Creepy and cool

[fenderfour]

My boss sent me this website - It's a photojournal of a recent motorcycle ride through Cernobyl. Very good stuff.

 

Link

[iain]

she's out of her skull going in there

[catbirdseat]

Chilling. And No Iain, she knows what she is doing.

 

I was thinking about that old man she met who survived even as others succumbed to radiation sickness. It is known that some people have more of an enzyme called superoxide dismutase in their bodies. It destroys free radicals that are created by radiation and chemical processes. Perhaps this man is one of them.

[iain]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize the evacuation of that area was unnecessary. I'll book my next vacation there.

[glacier]

I was just going to post that, too. That would be a ghostly ride.

[catbirdseat]

Psst, hey comrade, wanna buy a hot TV? For you, we make spashel deal!

 

"When the town siren went off on Sunday morning, mass panic ensued. With the police evacuting along with everyone else, banks and even jewelry stores went relatively unnoticed, but looters emptied this shop out in minutes. The police began shooting looters in May, when radioactive TV sets began to appear in the pawn shops of Kiev. "

[catbirdseat]

Have you read this book? On the Beach, by Neville Shute. It is probably the most powerful novel I have ever read. I read it five years ago, but I still think about it from time to time.

[lummox]

i read an article about how european wildlife --woodland creatures and such-- are thriving in the evacuated area cause of no hunting pressure. silver lining!

[scott_harpell]

 

Damn! Never seen a picture of that before!

 

Oh... It says chyrnoble.

Edited April 6, 2004 by scott_harpell

[rbw1966]

i read an article about how european wildlife --woodland creatures and such-- are thriving in the evacuated area cause of no hunting pressure. silver lining!

 

Same can be said of hanford.

[lummox]

i read an article about how european wildlife --woodland creatures and such-- are thriving in the evacuated area cause of no hunting pressure. silver lining!

 

Same can be said of hanford.

 

"Radiation, yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-boxed do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have 'em too. " - J. Frank Parnell

aint yakima downstream? how do you like them apples?

[iain]

I always got a kick out of hanfords youth soccer team "The Bombers" (complete with mushroom cloud on the jersey)

[Off_White]

[glacier]

Have you read this book? On the Beach, by Neville Shute. It is probably the most powerful novel I have ever read. I read it five years ago, but I still think about it from time to time.

 

I think I saw parts of the movie several years back - in that vein, I have read Alas, Babylon, and Warday.

[Off_White]

First published in 1957, On The Beach has to be one of the first post-nuclear-holocaust novels. It's been a long time since I read it, so I can't say how well it still stands up, but it certainly helped spawn a genre. Hmmm, maybe time for a re-read.

 

Oh, and Fenderfour, thanks for the link, that is a great site, creepy AND cool for sure.

[klenke]

That was pretty interesting, fenderfour.

 

Most intense for me:

"This is the highest building in town. On the day of disaster, many people gathered on this roof to see the beautiful shining cloud above the Atomic Power Plant. It was the last thing many of them ever saw."

 

"The day after the accident, this place on the bridge provided a good view of the gaping crack in the nuclear containment vessel that was ruptured by the explosion. Many curious people came here to have a look and were bathed in a flood of deadly x-rays emanating directly from the glowing."

[fenderfour]

I could almost feel the oppressive weight of it all here at work. I'd like to compliment her on the site and all, but I couldn't find any e-mail address or register. Oh well.

[Squid]

I'm wondering where the poor bull bison went off to.

Buffalo epic.

[To_The_Top]

That was a wild read and ride.

FF the address is on the website:Ukraine 03187 Kiev-187 Zabolotnogo 20/A Post Box 25 Elena

[klenke]

Squid, the Bison probably wound up on some Smirnov town's dinner plate. &

[scott_harpell]

One such place is the Red Wood forest and another is the Ghost Town Cemetary. The relatives of the people who are buried there can not visit, because in addition to people, much of the radioctive graphite nuclear core is buried there. It is one of the most toxic places on earth.

[jt]

Quite possibly the most desturbing thing I have ever read. Very interesting, chilling.

[fenderfour]

That was a wild read and ride.

FF the address is on the website:Ukraine 03187 Kiev-187 Zabolotnogo 20/A Post Box 25 Elena

 

Thanks. I think I will drop her a note.

[fenderfour]

MattP and to_the_top were talking about this website at the last PC. If you didn't check it out before, it's well wort the read. It's a pretty good diversion from the otters.

[RickJames]

Thanks for the pics of that fine lookin' Lady.

Why don't you give RickJames her number? I would like to funk her up.