive landfills, but aside from the aid provided to the victims who still suffer from the effects of radiation, very little is spoken about it.
@@silentgolden8507I’m from goiania too,and it really is doomed to happen again if everything align. So many uneducated people don’t know about this accident that actually killed people,even worse,a lot of people don’t know what even is radiation. You’d expect the government to double down on education to make sure this never happens again,but nope…
@@silentgolden8507I’m from goiania too,and it really is doomed to happen again if everything align. So many people don’t know about this accident that actually took lives,even worse,a lot of people don’t know what radiation even is. You’d expect the government to double down on education to make sure this never happens again,but nope…
This story was totally new for me, and I have to say that your presentation was excellent. What a horrible nightmare that city lived through. Great video Thoughty!
I was cringing when Aaron talked of the little girl spreading the dust over her face, and her aunt and employee carrying the radioactive metal 'in bags.' This is a heartbreaking story.
These kinds of videos really show how important it is to be educated about things such as nuclear substances that we may never think that we will come across in day to day life.
lol, or, if something doesn't seem right, it probably isn't... I'm sure we'll find out about dozens of things we've used or been around our whole lives, look at lead paint and pipes, and even frozen foods that cause the big C, all the radio and phone waves in the air too lol, just gotta keep up the research - funded by people who won't benefit!!!
I lived in Vancouver when the Fukushima disaster happened. There was a guy with a Geiger counter on the beach and as the waves would roll in it would spike and then go down as they rolled out. Pretty gross feeling to know that’s water I was used to swimming in
My heart goes out to the little girl who was given the glowing powder and rubbed it all over her face. When I saw that clip I just knew it would end up bad. And oh was it. Such an incredible show of how the smallest of moments going the wrong way can lead to so many horrible things and deaths among the most vulnerable people who’d had no idea what they were handling. It’s such a tragic story I just hope that people are better informed about things like this so it can be prevented in future generations. Heck I myself would have thought, while living in such a poor place, that raiding an old medical facility could make me a few bucks. They just happened to take the absolute worst thing out of there that they possibly could’ve.
I mean this is a fire department, their job is literally to combat fire and water is their main weapon. And river has plenty of water, so if it's good for the fire, then it's good for everything else.
22:49 - Those that prevented him from removing the device should have been sued into oblivion! Seriously, it could had all been prevented if the device had been removed!
There's also a matter of common sense. One has to be embarrassingly immature to let mere legal issues get in the way of removing an object with catastrophic possibilities.
One of your best videos! As a father of a 6yr old girl I appreciate the way you handled the last part of the video. With respect and dignity, well done.
Aye thoughty, Ik you wont see this, get a lot of engagement, but i seriously wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for not switching to an AI narrator. Youre the best and give us some awesome history lessons! We love you thoughty!
The thought of what would have happened if the bag of scrap metal hadn't been taken to the government department of health the outcome would have been far far worse.
In Brazil this caused a paradigm shift away from nuclear energy and towards absolute legal liability of enterprises or facilities whose materials represent danger toward society i.e. it won’t matter if they’re not directly involved in an accident for them to be liable for indemnity for the affected.
I think this is your f*king best video. I didn't know this really happened, and I was like watching avengers endgame kind of focus watching this. If they did a netflix show about the chernobil accident, this event deserves its own show as well, because what happened is incredible and people need to know. The aftermatch event of companies going bankrupt and public transport refusing to go there shows you how deep and long a chain of events can go.
There's a movie on youtube about it... It's an old brazillian movie ( subbed and in hd now) and the name is "Césio 137 - Pesadelo em Goiânia"... It's a good watch
That show was mostly bs, plant director was warned about the flaws in the reactor year prior and still no action was taken. Also construction errors took place. I have all the docs in my possesion. If you can read in Russian, you can find then too. But I can save you some time and just say - when such accidents happen, it is always few factors overlap each other, recipe for a disaster. Atom does not forgive.
Oh man. I'm actually playing Fallout 4 as I watch this. As soon as he started talking about the glowing contents in the bag were killing her family, I knew exactly what it was. My heart sank when the man gave some to his daughter and let her rub it all over her face. That poor girl. Maybe Fallout 5 will tribute a glowing fairy to her. What a horrible fate. Rest in peace, little one.
RN here- Towards the end, I'm sure she was given large doses of pain medication with sedation. But still, it is such an awful way to go for a child or anyone.
@@Cybersawz if Chernobyl was a good source of information. She might have not even the chance to get sedation. Like when your veins are to thin or fragile to even inject anything.
There should be a law when someone is radioactive beyond a certain point then they shouldn’t be allowed to suffer any longer. There is no comeback from extreme radiation. Why let the poor girl suffer. So sad.
I’ve heard of this incident before and the little girl passing hits me hard. Thank you for covering this. People should be aware of the dangerous that lurk in abandoned buildings. People are the least of the problems.
This whole vid I was like "oh no...OH no...OH NO! OH NO!!!" I saw that coming the whole time and just wanted to stop them or warn them or something. Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, before it collides with something.
Exactly with the OH NOs. its just kept getting worse. The biggest OH NO was when he gave it to the little girl and she rubbed it on her face. Fallout needs to make a tribute to that little glowing fairy in their next game.
Likely she didn't know where else to take it - and took it to the best person she thought would know what it was and how best to get rid of it. These days, it's easy to just keep looking and looking on the internet until you track down a very specific person or department that will deal with a problem. But we're talking about a time where all you have is a phone book at best, and that doesn't exactly tell you much. Education regarding radioactive substances was still quite limited, anywhere. When I was at school, the only people who had a decent level of science education - enough to earn students of radiation poisoning - were the ones in the top 3 classes. Everyone else below that played with prisms, displacement experiments and grew peas in jars. They didn't get into atomics, etc at all.
I would say she did it to get her message across because no one else was putting the pieces together. Brief exposure if he never touched it would not do serious harm and would be healed.
Me as a Brazilian opening this video: "terrifying nuclear disaster I never heard of... OH, GOIÂNIA!" My mom use to tell this story to us as kids to terrify us into never playing with things that we found lying around.
This is the first post I've seen of this channel and already I'm hooked! Excellent job from the animation, narration and retelling of this unbelievably tragic incident, to the respectful way of honoring those who suffered and sadly lost their lives.
Nope, nope. It is 42, and I will not hear anything else on the subject. No really. I hear Forty Two in the beginning. Always have. Never gave it a second thought till someone else said something.
I've actually heard this story around 3 more times, Liam. I had to watch your version of it to see what your take on it was; it's probably the best telling of the story, not that there is anything wrong with the other versions, and I learned a few other things that were not mentioned in the other versions. Really well done, Liam. 👍👏🤗😊❤️🖖✌️
@@Alloyd876 I'm sure it was well documented, and even so, I don't think that would have prevented the scavengers from taking it. I doubt they'd even have known what a radioactive symbol meant. It's not as thought the people who knew what it was didn't know it was there. They just weren't able to remove it.
