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I have been searching with no avail for pictures of deformities and plants, animals and people, due to the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant disaster. I need this for a project. Does anyone know of such links? I am an engineering student working on a project related to human factors resulting in engineering failures. I just need to present a few pictures to emphasize the sheer scale of Chernobyl as a GAFU (God Almighty f*ckup).

C'mon! Roll in the freak show!

Where's all the tree huggers in this forum when you need 'em?

it is YOUR freak show, and you are the one and only freak starring in it.


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Try here, it was at the top of the list.
Just type that russian reactors name for more, theres heaps of em.

EDIT: Sorry my mouse isnt working properly,again, so just type Chernobyl(sp) and copy the address yourself, sorry.

it is YOUR freak show, and you are the one and only freak starring in it.


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My freak show? I only need the pictures for my assignment. You think I'm going to frame 'em and hang 'em?

Try here, it was at the top of the list.
Just type that russian reactors name for more, theres heaps of em.

EDIT: Sorry my mouse isnt working properly,again, so just type Chernobyl(sp) and copy the address yourself, sorry.

What search engine are you referring to?

What search engine are you referring to?

Google.

http://8guest.online.com.ua/photo/kossin/chernobyl/aK-Ch18.jpg
http://www.ki4u.com/chernobyl.gif
http://www.cmc.ec.gc.ca/~arqidor/ctbto/Chernobyl.gif

I don't think you'll get too many new pictures as it was so radioactive all they could do was dump tonnes of cement on top of it.

Apparently, I found more pictures of mutated children in Altavista than with Google. The world's most popular search engine only gave pictures of sealed reactor, and some examples of radiological spread.

There is actually suprisingly little mutation in the species around Chernobyl. (No extra ears or anything like that)
The biggest problem is leukaemia and cancers from impure water.

http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/environment/Envir00_01/p6/ISGpd6/picturesofdisasters.htm

several semi-decent pictures there.

A couple of years ago I went to Chernobyl, inside the exclusion zone where the radiation is still very high - highest on earth I think.

There were no animal mutations to see (though that's not to say there weren't internal problems, cancer etc). In fact the animal population was thriving because there were no humans alowed in the zone. There were wild boar. The air was full of birds.
The plant mutation was small - for example unusual leaf growth, extra leaves on clusters - nothing that an untrained eye would have picked out.

Lots of smashed up tanks and helicopters though.

There was severe mutation amongst the species (usually upon closer inspection), with cleft lips and missing eyes, plants had asymmetrical leaves. Although the human exodus from the area has left it as a strange 'radiological reserve' with an abundance of traditional wildlife (e.g. bears, boars and wolves), it is suspected they were born with cancer.

A couple of years ago I went to Chernobyl, inside the exclusion zone where the radiation is still very high - highest on earth I think.

There were no animal mutations to see (though that's not to say there weren't internal problems, cancer etc). In fact the animal population was thriving because there were no humans alowed in the zone. There were wild boar. The air was full of birds.
The plant mutation was small - for example unusual leaf growth, extra leaves on clusters - nothing that an untrained eye would have picked out.

Lots of smashed up tanks and helicopters though.
Apparently wild horses are making a comeback there as well.
It's the only place in Europe. (I think)

Despite sh*t like Chernobyl, I'm still ardently pro-nuclear. The moral of the sotry is, don't get a Soviet reactor! LOL

Does nobody else find the idea of a radioactive nature reserve sound really fascinating? No? That'd just be me then. But seriously they have voles in the exclusion zone that are genetically more different from other voles than mice are to rats and albino swallows and all sorts. http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,257708,00.html

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

Best pictures of Chernobyl Ghost Town.

try this, photos in the chernobyl area by a photographer named paul fusco.

http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/FramerT_MAG.aspx?Stat=Portfolio_DocThumb&V=CDocT&E=2K7O3RSPPMM&DT=ALB

Apparently wild horses are making a comeback there as well.
It's the only place in Europe. (I think)

We have wild Ponies in the New Forest in the UK

Fascinating stuff.

