Chernobyl...18 Years Later

abysmilliard writes "A young Ukrainian woman has posted a photo journal of her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl and the area surrounding it. Included are pictures of the now-emptied city, maps of current radiation levels, and a discussion of how the area has changed. While the english is quite broken, it's often rather surreal, as well, with quotes like, 'I don't know how sound the silence to those tourists that they can not stand it, but to me after hitting a red line on my bike tacho it sound like all those ghosts cursing 1100cc kawasaki engin.'"

Great thing about driving through Chernobyl

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't need to run any lights at night.

Quiet Town?

[MarcQuadra]

She mentions that if the guys at the checkpoint find you have too much radioactive dust they give you a shower and eat your bike. I was always under the impression that in Soviet Russia, your bike ate YOU!

Also, I'm on the page now where you can see a city, but it's so QUIET that people wat to get out ASAP after being there a few minutes. I totally want to go see this!

Engrish rules.

[The Human Cow]

"The word CHERNOBYL scares holly bijesus out of people here."
Holly Bijesus? Is it just me, or would that make a *great* bisexual porn star name?

angelfire?

[Anonymous Coward]

linking to a 10+ page site full of photos on angelfire? yeah, that'll last long...

IN SOVIET RUSSIA...

[Anonymous Coward]

wait...

damn.

Reporting (almost) at the time

[Charles Dodgeson]

There was a joke told in Hungary (and presumably other Soviet bloc countries) after they'd been listening to Voice of America report on the disaster for days, but getting no local mention of it at all until about a week after the event.

Q: Why do we celebrate the October Revolution on November 7?
A: Because that is when TASS (Soviet news agency) saw fit to report it.

Re:Like the American southwest

[Anonymous Coward]

you could actually see the bones in your hands from all the X-rays that were emitted from the bomb.

Without the proper x-ray film how does one utilize an invisble spectrum?..... Just wondering

Re:This never wouldn't have happened...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, let's vote for Republicans. They never screw up the country.

Oh wait, what about Nixon? And Reagan? And Bush Sr?

You tight-ass Republicans have a real problem with long term memory.

Re:Engrish rules.

[ktakki]

Holly Bijesus? Is it just me, or would that make a *great* bisexual porn star name?

The Passion of the Bijesus?

k.

innocent TVs murdered

[Anonymous Coward]

>>There were cases of radiactive tv sets and other stuff being sold on city second hand markets and then police shot 7 or 8 of them.

you don't want to be a radioactive TV in russia...

Re:Quiet Town?

[wafwot]

Also, I'm on the page now where you can see a city, but it's so QUIET that people wat to get out ASAP after being there a few minutes. I totally want to go see this!
Can you say, "giant paintball game"?

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Re:Quiet Town?

[Anonymous Coward]

She mentions that if the guys at the checkpoint find you have too much radioactive dust they give you a shower and eat your bike.

Like to give her a shower and eat her...

Um, nevermind

Re:Gamma World

[lone_marauder]

Yeah, no doubt, man. A hot chick on a motorcycle cruising through radioactive ruins pursued by marauders has 80's postapocolyptic action flick written all over it.

By the way, I disclaim any responsibility for marauder activity in that area. As the name suggests, there is only one of me, and I am not there. Thank you.

Re:Quiet Town?

[Anonymous Coward]

Like to give her a shower and eat her...

Do check her "relevant place" with a radioation meter before starting in. :-)

Re:Great thing about driving through Chernobyl

[kfg]

Yeah, my mom was just outside of Chernobyl at the time, as a guest journalist of the Russian government who were trying to foster a better image in the west. Nobody told the journalists what was going on or get them out of the area as that would have made for some serious bad publicity.

So there she was, an American journalist who just happened to be right there at the scene, and didn't find out about it until she left Russia and entered Finland just as the radioactive fallout was hitting.

We use her for a nightlight now. Or to scare kids on Halloween.

I'll have to refer her to this site after it recovers.

KFG

Re:angelfire?

[DaveAtFraud]

Well, I was going to point out that the article did show up on Friday night but then I remembered that this was slashdot. Actually, the response time wasn't bad but I'm on an ISDN line so my pipe is pretty thin. Maybe the stereotypes are wrong and people who hang out on slashdot really do have a life. Nah.

(Who me? I'm married and work for a living so, by Friday night, I'm too tired to do much of anything but either watch the tube or read slashdot).