Well stated. That little girl is about my age. She suffered due to the ignorance and negligence of others. May God bless her as she stands next to him in Paradise.
Epic. Just epic. I’ve been a fan for only the past year but I’ve been impressed by every single vid. Everyday is a school day with Thoughty2. Awesome stuff mate!
There was also a similar case in the show, with a father who worked on a scrapyard and brought his son an interesting metal object. It might be inspired by this incident....
@@englishmadcow7461 house definitely bored me to sleep. Different illness but same formula Everytime. 1. House misdiagnoses 2. Patient continues to die anyway. 3. House connects some dots like Sherlock 4. House saved the patient with an unorthodox treatment.
@@sloppytilapiayou forgot to put "House behaves like an absolute dick" between each sentence.😅 (sometimes justified, but sometimes he's just the worst)
When you get people that aren't educated, you not only get incidents like this, but you also get incidents were people are prejudice against people. Just like how other people wouldn't even let people in that city live in another city, let them take the bus or ride on a plane, buy products from that area, etc, even though it was safe. There's many reasons why being educated is important.
I know a guy with a degree who also happens to be flat Earth believer. Education sometimes means very little if one has a brain predisposed to believe in fairy tales and refuses to apply logic.
@MACTEP_CHOB I'm not saying you need to have an advanced degree, or even go to college. Being educated means you can read, write, do math, think logically, learn, etc. Of course someone can still be educated and still be a racist, flat earther, hollow earth believer, etc. But if your uneducated, or you've only got like a 5th grade education, your much more likely to be a bigot, racist, believe in things like the mud flood, flat earth, devils tower is actually a giant petrified tree stump, and so on.
I really enjoy the channel's content , delivery , historical significance , and presentation of subject matter. Keep up the good work . Thoughty 2 is always a watch and share !!
@@jturtle5318 easier Dinge by reading the Label a and type of the machine on the back and looking up the manufacturer. They are usually in the phone book
@@dearthditch greed??!?! Thieves?!?! If a factory down the street from your impoverished village has a building full of stuff that's valuable and has just been sitting around collecting dust for years people would be called dumb for NOT selling the stuff.
The worst part of this story is the part of the daughter, a child who covered herself in the glittering 'fairy dust' and very sadly passed away. Thank you for sharing this story. The Goiânia Ophan Source should be so much better known because the threat is unbelievably high. Great appreciation to you.
My uncle used to work as an agronomist for one of the companies that dealt with the logistics of the cleaning up/neutralization of the cesium-137 during these events back then... He passed away recently (almost 2 years ago) sadly, due to cancer that he (very *very* likely) got from the radiation he had to deal with over that period. These events were *far* more deadly then people might imagine. The number of people that were actually affected by this is just so much bigger than what was released in the media and partially due to politics stuff that are way too complex to explain here lol and also because of what was considered "radiation poisoning" back then (in brazil's standards) comparing to today's. If the study of the numbers were made having an understading of science that would count every single case that actually was directly affected by that radiation, the numbers would be in the millions of people affected (no joke)
I had never heard of this incident even at the time of it happening. Thanks to you for enlightening us about things we may have never known about. You are very easy to listen to. Been a subscriber for years now. 👍
Truly terrifying. While having far less of a widespread impact, it brought to mind a situation that happened just outside of Bangkok about a dozen years ago. A couple of workmen from Cambodia discovered a large, metal object buried in the ground, and took it back to their workshop to take it apart and sell for a scrap. An older woman saw what they were doing and warned them not to tamper with it, but they didn't listen. She ran back to her house to get her sister to evacuate the area, and warned others nearby. The metal object was an unexploded bomb from World War II. It exploded, killing six people.
More likely either from the Vietnam War or from the Cambodian wars in the 1970s. Cambodia was heavily bombed by the U.S. during the Vietnam War because it was part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the detour through Laos and Cambodia used by the Vietcong to supply their guerrillas in South Vietnam. Later Cambodia had two civil wars, the first one fought and won by the Khmer Rouge and the second one to depose it, led by Vietnamese forces. All left lots of UXO and landmines behind.
@@ursobr1961 The U.S. didn't bomb Thailand during The 2nd Indochina War. This was a World War II bomb dropped by The Allies. Bangkok and other parts of Thailad were bombed by Allied Forces during World War II. When I first came here there was a still a public bomb shelter from that time, in Lumphini Park, preserved as a museum. The Ho Chi Minh Trail is not anywhere near Samut Prakan. The unexploded landmines and dropped bombs in Cambodia and Laos are still a terrible hazard. My friends at The Lao National Theatre tour the countryside doing shows for schoolchildren and local residents about not touching unexploded munitions. I was doing a show near the Cambodian border at an old Khmer temple that had been used as a makeshift refugee camp during the war in Cambodia. The area had been cleared of landmines just a few years before then, however, a few years after there was a story of someone in a nearby area who was injured by a landmine. Since the story I mentioned earlier there has been another unexploded World War II bomb uncovered in Bangkok, but fortunately this one was removed without incident.
@@ursobr1961 It's probably because I mentioned that they were workmen from Cambodia. Incidentally, in case you're interested, there's an author named John Burgess who worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand during the war. He has written both historical and historical fiction books about Cambodia. He told me how some of the refugees didn't trust The Red Cross, and set up a makeshift camp in the ruins of an old Khmer temple called Sdok Kok Thom on the Thai side of the border, that was run and protected by Cambodian mafia. They used to bring aid and supplies from the established camp in order to make sure they were doing OK.
Great video my friend, 1st time watching your content and I had never heard of this b4. Which is crazy and awful at the same time. U got a new subscriber out of me, the little girl was just heartbreaking in so many ways. It made me wonder if she had to b one of the most radiated unlucky persons in history, poor poor child. Ik her drawn out death must have been unimaginable.
I've heard this story a few times, it's always terrifying and tragic, but this is probably the most detailed explanation I've heard for the entire event. good video.
My mom always told me if I don’t know what something is, don’t touch it. She was in her twenties when the Chernobyl accident and this one happened. And I pass her advice to my kids. Even if it looks cool, or other people are touching it, don’t touch it.
The owners of the old site, who prevented the doctor from removing the machine should be sued, and be liable for the majority of the damage done and lives lost or impacted.
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The lack of education nearly doomed the city and the surrounding area. And fortunately the man who originally thought the equipment was defective realized it wasn't. If he had stopped and checked a third one, the contamination would have become even worse. But the absolute worst part of it all is that greed was the underlying issue the whole time. Had they been allowed to remove the equipment, no harm would have befallen anyone.