I have been searching with no avail for pictures of deformities and plants, animals and people, due to the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant disaster. I need this for a project. Does anyone know of such links? I am an engineering student working on a project related to human factors resulting in engineering failures. I just need to present a few pictures to emphasize the sheer scale of Chernobyl as a GAFU (God Almighty f*ckup).

C'mon! Roll in the freak show!I really hope that was a honest slip up on your part, and you don't always sound like such a callous bastard. Because when you start to talk about victims of the worst civilian nuclear disaster in human history, their children, and their childrens children in a cycle for the next just who knows how many generations, you're the abhorent thing on show then, get it ?

If you're really doing a project, I hope you've covered the horrific thyroid cancer rates they have now, especially in teen-agers, of all people. If you're lucky, you'll have it found early on, and keep your vocal-cords. If you're not, you may not keep your vocal-cords at all. If of course it is a benign one in the first place. Or the " Chernobyl Heart " syndrome, that is killing more children ( And I mean - children - here ) every year because they can't get the life-saving surgery for it. Because the medi-patch thinger to be placed into their heart, plus operating time + materials, cost several hundred / thousand US dollars each operation, which can be more then the yearly wage of the average " nuclear " family there, with both parents working. If they can get work, of course. Now and again American doctors and surgical teams volunteer to fly over and preform the surgery, but they can only just about put a small dint in the over-all figure of those suffering from the condition.

I wonder if you'll be able to find the pictures that they wouldn't even show on the late-night aired documentaries made in the past 5 years, one of which won a rather important award, I think ... of kids so badly messed up by birth defects they wouldn't be shown on camera when they visited one of the few special hospitals operating for their care. And if you've found the picture of the toddler living with their brain out-side and on the back of their skull ? That is just a really weak taster of what you can see, for you, I'm so very sad to say. Or maybe you'll see it mentioned that those with mental defects ( Common thing, you know. ) end up being eventually sent to sanitoriums with dangerous / criminal patients, often quite un-supervised, when they're older and it is " legal " if not ethical, to do so. not that the doctors get all that much of a choice. If they do live that long, of course. Quite a lot of " of course "'s to fill to get that far.

Still, enjoy your " freak show ".

Just one or two pictures of 'freaks' are enough. My poster report requires a shocking centerpiece to grab reader attention. Pictures of abandonment and such, I'm not so interested in.

I really hope that was a honest slip up on your part, and you don't always sound like such a callous bastard. Because when you start to talk about ]victims of the worst civilian nuclear disaster in human history, their children, and their childrens children in a cycle for the next just who knows how many generations, you're the abhorent thing on show then, get it ?

Hey man, take it easy.

Just as a personal opinion, "Roll in the freak show" was an amazingly thoughtless, unkind and disasterously poor choice of words.

Just one or two pictures of 'freaks' are enough. My poster report requires a shocking centerpiece to grab reader attention. Pictures of abandonment and such, I'm not so interested in.
Your insensitivity makes me disinclined to do your homework for you

He included people in his list of "freakes" it was pretty clear from his origional and subsiquent posts

If you are serious about Chernobyl, go to this link:

the empty land (http://kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html)

She doesn't have all of her photos up, or I'd post one in particular. One in particular, but they all stagger you, and wrap your mind around what happened, and the silent subtle aftermath the way little else can. The last one in chapter 27 especially. Prometheus indeed

What happened to the people and the land around about - they are NOT freaks and never ever should be called such.

That you Sino refer to those people in such a way speaks very poorly for you and makes me very disinclined to have any respect for you.

Just as a personal opinion, "Roll in the freak show" was an amazingly thoughtless, unkind and disasterously poor choice of words.

Looks like I'm not the only person on the net who can't tell arse from elbow, when it comes to online sarcasm!

It was apretty f***d thing to say mate, some things you just shouldnt even touch with sarcasm, imagine for instance, if your own parents were falling apart from radiation, and some guy deferred to them in kind of joking way as part of a freak show.

