Call Up Your Travel Agent and book this vacation today!

[AFK]

A trip to Chernobyl

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40644062/ns/travel-destination_travel/

Apparently, Chernobyl will be open to tourists starting next year.  Actually, I would be kind of interested to take the tour.  I wouldn't take my kids with me.  They're weird enough as it is. 

Also, I wonder what those 2500 people who still work at the Chernobyl plant get paid. 

[Adios]

Damn. I don't think so.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

That is hilarious. And scary.

[Adios]

The ministry also said Monday it hopes to finish building a new safer shell for the exploded reactor by 2015. The new shelter will cover the original iron-and-concrete structure hastily built over the reactor that has been leaking radiation, cracking and threatening to collapse.


The new shell is 345 feet tall, 853 feet wide and 490 feet long. It weighs 20,000 tons and will be slid over the old shelter using rail tracks. The new structure will be big enough to house the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris or the Statue of Liberty in New York.



Although that would be something to see put in place.

[AFK]

I bet it's quiet there though.  Aside from the yattering of the other tourists around you.  

[Suu]

From what I understand, a lot of the wildlife has come back, but the town is still deserted.

This girl rides her motorcycle through the area, and has great pictures...

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

[Jasper]

From what I understand, a lot of the wildlife has come back, but the town is still deserted.

This girl rides her motorcycle through the area, and has great pictures...

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

Great quote(s) from one of her stories:

Good girls go to heaven. Bad ones go to hell. And girls on fast bikes go anywhere they want.

Each time I pass into the zone, I feel that I have entered an unreal world. In the dead zone, the silence of the villages, roads, and woods seem to tell something at me....something that I strain to hear....something that attracts and repels me both at the same time. It is divinely eerie - like stepping into that Salvador Dali painting with the dripping clocks.

ETA:  Found another.

[Suu]

Yeah, she's really awesome. It's obvious that English is most definitely not her best language, but she does a great job with it.

[Whatever]

I don't know that I could go there without being so paranoid that I would be spazzing every second.

[Jasper]

Yep.  To prove Suu's point:

"Nature is relentless at reclaiming the land. In some hundred years all signs of humanity will be gone from here. Radiation will stay long after that. The future of this land is radiation, wolves and wormwood."

[Adios]

Yep.  To prove Suu's point:

"Nature is relentless at reclaiming the land. In some hundred years all signs of humanity will be gone from here. Radiation will stay long after that. The future of this land is radiation, wolves and wormwood."

Wormwood? Absinthe time!!!

[Suu]

That's the English translation of the word Chernobyl.

[Adios]

That's the English translation of the word Chernobyl.

Oh. 

Damn. When I go out I want to FF & WO. (freshly fucked and well oiled)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yep.  To prove Suu's point:

"Nature is relentless at reclaiming the land. In some hundred years all signs of humanity will be gone from here. Radiation will stay long after that. The future of this land is radiation, wolves and wormwood."

Wormwood? Absinthe time!!!

Because nothing says "PARTY!" like having your liver slide out of your arse.

[Adios]

Yep.  To prove Suu's point:

"Nature is relentless at reclaiming the land. In some hundred years all signs of humanity will be gone from here. Radiation will stay long after that. The future of this land is radiation, wolves and wormwood."

Wormwood? Absinthe time!!!

Because nothing says "PARTY!" like having your liver slide out of your arse.

It was a joke. That shit tastes nasty.