I almost skipped this one cus I’ve heard this story before but I’m glad I stayed because the amount of details and pieces of the story I never heard before
Thanks, @Thoughty2 Your content is top-notch. The storytelling way of doing the narrations (using YOUR voice, NOT some stupid AI) is greatly appreciated as well. You are easily a favorite channel in our household (not just me), and we are truly appreciative for the time & effort you put into your channel content. So, thanks, and keep up the awesome awesomeness. 😊
As an x-ray tec myself, i panicked watching what those people did. They must’ve ignored many warnsigns around the machine. And also that the clinic just left the device there. It would be illegal in our country.
I'm brazilian, but currently living in Canada. I'm from Espírito Santo, a nearby state. I remember when it happened. Most of the countryside population had never heard about radiation before. I felt horrible for the families at the time, specially because of their "naiveness". 😢
🎶 Uranium fever has done and got me down Uranium fever is spreadin' all around With a Geiger counter in my hand I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land Uranium fever has done and got me down 🎶
.... Is Atom Bomb Baby too inappropriate to add in here? Dark humor, tho... I'm actually playing Fallout while I'm watching this. Too bad that game was available to those thieves or anyone in that town who came in contact with that dust. I hope Fallout eventually has a tribute to that little girl, like an actual glowing fairy from some Children of Atom quest.
Hello, Thoughty2, thank you for all you do with these vids. You handle some quite sensitive topics with empathy & clear understanding while making them interesting, educational, and entertaining, including your amazing animations. Keep up the great work to expand minds via the brain-shrinking medium of the Internet.
Medical Equipment that nearly destroyed a city... So sad the little girl... Brings a tear to just imagine... The powder was so pretty... What I find disturbing ~ how many years I never heard about such a devastating event...
This is the first I hear about this incident. Thank you for shedding some light on this story. So sad to hear what happened to Maria Gabriela Ferreira and her niece Leide das Neves Ferreira. HBO Max should make a mini series on this like they did the Chernobyl series. I only learned about Chernobyl because of that series so it would be a great way to keep their story alive for those who have never heard of it or were alive during the time.
It's not a Nuclear accident. It's a radiation accident. Nuclear refers to fusion or fission of the 'nucleus' of an atom, which are combined or split to provide energy. This was ionising radiation from a radioactive element.
I was about to say the same thing, lol. Yes, this was a Radiological incident. The distinction is important, particularly to the people that would be involved in responding to these types of incidents. And it creates the tendency in people to have unhelpful emotional responses to certain phrases. As demonstrated by this very story, the often subtle nature of radiological incidents give them the potential for devastating effects with little or no warning.
Yes. Radiological accident are far less obvious and can be much more dangerous for thar reason. It’s important to get the nomenclature correct because this establishes peoples initial emotional reaction to things even if most wouldn’t make a distinction between the two.
The moral of the story? Well, I think there are two: One, don’t take things that aren’t yours. Two, don’t touch things you don’t understand. None of this would have happened, if the two “scavengers” had left well enough alone. None of this would have happened, if the landlord had been more co-operative. None of this would have happened, if the individual who realised the item was still on the property had been more insistent about its retrieval. Why didn’t he advise the authorities that such a device was in the wild, with potential to fall into the hands of groups or individuals, who had no idea how dangerous it was? None of this would have happened, if the company that owned the device had removed/ properly disposed of it, when they moved. Surely such items need to be kept tab of, and there are organisations in each country that do so? Otherwise, the sale of all such items, even to humanitarian organisations, is incredibly irresponsible. All this from such a small amount of radioactive material. It is terrifying to me. Cheers,
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4:55 - It really is a shame he made those two assumptions, but never considered the possibility that it was Radioactive! Seriously anyone familiar with Radioactive Quakery (a phenomenon of Radioactive materials being marketed and used in a wide variety of products back when the effects of radiation poisoning weren't widely understood) is aware that Radioactive materials can make things glow!
@@Deadly_Apathy it still comes down to the greedy landlord. They were probably the one that leaked the story of the "equipment left behind" story to begin with, which considering the guys that turned up were from a scrap yard, does sound like the landlord hoped to be paid for the 'scrap' and asked them to take it and sell it. Never under estimate the stupidity of slum lords, in an of out of control unregulated worldwide rental industry - where the biggest stakeholders, are usually the politicans.
@@Deadly_Apathy hmm ok youtube auto deleted my comment.. I shall be more vague. The (s1umlord) landlord was likely the one that told the scrapyard, and likely hoped to profit from the sale of the equipment. The rental industry is entirely out of control like thazt, thanks to p0liticians being the larger stakeholders in it.
@@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271 oh look, a landlord... not all of them are nice... locked unmaintained rental property, owner prevents prior tenants who work in health industry from removing expensive equipment, and it somehow gets leaked to a scrap yard that there is expensive equipment for the taking? they totally knew what they were doing, and they totally are the ones who told the scrapper about it. Chances are the landlord jacked the rent, and when they put the clinic out of business hoped to profit from stealing the equipment left behind. Brazil is a place where slumlord is a common top 3% occupation, you cannot measure them by the standards of the western world. @redcrimson177 was totally on point, just too polite to mention the subtext.
I can’t get over his glow up. Huuggee difference just by changing his hair, wearing a white polo, and by shaving his mustache. He looks younger as well.
As soon as I read the video's title I knew this was about the Césio 137 accident (as is known in Brazil) and I thought that if you never head about it is because you're not a Brazilian... I was a child back then, living in São Paulo, far away from Goiânia (although I had and still have relatives there). I didn't remember this incident in all of these details. Superb video, as always. Thank you for spreading this knowledge.
Many Law Enforcement cruisers carry something akin to a Geiger counter on board. It is so sensitive, that if you are in a car coming home from the hospital after some sort of scan, x-ray or radiation treatment, it can set the scanner off from several feet away. That "smoothie" (oral contrast) you drink for a CT scan or the dye (injected contrast) they inject into your IV? That contains a radioactive isotope to assist with the scan and takes a bit for it to work through your system.
I came to your channel long years ago for some interesting facts. Realizing just now, that it's not the info I've been here for all along, but instead. the stellar storytelling. And I'm a sucker for good storytelling.
At 1:00 I already had suspicion about it being this incident. It's amazing how few people actually know about this story, much less how many people are unaware of the dangers hospital equipment pose. Radiation is horrible.
I feel like I have a heard of this incident vaguely, in any way, as soon as I heard it was a medical device I was like 😮... I mean, think about x ray techs, it takes them a few seconds to take the photos but they have to leave the room to do so, plus that plastic thingy they stand behind... Oh and also, the lady that discovered radiation and it's useful properties, she got ill pretty soon after, so even if the general public were unaware, there were ppl with authority that certainly did 😮
What a great video about this tragic history worth remembering! And good job on portuguese pronunciations, that's very close to how we talk here in Brazil!
I learned about this when I was going through the training required to be a public health inspector over twenty years ago and this incident has really stuck with me.
