Biking through Chernobyl

**Sarmatian** · 07-03-2008, 01:53

I've just ran into this site. Site is some kind of a diary of an Ukranian girl who is riding her motorcycle through the area of Chernobyl. Limitless supply of interesting pictures and videos with insightful comments. Her father is a nuclear technician, so she knows a lot about that stuff. Extremely interesting (if you haven't seen it before, of course

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**LittleGrizzly** · 07-03-2008, 02:14

I don't count those couple of times when "experts" tried to invent an excuse to give me a shower, because those had a lot more to do with physical biology than biological physics

LOL!!

This old man lives in the Chernobyl area. He is one of 3.500 people that either refused to leave or returned to their villages after the meltdown in 1986. I admire those people, because each of them is a philosopher in their own way. When you ask if they are afraid, they say that they would rather die at home from radiation, than die in an unfamiliar place of home-sickness.

Got to feel for the guy, even though he lives at home surely he's lonely

Work on the roof was the shortest job of all, and lasted only two minutes. Many soldiers were offered a choice of how to fulfill the tour of duty requirement that was necessary for their retirement from Army. One lasted two years in a hellish rain of bullets, rockets and bombs in Afghanistan, and the other lasted two minutes in a tranquil, silent and invisible rain of gamma rays on the roof of Unit # 3.

It would almost seem better just to suck it up (the radiation) if i didn't know better, i would still be tempted...

It was quite boring to participate in an election with one candidate from one party, so the turnout was very low. That is, until the local officials hit upon the idea of offering free drinks in return for a vote. This inspired the electorate to become very interested in politics.

Maybe a good idea in the west ??

still reading through ill post this for the moment...

**Fragony** · 07-03-2008, 08:33

Ah! Have been looking for that site it's amazing.

**Subedei** · 07-03-2008, 08:40

Indeed, very interesting. I have seen a wild life doc once, about the animals living in this area...nature is taking it back big time. Well, as long as you don`t get 2-headed wild bigs...in the documentation was said, that animals were not living long enough in average to accumualate enough radiation to cause mutation....but nobody knows for sure.

**Whacker** · 07-03-2008, 09:40

I'll toss in a few links I've found in the past related to this.

http://insp.pnl.gov/-library-uk_ch_1-1.htm

http://www.spaceman.ca/gallery/chernobyl?page=1

**Fragony** · 07-03-2008, 11:02

Not really related, but you guys should be able to apreciate these as well, it fascinates me to no end. Nothing is as atmospheric as ' dead' buildings.

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgur...%3Dnl%26sa%3DG

**Caius** · 07-03-2008, 20:48

This old man lives in the Chernobyl area. He is one of 3.500 people that either refused to leave or returned to their villages after the meltdown in 1986. I admire those people, because each of them is a philosopher in their own way. When you ask if they are afraid, they say that they would rather die at home from radiation, than die in an unfamiliar place of home-sickness.

Stange. I saw a comment that contradicts that.

**Kekvit Irae** · 07-04-2008, 00:49

Zoologists also brought two American Bisons to the area, but the idea to breed them didn't work out. The male bison run away. I don't know if he run away from Radiation or from his bride, but he was last seen in Belorussia, heading west. He may have decided to return to America.