Biking through Chernobyl

**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

**Sarmatian** · 07-03-2008, 11:23

What I found specially interesting is how soviet era was "preserved" in that place. Those slogans "ideas of Lenin will lead us in the future". Nature is reclaiming it but in a way feels that time stopped there in 1986.

**Pannonian** · 07-03-2008, 11:36

Snopes.

**Sarmatian** · 07-03-2008, 12:07

Originally Posted by Pannonian

Snopes.

If it's a fake, it's a pretty good one. I mean you can see the same bike on several pictures in several different areas, you could even see the back of a girl in leather jacket in one or two.

It's a free site, it's not advertising anything, it looks like an amateur website... I doesn't make much sense to fake everything and not gain anything.

**Husar** · 07-03-2008, 13:17

Originally Posted by Pannonian

Snopes.

I think snopes is fake!

**Fragony** · 07-03-2008, 12:04

Originally Posted by Sarmatian

What I found specially interesting is how soviet era was "preserved" in that place. Those slogans "ideas of Lenin will lead us in the future". Nature is reclaiming it but in a way feels that time stopped there in 1986.

That's what makes it so incredibly eerie, all the signs of life are there except life itselve. I love the classrooms with all these old posters and photographs, the abandoned attraction park, it must be a haunting experience to take a stroll there, the silence screams in your face.