Fantastic video and beautiful narration. Probably the second-best use of my time today (after giving blood). It's hard to believe that nobody questioned the glowing materials earlier.
"you've never heard of" This is going to be the guys that looted an old hospital, cracked open an x-ray machine and played with the gloop inside isn't it?
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**And, THIS is why I should probably drink from time to time, even if it's _just_ a wee little bit! 😭💀
You DON'T pronounce the 'c' in scintillometer.
That wink at the end does NOT work with a story like this!
You looked great clean shaven.
@@Digitalhunny
In a world of AI narrators , it sure is good to have this guy around
sad he uses ai thumbnails. still very well researched, animated, edited, and narrated videos
the ai thumbnails gotta have something to do with boosting the algorithm... same with changing the video names after release! that one drives me nuts because I can't remember if I've seen it or not, red line underneath isn't always there for me and my memory suuuuuucks lol
@@ItsKnotBreadi think that’s the point
He is an AI. Just looks different.
@@ItsKnotBread oh yeah, i know that feeling, a bit like déjà vu ...
What a terrible way to go 😥 Maria is the unsung hero in this as she pieced it together, albeit unwittingly. She inadvertently saved the city. Such sweet sorrow for her and her niece. Tragic, just tragic 💔
Indeed. She died a hero but was vilified by the protestors who didn't know any better due to a lack of education and fear.
My mother is a survivor. She lived in one of the areas evacuated. Not far from the house where it was considered the epicentre. She was tested in that football stadium and had all her belongings taken away and tested for radioactivity. The fact that I'm here should show that everything turned put fine for my mother. I'm glad that it is taken serious in this video.
Wow.....thank goodness!!!!
That’s quite a lot though…
@TwistedSoul2002 it must have been. I only know stories
@@Antsylum Thats a stupid and insensitive comment.
@@Antsylum I guess you didn't read the rest of the comment that actually did say that everything turned out fine...
Thanks. I am from Brazil and remember when this happened. It was such a sad event, and it enraged the public as to how this kind of dangerous material could have been left vulnerable like it was. You are right that the majority of people affected were poor and many had little or no education. I appreciate you addressing the aftermath of those tragically displaced, despised and left to fend for themselves, as this is often left out of accounts of this horrible event. Thousands sufferedseverely, even if not directly exposed to radiation. Truly one of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Here's hoping there is never another one.
Great job on the video. The subtle sound effects were a nice touch. Cheers!
I’m from Goiânia. When I was in highschool my chemistry teacher said something that marked me about this case. The body of the poor girl Leide Das Neves is probably well preserved till this day in her sarcophagus,that is because she had so much,SO MUCH Cesium-137 on and in her body that most of it simply can’t be decomposed by microorganisms because they can’t survive the environment. It’s pretty sad that even after her death her body still suffers the consequences of what happened to her…
But the constant radiation will break down every molecule. She will become radio-active dust I think.
Could the original owner of that clinic have prevented this disaster if he had done what Wagner and Roberto had done, snuck into the clinic at night, and taken back that device with knowledge on what it was?
I mean, I hear that it’s better to act first and ask for forgiveness later than to ask for permission in certain instances…
WHOA - thats incredible!
Isn't there certain fruits and drinks that help fight radiation?
@@LoganE01iodine
Wow. You nailed the tone in this video. I didn’t know about this incident and you transported me there.
I shed a tear for the little girl. I have a 3yo boy and the thought of bringing home something for him that would end up being his demise AND that of my wife… that caesium would have filled that little girl’s heart with wonder perhaps more than anything she had ever seen before. She literally rubbed it all over herself because it made her believe she was a fairy. The most brilliant moment in her tiny life… ending up being the moment that would seal her fate… I can’t even…
The father must have been completely crushed. He found something magical and it destroyed his family. I don’t know how I’d live with myself.
Moreover the owner of that device should probably have been held liable. Sure they tried to get rid of it 4 months earlier but not before it sat there for a decade. Unbelievable.
What a story. Thanks for sharing Arran.
😢
Hi. I'm Brazilian, born and raised near São Paulo. I was 12 when this happened and I still have vivid memories of the news and the series of special lessons and new procedures at school, even so far away from Goiânia. Congratulations on the research and the (mostly) accurate Portuguese. Also, thanks for talking about it and being as amazingly factual and sensitive as always. It's important to remember the past.
I congratulate Arran for his swell job pronouncing the names of the protagonists.
Your English is amazing.
Thoughty2 rules in these vids!
@@drac2you816 I hope he never changes.
I'm curious, what were your lessons? Apart from not picking up glowing metal objects, in a dust bin.
i appreciate having a real person telling the story
I live in Goiânia today and lived here during the events mentioned. There is speculation that the entire city was affected as the cesium spread throughout. At the time, my whole family traveled to São Paulo, where people avoided us in the streets as if we were radioactive. The story of what happened is scattered across the city, in memorials and radioactive landfills, but aside from the aid provided to the victims who still suffer from the effects of radiation, very little is spoken about it.
Stupid doomed to repeat the same mistake......
@@silentgolden8507 what?
@@dynhoyw "very little is spoken about it" very foolish
@@silentgolden8507I’m from goiania too,and it really is doomed to happen again if everything align. So many uneducated people don’t know about this accident that actually killed people,even worse,a lot of people don’t know what even is radiation. You’d expect the government to double down on education to make sure this never happens again,but nope…
@@silentgolden8507I’m from goiania too,and it really is doomed to happen again if everything align. So many people don’t know about this accident that actually took lives,even worse,a lot of people don’t know what radiation even is. You’d expect the government to double down on education to make sure this never happens again,but nope…
This story was totally new for me, and I have to say that your presentation was excellent. What a horrible nightmare that city lived through. Great video Thoughty!
The thought of the pain suffered by that precious child made me cry. I remember this story in the international news... I was 17 at the time.
For real, absolutely heartbreaking
I was cringing when Aaron talked of the little girl spreading the dust over her face, and her aunt and employee carrying the radioactive metal 'in bags.'
This is a heartbreaking story.
Poor girl, this made me so sad :(
She's with God now and will Never suffer again. 🙏
I cried, too... Absolutely tragic
Leide had such a winning and contagious smile. Seeing her face makes her death all the more tragic.
AAAAAAH SPOILER
These kinds of videos really show how important it is to be educated about things such as nuclear substances that we may never think that we will come across in day to day life.
Mr. Data would approve.
lol, or, if something doesn't seem right, it probably isn't... I'm sure we'll find out about dozens of things we've used or been around our whole lives, look at lead paint and pipes, and even frozen foods that cause the big C, all the radio and phone waves in the air too lol, just gotta keep up the research - funded by people who won't benefit!!!
And basic education in general things. Not just radiation or nuclear substances.
