Chernobyl 25 years later

popflop

http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/01/chernobyl-25-years-later/

Found the pictures amazing

Faith+1

Amazing pics

admiralofthefleet

why should you never have sex with a woman from the ukraine?


cause chernobyl fall off

TheZohanS

Looks a bit like Portarlington.

Squeeonline

As good as the photos are, I'd love to have a little caption with each putting it into context. Where were all those gas masks found?

I know that all the windows in the city were smashed by clean up groups to stop the build up of radioactive gases, but that kind of thing in a caption would be great.

I really prefer this one, even if it is a little older (2004) http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/
Thanks popflop though

fedor.2.

Spooky place

KeithAFC

50'000 people used to live their, now it's a ghost town.

mikom

popflop wrote: »

Chernobyl 25 years later

Where are the zombies?

Hande hoche!

KeithAFC wrote: »

50'000 people used to live their, now it's a ghost town.

Get out of here Stalker.

Dudess

What's all the Russia stuff about tonight?

admiralofthefleet

pic.52, when you see it....

bmw535d

KeithAFC wrote: »

50'000 people used to live their, now it's a ghost town.

cod 4 was dam accurate wasn't it.

Senna

Its links like that that make me curse Mobile Broadband

I'll post back tomorrow when the page has fully loaded:rolleyes:

General General

Dudess wrote: »

What's all the Russia stuff about tonight?

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steo87

Those images are absolutely amazing, breathtaking.
Have a look at this video, it shows some of the injuries that resulted from the Chernobyl incident (Warning - some images are disturbing):

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=39213

Quick question if anyone can offer some insight - at 46 seconds into the video, the helicopter appears to crumble and deform; is this actually due to the radioactivity?

Wish they weren't edited. I seen a documentary on the wildlife reclaiming it. Cats and bears are moving in. Really good shots, they placed motion detecting cameras around the small houses and flats.

steo87

bmw535d wrote: »

cod 4 was dam accurate wasn't it.

Gradually thought the exact same thing as I progressed through the images.

Crasp

1. That is the town of pripyat, not Chernobyl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat,_Ukraine




2. Is it just me or is there WAY too much HDR in those images?




3. Those pictures are amazing. Such a big disaster, really scary. Those pics are on the same level as 9/11, Titanic, Lusitania, Normandy beaches etc etc.

Crasp

steo87 wrote: »

Those images are absolutely amazing, breathtaking.
Have a look at this video, it shows some of the injuries that resulted from the Chernobyl incident (Warning - some images are disturbing):

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=39213

Quick question if anyone can offer some insight - at 46 seconds into the video, the helicopter appears to crumble and deform; is this actually due to the radioactivity?

Heat I'd say, rather than radiation.

Thomas828

The pictures that really got me were the ones of abandoned toys, the doll's head and the teddy bear with limbs missing...

Sergeant

It's becoming quite a popular tourist destination, with official government tours beginning this year.

Interesting to note that despite the complete deterioration of all the decorative surfaces (paint etc) all the structures appear sound, for example all the electricity cables are still up on the pylons. If it wasn't for the vandelism, the city could have looked much better.

wandatowell

great pics, had a few flashbacks to Call Of Duty MW

strobe

KeithAFC wrote: »

50'000 people used to live their, now it's a ghost town.

I remember watching a BBC wildlife documentary about the place. Whilst it's a ghost town in terms of humans, the wildlife has continued on pretty much undisturbed. Lots of owls and wild cats and things living in the abandoned buildings happy as Larry. Apparently because they have short lives in anyway the radiation doesn't have the time to take them out with tumours and things. Thought it was pretty interesting. One of the largest man made environmental disasters of all time and it has actually just cleared the species that caused it out and allowed the rest to take the place over.

strobe

strobe wrote: »

I remember watching a BBC wildlife documentary about the place. Whilst it's a ghost town in terms of humans, the wildlife has continued on pretty much undisturbed. Lots of owls and wild cats and things living in the abandoned buildings happy as Larry. Apparently because they have short lives in anyway the radiation doesn't have the time to take them out with tumours and things. Thought it was pretty interesting. One of the largest man made environmental disasters of all time and it has actually just cleared the species that caused it out and allowed the rest to take the place over.