Looks like I'm not the only person on the net who can't tell arse from elbow, when it comes to online sarcasm!
That was hardly a good example of quality sarcasm and even if it was, not appropreate with dealing with harm of this magnitude (pfft this comming from one of the most irreverent people out there)

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97borg/pics/oldpics/chernobyl.jpg

If you are serious about Chernobyl, go to this link:

the empty land (http://kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html)

She doesn't have all of her photos up, or I'd post one in particular. One in particular, but they all stagger you, and wrap your mind around what happened, and the silent subtle aftermath the way little else can. The last one in chapter 27 especially. Prometheus indeed

What happened to the people and the land around about - they are NOT freaks and never ever should be called such.

That you Sino refer to those people in such a way speaks very poorly for you and makes me very disinclined to have any respect for you.

Elena's stuff is really good, did you ever take the opportunity to check out her "Modern Archaeological" set? WWII relics in the Ukraine, good stuff.

It was apretty f***d thing to say mate, some things you just shouldnt even touch with sarcasm, imagine for instance, if your own parents were falling apart from radiation, and some guy deferred to them in kind of joking way as part of a freak show.

I understand your idea, just as one must not make jokes about the Holocaust (even if one does), the nuclear Holocaust of Chernobyl must be looked at in serious and sympathetic light.

http://www.spaceman.ca/gallery/albums/chernobyl/image1.jpg

http://www.spaceman.ca/gallery/albums/chernobyl/image1.jpg

What the hell is all that red stuff?

What the hell is all that red stuff?

That looks really eerie...I'm also wondering...what IS it?

http://www.spaceman.ca/gallery/albums/chernobyl/image1.jpg

Wow! The Ivans have colored film? Most of the Chernobyl pictures taken not long after the accident were black and white.

Looks like I'm not the only person on the net who can't tell arse from elbow, when it comes to online sarcasm!
Dont worry, your just dealing with the fanatically politically correct. :rolleyes:

Perhaps you people need hobbies. This is not "Days Of Our Lives", you need only say "that was a dumb comment" and leave it at that. Furthermore only one person need say it.

Dont worry, your just dealing with the fanatically politically correct. :rolleyes:

Perhaps you people need hobbies. This is not "Days Of Our Lives", you need only say "that was a dumb comment" and leave it at that. Furthermore only one person need say it.
I am all fine with him having the viewpoint but I don’t have to do his homework from him after making it … defiantly loose my drive to do research he could do with Google and a little thought (yes how you word things makes a difference and people CAN learn to search better)
By the way it has nothing to do with PC it has Everything to do with civility

I understand your idea, just as one must not make jokes about the Holocaust (even if one does), the nuclear Holocaust of Chernobyl must be looked at in serious and sympathetic light.

Common, Who dosnt like a good holocaust joke? Dont be a bunch of whiney bitches. yes yes yes tragic a bunch of commies screwed up and nuked themselves, human suffering blah blah blah. Get over it. How many of you do an dang thing to change any of the suffering in this world? Besides the occasional dontaition to whatever "feed some starving 3rd world kid" fund of your choice?

If you are serious about Chernobyl, go to this link:

the empty land (http://kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html)

She doesn't have all of her photos up, or I'd post one in particular. One in particular, but they all stagger you, and wrap your mind around what happened, and the silent subtle aftermath the way little else can. The last one in chapter 27 especially. Prometheus indeed

What happened to the people and the land around about - they are NOT freaks and never ever should be called such.

That you Sino refer to those people in such a way speaks very poorly for you and makes me very disinclined to have any respect for you.


Darn you beat me to it. ;)

Despite sh*t like Chernobyl, I'm still ardently pro-nuclear. The moral of the sotry is, don't get a Soviet reactor! LOL
Don't bother with anything made by the Soviets, espescially if it were made on Mondays or Fridays.

Don't bother with anything made by the Soviets, espescially if it were made on Mondays or Fridays.

Oh I don't know. The T-34 and AK-47 seem to be ok.....

Elena's stuff is really good, did you ever take the opportunity to check out her "Modern Archaeological" set? WWII relics in the Ukraine, good stuff.