Also a reminder of what kind of hellish reality we are born into
😂 yeah thank God I have this info for the nye impossibility of coming across nuclear materials in my life
I lived in Vancouver when the Fukushima disaster happened. There was a guy with a Geiger counter on the beach and as the waves would roll in it would spike and then go down as they rolled out. Pretty gross feeling to know that’s water I was used to swimming in
Vancouver - Fukushima 😮
Geezus, that's one of the most horrific stories I've ever heard. Scary to think how much worse it could have been too.
My heart goes out to the little girl who was given the glowing powder and rubbed it all over her face. When I saw that clip I just knew it would end up bad. And oh was it. Such an incredible show of how the smallest of moments going the wrong way can lead to so many horrible things and deaths among the most vulnerable people who’d had no idea what they were handling. It’s such a tragic story I just hope that people are better informed about things like this so it can be prevented in future generations. Heck I myself would have thought, while living in such a poor place, that raiding an old medical facility could make me a few bucks. They just happened to take the absolute worst thing out of there that they possibly could’ve.
Ugh, couldn't hold back tears knowing full well how the child probably couldn't be comforted. Having a little sibling to compare to just destroyed me.
Imagine you call the fire department to dispose of some highly dangerous material and they tell you they'll gonna dump it in a river. So professional.
Fire department doesn't dispose of anything so why would you expect them to do anything different?
@@scythelord common sense. Doesn’t require special knowledge to know that dangerous material doesn’t belong in a river that services the whole city
@@uscbro69 ~ the 30 ft piranha wouldn'tve minded
@@scythelord they were planning on doing it!
I mean this is a fire department, their job is literally to combat fire and water is their main weapon. And river has plenty of water, so if it's good for the fire, then it's good for everything else.
22:49 - Those that prevented him from removing the device should have been sued into oblivion! Seriously, it could had all been prevented if the device had been removed!
Executed *
They should have taken the radioactive container in the first place when they moved. Even if they left the machine.
There's also a matter of common sense. One has to be embarrassingly immature to let mere legal issues get in the way of removing an object with catastrophic possibilities.
Truly, Maria died a hero. How many lives did her self sacrifice save? One can only wonder. May she rest in peace with her little niece.
One of your best videos!
As a father of a 6yr old girl I appreciate the way you handled the last part of the video. With respect and dignity, well done.
Same here.
I had family on that bus my aunt was pregnant with my cousin thankfully she was born without any problems
She was born in Brazil- that is problem enough
@@DSPHistoricalSociety yall are too comfortable with this casual blatant racism wth
Aye thoughty, Ik you wont see this, get a lot of engagement, but i seriously wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for not switching to an AI narrator. Youre the best and give us some awesome history lessons! We love you thoughty!
The thought of what would have happened if the bag of scrap metal hadn't been taken to the government department of health the outcome would have been far far worse.
That woman is an absolute hero who saved an entire city of people and beyond. A shame she paid for it with her life.
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In Brazil this caused a paradigm shift away from nuclear energy and towards absolute legal liability of enterprises or facilities whose materials represent danger toward society i.e. it won’t matter if they’re not directly involved in an accident for them to be liable for indemnity for the affected.
Ironically, this incident had nothing to do with nuclear energy - the source of the problem was mismanagement of a medical device.
I think this is your f*king best video. I didn't know this really happened, and I was like watching avengers endgame kind of focus watching this. If they did a netflix show about the chernobil accident, this event deserves its own show as well, because what happened is incredible and people need to know. The aftermatch event of companies going bankrupt and public transport refusing to go there shows you how deep and long a chain of events can go.
yes, I agree, this should be done as a film/short series, to warn and educate...
1000% - people wouldn't recognise something so dangerous, so orphan sources need to be discussed in media
There's a movie on youtube about it... It's an old brazillian movie ( subbed and in hd now) and the name is "Césio 137 - Pesadelo em Goiânia"... It's a good watch
That show was mostly bs, plant director was warned about the flaws in the reactor year prior and still no action was taken. Also construction errors took place. I have all the docs in my possesion. If you can read in Russian, you can find then too.
But I can save you some time and just say - when such accidents happen, it is always few factors overlap each other, recipe for a disaster.
Atom does not forgive.
Oh man. I'm actually playing Fallout 4 as I watch this. As soon as he started talking about the glowing contents in the bag were killing her family, I knew exactly what it was. My heart sank when the man gave some to his daughter and let her rub it all over her face. That poor girl. Maybe Fallout 5 will tribute a glowing fairy to her. What a horrible fate. Rest in peace, little one.
that 6 year old girl jesus christ i dont even want to imagine how painful her last few weeks were it breaks my heart
They knew they couldn't save her. So why make her suffer?
RN here- Towards the end, I'm sure she was given large doses of pain medication with sedation. But still, it is such an awful way to go for a child or anyone.
@@Cybersawz if Chernobyl was a good source of information. She might have not even the chance to get sedation. Like when your veins are to thin or fragile to even inject anything.
@@CesarinPillinGaming They could start a central line (a major vein like the subclavian) or if all else fails, inject pain medication into muscle.
There should be a law when someone is radioactive beyond a certain point then they shouldn’t be allowed to suffer any longer. There is no comeback from extreme radiation. Why let the poor girl suffer. So sad.
I’m from Brazil and I remeber this event. This is so sad. I’m sorry for all the victims of this disaster. God bless the families of all affected.
I’ve heard of this incident before and the little girl passing hits me hard.
Thank you for covering this. People should be aware of the dangerous that lurk in abandoned buildings. People are the least of the problems.
This whole vid I was like "oh no...OH no...OH NO! OH NO!!!" I saw that coming the whole time and just wanted to stop them or warn them or something. Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, before it collides with something.
Exactly with the OH NOs. its just kept getting worse. The biggest OH NO was when he gave it to the little girl and she rubbed it on her face. Fallout needs to make a tribute to that little glowing fairy in their next game.
_"The contents of this bag are killing my family!"_ OKAY GIRL THEN WHY TF DID YOU PUT THE BAG RIGHT NEXT TO MY FACE? 💀
got his attention didnt it!
Likely she didn't know where else to take it - and took it to the best person she thought would know what it was and how best to get rid of it.
These days, it's easy to just keep looking and looking on the internet until you track down a very specific person or department that will deal with a problem.
But we're talking about a time where all you have is a phone book at best, and that doesn't exactly tell you much.
Education regarding radioactive substances was still quite limited, anywhere.
When I was at school, the only people who had a decent level of science education - enough to earn students of radiation poisoning - were the ones in the top 3 classes. Everyone else below that played with prisms, displacement experiments and grew peas in jars. They didn't get into atomics, etc at all.
@@busybillyb33 its not a murder. Their was no intent to unalive. manslaughter perhaps
Maria: "This junk is delusional, I'll take it to the infirmary"
I would say she did it to get her message across because no one else was putting the pieces together. Brief exposure if he never touched it would not do serious harm and would be healed.
