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.'"

Comments

Re:It's a lesson

[Geek of Tech]

>>>The 3,000+ degree graphite moderator was now exposed to open air and .....

Wow. You're telling me that have nuclear reactors to do slashdot moderation?! Of course! When a site gets slashdotted, the unfortunate server probably gets shot to kingdom come. Think if we could harness that power....

Oh, and how do I get a 3000 degree karma?

Re:There is something sad and beautiful

[myg]

Geeze I wonder what you're going to be doing when you 'slouch back' in your chair? A hot babe posted cool pics to slashdot.

The next 30 minutes there is going to be alot of "cable pulling" if you know what I mean.

:-)

Re:Do you have any evidence?

[mangu]

You're a fucking contrarian twit

If, by "contrarian" you mean I think instead of following the trend, thank you.

spouting factless nonsense,

Have you checked the facts I presented? How about doing it? I guess the environmental laws in most countries would be different if people knew the true causes of cancer and other serious diseases. These facts aren't secret, they are widely available to anyone. Only it's much more convenient and face-saving to blame your cancer on mercury and radiation rather than the unhealthy habit of eating candy and snacks that you have cultivated since early childhood...

How about next time you shut the fuck up?

How about the next time you log in? Are you afraid to show your identity when you climb on your soapbox to shout the same BS that was fashionable twenty years ago?

Another Chernobyl

[Vejeta]

is made by humans to humans without the need of radiation in Guantanamo.

This Government which says that they take care of peple are making experiments with this people as nazis used to do.

If they eventually get freedom their mind will be so fucked off that there will be no money to pay them. It's what the government of freedom and liberty chips has done.

Can the torture and lies they told us be measured with dozimeters?

Chernobyl == example of Isaiah 13

[xjqkojqxj]

Isaiah 13:
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

MOD: -6 Tactless

[PReDiToR]

nt

Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA...

[BerntB]

Prosperity does not give one the right to degrade another persons experience ... Chernobyl is no laughing matter, even still to this day, for a lot of people.

You joke about things as a way to handle and relate to them. Look at the incredible Jewish humour traditions.

That said -- there are things I don't joke about, because it's a bit too close to friends. Like rape -- which can give mental problems. But it would feel like failure if I e.g. got cancer and failed to joke about it.

(This I should do Anon, but never mind. I'll stand up for this point.)