Chernobyl 2004

[Ravenstorm]

Poignant

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/page2.html

Raven

Yea, that chick is hot.

[HarmNone]

That left me with the shivers, Raven. How very, very poignant. The young girl looks a bit like my daughter. It gives one pause, does it not? :(

HarmNone, saddened for these poor souls

[Skirmisher]

Yes, I did make me flip through the whole site.

The photos are captivating. It was almost as if I was waiting for someone to come running out of one of the buildings.

She mentioned the idea that some had of running tours as if it had already been attempted and failed. I can't imagine many more chilling sights than a dead empty city. It's like something out of an old nightmare.

Thought provoking.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Very cool site, scary that there is a whole city with no one in it. I lived in Germany when the meltdown happened, and there was concern that the cloud of radiation would sweep into Germany (it did, but was deemed non-consequential).

[Betheny]

That makes me want to read The Stand again.

[DianaBanana]

Thanks for posting that..it was quite captivating. Now I'm tempted to go and do some research.

[Caiylania]

The things that can happen in this world :( That woman has some guts, I know the official reports say it's not that bad but still.

Those pictures really get to you, like the one with the doll just laying there, waiting all these years.

[Ravenstorm]

*bump*

An interview with a technician (http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns24611)

Raven

[Artha]

I read somewhere that the first thing was fake. It was awhile ago or I'd give the link.

[loveieva]

I was in Lithuania near the balatic when the melt-down happened. The radiation gave my mother cancer and graves. I seem pretty healthy so I don't the radiation was too damaging to me... But man - that brought back some memories.

[Ravenstorm]

I see the original link is no longer accurate. There's another photo essay instead.

Raven

[Blazing247]

The guy didn't look that bad for having sat in MASSIVE radiation for as long as he did. He still has a full head of hair and his face isn't scarred from the burns like I assumed it would be.

Everytime I think of widespread radiation, I'm reminded of a book I read when I was young called On the Beach. It's a really interesting look into what might happen in the event of a Nuclear World War.

[Kuyuk]

Notice on page 19 all the topless girls pracing....

K.

[peam]

Originally posted by Artha
I read somewhere that the first thing was fake. It was awhile ago or I'd give the link.

Correct.

[Blazing247]

<Correct. >

I'm confused. The pictures were fake? The ones of the abandoned town and everything?

[Skirmisher]

Sorry for the bump, but I just read an article in the NYTimes about tours they are giving for Chernobyl and how business is picking up.

The article was reminding me of this and I said to my sister hey this is neat, I remember a website about so and so who went on a motercycle tour and took photos and then in the next paragraph it says how the woman in the website went on the tour that was being reviewed for the article and took photos in that tour and pretended as if she was the daughter of some scientist or such and such.

It was just intersting that they even had the website address listed.

The photos are still facinating even though some of the more poignant ones were it seems staged slightly with the woman and her husband arranging furniture and photos and such to get just the right feeling they desired for a shot.

So silly. They could have just showed the regular photos they took from the tour and it would have still been pretty darned neat to me.

[Apotheosis]

This makes me want to go to chernobyl and explore