Me as a Brazilian opening this video: "terrifying nuclear disaster I never heard of... OH, GOIÂNIA!"
My mom use to tell this story to us as kids to terrify us into never playing with things that we found lying around.
Thanks for your hard work & effort mate.
And to the editors & animators too!
pretty sure he pays people for the animation and editing all he does it voice over😔
This is the first post I've seen of this channel and already I'm hooked! Excellent job from the animation, narration and retelling of this unbelievably tragic incident, to the respectful way of honoring those who suffered and sadly lost their lives.
As a Brazilian, I knew what it was about before clicking...
As a Canadian so did I... retention of knowledge !!
As someone who had watched Kyle Hill's video on the subject, I didn't, until he mentioned Brazil, then I instantly knew it was the Goiânia incident
Your pronunciation of Goiânia is very good! Thanks for the effort!
My day instantly gets better when thoughty2 uploads
Nope, nope. It is 42, and I will not hear anything else on the subject.
No really. I hear Forty Two in the beginning. Always have. Never gave it a second thought till someone else said something.
My day instantly gets better. Now im depressed. But happy. This is such a over flow of emotions.lol
I've actually heard this story around 3 more times, Liam. I had to watch your version of it to see what your take on it was; it's probably the best telling of the story, not that there is anything wrong with the other versions, and I learned a few other things that were not mentioned in the other versions.
Really well done, Liam. 👍👏🤗😊❤️🖖✌️
This genuinely brought a tear to my eyes. That poor little gorl 😥
This isn't a new story but shows why nuclear materials used in equipment needs to be catalogued by the manufacturers
@@Alloyd876 I'm sure it was well documented, and even so, I don't think that would have prevented the scavengers from taking it. I doubt they'd even have known what a radioactive symbol meant. It's not as thought the people who knew what it was didn't know it was there. They just weren't able to remove it.
Well stated. That little girl is about my age. She suffered due to the ignorance and negligence of others. May God bless her as she stands next to him in Paradise.
Epic. Just epic. I’ve been a fan for only the past year but I’ve been impressed by every single vid. Everyday is a school day with Thoughty2. Awesome stuff mate!
Dr House mentioned! I LOVE that series! I watch it almost every week. Sometimes put it play when I'm sleeping. Background sound is needed! 😂
There was also a similar case in the show, with a father who worked on a scrapyard and brought his son an interesting metal object.
It might be inspired by this incident....
So House bores you to sleep?🤣
House is so good!
@@englishmadcow7461 house definitely bored me to sleep. Different illness but same formula Everytime.
1. House misdiagnoses
2. Patient continues to die anyway.
3. House connects some dots like Sherlock
4. House saved the patient with an unorthodox treatment.
@@sloppytilapiayou forgot to put "House behaves like an absolute dick" between each sentence.😅 (sometimes justified, but sometimes he's just the worst)
When you get people that aren't educated, you not only get incidents like this, but you also get incidents were people are prejudice against people. Just like how other people wouldn't even let people in that city live in another city, let them take the bus or ride on a plane, buy products from that area, etc, even though it was safe. There's many reasons why being educated is important.
I often repeat that, education even in first world countries is very very poor.
I know a guy with a degree who also happens to be flat Earth believer. Education sometimes means very little if one has a brain predisposed to believe in fairy tales and refuses to apply logic.
@MACTEP_CHOB I'm not saying you need to have an advanced degree, or even go to college. Being educated means you can read, write, do math, think logically, learn, etc. Of course someone can still be educated and still be a racist, flat earther, hollow earth believer, etc. But if your uneducated, or you've only got like a 5th grade education, your much more likely to be a bigot, racist, believe in things like the mud flood, flat earth, devils tower is actually a giant petrified tree stump, and so on.
I really enjoy the channel's content , delivery , historical significance , and presentation of subject matter. Keep up the good work . Thoughty 2 is always a watch and share !!
@3:47 Mistake after mistake after mistake... but why break the cylinder!?
Total lack of education
To see what's in it! It could be valuable.
@@jturtle5318 easier Dinge by reading the Label a and type of the machine on the back and looking up the manufacturer.
They are usually in the phone book
Everybody gangsta until the glowing substance makes them sick
Karma for thieves. Too bad their evil cost other people
@@dearthditch Too true. Greed never makes anything any easier for humanity, it only worsens life.
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@@dearthditch greed??!?! Thieves?!?! If a factory down the street from your impoverished village has a building full of stuff that's valuable and has just been sitting around collecting dust for years people would be called dumb for NOT selling the stuff.
The worst part of this story is the part of the daughter, a child who covered herself in the glittering 'fairy dust' and very sadly passed away. Thank you for sharing this story. The Goiânia Ophan Source should be so much better known because the threat is unbelievably high. Great appreciation to you.
My uncle used to work as an agronomist for one of the companies that dealt with the logistics of the cleaning up/neutralization of the cesium-137 during these events back then... He passed away recently (almost 2 years ago) sadly, due to cancer that he (very *very* likely) got from the radiation he had to deal with over that period.
These events were *far* more deadly then people might imagine. The number of people that were actually affected by this is just so much bigger than what was released in the media and partially due to politics stuff that are way too complex to explain here lol and also because of what was considered "radiation poisoning" back then (in brazil's standards) comparing to today's. If the study of the numbers were made having an understading of science that would count every single case that actually was directly affected by that radiation, the numbers would be in the millions of people affected (no joke)
I had never heard of this incident even at the time of it happening. Thanks to you for enlightening us about things we may have never known about. You are very easy to listen to. Been a subscriber for years now. 👍
2:31 it's how bro suddenly grew a mustache while coughing 😂😂
After several years, I still hear him say "hey 42 here."
I thought I was the only one!😂
@@rachelstratman8901same here lol
Truly terrifying. While having far less of a widespread impact, it brought to mind a situation that happened just outside of Bangkok about a dozen years ago. A couple of workmen from Cambodia discovered a large, metal object buried in the ground, and took it back to their workshop to take it apart and sell for a scrap. An older woman saw what they were doing and warned them not to tamper with it, but they didn't listen. She ran back to her house to get her sister to evacuate the area, and warned others nearby. The metal object was an unexploded bomb from World War II. It exploded, killing six people.
More likely either from the Vietnam War or from the Cambodian wars in the 1970s. Cambodia was heavily bombed by the U.S. during the Vietnam War because it was part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the detour through Laos and Cambodia used by the Vietcong to supply their guerrillas in South Vietnam. Later Cambodia had two civil wars, the first one fought and won by the Khmer Rouge and the second one to depose it, led by Vietnamese forces. All left lots of UXO and landmines behind.
