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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.'"
You don't need to run any lights at night.
She mentions that if the guys at the checkpoint find you have too much radioactive dust they give you a shower and eat your bike. I was always under the impression that in Soviet Russia, your bike ate YOU!
Also, I'm on the page now where you can see a city, but it's so QUIET that people wat to get out ASAP after being there a few minutes. I totally want to go see this!
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
"The word CHERNOBYL scares holly bijesus out of people here."
Holly Bijesus? Is it just me, or would that make a *great* bisexual porn star name?
The Human Cow - bringing you scrumtrelescence since 1995
linking to a 10+ page site full of photos on angelfire? yeah, that'll last long...
wait...
damn.
Q: Why do we celebrate the October Revolution on November 7?
A: Because that is when TASS (Soviet news agency) saw fit to report it.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
you could actually see the bones in your hands from all the X-rays that were emitted from the bomb.
Without the proper x-ray film how does one utilize an invisble spectrum?..... Just wondering
Yeah, let's vote for Republicans. They never screw up the country.
Oh wait, what about Nixon? And Reagan? And Bush Sr?
You tight-ass Republicans have a real problem with long term memory.
>>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.
you don't want to be a radioactive TV in russia...
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Yeah, no doubt, man. A hot chick on a motorcycle cruising through radioactive ruins pursued by marauders has 80's postapocolyptic action flick written all over it.
By the way, I disclaim any responsibility for marauder activity in that area. As the name suggests, there is only one of me, and I am not there. Thank you.
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
energy wastes YOU!
Ukranaian women are fucking hot That is all. Thank you.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
What has wings and glows in the dark?
-- Chicken Kiev.
What do you get if you put 20 people from Kiev in one phone booth?
-- Critical mass.
Does anyone else find the irony in posting a story about a nuclear meltdown...
By linking Slashdot to an Angelfire web page?
Angelfire tech: "The core, its heating up! Quick, more Nitrogen on the servers! Too late, Run for your lives!"
I only joke because I wasn't there.
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.
:P
Yeah, I suppose that oughta send a clear message
I just want to add a non-sequiter that I find it funny we still use colloquial phrases like "candle" and "horse" to quantify scientific measurements.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Step 1: Profit!!
Step 2: ???
Step3: In Soviet Russia a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods imagines you!
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
They just ended up as super human mutants that now wear spandex.
You have to get the ladder from the janitor's closet. Break the lock with the crowbar you found in the parking garage (assuming you came in that way and made it past the zombie guarding the ticket booth.)
Someone please mod this rediculus post down. It's off topic.
If you want to see 1986 in action don't waste your time in the Ukraine, just stop by my office. We program in Pascal on VMS, have no Internet access, and refer to Powerpoint presentations as "View Graphs".
Now if you'll excuse me my New Coke is getting warm.
The thing is those "horses" are really dogs.
Because they're afraid that Chernobyl fall out.
Ta-daa. All the way from 1986, young 'uns.
A Ukrainian chick who no doubt has one of those sexy eastern-European/Russian style accents who rides a big bike and likes to go to dangerous places on it.
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.