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 sys104
   
Location: Austria
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 20 on 5/9/2005 4:56 PM >
|  | | | Amazing, creepy pictures. I did not know that you get that close to the plant as seen in some picture. I think it ist fairly unique in Chernobyl because the life in this city just stopped at one point and the city was left to rot away.
PS: does anybody recognize this big engine? some kind of pump or generator?
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BuyMeAPony
Gender: Female
We are not amused
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<Reply # 22 on 6/20/2005 8:23 PM >
| | | | About 2 or 3 months ago the BBC did an interview with some people who have moved back into the area. It was a really touching story and very well done. You may be able to get it from their website although I’m not sure. There was an old married couple who moved back into their home that they had to abandon. Their rationalisation was that they didn’t have long to live anyway so they might as well die happy in their home. They had been living there for a few years, growing their own veggies and whatnot.
Anyway the crux of the story was that local scientists have been monitoring the area and say that the levels are on the rise because the sarcophagus is failing. Hopefully it will hold up until the 2007 replacement. Eerily enough there are still repercussions to this disaster. Something like 20% of children born has birth defects. You lot are braver than me, I wouldn’t go nearer to that then where I am now. I’m content to let others explore and have me take a look at their pictures.
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scabskate
Location: Marriottsville, Maryland
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 23 on 6/20/2005 10:57 PM >
| | | | My grandparents had friends who have now been able to move back to where they used to live, a little north of kiev
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Rantomi
Location: Finland
Gender: Male
kwak
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<Reply # 24 on 6/21/2005 5:13 AM >
| | | | I'm the white/black-patterned shirt guy in the pic of that New York Times article. =) I'll post own thread with a link to my gallery.
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Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: Male
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
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<Reply # 25 on 7/2/2005 11:08 PM >
| | | | So, is that photographer essentially a *dead man*?
I wouldn't go near that part of the world if you paid me.
"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
***Social Distortion*** |
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lopix
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
I survive on the poison you're feeding me
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<Reply # 26 on 7/3/2005 2:07 PM >
| | | | Somewhere I have wanted to go as well, mainly to see an entire abandoned city. But, the radiation concerns me for sure. That and animals, what sort of wildlife is there now? Is that a wolf in the one pic? And what is with the fish the guy is holding up? I don't know enough about fish to know if there is something weird about it...
I'm not angry - just focused :: No human opinion is higher than the truth
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Ruck
Location: Texas
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 27 on 7/4/2005 6:43 AM >
| | | | Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.
"For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." ~Wallace Stevens |
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Dages
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Location: Midwestern US
Gender: Male
| | Re: Chernobyl more pictures
<Reply # 28 on 7/5/2005 5:49 AM >
| | | | for all computer geeks (myself included) there is a video game coming out where you walk through chernobyl searching for artifacts. www.stalker-game.com It looks incredible, but has been delayed a year or so already.
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GreyDeath
  
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
The Darkness is coming...
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<Reply # 29 on 7/5/2005 8:08 PM >
| | | | Good thing too. Nothing irks me more than an unfinished video game being rushed out the door to satisfy the mindless fans and superiors... Black and White anyone? =]
-Me!
Im not stupid, Im Canadian! |
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Raine
Location: Western North Carolina
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 30 on 7/9/2005 2:43 PM >
| | | | I've wanted to go there for years. When I was younger, I was fascinated with Russia and Russian history, and I guess that stuck in my mind. A year or two ago, I found the pics of the supposed motorcycle ride through Chernobyl (pics were real, story was a hoax), and it rekindled my interest, especially when I found out about the tours. My husband refuses to go with me though, if I do go (I wanted to take a tour for vacation one year). It is heartbreaking what happened there, and I don't mean disrespect by wanting to see the area, it's just one of those chances you'd never have under ordinary circumstances.
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obxprnstar
Location: Eastern North Catolina
Gender: Male
On zombie patrol
| |  | | Re: Chernobyl more pictures
<Reply # 31 on 10/3/2005 12:27 AM >
| | | | Posted by sys104
Amazing, creepy pictures. I did not know that you get that close to the plant as seen in some picture. I think it ist fairly unique in Chernobyl because the life in this city just stopped at one point and the city was left to rot away.
