Whatzit?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

One more for the rest of you to ponder...…..

Something growing in your attic?

It's disturbing. I would say t's more likely the basement than the attic.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too heavy for any attic,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Something collecting on a kitchen counter, or hiding-out in a cistern?

Or discovered lurking in a backyard septic tank?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Something collecting on a kitchen counter, or hiding-out in a cistern?

Nowhere near anything living...........and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too heavy to be anywhere except on the ground floor slab........

Need a hint?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...perhaps a comment about those "pipes" running vertically in the background?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...perhaps a comment about those "pipes" running vertically in the background?

Those could be for coolant or could be electrical conduit - no idea, so not really helpful.

Big hint: April 26, 1986

[chuck]

It's definitely in "the basement". It is quite disturbing. Despite its moniker it has nothing to do with anything organic/living. In fact, it's quite the opposite.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's definitely in "the basement". It is quite disturbing. Despite its moniker it has nothing to do with anything organic/living. In fact, it's quite the opposite.

Ok, that seems to indicate that Chuck's got it now

[rogruth]

I think it is the result of something that happened in Russia.

[healey36]

Give us another pic, for God's sake...

[rogruth]

I think it is the result of something that happened in Russia.

I remember seeing something on 60 Minutes about it.
I think Chernobyl. ???

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And Roger named it after Wayne and then Chuck recognized it - "the elephant's foot" - the "corium" molten core of the Chernobyl reactor. As I recall, the decent photos were captured by a mirror as the radiation was enough to fry a robot and the camera it was carrying. The were afraid it would just keep flowing but is sort of stopped. I knew an early responder to this disaster; fireman // Nat'l guard. He was the last survivor from his unit; they all died from either radiation or cancer. And, then he died a few years later from cancer.

[robert.]

My basement looks that way. If it was bright enough for a photo. You would say " Holly molly batman. You live in a melted reactor." It's a clay floor. With a large rock. A mound of dirt and a small creek running through it.

[rogruth]

The 60 Minutes program that was many years (40?) after the event was for a non scientist amateur like me a real eye-opener.
I did not become an anti nuclear energy person but do believe that all nuclear countries need to find ways to cooperate and to
worry more and hopefully do something to convince all to do so.

[HONDO74]

Do you remember this from 1979 ?

[rogruth]

No, I don't. Some worlds fair thing?