Chernobyl, Have some pretty neat info on it Options

[ThePerson98]

I bet a good number of you know about Chernobyl. The 1986 reactor explosion. But this is for those of you interested in it, or the ones who dont know about it.

There was one girl who decided she wanted to go to Chernobyl. And she got a government permit from her father.
Kid of speed
She's lucky, in my opinion. I would love to go to Chernobyl. I have HUGE interest in it, and plan to go when I am older. And dont say you can't. Because there is Tourism in Chernobyl
Before we know it, that place is gonna go from a zone of death to being completely reopened.

Even though the place is completely evacuated of humanity, wildlife still is there.
BBC Chernobyl wildlife
Its pretty suprising that the sarcophagus is home to birds! I expected wildlife to be there but taking THAT much radiation is incredible.

Here's the part most of you will have fun with. Google Earth has moderate quality Chernobyl pictures now.
Find the city of Kiev in Ukraine and there is a river that runs through it heading north. Follow the river. It starts to split into many small rivers but there are two major ones, one heading north and one heading northwest. Follow the one going northwest.
You quickly run into a quality change in pictures, the quality change is the picture of Chernobyl.
If you are having trouble finding it refer to this picture
Chernobyl Google earth instructions


BBC news had a 20th year anniversary of chernobyl, getting stories of people who were evacuated or things planned for it. They also have many pictures of places around chernobyl, that are in the forbidden zone. Its neat to see what people said about it.
BBC Chernobyl 20th Anniversary

I also want to see what you all think of chernobyl. And those of you who were alive during the time, what was the news like about it, if you remember.

EDIT: Title has typo! Oops, and there is a gallery with neat pictures of chernobyl
LINK to pictures

This post has been edited by ThePerson98: May 14 2006, 07:27 AM

[HyPN0]

What's so interesting to do there anyway?

I would rather be on some tropical island with lots of sun and nice beach, instead of visiting some radioactive dump.

This post has been edited by HyPN0: May 16 2006, 03:05 PM

[ThePerson98]

What's so interesting to do there anyway?

I would rather be on some tropical island with lots of sun and nice beach, instead of visiting some radioactive dump.

Its the fascination of it. The true silence. The abandoned town. The feeling the town would have. You feel different when you are in an area full of death, and thats a feeling that if safe, a lot of people enjoy.
Example, a roller coaster, you scream when falling because its in a way scary, but you're safe from the constraints holding you down. So its fun, a lot of fun. Now lets take those constraints off, you would end up falling off and being killed.
If you are smart in chernobyl, those constraints stay on. Go without the right equipment and acting like an idiot takes those constraints off.

I truly would find a tropical island boring. I dont know why, but the human mind finds great interest in trouble. Such as the news is 90% bad news. Everybody likes to think the worlds gonna end. Its just an interest in what bad has happened.

What I meant by simply is that they wouldnt like be doing a bunch of other stuff such as deconstructing or stuff like that. There are ways to move it. And that they are building it to move will make it a lot easier. Its not going to be an easy job I know that.

Those pictures make me want to go there more! Its hard to see a place like that through pictures. Ah well.

Its so weird to look at the pictures of Pripyat before the meltdown. How normal the town seems. And just look what one flaw can cause. Kinda scary.

How old was the reactor before it exploded? Did it actually live a decent life (10-15 years, I know, still short, but yeah) Or did it explode in less than 5?

Its also scary to think that most of those kids, and just overall people in those pictures are dead. Lifes cut short by stupidity.

This post has been edited by ThePerson98: May 16 2006, 10:02 PM