Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos

wrx writes "Elena has taken another motorcycle ride through the Chernobyl area, and has updated her site with a whole lot of new photos and text. The pictures now show several surrounding towns, the radiation level of the magic wood, and many more details inside buildings. After the dust had settled from the original slashdot story, Elena wrote 'who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.'"

Comments

Watch the hit counter spin

[azuroff]

I'm counting around 100 or so hits every few seconds...

We'll show her who "those slashdot people" are.

Re:Watch the hit counter spin

[Anonymous Coward]

So am I...

I'm guessing about 80 of those 100 hits is people like us refreshing to check how many have hit.

Re:Watch the hit counter spin

[Tablizer]

How appropriate. We "nuke" her website.

Re:Watch the hit counter spin

[carcosa30]

Those aren't hits, they're roentgens.

My hair feels funny...

Once again, mad props to crazy Russian girl. Her recklessness is unimaginable.

Re:Watch the hit counter spin

[ShallowThroat]

Ahead is atomic plant.
Huge is bandwidth bill.
Sad am I.

Re:Watch the hit counter spin

[LiquidCoooled]

Bribing the guards 6000 rupels
Tank of petrol 190 rupels
Nice digital camera 2500 rupels

having glow in the dark hair - priceless

Re:Watch the hit counter spin

[Anonymous Coward]

It is so funny to see how quickly it increases! Damn... we are the "slashdot people" ;)

Re:Watch the hit counter spin

[boaworm]

I'm on my way to the US in three weeks, first visit ever for me. I am dying to find out what is really so great "over there". I mean... even your animals love for America is such that they try to get back from Europe :-)

(From article)

Zoologists also brought two American Bisons, but idea to breed them didn't work out and bison male run away. I don't know, if he run from radiation or from his bride, but last time bison has been seen in Belorusia, he heading west and may be he just decided to return to America.

'who are those slashdot people?

[FooAtWFU]

'who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.'

Hi. You must be new here. :)

Re:'who are those slashdot people?

[merdark]

Not to mention that this person obviously doesn't now what slashdot is... so duh.. yeah.. she's new here. And somehow that guy got modded funny for pointing out the obvious.

Sky is up.

Mod me funny now too.

Re:Slashdot What?

[Anonymous Coward]

Leave it to a former SOVIET RUSSIAN to come up with the most apt description yet of...YOU.

Re:Soaking up the gamma

[b0r0din]

Some people smoke. Others drive their motorcycle through the worst nuclear incident of all time. In my opinion, the second one sounds much cooler. For some reason Snow Crash comes to mind.

Bok bok baaaAAAK!

[Tablizer]

Re Giant Egg: "big egg as we passing 86th kilometer we'll see this big egg. This is where civilisation ends and where Chernobyl ride begin. Someone brought this egg from Germany. The significance of this egg is LIFE that will break through, life that will survive through radiation."

I don't think that symbolism will work. People instead will think of Giant Mutant Chickens and run like hell.

Re:Bok bok baaaAAAK!

[angst_ridden_hipster]

Ah, yes.

I've heard of rumors of the giant, self-cooking Chicken Kiev...

Iiiihaaa! At it again!

[Squashee]

So just to drive in the finer points of the answer to her question, we do it to her again. I'm sure she's likes it even better the second time around...

More Proper.

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

'who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.'

The Nazgul.

Is she single? Looking?

[YetAnotherName]

Come on, this is slashdot ... motorcycle riding photo-snapping babe through nuclear wasteland ... show me a geek that isn't drooling by now.

Re:Not yet.

[BiggyP]

100 years? but the article clearly states 48 years, very precisely as well, i think she put it as 48.000

Chernobyl/Springfield

[Anonymous Coward]

"in year 1986 a guy named Akimov pushed wrong button and launched the biggest nuclear catastrophe ..."

Hmm, looks like they had a Russian version of Homer Simpson working there. He was probably looking for the "donut button".

Re:Chernobyl/Springfield

[weeboo0104]

Hmm, looks like they had a Russian version of Homer Simpson working there

D'ohsky!

Re:Is she single? Looking?

[weeboo0104]

Tell me about it! I'm still looking for the picture of her in leather and a shotgun strapped to her bike, riding down the road.

This quote sums it up...

[reality-bytes]

I shouldn't do this first gear hard launch in front of leading personal and some committee.. that's fine with me... after all, what did I lose, except for those several hundreds microroengen

Thats my kind of radiation-researcher ;)

Re:Is she single? Looking?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is she single?

I certainly hope so... I don't think she should be having children :-)

Wow

[Snarfvs Maximvs]

She's hot, she rides a motorcycle, and she has an accent.

I think I'm in love.

Of course, our kids will each have 9 heads. :-(

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

She's hot...

and the dosimeter confirms it.

Re:Wow

[catscan2000]

Well, as they say, nine heads are better than one.

:-)

Mongol Tartars?

[jmichaelg]

Isn't that what you put on fish?

Re:Mongol Tartars?

[kwalker]

No, that's what you put on a Korean dog dish.

Oh, wait. That's mongrel tartar.

Re:Is she single? Looking?

[Woy]

I believe you mean "motorcycle riding photo-snapping Russian babe through nuclear wasteland" ;)

In Capitalist America, the Russian Babe rides YOU!

