The Daily Populous Sunday May 12nd, 2024 day edition
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t0m5k1 on May 11st, 2024 at 16:39 UTC »

See the grainy look of the image, Yea that's radiation hitting the film!

All the images taken from this area show this.

300_Months on May 11st, 2024 at 20:31 UTC »

I believe the man in the photo is Artur Korneyev, and as far as I can tell, he is still alive. (EDIT: I was wrong. He died in 2022 at the age of 73)

taylordobbs on May 11st, 2024 at 22:08 UTC »

This is so amazing - from the Wikipedia page on the elephants foot:

The mass was quite dense and unyielding to efforts to collect samples for analysis via a drill mounted on a remote-controlled trolley, and armor-piercing rounds fired from an AK-47 assault rifle were necessary to break off usable chunks.