Chernobyl 25 years later

popflop · 11-01-2011 02:00AM #1

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

Found the pictures amazing

Faith+1 · 11-01-2011 02:02AM

Amazing pics

admiralofthefleet · 11-01-2011 02:04AM

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

cause chernobyl fall off

TheZohanS · 11-01-2011 02:05AM

Looks a bit like Portarlington.

Squeeonline · 11-01-2011 02:08AM

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. · 11-01-2011 02:08AM

Spooky place

KeithAFC · 11-01-2011 02:12AM

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

mikom · 11-01-2011 02:13AM

popflop wrote: »

Chernobyl 25 years later

Where are the zombies?

Hande hoche! · 11-01-2011 02:14AM

KeithAFC wrote: »

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

Get out of here Stalker.

Dudess · 11-01-2011 02:15AM

What's all the Russia stuff about tonight?

admiralofthefleet · 11-01-2011 02:16AM

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

bmw535d · 11-01-2011 02:17AM

KeithAFC wrote: »

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

cod 4 was dam accurate wasn't it.

Senna · 11-01-2011 02:17AM

Its links like that that make me curse Mobile Broadband

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

General General · 11-01-2011 02:21AM

Dudess wrote: »

What's all the Russia stuff about tonight?

?

steo87 · 11-01-2011 02:21AM

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?

11-01-2011 02:21AM

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 · 11-01-2011 02:22AM

bmw535d wrote: »

cod 4 was dam accurate wasn't it.

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

Crasp · 11-01-2011 02:22AM

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 · 11-01-2011 02:25AM

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 · 11-01-2011 02:31AM

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

Sergeant · 11-01-2011 02:32AM

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

11-01-2011 02:35AM

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 · 11-01-2011 02:37AM

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

strobe · 11-01-2011 02:38AM

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.

11-01-2011 02:43AM

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 · 11-01-2011 02:49AM

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 · 11-01-2011 03:08AM

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

Thomas828 · 11-01-2011 03:14AM

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 · 11-01-2011 03:16AM

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.

11-01-2011 03:20AM

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.

11-01-2011 03:27AM

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.

Chernobyl 25 years later

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