I think that the key fact is that they (the anamals) live long enough to reproduce and raise young, I seem to remember that they have already become genitically modified in the fact they have developed larger "can't remember what" to survive the high radiation in the region.

ronnie3585

From the responses below the photos;

Not very special those the pics. Play Call of Duty 4 (Modern Warfare) and you’re able to walk around in Pripyat as much as you like, in astonishing detail (that is if you have a decent videocard). Thát’s chilling!

Feckin Americans.

Gaudizeit

Fascinating images. The contrast of the past and present images is very eerie. I'd love to go and visit.

Thomas828

Gaudizeit wrote: »

Fascinating images. The contrast of the past and present images is very eerie. I'd love to go and visit.

I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel safe there even with an anti-radiation suit.

I see that area as proof positive of what happens when man thinks he's superior to nature.

Gaudizeit

Thomas828 wrote: »

I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel safe there even with an anti-radiation suit.

I see that area as proof positive of what happens when man thinks he's superior to nature.

I was actually going to add into the previous post that there would be an element of fear when visiting the place, no matter what reading you get on the counters and what protective clothing you wear.

Gaudizeit

Gaudizeit wrote: »

Fascinating images. The contrast of the past and present images is very eerie. I'd love to go and visit.

I would love to visit, once!

Anyway by now the levels have dropped to only a small fraction of those in 1986. Still high! but now only a few xrays worth.

Thomas828

Thomas828 wrote: »

I see that area as proof positive of what happens when man thinks he's superior to nature.

The chenobyl incident was a classic example of that happens when you ignore the safety rules and follow the instructions from the government politburo.

Mr Benevolent

steo87 wrote: »

Quick question if anyone can offer some insight - at 46 seconds into the video, the helicopter appears to crumble and deform; is this actually due to the radioactivity?

No, the helicopter's main rotor hit the crane, severed the tail boom and rotor and it's goodnight chopper after that. Nothing to do with heat or radiation.

Run_to_da_hills

Thomas828 wrote: »

I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel safe there even with an anti-radiation suit.

I see that area as proof positive of what happens when man thinks he's superior to nature.

Splash some holy water over the suit and it would be grand.

ladysarastro

anyone else think the road in pic 2 still looks better than some of ours....

Red Hand

strobe wrote: »

I remember watching a BBC wildlife documentary about the place. Whilst it's a ghost town in terms of humans, the wildlife has continued on pretty much undisturbed. Lots of owls and wild cats and things living in the abandoned buildings happy as Larry. Apparently because they have short lives in anyway the radiation doesn't have the time to take them out with tumours and things. Thought it was pretty interesting. One of the largest man made environmental disasters of all time and it has actually just cleared the species that caused it out and allowed the rest to take the place over.

Here's a tip. If in the Ukraine/Russia/Bellarussia, only eat farm produced food. No wild boar/venison. Apparantly, since Chernobyl and the surrounding area became a haven for wildlife, you get a few hunters willing to brave it to bring down some large game to sell to high end resteurants.

"Ummmm, waiter? There's some radiation in my soup..."

Padraig Mor

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Here's a tip. If in the Ukraine/Russia/Bellarussia, only eat farm produced food. No wild boar/venison. Apparantly, since Chernobyl and the surrounding area became a haven for wildlife, you get a few hunters willing to brave it to bring down some large game to sell to high end resteurants.

"Ummmm, waiter? There's some radiation in my soup..."

WHO and other studies have shown that, contrary to popular opinion, there is actually **** all radiation in the Chernobyl region and the local wildlife is fine. Also, the effects of the radiation were (perhaps understandably) wildly exaggerated: there was no increase in birth defects in the area in the years following the explosion, despite the "freakshows" on TV. IIRC the actual number of people who have died directly from the explosion was something like 40 / 50 (mostly firemen and soldiers who were in the actualy facility itself); the number is expected to rise to some hundreds over the next 30 - 40 years, mostly due to thyroid cancer.

Jesus Wept

Is it dangerous to live there still?
Would be a good place to shoot a zombie movie, or live quietly.

