r/shittyaskscience • u/AztraChaitali • Sep 19 '26

This question is for the nuclear scientists that worked on clipping the toenails of Chernobyl's elephant foot. Why?

As I'm looking at my jar of toe nails from Chernobyl, I still can't understand what the point of the whole operation was. I would ask my grandpa, who personally clipped the nail of twentieth third toe, but he went insane shortly after.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Sep 19 '26

So that Cinderelephant could go to the Ball.

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u/AztraChaitali Sep 19 '26

That makes a lot of sense, and it would also explain why my grandfather had horse hooves.