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Linky Here

Inpressive photos and stuff at that site.

Very cool, and also kind of creepy. Would make an excellent setting for a supernatural/ghost story.

I saw this on ArsTechnica's forum ... haunting.

They're making a game with Chernobyl as the setting ... what's it called again ...

EDIT: oh, yeah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl

Another beautiful game from Russia

Vympel wrote:They're making a game with Chernobyl as the setting ... what's it called again ...

EDIT: oh, yeah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl

Another beautiful game from Russia

Seems to be more there than mutated worms.

I remember several years ago seeing a programme on History International (I think) about the Chernobyl accident and the clean-up efforts that followed. IIRC, a significant number of workers resided in one of the cities that had been abandoned due to fallout. The city's air-raid sirens were set up to play music throughout the day to help the workers maintain their sanity while living in a ghost town.

Or it was something like that. Anyway, I do remember them showing footage of an empty city while sombre Russian/Ukrainian vocal pieces sadly echoed through the air. I'd love to use it someday...

I remember video footage made by a soviet film producer, it was on the history channel a while back. He walked right up to the edge of the roof and filmed the remains of the reactor core. He also caught footage of the Kiev Fire Brigade pouring concrete onto the exposed core, all knowing full well that they were dead men walking. Brass fucking balls... to walk in to a burning reactor like that, knowing you are going to die. They must have saved thousands though.

It was very chilling to watch those pictures. The area around Chernobyl looked exactly like how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. depicts it, minus the mutated creatures and the like.

Faram wrote:Linky Here

Inpressive photos and stuff at that site.

The pictures have all disappeared; that link is now dead. Strange...

Maybe Angelfire was upset at the massive bandwidth use?

Replacement Link.

It is a zipped file some 19.5MB in size, but quite diverse.

I was five years old when this happened. I remember my mother telling me and my little brother to stay mostly inside.

I saw a Nova on it in about '89 and it scared the living shit out of me. I was three.

Well it scared the crap out of me also, stayed home from work.

Not that it mattered a lot of people did that in Stockholm.

That is.... weird.

On another note, anybody know why all that military equipment was stored in the field? Surely it could've been decontimated if that was the problem...

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I remember several years ago seeing a programme on History International (I think) about the Chernobyl accident and the clean-up efforts that followed. IIRC, a significant number of workers resided in one of the cities that had been abandoned due to fallout. The city's air-raid sirens were set up to play music throughout the day to help the workers maintain their sanity while living in a ghost town.

Or it was something like that. Anyway, I do remember them showing footage of an empty city while sombre Russian/Ukrainian vocal pieces sadly echoed through the air. I'd love to use it someday...

Don't forget the fact that the government didn't tell anyone at first. People went to the May 1st Parade under radioactive rain. It was only when they detected the radiation in Europe, the USSR admited that it had an accident.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Elheru Aran wrote:That is.... weird.

On another note, anybody know why all that military equipment was stored in the field? Surely it could've been decontimated if that was the problem...

A little thing called radioactivity might have something to do with it....

All da stuff is contaminated with radioactivity, lethal to play with it.

fgalkin2 wrote: Don't forget the fact that the government didn't tell anyone at first. People went to the May 1st Parade under radioactive rain. It was only when they detected the radiation in Europe, the USSR admited that it had an accident.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Yep first detected close to a Swedish nuclear plant, major emergency! Initialy they thought that it came from that plant.

fgalkin2 wrote: Don't forget the fact that the government didn't tell anyone at first. People went to the May 1st Parade under radioactive rain. It was only when they detected the radiation in Europe, the USSR admited that it had an accident.

And even after that, when they released photos of the plant the Soviets went to great lengths to erase all traces of smoke (since the core was still burning at the time). It was really only US satellite photos and the radiation readings from western Europe that forced them to admit the whole truth. IIRC, they initially tired to claim that there had only been a fire, and that the reactor core was undamaged.

Elheru Aran wrote:That is.... weird.

On another note, anybody know why all that military equipment was stored in the field? Surely it could've been decontimated if that was the problem...

You can decontaminate equipment when it's radioactive because there's radioactive debris on it. However Chernobyl put out so many rads that anything in close proximity would its self-likely become permeated with radioactivity. There's no way to decontaminate after that, all you can do is throw the stuff some place out of the way (and preferably under a foot of concrete) and wait for the radiation levels go down.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I remember several years ago seeing a programme on History International (I think) about the Chernobyl accident and the clean-up efforts that followed. IIRC, a significant number of workers resided in one of the cities that had been abandoned due to fallout. The city's air-raid sirens were set up to play music throughout the day to help the workers maintain their sanity while living in a ghost town.

Or it was something like that. Anyway, I do remember them showing footage of an empty city while sombre Russian/Ukrainian vocal pieces sadly echoed through the air. I'd love to use it someday...

Pripyiat; the haunted city. I remember that documentary or one like it which showcased the deserted city with the music playing through every siren and broadcast apparatus.