Chernobyl pics
Just saw this over at slashdot...
its a really great read with lots of pictures about the disaster at chernobyl.
The woman basically rides her motorcycle through the ruins and takes lots of pictures along the way, its something everyone with a spare five minutes should take a look at.
Ghost Town
my hat goes off to this lady for sharing her experience with the world.
its a really great read with lots of pictures about the disaster at chernobyl.
The woman basically rides her motorcycle through the ruins and takes lots of pictures along the way, its something everyone with a spare five minutes should take a look at.
Ghost Town
my hat goes off to this lady for sharing her experience with the world.
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Originally posted by AsLan^
Just saw this over at slashdot...
its a really great read with lots of pictures about the disaster at chernobyl.
The woman basically rides her motorcycle through the ruins and takes lots of pictures along the way, its something everyone with a spare five minutes should take a look at.
Ghost Town
my hat goes off to this lady for sharing her experience with the world.
unbelievable
<lights calabash and ponders future of life on Earth>
Damn.
Originally posted by AsLan^
my hat goes off to this lady for sharing her experience with the world.
Indeed. What horror those people went through.
Fellowship
Originally posted by Fellowship
Indeed. What horror those people went through.
Fellowship
Correction, going through.
They kept running Chernobyl's nuclear power-plant up until 1999 or 2000. There was even a marked effect on US mortality rates from this accident, thats how far the nuclear debris went. To top it all off, the concrete casing on the number 2 reactor is falling apart and the nuclear core is going to fall into the ground water causing a nuclear explosion and the release of nuclear gas rivaling the first Chernobyl incident if nothing is done to stop it.
People have already moved back to Chernobyl because the Gov't gives them bread.
Its really sad. This pictures should be an eye opener for a lot of people.
and fyi (cause you might be interested, too): Those horses that are (amazingly!) thriving in such a toxic/polluted environment are Przewalski's horses (in English) - Mongolian/Eurasian wild horses...the last species of truly wild horses left in the world. Talk about a hardy horse. They have two more chromosomes than a domestic horse (66, not 64... so they're a different species of Equus/horse...) and they are descendants of the horses depicted in the ancient cave paintings at Lascaux, France (thus, they're an important evolutionary link between ancient and modern horses). Interesting stuff if you love animals/biology/evolution...
That was truly amazing, I couldn't believe some of those shots. I was really speechless.
Originally posted by SilentEchoes
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causing a nuclear explosion and the release of nuclear gas rivaling the first Chernobyl incident if nothing is done to stop it.
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It's going to explode? I doubt that.
*sigh* I know it isn't that easy though.
2. She's crazy.
3. I felt a strange desire to see this chick naked.
SDW, careful, you'll end up with a glow-in-dark penis.
Originally posted by ast3r3x
So why don't we fix it? It probably can't cost more then a couple million. possibly hundred million. A joint effort of all countries is needed...even if it isn't their land.
*sigh* I know it isn't that easy though.
There really isn't a way to... Basically the entire thing would need to be contained in some sort of eternal geodesic dome...
Originally posted by DMBand0026
I was just amazed by that whole thing. We are seeing pictures of things that not too many people see. She was really close to the reactors.
That was truly amazing, I couldn't believe some of those shots. I was really speechless.
I recall a few years ago 60 minutes (reporters first name was Steve?) went there and even went on a tour of the reactor. They all were wearing radioactive hazmat suits. Creepy. Outside was a village, apartments and office buildings abandoned with music being piped outside for the few remaining technicians working there...giger counters going nuts.
I remember the Chernobyl reactor meltdown on the news...shit, I remember 3 Mile Island on the news. Closest Chernobyl disaster US ever had. Since then I have a fear of them chimneys...
Steve Croft! That's the guy...he still alive?