What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010 413
An anonymous reader writes "The editor of Phoronix.com has toured Chernobyl's Zone of Alienation (the 30km zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) to see what the area looks like 24 years after the world's largest nuclear disaster. Many photographs from Chernobyl in 2010 have now been published, showing off the power plant and its RBMK reactors, the town of Pripyat, the town of Chernobyl, and the Red Forest. The 24th anniversary of this deadly nuclear disaster will be on April 26."
Re:Chernobyl (Score:2, Funny)
I would definitely recommend going to see it, and Kiev is a cool city to see for a day as well
Not to mention that on average, Ukrainian women are freakin' HOT!
... and sterile!
Re:And it continued operating for 14 years, it see (Score:4, Funny)
Drunk people do stuff like that.
Russians like to drink.
You do the math.
Re:Apparently his server got nuked in the blast to (Score:4, Funny)
Clearly fake pictures (Score:5, Funny)
There are no zombies on any of them!
Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? (Score:5, Funny)
What does "dA3TO7" mean?
It means "letoH" :-)
Re:Kidd Of Speed (Score:2, Funny)
It's like going to the White House to meet the President, and then you make up a tale about how you went to the bathroom, opened the wrong door, and stumbled into the Situation Room.
Dude! That like totally happened to me! And then I told them how they really needed to handle the aliens, and they gave me a medal but some spies stole it when I was touring the secret warehouse.
Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? (Score:5, Funny)
Can I ask you a question?
Listen, just between you and me, did you happen to find any glowing artifacts? I pay top dollar.
Meet me at the bar 3 klicks south of the downed helicopter. You'll know me by my tattoo and the badly damaged assault rifle I'm carrying.
Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? (Score:4, Funny)
Right! If you can't kill a guy by blowing his entire arm off at the shoulder...
***Spot The Zombie*** (Score:2, Funny)
For 100 points, spot the zombie in http://ninjito.com/2009-09-12-PANO/qx-pano-pripyat-1.jpg [ninjito.com] :-)))
Finally, the clear proof !!!
Beautiful but haunting area (Score:3, Funny)
I visited Pripyat, the reactor, and the surrounding countryside a couple years ago. The radiation is a major presence, and as Archon-X pointed out, it's common to hear nothing from your Geiger counter in one location and then take a couple steps and suddenly be exposed to 100x background levels.
I think that must have happened to me while I first approached the reactor, but I don't actually remember it. I only remember waking up on a truck bed and being dropped off at the edge of the Zone with instructions to hunt down a man named Strelok. Long story short, eventually I remembered that my name is Strelok and the guys asking me to hunt him down hadn't realized this when they left me with my instructions. I managed to get back through Pripyat to the reactor, where I uncovered a bizarre group trying to trick visitors with a religious hoax. Not falling for it and not liking the looks of the people involved, I shut down their organization and escaped. It was the best ending I could hope for.
Highly recommended.
Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? (Score:5, Funny)
There's even a mobile phone network there nowadays.
Aren't they worried about the radiation from the phones?
Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? (Score:5, Funny)
Me too! Almost got killed trying to save my team leader from a bunch of Russian mercenaries while we waited for the chopper evac, but it was still pretty cool.
Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? (Score:3, Funny)