the dead zone
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threeplusfireRiding through the dead zone on a motorcycle. This is an incredible compelling and haunting set of photos of the area around Chernobyl. So much so that I am filled with the mad desire to see it for myself. How often do you get to see the end of the world anyhow?
Amazing. It's like something out of a comic book.
Chernobyl frankly scares the hell out of me. I can't imagine being there, or living through those years. During the time I was at the university I spent a lot of time reading translated articles off Russian presswires, and sometimes sloggin my way through the original. The scariest thing I ever read was about the Ukraine trying to raise enough money to reseal the area around the reactor. They sent in robots to measure radiation and evaluate the interior, and they discovered mounds of radioactive dust multiplying like bunnies. Killer mutant radioactive dustbunnies. I had nightmares about it. I also read the grasses mutate at something like 20 times the normal rate of mutation and growth in vegetation.
One of the grad students at UT had worked in the Peace Corps in the Ukraine. He met his wife there, and she became pregnant. They used to joke that their son Max had a giant brain because of the radiation. The kid did have a big head.
Amazing. It's like something out of a comic book.
Chernobyl frankly scares the hell out of me. I can't imagine being there, or living through those years. During the time I was at the university I spent a lot of time reading translated articles off Russian presswires, and sometimes sloggin my way through the original. The scariest thing I ever read was about the Ukraine trying to raise enough money to reseal the area around the reactor. They sent in robots to measure radiation and evaluate the interior, and they discovered mounds of radioactive dust multiplying like bunnies. Killer mutant radioactive dustbunnies. I had nightmares about it. I also read the grasses mutate at something like 20 times the normal rate of mutation and growth in vegetation.
One of the grad students at UT had worked in the Peace Corps in the Ukraine. He met his wife there, and she became pregnant. They used to joke that their son Max had a giant brain because of the radiation. The kid did have a big head.
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a girl I met once told me you could take pictures of her in the dark, because she was in Chernobyl 18 yrs ago. any idea if that's possible?
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Date: 2004-03-07 10:22 am (UTC)