@@ursobr1961 The U.S. didn't bomb Thailand during The 2nd Indochina War. This was a World War II bomb dropped by The Allies. Bangkok and other parts of Thailad were bombed by Allied Forces during World War II. When I first came here there was a still a public bomb shelter from that time, in Lumphini Park, preserved as a museum. The Ho Chi Minh Trail is not anywhere near Samut Prakan. The unexploded landmines and dropped bombs in Cambodia and Laos are still a terrible hazard. My friends at The Lao National Theatre tour the countryside doing shows for schoolchildren and local residents about not touching unexploded munitions. I was doing a show near the Cambodian border at an old Khmer temple that had been used as a makeshift refugee camp during the war in Cambodia. The area had been cleared of landmines just a few years before then, however, a few years after there was a story of someone in a nearby area who was injured by a landmine. Since the story I mentioned earlier there has been another unexploded World War II bomb uncovered in Bangkok, but fortunately this one was removed without incident.
@@WaterShowsProd, my bad, I somehow skipped the "just outside of Bangkok" part and assumed that it had happened in Cambodia.
@@ursobr1961 It's probably because I mentioned that they were workmen from Cambodia. Incidentally, in case you're interested, there's an author named John Burgess who worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand during the war. He has written both historical and historical fiction books about Cambodia. He told me how some of the refugees didn't trust The Red Cross, and set up a makeshift camp in the ruins of an old Khmer temple called Sdok Kok Thom on the Thai side of the border, that was run and protected by Cambodian mafia. They used to bring aid and supplies from the established camp in order to make sure they were doing OK.
14:11 The point is that the radiation was harmful, even deadly. No test required. Emergency aid and solutions were required.
That is so fucking horrifying :O
Great video my friend, 1st time watching your content and I had never heard of this b4. Which is crazy and awful at the same time. U got a new subscriber out of me, the little girl was just heartbreaking in so many ways. It made me wonder if she had to b one of the most radiated unlucky persons in history, poor poor child. Ik her drawn out death must have been unimaginable.
This may have been the most upsetting and depressing installment I've watched ever on Thoughty2. It made me want to wretch and cry. No joke.
I've heard this story a few times, it's always terrifying and tragic, but this is probably the most detailed explanation I've heard for the entire event. good video.
I've heard about this before on Kyle Hill. You told this tragic story well.
Yeah. Thoughtytwo added a lot of information that was missed previously
Also told on Cautionary Tales podcast (excellent btw). This was told well too
My mom always told me if I don’t know what something is, don’t touch it. She was in her twenties when the Chernobyl accident and this one happened. And I pass her advice to my kids. Even if it looks cool, or other people are touching it, don’t touch it.
The owners of the old site, who prevented the doctor from removing the machine should be sued, and be liable for the majority of the damage done and lives lost or impacted.
It was in a safe state at the time. The dipsticks that broken it open and killed their own families are the problem.
@@DrDeuteron So you have unrealistic expectations about poor people in countries like Brasil.
@@pineapplepenumbra FAFO.
Hey Thoughty2,
It is a real pleasure to watch your videos and I‘ve been a follower for a long time. Your first book was really nice and thus I pre ordered Bread and Circuses. Many people are waiting for this book a really long time at this point and I wonder, if you can give us an Update on the current status?
A very informative and heart wrenching video. Thank you!
The lack of education nearly doomed the city and the surrounding area. And fortunately the man who originally thought the equipment was defective realized it wasn't. If he had stopped and checked a third one, the contamination would have become even worse.
But the absolute worst part of it all is that greed was the underlying issue the whole time. Had they been allowed to remove the equipment, no harm would have befallen anyone.
I almost skipped this one cus I’ve heard this story before but I’m glad I stayed because the amount of details and pieces of the story I never heard before
respect to the heros who helped prevent an even larger disaster
Felt so bad for that poor little girl 😢 So tragic and an eye opener that people should be educated aboute radiation and stuff.
Thanks, @Thoughty2
Your content is top-notch. The storytelling way of doing the narrations (using YOUR voice, NOT some stupid AI) is greatly appreciated as well.
You are easily a favorite channel in our household (not just me), and we are truly appreciative for the time & effort you put into your channel content.
So, thanks, and keep up the awesome awesomeness. 😊
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As an x-ray tec myself, i panicked watching what those people did. They must’ve ignored many warnsigns around the machine. And also that the clinic just left the device there. It would be illegal in our country.
I actually already knew about this.
I tend to go into deep nuclear accident rabbit holes at 4am for some reason.
Me too when cat wakes me to go out. But she has to have the door left open so I have to stay up til she's back 😀🇬🇧🤣😽😴
One of my favourite videos from you. Great job. 👌
saddest part is, the 2 scrapper thieves that caused all this, got to live..... hope they got life in prison
I'm brazilian, but currently living in Canada. I'm from Espírito Santo, a nearby state. I remember when it happened. Most of the countryside population had never heard about radiation before. I felt horrible for the families at the time, specially because of their "naiveness". 😢
It’s crazy how such small things can change so much.
That’s the point of nuclear energy, it’s 137 cubed times more compact than chemical energy.
Thank you for marking your ad as an ad so clearly. I really do appreciate it.
🎶 Uranium fever has done and got me down
Uranium fever is spreadin' all around
With a Geiger counter in my hand
I'm a-goin' out to stake me some government land
Uranium fever has done and got me down 🎶
Tucked under you...
... I hope no other person knows you got me laughing ||| L😂L
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
.... Is Atom Bomb Baby too inappropriate to add in here? Dark humor, tho...
I'm actually playing Fallout while I'm watching this. Too bad that game was available to those thieves or anyone in that town who came in contact with that dust. I hope Fallout eventually has a tribute to that little girl, like an actual glowing fairy from some Children of Atom quest.
Hello, Thoughty2, thank you for all you do with these vids. You handle some quite sensitive topics with empathy & clear understanding while making them interesting, educational, and entertaining, including your amazing animations. Keep up the great work to expand minds via the brain-shrinking medium of the Internet.
Medical Equipment that nearly destroyed a city... So sad the little girl... Brings a tear to just imagine... The powder was so pretty... What I find disturbing ~ how many years I never heard about such a devastating event...
This is the first I hear about this incident. Thank you for shedding some light on this story. So sad to hear what happened to Maria Gabriela Ferreira and her niece Leide das Neves Ferreira. HBO Max should make a mini series on this like they did the Chernobyl series. I only learned about Chernobyl because of that series so it would be a great way to keep their story alive for those who have never heard of it or were alive during the time.
It's not a Nuclear accident. It's a radiation accident.
Nuclear refers to fusion or fission of the 'nucleus' of an atom, which are combined or split to provide energy. This was ionising radiation from a radioactive element.
I was about to say the same thing, lol. Yes, this was a Radiological incident. The distinction is important, particularly to the people that would be involved in responding to these types of incidents.
And it creates the tendency in people to have unhelpful emotional responses to certain phrases.
As demonstrated by this very story, the often subtle nature of radiological incidents give them the potential for devastating effects with little or no warning.
Mh.. you are right. But the radiation still comes from fission?!