Yeah, I read through that a while back!

Really good stuff!

Don't bother with anything made by the Soviets, espescially if it were made on Mondays or Fridays.

On Fridays they go drinking right after work, Mondays are spent trying to recover from the weekend hangover. LOL!

Wow! The Ivans have colored film? Most of the Chernobyl pictures taken not long after the accident were black and white.
That's modern day.

Common, Who dosnt like a good holocaust joke? Dont be a bunch of whiney bitches. yes yes yes tragic a bunch of commies screwed up and nuked themselves, human suffering blah blah blah. Get over it. How many of you do an dang thing to change any of the suffering in this world? Besides the occasional dontaition to whatever "feed some starving 3rd world kid" fund of your choice?

I don't mind the occassional Jew or Black joke, I even enjoy telling them. That doesn't mean that I'm a racist, as these jokes are based on exaggerated stereotypes.

Yesterday I saw this billboard in the street, it had the picture of a very skinny dark girl, struggling to carry a metal bucket of water. The caption reads "Suwala has to walk 9km a day for water. Please donate to World Vision."

I kept on driving, the vivid image of that poster fresh in my mind. Suddenly a thought came into mind. "I think she should move!"

The world needs starving, improverished people so that the population can be kept down efficiently. If they can't help to sort themselves out (unlike the Chinese), then they're forever screwed.

Being an ethnic Ukranian and Kievite, I found your comment about "Freak Shows" to be warranting a 5-day ban.

You are an asshole for even daring to post sometihng like that. That is deeply painful to me.

Being an ethnic Ukranian and Kievite, I found your comment about "Freak Shows" to be warranting a 5-day ban.

You are an asshole for even daring to post sometihng like that. That is deeply painful to me.

Couldn't agree more, man.

CG -haven't had a chance to check it out yet. I intend to though,for if it is half as powerful as the Chrenobyl shoots it will be awesome. I wish she had all the pictures up. I first found a couple of years ago when she first put them on the web. The set up was rather disorganized, and the captions were just a line or two for each picture but some of them reached out and compelled as nothing else could. To see a place where the bank clock didn't tell the time, but the rads...to see from a high balcony, a city that looked like the people had just stepped away for a moment, but would be back...and know that they not only never would, but NEVER could... and to think of the glowing, the shining radioactive cloud that the people had such a fine view of...

Can you call yourself human and NOT be touched by that?

Being an ethnic Ukranian and Kievite, I found your comment about "Freak Shows" to be warranting a 5-day ban.

You are an asshole for even daring to post sometihng like that. That is deeply painful to me.

I'm sorry!

Oh I don't know. The T-34 and AK-47 seem to be ok.....
They were made on Wednesday and Thursday respectively :)

I have been searching with no avail for pictures of deformities and plants, animals and people, due to the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant disaster. I need this for a project. Does anyone know of such links? I am an engineering student working on a project related to human factors resulting in engineering failures. I just need to present a few pictures to emphasize the sheer scale of Chernobyl as a GAFU (God Almighty f*ckup).

C'mon! Roll in the freak show!
Go to google and type in Sadi Roche, or Chernobly Ireland, Chernobyl's Childrens Project. Also go to www.un.org as they did something a few years ago on chernobyl in NYC

I'm sorry!

You are forgiven.

Just understand, dear friend, that a disaster of such ferocity does not warrant joking.

You are forgiven.

Just understand, dear friend, that a disaster of such ferocity does not warrant joking.

Let's laugh at AIDS and make condom jokes!

There's nothing in the world so serious you can't laugh at it.

Edit: for instance, this quote from the KIDDofSPEED site, where a girl takes a motorcycle ride through the exclusion zone:

"It was quite boring to participate in an election with one candidate from one party, so the turnout was very low. That is, until the local officials hit upon the idea of offering free drinks in return for a vote. This inspired the electorate to become very interested in politics. The door on the right is free drink room and door on left is the election room. I don't know if the authorities came up with idea of making the day after the elections a holiday so the voters had time to sober up before returning to work. Old man who told me this story could not recall."