So I went to Chernobyl last week...
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
So you want to join the XMen at all cost? From one mutant to another: It usually is not worth it. What I got is absolutely useless.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
I don;t know if you can find it in Germany, but see if you can find episode 3 of Our Guy in Russia[^] - he's a truck mechanic and motorcycle racer / tv engineering bloke, and it's ... um ... interesting. He has cojones! There is a bit where you are only allowed to stop for 20 seconds to examine the Sarcophagus and he's reluctant to leave that quickly despite a countdown and his alarm bleeping away merrily... Surveying Chernobyl - YouTube[^].
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I don;t know if you can find it in Germany, but see if you can find episode 3 of Our Guy in Russia[^] - he's a truck mechanic and motorcycle racer / tv engineering bloke, and it's ... um ... interesting. He has cojones! There is a bit where you are only allowed to stop for 20 seconds to examine the Sarcophagus and he's reluctant to leave that quickly despite a countdown and his alarm bleeping away merrily... Surveying Chernobyl - YouTube[^].
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OriginalGriff wrote:
he's reluctant to leave that quickly despite a countdown and his alarm bleeping away merrily
This is just plain dumb, actually. Play with fire, speed, whatever, but radiations is definitely not a good idea.
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So you want to join the XMen at all cost? From one mutant to another: It usually is not worth it. What I got is absolutely useless.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
So ... what did you get ? I glow when I close my eyes, but it is useless to lighten up the dark, since ... I have to close my eyes.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
he's reluctant to leave that quickly despite a countdown and his alarm bleeping away merrily
This is just plain dumb, actually. Play with fire, speed, whatever, but radiations is definitely not a good idea.
I agree - you wouldn't get me anywhere near something that you can only look at for twenty seconds without damaging yourself! :laugh:
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I don;t know if you can find it in Germany, but see if you can find episode 3 of Our Guy in Russia[^] - he's a truck mechanic and motorcycle racer / tv engineering bloke, and it's ... um ... interesting. He has cojones! There is a bit where you are only allowed to stop for 20 seconds to examine the Sarcophagus and he's reluctant to leave that quickly despite a countdown and his alarm bleeping away merrily... Surveying Chernobyl - YouTube[^].
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Your guy in Russia got the country wrong :p
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Not really - it was in Ukraine, but part of the USSR when the accident happened. And it was a very "Russian accident" ...
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So ... what did you get ? I glow when I close my eyes, but it is useless to lighten up the dark, since ... I have to close my eyes.
Four more bones than everyone else. The doctor looked at my left foot after a small accident and found two tiny dots next to my big toe. First he thought they were bone splinters that were left over from an older accident, but I never had anything like that. Then he looked at my other foot and found the same little bones there as well. Not really good for anything, so the XMen did not want to have me. :-)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
Bit Bizzar, but I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about it, a Day's Inn in Florida. The news had a thing on it for about a minute with a green cloud covering most of Europe! then they went to more important stuff about a farmer who had record braking calf!
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
Did you see the elephants foot? :)
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
Rage wrote:
pparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago
Yes, only a month or two ago in fact. HBO's Chernobyl. It's actually a dramatized mini-series, not a documentary, but it's quite close to the facts. They took liberties with some of the characters for the purposes of telling the story, and it shows one or two scenes which only happened in anecdotal, and therefore unreliable, testimony. But it's very, very well put together and hugely gripping.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Bit Bizzar, but I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about it, a Day's Inn in Florida. The news had a thing on it for about a minute with a green cloud covering most of Europe! then they went to more important stuff about a farmer who had record braking calf!
Yeah, me too. Downwind. (Although about 800 miles away, so I doubt I've been too irradiated, even though I was downwind for 4 years.)
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
Rage wrote:
so I took a tour to Chernobyl
So starting next week you'll probably want to change your profile name to "12 Finger Rage" or something like that... :doh:
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
Rage wrote:
They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced
[XKCD](https://xkcd.com/radiation/) for reference.
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night. It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
Rage wrote:
so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks
If you merge enough tourists together fast enough, do you get tourist confusion?
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I agree - you wouldn't get me anywhere near something that you can only look at for twenty seconds without damaging yourself! :laugh:
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I got a radiation burn yesterday. Spent too much time at the beach.
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Bit Bizzar, but I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about it, a Day's Inn in Florida. The news had a thing on it for about a minute with a green cloud covering most of Europe! then they went to more important stuff about a farmer who had record braking calf!
glennPattonWork wrote:
a farmer who had record braking calf
I 'll bet that calf stopped in its tracks!
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So you want to join the XMen at all cost? From one mutant to another: It usually is not worth it. What I got is absolutely useless.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
CodeWraith wrote:
So you want to join the XMen at all cost?
Gamma rays = the Hulk! Hand in your nerd badge and lightsabre on the way out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
