The silence screams.

[Fragony]

http://freeenergynews.com/NOT/ChernobylTour/index.html

Amazing photo's from the ghosttowns surrounding chernobyl. Dunno about you but it makes me feel extremily weird.

[master of the puppets]

creepy, a motropolis is meant to be filled with people, like a forest full of birds, how you described it is best the silence screams, the nonexistent echo of a thousand vioces though the necropolis of chernobyl.

[Divinus Arma]

Ever see PyongYang?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gallery/im...562633,00.html

[Byzantine Mercenary]

why is PyongYang so deserted?

[yesdachi]

why is PyongYang so deserted?

Isnt it the capital of N. Korea? why so empty?

[A.Saturnus]

Starvation maybe?

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Sad as it is, that would be perfect for a paintball war. I mean seriously. 40 guys on each team. Capture the flag. Holy crap...

[BHCWarman88]

very freaky....and weird....

[Fragony]

My favorite,



Really grabs you at the throat. A true necropolis.

[Husar]

Hmm, well, a few empty buildings on photos don´t really touch me.
They may if I were personally there, but on some photos, well, this are just....buildings...

[Fragony]

Hmm, well, a few empty buildings on photos don´t really touch me.
They may if I were personally there, but on some photos, well, this are just....buildings...

It aren't just buildings, it is a place where people used to live. You see schools, hospitals, playgrounds, appartments, all fully furnished. Life just stopped there and time stands still but you can still see a hint of what it once was. I am completily fascinated by these pictures, it is just so surrealistic, you try to imagine it in it's glory days, I can almost smell it.

[lars573]

why is PyongYang so deserted?

Isnt it the capital of N. Korea? why so empty?

Simple Krazy Kim couldn't have the capitol of his workers paradise be less impressive than the evil capitalist regime in the south. So he built up P'yong'yang to be the equal, in terms of how many can live there, of Seoul. Problem is Seoul has a population of 9,630,600 million in the city proper, 19,969,100 million if you include the metro area. Where as P'yong'yang has a population of 2,767,900 in the city, with 3,222,000 million in the metro area. So you have 2.7 million people in a city built for 9 million. You can see why it looke empty.

[Husar]

It aren't just buildings, it is a place where people used to live. You see schools, hospitals, playgrounds, appartments, all fully furnished. Life just stopped there and time stands still but you can still see a hint of what it once was. I am completily fascinated by these pictures, it is just so surrealistic, you try to imagine it in it's glory days, I can almost smell it.

Yeah, people lived there, but now that the people are gone, it´s just buildings...
If the people had disappeared over night and noone knew where they are, it would be more interesting, but this is just like they all moved, why not?

[Fragony]

Yeah, people lived there, but now that the people are gone, it´s just buildings...
If the people had disappeared over night and noone knew where they are, it would be more interesting, but this is just like they all moved, why not?

That is just the german speaking inside you

[A.Saturnus]

It aren't just buildings, it is a place where people used to live. You see schools, hospitals, playgrounds, appartments, all fully furnished. Life just stopped there and time stands still but you can still see a hint of what it once was. I am completily fascinated by these pictures, it is just so surrealistic, you try to imagine it in it's glory days, I can almost smell it.

And don't forget the anomalities of gravity and the zombies roaming the place. Well... I've, emh, read that somewhere

[Fragony]

And don't forget the anomalities of gravity and the zombies roaming the place. Well... I've, emh, read that somewhere

That is the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for you mia muca, they are actually trying to completily recreate the enviroments and put it into an awesome game. Or did you mean Belgium?

(god this is my lucky day, I can insult two nations in one topic)

Check it out, I think this could be the finest game ever made.

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrank...eviewid=175039

[A.Saturnus]

Hey, that preview is from 2003. The developers must have run out of vodka.

[Husar]

That is the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for you mia muca, they are actually trying to completily recreate the enviroments and put it into an awesome game. Or did you mean Belgium?

(god this is my lucky day, I can insult two nations in one topic)

Check it out, I think this could be the finest game ever made.

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrank...eviewid=175039

Hah, I knew you´d like that game, you just had to.
but you insulted Belgium and where did you insult a second nation?

[Fragony]

Hey, that preview is from 2003. The developers must have run out of vodka.

Oldie, my bad. Here is a more recent screenshot,

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Hmmm, maybe if everyone from Chernobyl plays STALKER they won't get homesick and will stop living in the dead zone.


It's worth a shot right?

[Watchman]

Cities are supposed to have people in them. They don't even need to be actually deserted or lifeless - just seem like it, like a downtown business district late at night (I've a lasting impression of Hamburg like that) - to come off as vaguely disquieting. With Chernobyl there's the added spook factor of knowing why everyone left in a hurry...

Although personally I've seen quite enough Chernobyl photos to have become rather inured. I'd imagine that to be pretty common around my neck of woods.