What is amazing is the abundance of wildlife there. People moved out, animals moved in.
Soviet technology at it’s finest.
I expected to see an abandoned sack of potatos and empty vodka bottles strewn about the place.
Poke around this site for some interesting photos & stories re: Chernobyl -
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/highres/highres.html
I heard people wanted to study the animals there, as they have high amounts of radiation in their bodies. Apparently they are good case studies for finding mutations or other effects of radiation.
Life will find a way...
Dahhyummmm, look at those 70 foot grasshoppers in the background.
One of my favorite FPS video games in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. Pripyat and Chernobyl are radiants in the game. The graphics portray the town and reactor very accurately, judging from actual photos I have seen.
What they don’t mention in the article is the Red Forest, four square miles around Chernobyl where radiation turned the pine trees red. Eventually, the area was bulldozed and surface soil hauled away. It is still one of the most contaminated sites in the world.
The most polluted and polluting countries on planet Earth are the Socialist Workers Paradises, a.k.a. kleptocratic kackocracies such as Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba.
The animals knew better than humans how quickly actually harmful levels of radiation would recede. The entire standard that was developed for harmful levels of radiation was based on a scientific researcher’s error. That error has been recognized and admitted, but the standard remains; mostly because the scientists have never independently tried to develop a new one, because of the institutional problem of everyone publicly admitting they all might be wrong.
Yea nice, notice they hid all the bottles of Vodka?
Great post & thread BUMP!
How do I get the pictures? I get titles and blank spaces.
There is an interesting video series on YouTube on Chernobyl. The most interesting part of it was that they followed the scientists who monitored it for years. They pointed out that it took a terrible toll on the scientists health but when they made the video only one of them had actually died and he died of heart disease. They blamed it on stress from his job. Had nothing to do with radiation.
I'm sure they are great pics, but I'll find them somewhere else.