Re:Soaking up the gamma

[actiondan]

my day job relates to getting people not to be affraid of radiation

Intriguing...

Is it something to do with learning to love the bomb? ;)

Dan.

This was the best article...

[Cranx]

This was the best Slashdot article I've read to date. It's got a pretty young Russian girl riding around on a Ninja motorcycle through uninhabitable nuclear disaster areas taking pictures of everything, including herself. That pretty much does it for me.

You people are making me paranoid.

[CheeseTroll]

Where's my lead suit?!?

I wanna meet her

[MajorDick]

I mean, I dig chicks, I did bikes, especially Kaw's (H2 my persona fav), I dig russia , I mean hey a russian broad whos not afraid of a little roadrash OR radiation, sounds like a date to ME !

Re:how ironic

[srmalloy]

In the last picture in chapter 9, there is this big slogan across the room. In Ukrainian, it reads:
"Long live communism - the bright future for the whole mankind!"

Well, if we're all glowing in the dark, that's a bright future, isn't it?

Re:Soaking up the gamma

[Kaboom13]

Nuke-powered monorail salesman?

poor command of the english language?

[cbv]

For the visual information that came out of her camera, I'll gladly forgive her occasionaly poor command of the english language.

Very nice of you. But I figure her English is better than your Russian.

Re:Soaking up the gamma

[mini me]

Is there a chance the reactor can bend?

Instant Poll... Pick Your Favorite Sentence.

[Anonymous Coward]

Favorite Sentence from Elena's Chernobyl Journalbyl?

I like the way she talks... Not making fun of her.. it just sounds "neat". Anyway, in her honor, I created this poll. Pick your favorite sentence below. (If you are worried about this doing something nasty to your browser, you can right-click and save it as html and view-the-source.)

1. "Beginning of a story about town where one can ride with no stoplights, no police, no danger to hit some cage or some dog."

2. "This motorbike has matured 147 horse powers, some serious bark, it is that fast like a bullet and comfortable for a long trips."

3. "Time do not ruin roads."

4. "Radiation sit on earth, on the grass, in apples and mushrooms."

5. "They are on check points and if they will find radiation on you vehicle, they give a chemical shower and this eat ya bike"

6. "This word [Chernobyl] scares holly bejesus out of people here."

7. "As we passing 86th kilometer we'll see this big egg."

8. "They eat food from own gardens, drink milk of their caws and claim that they are healthy, but we can't get away from facts, only 400 of them left out of 3.500."

9. "Evil wind brought here 70% of Chernobyl radiation."

10. "We don't need to run out of fuel on the middle of some nuclear desert."

Re:Soaking up the gamma

[Mr. Troll]

Not on your life my Hindu friend

It's over there.....

[rune2]

by your tinfoil hat ;-)

Re:Loose a day per trip?

[athakur999]

I lose an hour of my life everytime I visit Slashdot, so I don't see what the hoopla is about.

I really love some of the captions

[Murphy(c)]

It's was quite boring to go on ellection where one could only vote for one candidate and for one party. People haven't been coming. Then, in order to bring people on ellections, authorities arranged free drinks.

And I though George(c) thought of everything, I guess he still has a margin for improvement in his campaign.

Murphy

and hey...

[Doktor Memory]

...it makes her hot in more ways than one.

steekin badgers

[Doktor Memory]

So you're suggesting trying to bluff your way past a Russian military checkpoint into a restricted area, using a fake ID you've assembled from scans on the net?

You first.

Re:Is she single? Looking?

[Anonymous Coward]

Motorcycle. $4000
Camera. $300
Black leather jackett. $200
Making Slashdot readers drool lustfully. Priceless.

on elections

[Anonymous Coward]

"It's was quite boring to go on ellection where one could only vote for one candidate and for one party. People haven't been coming. Then, in order to bring people on ellections, authorities arranged free drinks."

This sounds familiar, except Soviet America, they call the Party by two different names...

In the words of Governor Schwarznegger

[runlvl0]

"who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars."


"...what is best in life?"

"To slashdot your enemies, see their hit counters roll over before you, and to hear the lamentation of their servers!"

Oh man, I'm screwed!

[Undefined Parameter]

I lived for a year in a brick house in Wyoming, which is chock full of granite and uranium.

Wyoming: if the weather, the animals, or the locals won't kill ya', the radiation will!

(Assuming, of course, that you're smart enough to not go skinny dipping in a random hotspring....)

~UP

Re:Reminds me of

[glesga_kiss]

Unfortunatly, what with all these Al Qaeda Asshats wanting us all back in the dark ages, this reminds me of what could still happen if some them decide to target our own reactors.

Yeah. You'd better vote for Bush so he can protect you.

Re:She didn't take THIS picture.

[Bandman]

I kinda figured they took it with the lens cap still on ;-)

Re:Wah? Checkpoints in ex-soviet countries?

[Rower]

In Worlds most dangerous places, Robert Young Pelton said that in Chechnya you could get thru any Soviet roadblock with a loaf of bread. Vodka and tobacco would get you an armed escort where ever you wanted to go.
I though it was funny when he said that these weren't the "robust shovel jawed blondes (the russian soilders) from stallone and van damme movies".