Zebra3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyHvDhILYl8

Defo worth a watch.

Lirange

I remember this vividly.

I remember my teachers sh!tting themselves. They broadcast rad levels over Irish and UK cities on the radio with the weather. It was hard to get information from the Soviets at the time which made everything uncertain and led to more panic in the media. Threads had come out not long before this. Gave me damn nightmares.

ladysarastro

ladysarastro wrote: »

anyone else think the road in pic 2 still looks better than some of ours....

That road appears to have had recent work done on it, those patches look almost new.

Duggy747

I think this about sums it all up.

I didn't see the OP's pics but I've seen plenty of those detailed pics of the city. Bizzare stuff, really. Especially considering some of the animals and birds there have built up a resistance to the radiation of the surrounding areas.

But where's our superheroes and evil mutants?

mp3guy

Seriously wish the photographer didn't go on the "Sharpen" rampage in Photoshop.

Irish Guitarist

The comments on that page are unbelievable.

Not very special those the pics. Play Call of Duty 4 (Modern Warfare) and you’re able to walk around in Pripyat as much as you like, in astonishing detail (that is if you have a decent videocard). Thát’s chilling!

Putting aside the eerie nature of these pics…is anyone else having flashbacks to CoD Modern Warfare 1?

Chernobyl 25 years later

This should be made into a game

it feels like call of duty

A real gohst city. And yeah is realy is like Call Of Dute Modern Warefare.

This town is fake! It is totally ripping off Call Of Duty 4.

metalgear2k2

wandatowell wrote: »

great pics, had a few flashbacks to Call Of Duty MW

4th pic looks like the building in the sniper level! (maybe it is ?)

Nevermind.

Tar.Aldarion

The new stalker game has better graphics and you get to play guitar around the fire.


Jeez, wouldn't want to be around the next time something nuclear happens. Even with my government iodine tablets.

Fizman

There is a lad on Boards who went there recently enough and had a blog link in his sig I think. Can't remember who by wow it was impressive and the photos were surreal.

smokedeels

Amazing pictures, there's something incredible about photo's from ghost towns.

There's lots of American town's that have mine fires, the cracked roads and boiling lakes in those places make the images look even more desolate.

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/photos1.htm

Cookie_Monster

no mutant plants nor wierd beasties wandering around.

I call dibs since no one else wants to live there.

The Hill Billy

I got to within 4km of the reactor plant back in 1994 when I was doing some charity work in Belarus. It was grim.

We visited a small (supposedly deserted) village in the forest the far side of the river from Pripyat. There were two old ladies who had moved back to the village despite the high levels of radiation. (There had been a forced evacuation of the residents who were peasant farmers to high-rises in the ar$ehole of nowhere with no means for them to make a living.) I asked them why they moved back knowing how dangerous it was & the older sister responded, "Because my pigs are here." They were all she had in the world & that was far more important to some danger that you can't see, feel, smell or taste. We stayed for 2 hours. That was way too long.

As for the video posted in the thread showing some of the severely physically handicapped babies of the region - I cannot vouch that those images were taken from the region. However, I can say that I've seen many similarly afflicted children in hospitals & orphanages in Gomel & Mozyr (in southern Belarus) on my visits there. It would break your heart. Still makes me well up after 17 years when I think of them.

Rawhead

Leitrim tourism board will not be happy at the blatant theft of their brochure pics,

af_thefragile

I was expecting everything to be glowing green!!

Hah, not really. I watched a documentary a few years ago where these guys go into chernobyl and film what's going on there now and the effects of the radiation.
All the animals there are radioactive because everything they eat has become radioactive.
Though they haven't seen any mutations in the animals they wonder because the life cycles of the animals are too short for any mutations to come about.

It followed this one cat, which was a siberian cat, probably a descendent of a house cat, and it was looking after it kittens trying to feed them and protect them from predators. There were bears, foxes, eagles, owls and such preying around. The cat had a pretty tough time trying to find food for its kittens and keep them from straying away from the safe place and get eaten by some other predator.

And also showed how everything there was abandoned as it is because everything had become radioactive and people had to leave everything behind as it is...