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.
Damn. I don't think so.
That is hilarious. And scary.
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.
I bet it's quiet there though. Aside from the yattering of the other tourists around you.
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/
Quote from: Suu on December 13, 2010, 08:31:07 PM
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:
QuoteGood girls go to heaven. Bad ones go to hell. And girls on fast bikes go anywhere they want.
QuoteEach 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.
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.
I don't know that I could go there without being so paranoid that I would be spazzing every second.
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."
Quote from: Sigmatic on December 13, 2010, 09:25:08 PM
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!!!
That's the English translation of the word Chernobyl.
Quote from: Suu on December 13, 2010, 09:29:27 PM
That's the English translation of the word Chernobyl.
Oh. :lulz:
Damn. When I go out I want to FF & WO. (freshly fucked and well oiled)
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 13, 2010, 09:27:01 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on December 13, 2010, 09:25:08 PM
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.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 13, 2010, 09:38:35 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 13, 2010, 09:27:01 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on December 13, 2010, 09:25:08 PM
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.
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 13, 2010, 09:40:00 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 13, 2010, 09:38:35 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 13, 2010, 09:27:01 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on December 13, 2010, 09:25:08 PM
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.
It's also not terribly good for you. Unlike cheap whiskey.
Relevant:
Picture story of a woman that made a motorcycle trip through the Chernobyl "Dead Zone" (http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html)
Never mind, already posted. Though my link goes to angelfire.com and is therefore more authenticTM :-P
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 13, 2010, 09:41:07 PM
Relevant:
Picture story of a woman that made a motorcycle trip through the Chernobyl "Dead Zone" (http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html)
Never mind, already posted. Though my link goes to angelfire.com and is therefore more authenticTM :-P
Oh awesome! She added more! I was wondering why the first one I found was a mirror...
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/index.html That's the index, has a sidebar of gallery links.
I just googled "motor chernobyl" ;-)