After-effects at Chernobyl

[John Howling Mouse]

An engrossing internet read about a young woman who likes to motorcycle through the abandoned post-disaster Chernobyl area and photograph her journeys there.

"I couldn't put it down" as they say about book reviews...really makes you think.  


http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

[Captain Canada]

Wow.....that was pretty awesome, JHM ! Neat to see all that abandoned stuff.....shitty, but neat !

[lancer]

I saw this over at HS but I agree it is very haunting to see the entire city abandoned just like that.  

[Mairfrog]

Blimey... that is haunting, beautiful, tragic and scary all at once, like Ophelia in Hamlet.

I hope our Elena lives longer than some of those unlucky residents. Absolutely insane yet fascinating, and a stark reminder of what happens when mankind buggers around with stuff we should know to leave alone. Makes Sellafield/Windscale look like a spilt can of Coke.

Well, apart from some unnaturally radioactive sheep and a few bizarre sunsets, the whole ghastly affair passed us by in Britain. Our government lied about the risk, of course, and who knows if BSE was a result of all this, but at least we never had a wood that glowed red through radioactivity.

Unreal.

[WeeJimmy]

Chilling...


to think we build models of things designed to unleash this...  

[Captain Canada]

Geez...that's deep, Wee Jimmy !

Better get yer hand off'n yer wife's pants and get a few pints inta ya, lad !