Kid of Speed in Chernobyl!

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:32 pm

Filatova Elena Vladimirovna, awesome Russian chick who rides her bike through the poisoned land of Chernobyl, photographs it for us and writes amazing descriptions of her journies. Read it - it's so eerie. I really admire this lady.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:26 pm

Sounds interesting, but I only get a myspace login that takes me to the home page.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:29 pm

Oh how lame

Anyway - it's fixd'd'ed now.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:09 pm

old old oooold... ancient.

still cool tho.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:15 pm

Someone should tell this lady her tits will dry up and she'll have four-armed children.

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:18 pm

It was proven to be a hoax like 3 years ago

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:30 pm

Saw this one a few years back.

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:31 pm

CMoon wrote:Saw this one a few years back.

What this guy said. Pretty interesting wandering around the fallout areas. There should be youtube footage of this too.

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:33 pm

I have never had problems with the dosimeter guys, who man the checkpoints. They are experts, and if they find radiation on you vehicle, they gave it a chemical shower. I don't count those couple of times when "experts" tried to invent an excuse to give me a shower, because those had a lot more to do with physical biology than biological physics

ha

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:36 pm

lol..hoax, huh? Links?

Also- when is that place going to be fit for humans again? Lol..I'd buy it for a dollar now : )

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:37 pm

The n00b wrote:It was proven to be a hoax like 3 years ago

Not a hoax besides the "being alone" part -- she had a photographer/advisor with her 95% of the time.

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:00 pm

Twiddle is correct. The original story of her doing lone motorcycle trips to Chernobyl were misleading.

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:22 pm

No_not_like_Quake wrote:Twiddle is correct. The original story of her doing lone motorcycle trips to Chernobyl were misleading.

http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_arch ... eadid=8951

I was wrong about the whole thing being a hoax but I wasn't far from the truth.

Reverie Planetarian · Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:01 pm

It seems to me to accentuate the desolation and tomb-like quality the place has in the mind's eye of many people. None should forget what happened there, a stark warning to nuclear plant designers and operators all across the globe. America got off lucky when Three Mile Island had its failure. Chernobyl is what happens when everything goes wrong.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:24 am

Battlesmurf wrote:Also- when is that place going to be fit for humans again?

Near 2,600 they say.

shmups forum members wrote:nay

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:01 am

America got off lucky when Three Mile Island had its failure. Chernobyl is what happens when everything goes wrong.

America has had it's fair share of accidents too, which were kept secret for the most part until Nuc Navy vets came out with all the stupid shit that happened (dropping nukes into the ocean, subs destroying themselves with nuclear-tipped torpedos, etc..)

http://www.user.dccnet.com/welcomewoods ... enacci.htm
http://www.lutins.org/nukes.html#subs
http://www.milnet.com/cdiart.htm

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:01 pm

An experimental sodium-cooled reactor utilized aboard the USS Seawolf, the U.S.'s second nuclear submarine, was scuttled in 9,000 feet of water off the Delaware/Maryland coast. The reactor was plagued by persistent leaks in its steam system (caused by the corrosive nature of the sodium) and was later replaced with a more conventional model. The reactor is estimated to have contained 33,000 curies of radioactivity and is likely the largest single radioactive object ever dumped deliberately into the ocean. Subsequent attempts to locate the reactor proved to be futile.

Wow, that blows my mind. That thing is still down there! Hahaha!

It does neglect to mention that it's encased in a giant steel box but still, you never know what could happen.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:51 am

2008 stuff is up.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:53 pm

We all know that the terrorists get their nuclear weapons from crashed Israeli planes. This I know because I watch Tom Clancy movies, u c.

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:40 pm

The secrecy as to whether Israel's nuclear programme even existed was a convenient way not to get in trouble with gov'ts for being right accidentally. Cat's out now though AFAIK.

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Kid of Speed in Chernobyl!

Kid of Speed in Chernobyl!

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