[Stradlater]

http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/index.html

Chilling photographic essay with some disturbing pictures of those affected still, so many years later. Thought I'd share.

EDIT: "Disturbing pictures" means disturbing pictures. Don't click through if you don't want to see people whose development has been abnormal because of the meltdown.

[Dark Helmet]

Last I read the animals are actually doing much better than expected and seem to have adapted. If you still live there you are a moron.

[Obi Wan's Ghost]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

Last I read the animals are actually doing much better than expected and seem to have adapted. If you still live there you are a moron.

What noise does a Chernobyl cow make?

Moo moo. It's fricking Siamese.

[CMYKid]

Cue fake motorcycle tour in 3..2..1..

[Stradlater]

That thread was already resuscitated and discredited a few days ago. Hopefully its presence won't further invade here.

[meelk]

added to the list of things I wish I had never clicked through

[Salty]

Honestly I have to wonder if anyone told these people, don't have children! I mean... are any of them surprised that their kids are turning up mutated?

[Spliff]

Well that was a cheery slideshow.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by CMYKid

Cue fake motorcycle tour in 3..2..1..

Fake?

Edit: Oh, she went on a tourist tour instead of a motorcycle trip. Still nice photos there though.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

Last I read the animals are actually doing much better than expected and seem to have adapted. If you still live there you are a moron.

"Research shows that the genetic material recovers after 200 generations." Animals tend to have a shorter generation span than humans.

Moving is not always an option if you are poor and have your whole life there. If you are not informed by your government of the actual dangers then you are even worse off.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Salty

Honestly I have to wonder if anyone told these people, don't have children! I mean... are any of them surprised that their kids are turning up mutated?

Originally Posted by Spliff

Well that was a cheery slideshow.

Fascinating how photography can be both beautiful and disturbing at the same time.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

That stuff is pretty crazy.

I think I know about the "fake motorcycle trip" site you're talking about…are the pictures real, however? I remember some of them being pretty moving.

greg

[Eriamjh]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton

That stuff is pretty crazy.

I think I know about the "fake motorcycle trip" site you're talking about…are the pictures real, however? I remember some of them being pretty moving.

greg

The pictures were real. They story, apparantly, was not. It's hard to fake a nuclear disaster.

[Eriamjh]

Originally Posted by Spliff

Well that was a cheery slideshow.

About as cheery as your signature.

[andi*pandi]

jesus.

[Monique]

You guys should read the article in the National Geographic, it is very interesting. In the article they were mentioning an older couple that went back because they preferred to die at home than anywhere else. And because of the level of radiation they suffered they were going to die.

[iREZ]

im not clicking that link...no way...no how, anybody wanna cure my curiosity and tell me what the images are of?

[CMYKid]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton

That stuff is pretty crazy.

I think I know about the "fake motorcycle trip" site you're talking about…are the pictures real, however? I remember some of them being pretty moving.

greg

real in the sense that they werent Photoshopped, but a lot of them were setups, posed, etc. A lot of the info was incorrect also, and I cant remember what we decided about whether "she" was a "he" or just Michael Jackson for that matter.

there was a good interview somewhere with the guide that took "it" out on the tour.

[driven]

I don't fully understand why the rest of the reactor was kept open for so long. what protected the workers? Certainly after 1990 (or earlier) everyone was aware of the danger. Did these folks have to wear space-suits into the exclusion zones?

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

Fascinating how photography can be both beautiful and disturbing at the same time.

Well I'm glad at least someone appreciated it.

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by iREZ

im not clicking that link...no way...no how, anybody wanna cure my curiosity and tell me what the images are of?

People who've grown abnormally or developed various diseases. You can probably see more disgusting things in Hollywood makeup, but the fact that these people and their plights are real makes things slightly more horrifying.

[andi*pandi]

what was just as eerie in its way as the babies with hydrocephalus, was the picture of the kid jumping in the river, the river that the caption says is contaminated, yet people still fish, drink, swim in it.