Tour of Chernobyl

[Holo]

This place had a nuclear reactor catch on fire and explode in 1986. Chernobyl is in Ukraine which at the time part of the soviet republic. The guy in this forum took a tour and it has some really awesome pictures if you like photos of abandoned buildings. Make sure to read the captions.

http://www.grcade.com/viewtopic.php?t=2217

I like photography like this because it isnt like a building that they evacuate, clean up and then tear down. These people either died in these buildings or had to leave at 1:30am (explosion happened at 1:26am) so everything is left just as it was on the day of the accident. Pretty cool methinks.

[Felsworn]

no one knew what was happening, it was treated like a normal day. most people out there knew little about nuclear fission, and it being in soviet union they covered up that story. So yeah people died th their houses pretty much.

From what i remember in my history class, people on the next day went to jobs, scool etc.
Only by end of saturday some school officials and others evacuated children etc.
most people stayed there knowing nothing about the disaster.

fun story

[Holo]

ya a really interesting thing was a photo about halfway down talking about the "bridge of death" where they watched the rainbow colored flames from the burning reactor and the watchers took 500 rads of radiation and died on the bridge.

fyi 200 rads will ruin your life. any more than about 220 rads is fatal.

they said there is roughly 600,000 people said to have died from cancer caused from living around the areas with the nuclear fallout cloud produced from the fire. The fallout cloud covered almost all of europe and into North America.

[Mandos]

never heard anything about it making its way across any oceans, just messing up some of eastern europe.

[Sealclubber]

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=131

If anyone wants to read a story about spectacular incompetence mixed in with poor reactor design.

[Adryanie]

yo holo, doesn't that area look like the level in CoD with the sniper you have to follow around haha. The huge faris wheel and the deep pool with the dogs in it.

[Felsworn]

good map for l4d imo

[Bladerain]

I've seen alot of photos about Chernobyl, but that "tour" was pretty interesting. The rads still present in that area make me wonder why there are tour groups though.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure the COD4 map was modeled around Pripyat
EDIT 2: lol
Its not advisable to sit on these chairs for too long, if you value having working balls.

[Sealclubber]

EDIT: I'm pretty sure the COD4 map was modeled around Pripyat I saw that empty pool and instantly thought of the part with all the wild dogs.

[Bladerain]

ok, i went back and played that map.... it's too damn close to be a coincidence. I don't think it's meant to be hidden though

[Adryanie]

Holo and I went back and looked.....It is supposed to be based off of it. It even says at the beginning of the level "15 years ago" or something.

[Holo]

and when they show you where you are going it says "Pripyat" on the map. Pretty cool.

And seal thats exactly what gave it away for me, pictured some poor bastard getting eaten by a dog and was like damn this looks like cod4

[Nidhoggur]

There are other tour-type photoshows that go further and are pretty damn creepy.

Also, play STALKER, amazin game set in this location.

[Felsworn]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl was a good game i think they released a sequel too.

[Sealclubber]

get out of here stalker

[Bladerain]

that damninteresting site Seal linked is gold. I've found a new hobby at work.

[Sealclubber]

Yes it is in fact a good site.