I really wanna go

12/13/2010 4:39:11 PM

Ill chip in on airfare.

12/13/2010 4:41:00 PM

I hear its pretty warm year round

12/13/2010 4:41:57 PM

^^

[Edited on December 13, 2010 at 4:42 PM. Reason : ^]

12/13/2010 4:42:30 PM

I'd go

12/13/2010 5:02:49 PM

Watch out for the stalkers and you better bring me back an artifact.

12/13/2010 5:16:38 PM

12/13/2010 5:18:56 PM

12/13/2010 5:20:11 PM

I thought that looked like Chernobyl weed.

Classification:

Sex : Regular
Type : Mostly sativa
Flowering : Photoperiod
Genetics : Trainwreck X Trinity X Jack the Ripper
Flowering Time : Medium, Long
Outdoor Harvest : Sept / Oct
Height : Tall
THC Level : High
Characteristics : Good for pain relief & muscle tremors

LOL@Genetics.

12/13/2010 5:23:01 PM

50,000 people used to live here...now it's a ghost town...

12/13/2010 8:54:14 PM

^ I've never actually seen any ghosts in the pictures I've seen.

12/13/2010 8:56:22 PM

I'm like the sixth sense kid and you're not.

12/13/2010 9:05:16 PM

i, too, have played Call of Duty Modern Warfare

12/13/2010 9:06:43 PM

I'd definitely go. I've looked at so many pictures of that place. It's fascinating.

12/13/2010 9:07:04 PM

Make sure you set up claymores near the ferris wheel.

12/13/2010 9:08:45 PM

400m away from the reactor (max allowed)” “2.0 rt being off-scale of the reader-device. average radiation level of a non contaminated area: 0.010 rt/m2

12/14/2010 7:17:23 AM

love the pictures...i've seen them a couple of times

12/14/2010 8:04:17 AM

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"Make sure you set up claymores near the ferris wheel."

12/14/2010 8:09:19 AM

Well, soon you can (legally)

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"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121301351_pf.html KIEV, Ukraine -- Want a better understanding of the world's worst nuclear disaster? Come tour the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Beginning next year, Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy that occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday. Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation over a large swath of northern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people were resettled from areas contaminated with radiation fallout in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Related health problems still persist. The so-called exclusion zone, a highly contaminated area within a 30-mile (48-kilometer) radius of the exploded reactor, was evacuated and sealed off in the aftermath of the explosion. All visits were prohibited. Today, about 2,500 employees maintain the remains of the now-closed nuclear plant, working in shifts to minimize their exposure to radiation. Several hundred evacuees have returned to their villages in the area despite a government ban. A few firms now offer tours to the restricted area, but the government says those tours are illegal and their safety is not guaranteed. Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova said experts are developing travel routes that will be both medically safe and informative for Ukrainians as well as foreign visitors. She did not give an exact date when the tours were expected to begin. "There are things to see there if one follows the official route and doesn't stray away from the group," Yershova told The Associated Press. "Though it is a very sad story." The United Nations Development Program chief Helen Clark toured the Chernobyl plant together with Baloha on Sunday and said she supported the plan because it could help raise money and tell an important lesson about nuclear safety. "Personally I think there is an opportunity to tell a story here and of course the process of telling a story, even a sad story, is something that is positive in economic terms and positive in conveying very important messages," said Clark, according to her office. The ministry also said Monday it hopes to finish building a new safer shell for the exploded reactor by 2015. The new shelter will cover the original iron-and-concrete structure hastily built over the reactor that has been leaking radiation, cracking and threatening to collapse. The new shell is 345 feet (105 meters) tall, 853 feet (260 meters) wide and 490 feet (150 meters) long. It weighs 20,000 tons and will be slid over the old shelter using rail tracks. The new structure will be big enough to house the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris or the Statue of Liberty in New York. The overall cost of project, financed by international donors, has risen from $505 million (euro380 million) to $1.15 billion (euro870 million) because of stricter safety requirements, according to Ukrainian officials. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which manages the project, said a final estimate of the project's cost will be released after the French-led consortium Novarka finalizes a construction plan in the next few months. "

12/14/2010 8:14:22 AM

My classmate is from there!

She's not allowed to donate blood or anything

12/14/2010 8:28:13 AM

lol wut

12/14/2010 8:33:47 AM

awesome

12/14/2010 8:37:15 AM

She shouldn't be allowed to breed.

12/14/2010 8:38:23 AM

^^^^ your classmate is from prypiat?

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"lol wut"

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM. Reason : carats]

12/14/2010 8:38:39 AM

Not sure what suburb or whatever it would be called, but she is from Chernobyl. Her dad is a doctor and I'm pretty sure he applied for immigration to the US soon after it happened.. but it took them something like 7 years to actually get out of there so they came over in the 1990s.

Crazy shit

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 8:42 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 8:42 AM. Reason : I can't type today]

12/14/2010 8:41:42 AM

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"Not sure what suburb or whatever it would be called, but she is from Chernobyl."

chernobyl is the name of the power plant...it's like saying she's from shearon harris

12/14/2010 8:44:32 AM

V

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 8:47 AM. Reason : .]

