Heres a site with a gallery of recent pics of Chernobyl:
http://pripyat.livejournal.com/17177.html#cutid1
The city, once home to 350,000, has been abandoned for almost 22 years now.
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Heres a site with a gallery of recent pics of Chernobyl:
http://pripyat.livejournal.com/17177.html#cutid1
The city, once home to 350,000, has been abandoned for almost 22 years now.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Like a ghost town. Did you see the HBO documentary Chernobyl Heart? It was excellent!! Children that were exposed to the aftermath are being born with holes in their hearts. Easy surgery here but there they are dying because of lack of resources. Sad. There is also an increase in birth defects and these children are put in these depressing rundown sanitariums to live out their lives.
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/che...art/index.html
There is also an increase in weird animal mutations.
- 200,000 people who took part in the cleanup
- Between 30,000 and 250,000 people have died so far as a result of the disaster (according to independent scientific studies and the Russian academy of sciences)
- The WHO estimates 50 people died and that it expects perhaps 9,000 to die eventually from the accident (?!)
- Several hundred people have either refused to go or are now moving in to the abandoned houses in the ??dead zone? surrounding the reactor
- Hospitals are still overwhelmed with people who have thyroid cancers, children with genetic mutations and adolescents with radiation-linked illnesses http://www.geneticsandhealth.com/200...tic-mutations/
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Remember the whole Elena on her motorbike going through Chernobyl thing a few years ago? http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_a...?threadid=8951Originally Posted by ichabodius
It was such a drag finding out that wasn't true.
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Nope...Never heard of it... There are enough scary truths there not to be too concerned with the frauds.
Sidenote/FunFact~ Locals believe drinking vodka will prevent them from getting sick with radiation.
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http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
Just don't want anyone to be tricked or send money to her site thinking it's real if it comes up. You know, that old thing.
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Funny that whole "Easy Rider" take on a devistating tragedy. "Que sera sera"
***Graphic links to pics of the innocent victims of Chernobyl
http://www.mathewingram.com/work/wp-.../chernobyl.JPG
http://blogs.newamericamedia.org/images/80.jpg
http://www.blainekendall.com/uploads/blog/chernobyl.jpg
http://members.greenpeace.org/gpblog.../chernobyl.jpg
http://bdat.files.wordpress.com/2007...ng?w=430&h=320
http://undergrowth.org/system/files/...-Chernobyl.jpg
http://justsickshit.com/wp-content/g...hernobyl-5.jpg
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets...eport-homepage
Wow, those pics are really something!
ok, I only got to the 2nd pic of the people. I can't take pics of hurt/dead babies and children.
The pics of the town are eery. A true ghost town!
Today marks the twenty-second anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
There are some links in there to what the area looks like now. Pretty spooky.
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Here is a link to some pictures. I can't verify the validity of how this girl got them, that is something of a controversey. They are, however, pictures of area.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm
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A very sobering anniversary. Thank you for the links, Mrs. W! That last site has some haunting photos.
Very interesting and sobering reminder.
Seems like it was just last week.......
thanks for posting those links - i know little of what actually happened and it was a very interesting, and sobering, read.
the pics of the abandoned villages are so eerie.
They went back to Chernobyl for that History Channel "life after humans" special. Pretty awesome... a perfect example of how nature always wins over man made things when humanity has left.
There was an amusement park set to open the following day/week which now looks like an abandoned scary Stephen King setting.
Thanks for this reminder.
Wow!!! I remember this like it was yesterday. I was living in Germany at the time (11), and we were forbidden to eat any fruits or vegetables for over two years. We lived on a military base and the base commissary got all of it's fruits/vegetables locally. However, because of the path of the fallout when it would rain, the local economy was contaminated. EVERYONE was terrified for years! All I really cared about was why the hell I couldn't have a banana?
Fascinating and eeire. Thanks for posting.
there are some great docu's out there on this~ it freaks me out~
Has anyone seen Chernobyl Heart? Oh those poor babies. Generations affected by the radiation, it breaks my heart.
I do not remember the name of the documentary (and I'm too lazy to look it up, won't lie) but it was required viewing for a geography class in college. Anyhow, some people are leaving war torn areas like Bosnia and settling in the areas left abandoned by the Chernobyl disaster. Very fascinating stuff to watch.
Great post, thanks Mrs. Watson!
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Those are some spooky looking pictures.
A sad situation, all around.
Thanks Mrs. W!
I saw a documentary about the animals of that area,(the orginal animals grandchildren) and they are thriving.. it was nice..thats all
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Wow, I remember when they announced it in school that this was happening. I was 16 and a sophmore in high school. Time sure does fly!
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These pictures are legit. The girl who took them had to get special clearance from the government to go to the site. They only let a limited amount of people travel there and of course it is at your own risk.
If you go for a limited amount of time you are pretty much ok, but in the really polluted areas you can literally stay for a few minutes tops.
Pretty eerie.
The most amazing thing is that scientists always predicted it would take at least 100 years for vegetation to begin growing again after a disaster like this and Chernobyl proved that wrong.
Dont know if this is how she got them, but they do tours of the place now. It is safe enough. People still have masks in case the detects for radio activity go off, but they are touring the place.
My mom recently saw all this on a history channel type documentary. Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia and my family is Ukrainian, so this is always a big topic.
