Picture story via motor bike through Chernobyl and the "dead zone",

If you have an Nuke positive friends have them look and read through this.

Chilling.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

And old news.

Those aren't Chernobyl pics? :shrug:

the amount of radiation still present, and the security she bypassed.

I'm just going off of memory though.

Double duty post. :)

thanks

But it made the rounds on the interwebs a couple of years ago. It shouldn't be hard to google.

Like what? Inquiring minds certainly want to know. Were the radiation counts fake? Did she Photoshop the ruined plant into a window of an abandoned apartment block in Minsk? Was the whole thing faked on a sound stage outside Moscow? Is she really a guy in drag? What?

Honestly, if she didn't ride a motorcycle (something I was a little skeptical of, anyway, since access is limited and heavily regulated), that's small stuff. That the "debunk" failed to list any errors in the photos themselves, I tend to take that with as much salt as I did the bike story.

If she lifted the shots from someone else's trip and photo essay, that's a shitty thing to do. Still, the photos themselves are haunting and beautiful, and very much like the scenes in a recent 60 Minutes episode that covered what happened to Chernobyl and Pripyat in the years since the disaster. That tour was guided and monitored for radiation hot spots to avoid, much the way that whoever took the photos must have been.

I had never heard about this being a hoax so I found a link for bornagin. I couldn't find anything on snopes.

I've followed this myself both independently and on this young woman's web site. I'm and ex-broken arrow team, NBC trained Navy Corpsman, and though the reactors now built are not graphite based, many in still in operation throughout the world are.

Time Bombs.

can you point me to the debunk information?

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/spring2007.html

"Ghost Town" was under attack since the day I put it online. Many do not appreciate my efforts. Chernobyl is a disaster we don't want to remember; it is human made and it never ends.

In 2004, my Chernobyl site was among the most visited sites on the internet. It is when my account was blocked and papers all around the world started writing that I was a commercial trick, computer game advertisement, photoshop etc., I succeeded to hit a raw nerve and I am proud about that. With all these experiences, I realized that one who wants to tell the truth must be able to stand for it, and this inspired me to create the second part of the Chernobyl story, "Land of the Wolves".

There is big money promised to be made in the atomic energy industry. Just 1 kg (2.2 pounds) of refined uranium shall produce about the same amount of energy as 50 freight cars fully loaded with coal (3,000 tons). Refined uranium, therefore, has nearly a 3 million to one advantage in shipping weight compared to coal. This naturally attracts powerful, big-money political and business connections whose only care is milking a cow without giving a damn about the safety of reactors or the health of people.

No matter how hard they tried to discredit my site, it is still here and more people continue to read it.

I am not pro- or anti- nuclear activist, I am just a pro-human author, who think that Chernobyl is a warning to mankind.

But thanks for posting for those who have not :)

Some of the pics are from Chernobyl, some are not. They weren't taken by the woman on the bike, she just posed for the one pic. It was put together as an art project by someone. The full story should be out there somewhere. It's still a neat collection.

she's in like a dozen of the pics...

The 2004 letter supposedly debunking the site was from a researcher with a legal department and vested interest.

Anyone ever find it on there?

some of those pictures are from around that area and its pretty scary seeing a whole town<city> evacuated like that...


That site reminds me of Blinky, the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons that Bart caught in the lake next to mr. burns plant...