Ghost town pictures

Ramrod · 06-06-2005, 10:40

link.......interesting stuff.........

orangebird · 06-06-2005, 10:42

Oooh, great site! I love things like that. Have a greenie

In a similar vein, this site about old disused tube stations is (IMsadO), a really good read.

TheBlueRaja · 06-06-2005, 10:43

Is it just me or is Ironton right outta Blair Witch?

Chimaera · 06-06-2005, 10:52

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Originally Posted by orangebird

Oooh, great site! I love things like that. Have a greenie

In a similar vein, this site about old disused tube stations is (IMsadO), a really good read.

That's an amazing site OB - to think of all the hundreds of times I've travelled on the Underground and never noticed any of the things mentioned on there - I'll have a good look next time I'm in London.

jtwn · 06-06-2005, 11:02

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

Ramrod · 06-06-2005, 11:31

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Originally Posted by jtwn

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

Nice find. Awesome pics.
I knew someone who was forced to go to Chernobyl to help contain it. He died soon afterwards of a brain tumour.............

TheBlueRaja · 06-06-2005, 11:32

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Originally Posted by jtwn

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

Good read!

Ramrod · 06-06-2005, 11:32

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Usually, on this leg of the journey, a beeping geiger counter inspires to shift into high gear and streak through the area with great haste. The patch of trees in front of me is called red - or 'magic" wood. In 1986, this wood glowed red with radiation. They cut them down and buried them under 1 meter of earth.

The readings on the asphalt paving is 500 -3000 microroentgens, depending upon where you stand. That is 50 to 300 times the radiation of a normal environment. If I step 10 meters forward, geiger counter will run off the scale. If I walk a few hundred meters towards the reactor, the radiation is 3 roentgens per hour - which is 300,000 times normal. If I was to keep walking all the way to the reactor, I would glow in the dark tonight. Maybe this is why they call it magic wood. It is sort of magical when one walks in with biker's leather and walks out like a knight in a shining armor.

TheBlueRaja · 06-06-2005, 11:47

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In Ukrainian language ( where we don't like to say "the") Chernobyl is the name of a grass, wormwood (absinth). This word scares the holy bejesus out of people here. Maybe part of the reason for that among religious people is because the Bible mentions Wormwood in the book of the revelatons - which fortells the end of the world....

REV 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

REV 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Millay · 06-06-2005, 12:03

http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/belsize.html

is my favourite especially the mercury arc rectifier still working away since 1941...

jtwn · 06-06-2005, 12:06

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Usually, on this leg of the journey, a beeping geiger counter inspires to shift into high gear and streak through the area with great haste. The patch of trees in front of me is called red - or 'magic" wood. In 1986, this wood glowed red with radiation. They cut them down and buried them under 1 meter of earth.

The readings on the asphalt paving is 500 -3000 microroentgens, depending upon where you stand. That is 50 to 300 times the radiation of a normal environment. If I step 10 meters forward, geiger counter will run off the scale. If I walk a few hundred meters towards the reactor, the radiation is 3 roentgens per hour - which is 300,000 times normal. If I was to keep walking all the way to the reactor, I would glow in the dark tonight. Maybe this is why they call it magic wood. It is sort of magical when one walks in with biker's leather and walks out like a knight in a shining armor.

Yeah, I remember the first time i read that bit, sent shivers down me spine..

AndrewJ · 06-06-2005, 12:21

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Originally Posted by jtwn

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

Amazing read, honestly perhaps one of the best I have ever seen ever.

You deserve a rep to a gold pip for that post.

greencreeper · 06-06-2005, 12:48

I've enjoyed reading the links in this thread - from the interesting to the terrifying. The ghost towns are very American - you need the space. We have ghost towns in the UK, known as "pit villages", but we still occupy them. Hmmm. I wonder what goes through the mind of a man disabling the safety systems on a nuclear reactor??

A gay community website I'm a member of was planning on running a "trip" to Chernobyl. It beggers belief.

fireman328 · 06-06-2005, 12:56

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Originally Posted by orangebird

Oooh, great site! I love things like that. Have a greenie

In a similar vein, this site about old disused tube stations is (IMsadO), a really good read.

That link to the tube history site is awesome !
I thought I knew a lot about the Underground after spending some of my time pulling bits of people from underneath trains but that site is amazing and is safely lodged in my favourites thanks again

orangebird · 06-06-2005, 13:12

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Originally Posted by fireman328

That link to the tube history site is awesome !
I thought I knew a lot about the Underground after spending some of my time pulling bits of people from underneath trains but that site is amazing and is safely lodged in my favourites thanks again

My pleasure. I've gone over that site about 8 times, and never get bored of reading it.