I am actually considering going on one of these tours.
http://www.tourkiev.com/chernobyltour/
Renowned Death Hag
I would love to go!
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"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work."
The amusement park had just been completed and had not opened yet before the accident.
I saw the Destination Truth episode where they spent the night there and filmed looking for ghosts and it was very creepy.
I love abandoned places like that where people just basically got up and left.
regards,
Mary
Im not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Even back then when I was high school when this happened, but the russians said not to worry, they had everything under control. I was like ... how can they have anything under control ? This is 10x worse then Three Mile Island. And I was a wee child when that happened. In reality I had guessed right, the russians didnt have shit under control.
History channel has shows a eip of " Life After People " where they profile some town right there at the Chernobyl site. Looked erie
The town of Pripyat appears in the pilot for the series. The town was built to house the workers at the nuclear facility.
A winter view of the city, with the power plant visible in the middle distance, in front of the body of water.
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Jesus that is eerie.. Ok weird question anyone know where the bridge was where people were watching the "pretty colors" the night of the explosion?
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"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7RnB...eature=related
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"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work."
Yeah that is it. I found it particularly creepy!
regards,
mary
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Jesus, those birth defects are something else.
The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.
- R.H. Sin
I can't believe people are still STUPID enough to use this as a source of power.
Renowned Death Hag
That was a good episode.
The hospital and school, very creepy.
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I find it sad that some young people today think
that the name Chernobyl.
Is the singer -Cher- first full name.
Carolyn(1958-2009) always in my heart.
Today did an update a week or so ago, and you can go on tours of the area. They interviewed a family who moved back several years ago and are subsistence-farming the area. I don't think I'd eat anything that's been grown there! Plus, as part of the tour, you can even have lunch in the school cafeteria! I'm not so sure I'd want to sit and eat there.
I hate to see how things progress in Japan. Things seem to be getting worse there on a daily basis. It's scary that the world is relying so much on this type of energy (Oh, sure, it's fine unless something goes wrong. And something always seems to go wrong). Where are the politicians willing to stand up and demand more solar and wind energy? Maybe they're just not feasible as long-term power sources now, but dammit, they never will be until people start acting.
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probably several years old but i never saw it till last night,Tank on the Moon" a documentary on a lunar rover deployed by the soviets.
at the end,they show the design team using their remote control devices to move things around at chernobyl.
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Heaven's on the pillow,it's Silence competes with Hell
"If you don't go to other peoples' funerals,they won't come to yours."-Yogi Berra
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I read a reporter's account of Charlie Sheen's NYC "performance" and he said one heckler yelled, "This is the worst thing I've seen - EVER!" And then, after a few more minutes of Sheen's rambling, he yelled, "This is worse than Chernobyl!" Now THAT'S a put-down!
I remember this, but somehow never saw those horrific pictures... the one of the woman holding her affected child was heartbreaking. To think of what this did to SO many, it's hard to grasp. Pictures like those, though, they bring it home. And they should be shown, this shouldn't be forgotten, as it's an horrific example of what can go wrong when a mistake of this magnitude is made.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
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I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul! (Invictus)
(And Timothy McVeigh's last words...)
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Tutter posted a link a long while back to a website of a lady from Ukraine (I think). She and her friends took a motorbike ride through the place several years ago to check it out. If memory serves, they took a Geiger counter along too. I thought they were mad for doing it.
I am a sick puppy....woof woof!!!
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I forget what she called herself.. Ghost Rider? Supposedly as long as you time yourself and keep an eye on your Gieger you will be ok there for a decent period of time.
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"I will be buried in a spring loaded casket filled with confetti, and a future archaeologist will have one awesome day at work."
I think that story has been debunked. She did make the visit, but it was by car, and she took the standard "tourist tour" with a guide.
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"Elena" called herself had a site called www.kiddofspeed.com. One of the titles on her page said "Ghost Rider" and claimed that she had a special unlimited pass given to her by her dad. She claims to have used this pass to explore the Chernobyl area. Since then people came forward to debunk her claims.
The Chernobyl area is closely guarded and is referred to as the Zone of Alienation (or "exclusion zone") with several checkpoints along the way to the reactor. People can see the area around Chernobyl by taking a tour out of Kiev. People are guided around the area for their own protection. "Elena" took the tour with her husband and although she wore a bicycle helmet, she did not ride around on a bike unescorted. She took some of the pictures, but many of the pictures appearing on her website were blatantly stolen from coffee table books dealing with the subject.
At the beginning of this thread, there are pages from slashdot explaining how this story of a girl riding around the exclusion zone on a bicycle unescorted is a myth for the most part.
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Bummer...... In the comments section below the article in the link above, there is a link to an excellent panorama.
http://www.web-axis.net/~pulse/chernobyl/prypyat-panoramic.jpg
I am a sick puppy....woof woof!!!
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Carping the living shit out of the Diem. - Me!!
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It wasn't true, wow, all those pictures were so convincing.
Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl incident. Actually, it's already the 26th of April, if you're on Belarus time.
Damn I loved that spread and the story. none of it was true??? AARRRGGG!
regards,
Mary
Renowned Death Hag
Although "Elena Filatova" (this is possibly a pseudonym) made up a story about riding around the exclusion zone on a motorcycle, she did bring attention back to what may have become a forgotten area. For that, she did do something good. I, too, was fascinated by the pictures and I was disappointed to see that she took poetic license with the story.
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