In Soviet Russia

[Anonymous Coward]

energy wastes YOU!

Re:Great thing about driving through Chernobyl

[Fenris Ulf]

You know what they say, more people died at Chappaquiddick than Three Mile Island...

Re:angelfire?

[tunabomber]

138 comments and still going.... AngelFire think its kung fu pretty good eh- wait til it fight my brother's browser.

still going...

cmon- we can do better than this!!

IN MY EXPERIANCE

[autopr0n]

Ukranaian women are fucking hot That is all. Thank you.

Oh, don't get me started...

[TheSHAD0W]

What has wings and glows in the dark?

-- Chicken Kiev.

What do you get if you put 20 people from Kiev in one phone booth?

-- Critical mass.

Aptly sited

[Thakandar2]

Does anyone else find the irony in posting a story about a nuclear meltdown...

By linking Slashdot to an Angelfire web page?

Angelfire tech: "The core, its heating up! Quick, more Nitrogen on the servers! Too late, Run for your lives!"

I only joke because I wasn't there.

Lol.

[AyeRoxor!]

There were cases of radiactive tv sets and other stuff being sold on city second hand markets and then police shot 7 or 8 of them and it helped.

Yeah, I suppose that oughta send a clear message :P

Re:Like the American southwest

[Hard_Code]

I just want to add a non-sequiter that I find it funny we still use colloquial phrases like "candle" and "horse" to quantify scientific measurements.

Re:I've been to Ukraine...

[dwillden]

Step 1: In Soviet Russia a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods imagines you! Step 2: ??? Step3: Profit!!

This is OT but shouldn't your sig have read

Step 1: Profit!!
Step 2: ???
Step3: In Soviet Russia a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods imagines you!

Nobody dief because of Chernobyl either

[Anonymous Coward]

They just ended up as super human mutants that now wear spandex.

Re:Quiet Town?

[Surazal]

> Also, I'm on the page now where you can see a city, but it's so QUIET that people wat to get out ASAP after being there a few minutes. I totally want to go see this!

Can you say, "giant paintball game"?

For the love of all that is good and holy, man! There are some subjects never meant to be broached. Like paintball in an abandoned radioactive town.

The potential for evil is purely delicious. Horrible! I meant to say horrible!

Re: Hidden page

[Anonymous Coward]

You have to get the ladder from the janitor's closet. Break the lock with the crowbar you found in the parking garage (assuming you came in that way and made it past the zombie guarding the ticket booth.)

Re:Responding to your sig

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone please mod this rediculus post down. It's off topic.

Re:Engrish rules.

[jettoblack]

You know at first, I thought you were talking about CHERNOBYL, not "Holly Bijesus."

But if you think about it, CHERNOBYL would be a pretty good name for a transsexual porn star.

"Is it Cher? No, Bill!"

Re:Quiet Town?

[strike2867]

Can you say, "giant paintball game"?
Can you say, "3 eyes and 1 testicle"?

Re:Engrish rules.

[Anonymous Coward]

What about:

Tchernobyl Sluts

Women with 3 tits and 4 cunts, really nice or not

Re:Facinating

[eap]

Amazing to see that you could just go into homes and offices and see EXACTLY what life was like there in 1986.

If you want to see 1986 in action don't waste your time in the Ukraine, just stop by my office. We program in Pascal on VMS, have no Internet access, and refer to Powerpoint presentations as "View Graphs".

Now if you'll excuse me my New Coke is getting warm.

Re:the "REAL" death toll and the real story

[vesik]

The thing is those "horses" are really dogs.

Non-PC joke

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't Ukrainians wear boxer shorts?

Because they're afraid that Chernobyl fall out.

Ta-daa. All the way from 1986, young 'uns.

Re:Quiet Town?

[BerntB]

I live in sweden, we were too affected by chernobyl

US joke at the time:

Q:How do you recognize a Swedish child born 9 months after Chernobyl?

A:Look for the blonde eyes and blue hair!

(-: I'm allowed to joke with stuffed shirt Swede, since I'm Swedish too, but not blonde... :-)

Damn! She's smokin hot! (and not in a radioactive

[multiplexo]

A Ukrainian chick who no doubt has one of those sexy eastern-European/Russian style accents who rides a big bike and likes to go to dangerous places on it.