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| Mr Game+Watch |
Dunno if anybody's seen this yet.. but it's basically a webpage from a Ukranian lady who has taken some pictures of the deserted city of Chernobyl via her motorcycle. The site is in broken, almost surreal-sounding English but it's very interesting and entertaining to see.
The site is at:
http://www.convergcom.com/chern.htm |
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| Perfect_Cheezit |
| Wow, cool pics, interesting read. |
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| M1cro5lave |
| interesting... worth taking a look ppl. |
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| Cobalt |
| Wow. It's simply amazing -- in a morbid way -- what happened there. We forget so quickly. |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | | May be it is because clocks in this town don't show real time, they are showing radiation level. |
wow, that's disturbing.
happened about 10 months after i was born... those pics on the site aren't THAT disturbing. you should see pics of tomatoes the size of watermelons, the desolation of the villages, and kids with tumors.
and the english is not that surreal-sounding at all. |
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| DaveSZ |
I like her:
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marauders
marauders in radiation poluted area are not just a regular marauders, they don't steal stuff for themselves.
There were cases of radiactive tv sets and other stuff being sold on city second hand markets and then
police shot 7 or 8 of them and it helped
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She tells it like it is. :stongue: |
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| emono |
interesting, though not really graphically disturbing.
| quote: | | The word CHERNOBYL scares holly bijesus out of people here. |
and this made me chuckle. |
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| DJYaNiK |
| I was living in Kiev at the time of the Chernobyl fallout (5 months after I was born). Luckily, we had friends in the news and they called us up to get the hell out of there. The morning of, people were just dropping dead on the streets, in Chernobyl. Most of the city didn't know what had happened. |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJYaNiK
The morning of, people were just dropping dead on the streets, in Chernobyl. |
yep, that's how it was... the US screams about the NYPD firefighters risking their lives saving people at the WTC... what about the chernobyl firefighters? the cleanup crews? they were not just risking their lives, they were giving them away to prevent further damage and more deaths. just a comparison to say that the US takes things out of proportion.
| quote: | | Twenty firefighters died immediately from overexposure to radioactivity, while hundreds suffered from severe radiation sickness. People who lived near the plant in Ukraine and Belarus at the time have seen a greatly increased incidence of thyroid cancer, and genetic mutations have been discovered in children later born to exposed parents. Ukraine has estimated that as many as 8,000 people died as a result of the accident and during its cleanup. |
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| xtr3m |
| Heh, and my mom worked there for a few years as a computer technician in early 90s. It was ed up: when you would buy something you would see the thing's radiation level instead of it's price. |
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| St_Andrew |
OMG! thanks for sharing, i actually wanna go there, kinda cool :nervous: :nervous:
and yes agree those firefighters were brave men. (even though they probably had no idea about the risks, go communism :rolleyes: ) |
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