12/14/2010 8:46:34 AM

Quote :

"Chernobyl (IPA: [t??'rnob?l?]) or Chornobyl (Ukrainian: ?????????, pronounced [t??r'n?b?l?]), is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast (Province), near the border with Belarus. The city used to be the administrative center of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932. The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) north-northwest. The power plant was within Chernobyl Raion (District), but the city was not the residence of the power plant workers. When the power plant was under construction, Prypiat, a city larger and closer to the power plant, had been built as home for the power plant workers. After the accident the Chernobyl Raion administration was transferred to the neighboring Ivankiv Raion."

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 8:47 AM. Reason : moar]

12/14/2010 8:46:50 AM

Hmmmmm imagine that.

12/14/2010 8:47:43 AM

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"Chernobylite is the name cited by two media sources[6][7] for highly radioactive, unusual and potentially novel crystalline formations found at the Chernobyl power-plant after the explosion. These formations were found in the basement below Reactor #4 during an investigation into missing reactor fuel.[8]"

That is pretty awesome

12/14/2010 8:49:22 AM

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"400m away from the reactor (max allowed)” “2.0 rt being off-scale of the reader-device. average radiation level of a non contaminated area: 0.010 rt/m2"

If 400m is the max allowed from the reactor, why are there people 50 meters closer in that pic?

12/14/2010 8:49:32 AM

^

Quote :

""hey! Y'all watch "is""

12/14/2010 8:55:37 AM

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"Her dad is a doctor and I'm pretty sure he applied for immigration to the US soon after it happened.. but it took them something like 7 years to actually get out of there so they came over in the 1990s."

You could apply to immigrate out of the Soviet Union?? I was unaware of this.

12/14/2010 8:57:57 AM

I guess so? All I know is it took them a long time from start to finish

And I don't think she wants kids

12/14/2010 9:04:30 AM

I'm pretty sure you could not. I had relatives behind the Iron Curtain...you couldn't just leave. Not even for "vacation".

12/14/2010 9:08:26 AM

I don't know - maybe she meant her dad looked into it? Regardless, they didn't come over until the mid 1990's or so

From what I can gather, Ukraine wasn't part of the Soviet Union as of 1991

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:15 AM. Reason : .]

12/14/2010 9:13:39 AM

As a nuclear scientist requesting to come to the US during the cold war? That would be called defecting, and it'd have happened with the quickness

12/14/2010 9:21:33 AM

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"Ukrainian: ?????????, pronounced [t??r'n?b?l?]"

looolol unicode fail

where's dat nvarchar qntmken

12/14/2010 9:25:49 AM

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"From what I can gather, Ukraine wasn't part of the Soviet Union as of 1991"

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"I'm pretty sure he applied for immigration to the US soon after it happened"

7 years after the fact =/ soon after it happened

just saying...

12/14/2010 9:35:56 AM

get out of here stalker

12/14/2010 9:42:07 AM

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"it took them something like 7 years to actually get out of there "

90's makes sense, no more soviet union

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM. Reason : durrr]

12/14/2010 9:44:24 AM

If I go I'll come back with superpowers right?

12/14/2010 9:44:51 AM

LOOK WE JUST SMELL BULLSHIT SAM

HOOK HER UP TO A GEIGER COUNTER OR I CALL SHENANIGANS

12/14/2010 9:51:19 AM

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"7 years after the fact =/ soon after it happened just saying..."

Where did I EVER say it was the exact year it happened?

And for the record, I said they APPLIED soon after it happened, and the process is what took 7 years

You even quoted where I said it!

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"I'm pretty sure he applied for immigration to the US soon after it happened"

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:53 AM. Reason : ^ inorite... Jesus Christ, why would anyone lie about this shit]

12/14/2010 9:51:53 AM

lol, yeah you could apply to leave the soviet union. i sure that would have worked out real well for the government.

12/14/2010 9:59:40 AM

Ok, now you're just trying to be an ass. If they waited until the second Ukraine was out of the Soviet Union, that would be about 5 years after the meltdown, which in the grand scheme of things is soon after it happened.

This isn't just some random chick at school, she's in my program and has to provide all her info as far as when she immigrated, everything.

Stop being a douche.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go study with my radioactive friend.

12/14/2010 10:04:36 AM

^^did you ever consider that what they were applying for was some kind of visa or immigration decision for here? which probably did/does take a few years, and figuring out where you are going seems kinda important if you want to leave.

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM. Reason : ,]

12/14/2010 10:04:46 AM

people being naive about the soviet union ITT



and...successful troll is successful

12/14/2010 10:07:14 AM

i mean, we aren't the ones who didn't know that there wasn't a soviet union in the "the 90's" (typically means more than the first year)

12/14/2010 10:09:22 AM

Nah, that's not really what was the argument. 7 years later isn't applying for immigrate "soon after". Soon after is within a year. The 90s is irrelevant.

The Soviet Union collapsing in 1991 had nothing to do with someone trying to immigrate out of Ukraine after an incident in 1986.

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 10:26 AM. Reason : ]

12/14/2010 10:24:27 AM