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Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot
prostoalex writes "18 years ago on April 26, the Chernobyl disaster occurred in Central Ukraine. Nowadays, as British Telegraph reports, the radioactive disaster area is becoming a tourist hot-spot with 3000 visitors paying $200 for a guided tour each year."
Look maw! 3 hands!
Is she guiding the tours?
Is motorcycle rental included?
that man has a metal pot stuck to his head!!!
*click*
oh that will be a good one to scrap book!!
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
...no master ninjas visit there with 4 baby turtles and one rat.
You've obviously never been to our porta-potties. Wooooooheee.
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
But can they protect tourists from the mutants, stalkers, and sassy physicists daughters on Japanese rice burners?
"We're fine," she joked. "No health problems. The radiation has got used to us." Tatiana Khrushch, 66, agreed. "The air's clean, the water's lovely and the mushrooms are great," she said.
I bet they don't have health problems, or they THINK they don't have health problems. I bet they think they are Scooby-Doo too.
"I went to Chernobyl and all I got was this radioactive T Shirt"
Ahh, I guess slashdotters do go out for a vacation.
20 posts and not a single soviet russia joke.
The radiation has got used to us.
Holy crap, it's true. In Soviet Russia (or the former Soviet Russia) radiation gets used to YOU!
glowing reports. It had to be said.
"Please do not touch the four-eyed mice"
"Please refrain from touching your complementary HazTag"
"Please do not stare directly into chernobyl zone"
"Please refrain from breathing chernobyl air"
"Please be respectful of our neighbors for we don't have many left"
I'm a bit worried about the .2 people, I prefer it when they stay down once I've cut them up.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
My family visited Chernobyl and all I got was this stupid thyroid cancer!
have all been glowing.
The first appropriate Soviet Russia joke on /. Rejoice all ye nerds! An ancient artform has regained its quality!
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Ah, nothing like a vacation in the former Soviet Republics. Radioactive bus tours, rampaging gangsters, bathtub gin, and smallpox. Sounds like going to Gary, IN but with a longer plane ride.
What's got three legs, walks backwards, and goes 'cluck cluck'?
A chicken kiev of course!
This reminds me of the people who visit the Trinity site down at White Sands and go home with their pockets full of radioactive sand. Evolution in action as they go sterile.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Nonsense! The high levels of radiation kill most bacteria and viruses, making the place much safer to visit.
Now as I write this 10 years later I wonder why we just didn't take off the damn dosimeter and place it and not us next to the damn hot spot!
Obviously, I mean it doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figu...oh
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
Coming this fall: Holiday to Chernobyl starring Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes and Rusty Goffe
Carpets by Bono
Tagline: 8 went in, 8.2 came back.
Are you freakin' kidding me? If I was a kid again I would LOVE to have extra testicles and be able to read people's minds.
I'm kind of afraid now my first kid will have an extra testical and be able to read people's minds.
I guess that's better than your kid having an extra mind, and being able to read people's testicles.
You don't say.
We've seen it. Twice.
Lurk more.
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
While your posting may be technically correct.
WE won the cold war, and we'll call it whatever the fuck we want.
A tourist attraction with a half-life of 3.2 billion years. Now that's hot :)
Extra testicles, telepathy, not having to shit and FOUR vaginas?? Still not seeing a downside...
If anyone has information about specific types of radiation and doses which would cause these effects, please respond.
I am a projectile vomiting ebola victim, you insensitive clod!
Yeah, I love it when nuclear reactors dismember people.
Places to visit in my lifetime.
... er, um ...
1. Hawaii
2. New Zealand
3. Japan
4. Egypt
5. Norway
5. Italy
Perhaps they're not as stupid as you think - it's got to be cheaper than a vasectomy.
Blaming GW Bush for the Iraq war is like blaming Ronald McDonald for the poor quality of food.
1. Build a nuclear power plant 2. Let it explode 3. wait a few years 4. let it become a tourist attraction 5. profit!!!