@@jpt3640 No. It comes from cesium-137 beta decay. (Into barium 137 a metastable isomer (137mBa) for anyone who cares.
No. It comes from Cesium 137 beta decay.
Yes. Radiological accident are far less obvious and can be much more dangerous for thar reason.
It’s important to get the nomenclature correct because this establishes peoples initial emotional reaction to things even if most wouldn’t make a distinction between the two.
The moral of the story? Well, I think there are two:
One, don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Two, don’t touch things you don’t understand.
None of this would have happened, if the two “scavengers” had left well enough alone.
None of this would have happened, if the landlord had been more co-operative.
None of this would have happened, if the individual who realised the item was still on the property had been more insistent about its retrieval. Why didn’t he advise the authorities that such a device was in the wild, with potential to fall into the hands of groups or individuals, who had no idea how dangerous it was?
None of this would have happened, if the company that owned the device had removed/ properly disposed of it, when they moved.
Surely such items need to be kept tab of, and there are organisations in each country that do so? Otherwise, the sale of all such items, even to humanitarian organisations, is incredibly irresponsible.
All this from such a small amount of radioactive material. It is terrifying to me.
Cheers,
I've been watching your videos ever since you were Malcolm In The Middle (lol😜) through the "Tash" years, and still love them now!
Thank you for all the many, many hours of entertainment, education, and help with my sleep issues (which isn't meant negatively, I listen intently during the day, but your voice is very soothing so I play the vids I've seen many times and it helps me sleep!)
So thank you very much❤
4:55 - It really is a shame he made those two assumptions, but never considered the possibility that it was Radioactive! Seriously anyone familiar with Radioactive Quakery (a phenomenon of Radioactive materials being marketed and used in a wide variety of products back when the effects of radiation poisoning weren't widely understood) is aware that Radioactive materials can make things glow!
As u said he effects werent well known even if he knew he might of done the same thing
Never even heard of this before. Great video 👌🏻
Unsurprisingly, the ultimate Villain behind a massive and tragic Public Health Incident is inevitably revealed to have been A Landlord
Not to mention the two guys that broke in and dismantled the machine to steal parts to scrap. Don't forget the thieves that caused it all.
@@Deadly_Apathy it still comes down to the greedy landlord. They were probably the one that leaked the story of the "equipment left behind" story to begin with, which considering the guys that turned up were from a scrap yard, does sound like the landlord hoped to be paid for the 'scrap' and asked them to take it and sell it. Never under estimate the stupidity of slum lords, in an of out of control unregulated worldwide rental industry - where the biggest stakeholders, are usually the politicans.
@@Deadly_Apathy hmm ok youtube auto deleted my comment.. I shall be more vague. The (s1umlord) landlord was likely the one that told the scrapyard, and likely hoped to profit from the sale of the equipment. The rental industry is entirely out of control like thazt, thanks to p0liticians being the larger stakeholders in it.
@@phoenixx5092 "Likely" is not proof, there's no correlation of what you are saying, refrain from creating misinformation.
@@itsnevertoolatetodotherigh3271 oh look, a landlord... not all of them are nice... locked unmaintained rental property, owner prevents prior tenants who work in health industry from removing expensive equipment, and it somehow gets leaked to a scrap yard that there is expensive equipment for the taking? they totally knew what they were doing, and they totally are the ones who told the scrapper about it. Chances are the landlord jacked the rent, and when they put the clinic out of business hoped to profit from stealing the equipment left behind. Brazil is a place where slumlord is a common top 3% occupation, you cannot measure them by the standards of the western world. @redcrimson177 was totally on point, just too polite to mention the subtext.
Amazing true story! I never heard of it before. Great narration!
I can’t get over his glow up. Huuggee difference just by changing his hair, wearing a white polo, and by shaving his mustache. He looks younger as well.
Apart from the hairstyle, he looks like he did a few years ago before he grew the tash
Dunno that I’d have used the term “glow up” on this one video 😅
@@dearthditch well, all i meant was he looks better than what he looked like 3 yrs ago 😅
As soon as I read the video's title I knew this was about the Césio 137 accident (as is known in Brazil) and I thought that if you never head about it is because you're not a Brazilian... I was a child back then, living in São Paulo, far away from Goiânia (although I had and still have relatives there). I didn't remember this incident in all of these details. Superb video, as always. Thank you for spreading this knowledge.
'The Glowing Substance Everyone Wanted Until It Made Them Sick' before the title changes 15 times😂
Thumbnail too
I got 'How this sack of junk almost destroyed a city'. And it's only been up for 26 minutes
@@j0hnnyhobo416mine is “This one bag almost destroyed a city”
In the Kraftwerk, German group, their Radioactivity
tune mentions Cesium 137
as causing skin cancer. 😮
“How a strange bag almost destroyed a city”
Many Law Enforcement cruisers carry something akin to a Geiger counter on board. It is so sensitive, that if you are in a car coming home from the hospital after some sort of scan, x-ray or radiation treatment, it can set the scanner off from several feet away. That "smoothie" (oral contrast) you drink for a CT scan or the dye (injected contrast) they inject into your IV? That contains a radioactive isotope to assist with the scan and takes a bit for it to work through your system.
So weird hearing Brazilian city “Goiania” when I was born in Guyana which sits right on top of Brazil
Confused me too ha
I came to your channel long years ago for some interesting facts. Realizing just now, that it's not the info I've been here for all along, but instead. the stellar storytelling. And I'm a sucker for good storytelling.
At 1:00 I already had suspicion about it being this incident. It's amazing how few people actually know about this story, much less how many people are unaware of the dangers hospital equipment pose. Radiation is horrible.
im suprised this incident is not known worldwide. I also dont know the incident until i saw this video.
I work in an imaging dept at a hospital, so, as soon as he mentioned them stealing a device for scrap, I waa like, " Holy F. God, no."
I feel like I have a heard of this incident vaguely, in any way, as soon as I heard it was a medical device I was like 😮... I mean, think about x ray techs, it takes them a few seconds to take the photos but they have to leave the room to do so, plus that plastic thingy they stand behind... Oh and also, the lady that discovered radiation and it's useful properties, she got ill pretty soon after, so even if the general public were unaware, there were ppl with authority that certainly did 😮
What a great video about this tragic history worth remembering!
And good job on portuguese pronunciations, that's very close to how we talk here in Brazil!
Whole city contaminated with only 93 grams caesium... terrifying...
I learned about this when I was going through the training required to be a public health inspector over twenty years ago and this incident has really stuck with me.
Story of the sacred glowing items! Fantastic
Fantastic video and beautiful narration. Probably the second-best use of my time today (after giving blood). It's hard to believe that nobody questioned the glowing materials earlier.
Damn it man, that’s tragic.
"you've never heard of"
This is going to be the guys that looted an old hospital, cracked open an x-ray machine and played with the gloop inside isn't it?