PS: does anybody recognize this big engine? some kind of pump or generator?
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I know I am pretty late posting this and all, but up untill a year, no more than two years ago, the power plant at Chernobyl was still producing power on the other reactor.
9-11-01
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slacker
Location: U.K.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Chernobyl more pictures
<Reply # 32 on 10/3/2005 5:54 PM >
| | | | wooowwww that is amazing, brilliant photos , thank you!
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undercity
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Chernobyl more pictures
<Reply # 33 on 10/3/2005 7:06 PM >
| | | | Hey I was in Ukraine this summer and took the time to go by Chernobyl. Definitely an interesting tour.
I wanted to post up to let anyone who is thinking of going to Chernobyl know that the best way to get a tour is to go straight to the agency that gives the tours-- the agency is Chernobyl Interinform, and the woman who led our tour (and gives most of the tours) is Kiscelitsa Rimma. She's a wonderful woman who, due to the state of the ukrainian economy, makes what would amount to pocket change in the US, and so i promised i'd try to let other people know about the tours. (her agency is the only one that is actually handles tours, but it's still such a niche thing that they don't get all that much business.) She's been doing this a while and has taken several UE-interested photographers along, so if you tell her you're mostly interested in getting photos she'll try to work with you and get you some good shots. (Although she does get kind of nervous when you start leaning over the edge of abandoned high-rise rooftops to get shots.)
When i did it, I paid a separate travel agency in Kiev to hook me up with the tour, because that's what i'd read in a guidebook and thought i had to do, but the travel agency just ended up creating extra expense and headaches, and basically all the travel agency does is charge you a bunch of extra money to fax your name & passport # to Chernobyl Interinform, which you can just do yourself. The travel agency also charges you extra money and arranges a driver to take you from your kiev hotel to Chernobyl, but when I talked to Kiscelitsa she said there was no reason to go through the travel agency, as she can arrange the reservation and a driver from your hotel and everything without the headache of dealing with a kiev travel agency that won't return your phone calls once you've paid them. (also Kiscelitsa speaks much better english than anyone i talked to at a travel agency). So anyway, if you are thinking of going, you should contact:
Kiscelitsa Rimma
Senior Specialist, Foreign Relations Department
Agency "CHERNOBYL INTERINFORM"
Phone: (380-44) 235-50-14
Cell: (380-66) 224-13-12
Home Phone: (380-46) 218-42-21
Fax: (380-44) 935-22-05
Email: either [email protected] or [email protected] (Handwritten and I can't tell if it's an R or a K)
anyway good luck to anyone who goes over there, the time on the tour is really just a teaser because it seems such a fascinating place to look around in but you only have a few very short hours to get glimpses of everything. Ukraine overall is a really beautiful country with a a rich and bloody history, so definitely a cool place to visit.
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Axle
Location: Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
| | Re: Chernobyl more pictures
<Reply # 34 on 10/3/2005 7:59 PM >
| | | | Those are all awesome shots!
Celer at Audax
Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes! |
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Greg
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
How is this even 'exploration'? It's a loving house you've already been in you weirdo!
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<Reply # 35 on 10/3/2005 10:19 PM >
|  | | | I Agree. All of the photo's are really great!
Post by Axle
Those are all awesome shots! |
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Awakenest
Location: Surrey, BC
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 36 on 10/4/2005 4:26 AM >
| | | | chernobyl ikea catalogue?
We are untouchable, untouchable is somethign to be. |
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Axle
Location: Milton, ON
Gender: Male
Sieg oder Tod
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<Reply # 37 on 10/4/2005 1:15 PM >
| | | | Posted by Awakenest
chernobyl ikea catalogue?
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The best in radioactive home furnishings
Celer at Audax
Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes! |
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atomx
Location: Brighton, ON
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Chernobyl more pictures
<Reply # 38 on 10/4/2005 2:24 PM >
| | | | For that green glowy look with no cost to you.
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