| Would you make a Trip to Chernoyl? [message #334044] |
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Its now allowed to visit Chernobyl !!! Would you make a Trip to Chernobyl when you have time or are you to scared? I really want to meet Chernobyl when i have enough time.
Look heres a pic of a Guy near to the Powe Plant:
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| Re: Would you make a Trip to Chernoyl? [message #334077 is a reply to message #334073] |
Sun, 08 June 2008 12:36  |
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| ಥ_ಥ wrote on Sun, 08 June 2008 14:00 |
Wow that would be awesome to drive with a Bike there, no Police, no Traffic... anyways finding some mutants wont be cool :S
Im not really scared about the radiation, i really want to visit chernobyl
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Make sure to shack up on shotgun shells because them fucking mutants and zombies won't be killing themselfs. 
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| Re: Would you make a Trip to Chernoyl? [message #334082 is a reply to message #334044] |
Sun, 08 June 2008 13:05 |
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Chernobyl has become a place where nature has begun to reclaim one of mankind's biggest fuck-ups. Plant life is growing (not glowing), and it's an area where the endangered Przewalski's Horse is thriving.
In terms of radiation and such, it's really quite safe now. The biggest worries are dust, and so vehicles have to travel a couple hundred feet behind each other so the occupants don't breathe it in.
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| Re: Would you make a Trip to Chernobyl? [message #334102 is a reply to message #334044] |
Sun, 08 June 2008 15:46 |
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In a word: no.
In two words: hell no.
It's not just because of the radiation, either, though that's certainly a factor. There are some radioactive sites I would like to visit, like the Trinity test site in New Mexico. The main reason why I would never visit Chernobyl is because I find the whole trend of turning sites of accidental tragedies or major disasters into tourist traps disgusting. That's what it is, too. It's a place where a really fucked up series of mishaps led to a disaster which displaced thousands of people and changed the way most people look at nuclear power- but there have been worse disasters which were completely overlooked in which entire towns were evacuated and many people died because of an accident- many of them here in the US, even. You might as well go halfway around the world to ogle at a car wreck, for fuck's sake. An accident is an accident; it means somebody fucked up somewhere and it has no greater significance. Everything that can be learned from Chernobyl already has been learned- there is simply nothing there for future generations to ponder; there is no element of "we shall remember" to stick in your mind. It was an accident- one brought about by poor quality control and human error, not by design. Think Exxon Valdez, Space Shuttle Challenger, RMS Titanic. Chernobyl is fundamentally no different in the nature of the event than any of the above. While we shouldn't by any means let it fade from our collective memory, we shouldn't be packing our bags and our best dumb tourist outfits just to say we've seen where it happened; that's just stupid. Learning about events and places of historical significance is one thing; turning them into vacation trophies is quite another.
If you think any of that is false, check out the guy in the photo and tell me that isn't his best "I'm a cool dude who's been to more cool places than you" pose. That's a pose you'd strike while standing in front of Niagra fucking Falls, for cryin' out loud. If you're gonna go there to learn about it, fine, be my guest... but if your motivation is "I've got the money and I think Chernobyl is a cool place to go" then you're fucking kidding yourself- there are thousands of places far more worth your time.
This earns an epic fail for cultural rubbernecking.
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| Re: Would you make a Trip to Chernobyl? [message #334105 is a reply to message #334102] |
Sun, 08 June 2008 15:58 |
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| NukeIt15 wrote on Sun, 08 June 2008 23:46 |
In a word: no.
In two words: hell no.
It's not just because of the radiation, either, though that's certainly a factor. There are some radioactive sites I would like to visit, like the Trinity test site in New Mexico. The main reason why I would never visit Chernobyl is because I find the whole trend of turning sites of accidental tragedies or major disasters into tourist traps disgusting. That's what it is, too. It's a place where a really fucked up series of mishaps led to a disaster which displaced thousands of people and changed the way most people look at nuclear power- but there have been worse disasters which were completely overlooked in which entire towns were evacuated and many people died because of an accident- many of them here in the US, even. You might as well go halfway around the world to ogle at a car wreck, for fuck's sake. An accident is an accident; it means somebody fucked up somewhere and it has no greater significance. Everything that can be learned from Chernobyl already has been learned- there is simply nothing there for future generations to ponder; there is no element of "we shall remember" to stick in your mind. It was an accident- one brought about by poor quality control and human error, not by design. Think Exxon Valdez, Space Shuttle Challenger, RMS Titanic. Chernobyl is fundamentally no different in the nature of the event than any of the above. While we shouldn't by any means let it fade from our collective memory, we shouldn't be packing our bags and our best dumb tourist outfits just to say we've seen where it happened; that's just stupid. Learning about events and places of historical significance is one thing; turning them into vacation trophies is quite another.
If you think any of that is false, check out the guy in the photo and tell me that isn't his best "I'm a cool dude who's been to more cool places than you" pose. That's a pose you'd strike while standing in front of Niagra fucking Falls, for cryin' out loud. If you're gonna go there to learn about it, fine, be my guest... but if your motivation is "I've got the money and I think Chernobyl is a cool place to go" then you're fucking kidding yourself- there are thousands of places far more worth your time.
