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Chernobyl...18 Years Later
abysmilliard writes "A young Ukrainian woman has posted a photo journal of her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl and the area surrounding it. Included are pictures of the now-emptied city, maps of current radiation levels, and a discussion of how the area has changed. While the english is quite broken, it's often rather surreal, as well, with quotes like, 'I don't know how sound the silence to those tourists that they can not stand it, but to me after hitting a red line on my bike tacho it sound like all those ghosts cursing 1100cc kawasaki engin.'"
I think it would be prudent to point out that whoever this person is has been dying to get modded up so badly.
Why is that? Normally I would associate this kind of activity with anti-slash.org, but I cannot make that determination at this point.
Mod with caution.
How's that? You know Slashdotters don't read the articles...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Exactly. Chernobyl was caused in the large part by inexperienced and/or badly trained technicians disabling safety devices that were *built in* so they could run some idiot experiment they were ordered to.
/removes tinfoil hat
:) [Oh, and BTW, to the Feds/national security nuts - I'm just talking, ok? I believe I have a constitutional right to. But I'm really not dangerous :) as long as you *behave* - (damn kids need a spanking, grumble!) ]
I'll add that, despite the US having *many more reactors* (don't forget our Navy reactors, people) we've *NEVER* had a serious accident. NEVER.
(3Mile island people can go read up on it)
I'm not saying that it's impossible we'll ever have an accident here; what I'm saying is that US engineers, workers, and administrators, have done a damned good job of keeping them running safely. NEVER had.
If there wasn't a virtual moratorium on building new reactors (stupid public fueled by greedy media and politicos rears it's ugly head) for the last, what, twenty years? we'd have a lot less reliance on foreign energy sources. Think about it. Perhaps with more widely available *cheap* electricity, there would have been more research into battery technology for cars... - it's a stretch, and I'll admit that. But you know what? I lived with nuclear power supplying my electricity for years on and off.
The whole phear and doubt about nuclear power in this country is stupid propoganda initiated by the media nearly 25 years ago, and promulgated since by a lot of people who don't want it to happen
Meanwhile we're losing 1-2 soldiers in Iraq....defending our "interests" over there...um, our "interests" in democracy and freedom...which our government (the same one that initiated the war) is busy starving at home....
flame me, comment, I don't really give a rat's left testicle. I'm sick of this shit. I'm not some teenage read it on the internet kid, I remember 3M Island, I remember Chernobyl (and it sounds like the gov there is still doing the same ol' denial routine, bastards) and like many other people who don't wear tinfoil hats for a living, realize that fission reactors are our best option. Maybe someday there'll be something better. THERE ISN'T NOW.
Don't preach to me about byproduct storage, either. So we can't find a site because NIMBY? So? So it's being stored all over the damned country, in MOST EVERYONE'S BACKYARD, IN THE MEANTIME. Oh, that's really, really smart.
If it was *really* that much of a problem, this country would spend the money to find a site. Or develop a 99.9% reliable booster to make it not a problem. Don't tell me we can't do it, we sent more than a half dozen expeditions to the fucking Moon, fer chrissakes, with one - one! failure.
Bullshit. It's a political football. It'll get kicked around until it *really* becomes a problem. In the meantime there's the Hanford facility...man, I could go on and on about this.
Mod whatever, reply whatever, I might even answer you. I'm likely going to bed. Fucking politics. If politics ever finds reality, the temperature in hell will be -90C.
The Russian Gov at the time (and still to a large extent, like most other governments) is/was composed of ignorant, power-hungry idiots. Gee...what's new. When will it become legal to shoot these fuckers? (I'd guess that a large number of people might support such a measure, the problem would be the public having a quoram on who to shoot first
*disgusted with this shit already after watching it get kicked around for two decades+*
Might or might not respond to comments. If you don't like it, sue me.
/rant
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
I like her broken English, it reminds me of Pulp Fiction when she says "I don't know if this true, people say a lot." -- the line being "They say a lot, don't they?"
By the way, she's kinda cute (surprised noone else picked up on this) and I'm wondering, might she have done this as a way out of Russia? (Y'know, somewhat related to the "Russian brides" sites that supposedly do a lot of business?) Not that I'm interested, I've had enough wives myself, but I'm always questioning motivations...
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
To the moderator who modded me flamebait:
Bite my corroded metal ass, kiddo.
If you feel about it so strongly as to mod me flamebait (I never use that mod option) than reply to my post, and refute me. Otherwise save your mod points and mod someone else up.
*disgusted*
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.