Google StreetView has thoroughly covered Chernobyl.
I’m aware that there are a few hundred people living in the area. I am surprised that someone is attending to the gardening of this public bulding.
Worth having a zip around.
Chernobyl is quite a profitable venture at the moment because of all the tourists.
Bubblecar said:
Chernobyl is quite a profitable venture at the moment because of all the tourists.
Would you go so far as to say there has been an explosion in the tourism industry?
I had a look around and found this.
Short, big tits, peasant stock.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2723655,30.2241665,3a,18.7y,10.4h,80.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqnuzJgMUJ5D958FYAzsS_g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Scenes are reminiscent of the street-scapes around the place where my dad was born.
dv said:
Bubblecar said:
Chernobyl is quite a profitable venture at the moment because of all the tourists.
Would you go so far as to say there has been an explosion in the tourism industry?
I’d check the mood of the audience first.
Very appealing house.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2738772,30.2197245,3a,73.6y,43.13h,78.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDJ5JjXtEbgEuLJgFEcjG7Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Peak Warming Man said:
I had a look around and found this.
Short, big tits, peasant stock.https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2723655,30.2241665,3a,18.7y,10.4h,80.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqnuzJgMUJ5D958FYAzsS_g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Not the first time there’s been trouble with a boiler in that region.
dv said:
Not the first time there’s been trouble with a boiler in that region.
Tidy.
I am baffled that people live there. How is it safe?
Rule 303 said:
dv said:Not the first time there’s been trouble with a boiler in that region.
Tidy.
I am baffled that people live there. How is it safe?
It looks like a tourist group, there’s a bus in one shot.
kii said:
It looks like a tourist group, there’s a bus in one shot.
In the OP, DV says there’s a few hundred people living there.
Rule 303 said:
kii said:It looks like a tourist group, there’s a bus in one shot.In the OP, DV says there’s a few hundred people living there.
He did? I don’t read his posts.
kii said:
He did? I don’t read his posts.
Ahhh.
Rule 303 said:
dv said:Not the first time there’s been trouble with a boiler in that region.
Tidy.
I am baffled that people live there. How is it safe?
Safety is relative.
What really baffles me is that they grow and eat their own vegies there.
kii said:
Rule 303 said:
kii said:It looks like a tourist group, there’s a bus in one shot.In the OP, DV says there’s a few hundred people living there.
He did? I don’t read his posts.
I suppose I should feel honoured that you at least visited my thread.
But please don’t take my word for it. Any number of online resources give a current population of Chernobyl in the hundreds.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/04/chernobyl_25_years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/9646437/The-women-living-in-Chernobyls-toxic-wasteland.html
dv said:
Rule 303 said:
dv said:Not the first time there’s been trouble with a boiler in that region.
Tidy.
I am baffled that people live there. How is it safe?
Safety is relative.
What really baffles me is that they grow and eat their own vegies there.
To expand on this somewhat:
The basic radiation levels in Chernobyl city are not that high. I’d probably be okay with hanging around there.
The problem is radioactive strontium and caesium in the soil. I’d probably NOT be at all okay with eating food grown there.
dv said:
kii said:
Rule 303 said:In the OP, DV says there’s a few hundred people living there.
He did? I don’t read his posts.
I suppose I should feel honoured that you at least visited my thread.
But please don’t take my word for it. Any number of online resources give a current population of Chernobyl in the hundreds.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/04/chernobyl_25_years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/9646437/The-women-living-in-Chernobyls-toxic-wasteland.html
Now, now….I was joking. Sort of.
It’s safe because the tour group operators have been in there hundreds of times, enough to know by heart every single speck of radioactive debris. They wave their geiger counters over where they know the radioactive bits are in order to frighten the tourists.
Also, all the long-lived radioactive specks are alpha emitters such as 238U and 242Am, negligible penetrating power, the more dangerous beta and gamma emitters have died away in the intervening time.
Also, the radioactive core itself has been covered by concrete, twice. The second time quite recently.
Note that Chernobyl is some 15 km from the reactor.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2797385,30.2220904,3a,75y,21.81h,84.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sI0Ph-GUDPeg8QcXouUXl9A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
love the fence
FWIW there’s a pretty good documentary on that, and other radioactive areas.
Spiny Norman said:
FWIW there’s a pretty good documentary on that, and other radioactive areas.
Cheers
here’s your vege garden dv…
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2736513,30.2389448,3a,75y,308.58h,90.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seZvDS1iSgNlJhsFlhLzwyg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
diddly-squat said:
here’s your vege garden dv…https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2736513,30.2389448,3a,75y,308.58h,90.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seZvDS1iSgNlJhsFlhLzwyg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
They’ve let the weeds take over
Here is a monument that doesn’t look like a cock and balls at all.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2802944,30.2080256,3a,37.5y,45.83h,90.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2w9qYBnvSbkQQl3pNzrALg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
I wonder when these murals were done
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2718663,30.2231689,3a,75y,8.21h,79.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJv67-dosaoDN-fusI1qo7A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Seems light blue and white are popular colours
Orthodox it up
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2727321,30.237365,3a,75y,143.03h,94.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBZS_hxkxLfQAZq5XGKiJoQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
diddly-squat said:
Orthodox it up
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2727321,30.237365,3a,75y,143.03h,94.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBZS_hxkxLfQAZq5XGKiJoQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
It is surprising how intact it all is.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:Orthodox it up
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2727321,30.237365,3a,75y,143.03h,94.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBZS_hxkxLfQAZq5XGKiJoQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
It is surprising how intact it all is.
well it is, after all, not a requirement of the New Covenant
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:Orthodox it up
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.2727321,30.237365,3a,75y,143.03h,94.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBZS_hxkxLfQAZq5XGKiJoQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
It is surprising how intact it all is.
well it is, after all, not a requirement of the New Covenant
How circumspect
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:It is surprising how intact it all is.
well it is, after all, not a requirement of the New Covenant
How circumspect
I was just wondering what you saw that I didn’t…
dv, what do you make of the pipe that are over the roads… water, gas.?? centralized heating?
diddly-squat said:
dv, what do you make of the pipe that are over the roads… water, gas.?? centralized heating?
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:well it is, after all, not a requirement of the New Covenant
How circumspect
I was just wondering what you saw that I didn’t…
I just mean the paintwork, the powerlines, the roofing etc.
It doesn’t look like a place that has been abandoned for 30 years.
There are towns across the border in Belarus that were worse affected by the accident than Chernobyl.
ChrispenEvan said:
:D :D
I was under the impression that quite a lot of people live in Chernobyl and surroundings, including a large staff working at the power station.
dv said:
diddly-squat said:
dv said:How circumspect
I was just wondering what you saw that I didn’t…
I just mean the paintwork, the powerlines, the roofing etc.
It doesn’t look like a place that has been abandoned for 30 years.
well yes… I was trying to be a little facetious… but I think you know that..
;)
Bubblecar said:
I was under the impression that quite a lot of people live in Chernobyl and surroundings, including a large staff working at the power station.
Depends what you mean by quite a lot. A bit of googling turns up figures in the range of 300 to 700.
diddly-squat said:
dv said:
diddly-squat said:I was just wondering what you saw that I didn’t…
I just mean the paintwork, the powerlines, the roofing etc.
It doesn’t look like a place that has been abandoned for 30 years.
well yes… I was trying to be a little facetious… but I think you know that..
;)
It was a nice follow up to my statue of the penis.
Wiki says 704 for Chernobyl, but there are also people living in Pripyat.
Spiny Norman said:
FWIW there’s a pretty good documentary on that, and other radioactive areas.
That’s a pretty good documentary.