This earns an epic fail for cultural rubbernecking.
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Presence is a curious thing, if you think you need to prove it... you probably never had it in the first place.
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| Re: Would you make a Trip to Chernobyl? [message #334109 is a reply to message #334102] |
Sun, 08 June 2008 16:06 |
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| NukeIt15 wrote on Sun, 08 June 2008 17:46 |
In a word: no.
In two words: hell no.
It's not just because of the radiation, either, though that's certainly a factor. There are some radioactive sites I would like to visit, like the Trinity test site in New Mexico. The main reason why I would never visit Chernobyl is because I find the whole trend of turning sites of accidental tragedies or major disasters into tourist traps disgusting. That's what it is, too. It's a place where a really fucked up series of mishaps led to a disaster which displaced thousands of people and changed the way most people look at nuclear power- but there have been worse disasters which were completely overlooked in which entire towns were evacuated and many people died because of an accident- many of them here in the US, even. You might as well go halfway around the world to ogle at a car wreck, for fuck's sake. An accident is an accident; it means somebody fucked up somewhere and it has no greater significance. Everything that can be learned from Chernobyl already has been learned- there is simply nothing there for future generations to ponder; there is no element of "we shall remember" to stick in your mind. It was an accident- one brought about by poor quality control and human error, not by design. Think Exxon Valdez, Space Shuttle Challenger, RMS Titanic. Chernobyl is fundamentally no different in the nature of the event than any of the above. While we shouldn't by any means let it fade from our collective memory, we shouldn't be packing our bags and our best dumb tourist outfits just to say we've seen where it happened; that's just stupid. Learning about events and places of historical significance is one thing; turning them into vacation trophies is quite another.
If you think any of that is false, check out the guy in the photo and tell me that isn't his best "I'm a cool dude who's been to more cool places than you" pose. That's a pose you'd strike while standing in front of Niagra fucking Falls, for cryin' out loud. If you're gonna go there to learn about it, fine, be my guest... but if your motivation is "I've got the money and I think Chernobyl is a cool place to go" then you're fucking kidding yourself- there are thousands of places far more worth your time.
This earns an epic fail for cultural rubbernecking.
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But....your username is nukeit!
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| Re: Would you make a Trip to Chernobyl? [message #334110 is a reply to message #334109] |
Sun, 08 June 2008 16:12 |
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| Canadacdn wrote on Sun, 08 June 2008 18:06 |
| NukeIt15 wrote on Sun, 08 June 2008 17:46 |
In a word: no.
In two words: hell no.
It's not just because of the radiation, either, though that's certainly a factor. There are some radioactive sites I would like to visit, like the Trinity test site in New Mexico. The main reason why I would never visit Chernobyl is because I find the whole trend of turning sites of accidental tragedies or major disasters into tourist traps disgusting. That's what it is, too. It's a place where a really fucked up series of mishaps led to a disaster which displaced thousands of people and changed the way most people look at nuclear power- but there have been worse disasters which were completely overlooked in which entire towns were evacuated and many people died because of an accident- many of them here in the US, even. You might as well go halfway around the world to ogle at a car wreck, for fuck's sake. An accident is an accident; it means somebody fucked up somewhere and it has no greater significance. Everything that can be learned from Chernobyl already has been learned- there is simply nothing there for future generations to ponder; there is no element of "we shall remember" to stick in your mind. It was an accident- one brought about by poor quality control and human error, not by design. Think Exxon Valdez, Space Shuttle Challenger, RMS Titanic. Chernobyl is fundamentally no different in the nature of the event than any of the above. While we shouldn't by any means let it fade from our collective memory, we shouldn't be packing our bags and our best dumb tourist outfits just to say we've seen where it happened; that's just stupid. Learning about events and places of historical significance is one thing; turning them into vacation trophies is quite another.
If you think any of that is false, check out the guy in the photo and tell me that isn't his best "I'm a cool dude who's been to more cool places than you" pose. That's a pose you'd strike while standing in front of Niagra fucking Falls, for cryin' out loud. If you're gonna go there to learn about it, fine, be my guest... but if your motivation is "I've got the money and I think Chernobyl is a cool place to go" then you're fucking kidding yourself- there are thousands of places far more worth your time.
This earns an epic fail for cultural rubbernecking.
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But....your username is nukeit!
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Nice One :'D
Canada i love your Posts & your Avatars :'D
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| Re: Would you make a Trip to Chernoyl? [message #334144 is a reply to message #334107] |
Sun, 08 June 2008 18:08 |
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| ಥ_ಥ wrote on Sun, 08 June 2008 19:03 |
lmao NukeIt, i just want to visit because im interessted, i respect that many peoples died there but i still want to visit, and please dont make to big posts because nobody will read it. Now stfu
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I find ALL of Nuke's posts very interesting and read them all. And he has a point.
I HATE when tragedies are turned into money-making tools. Look at what they did to the Titanic.
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