Playaa April 7, 2004 Share Playaa Member April 7, 2004 Very interesting such a compelling read...I say the woman is nuts...but then again I'd love to do the same thing...definatly check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa April 7, 2004 Author Share Playaa Member April 7, 2004 yeah, after reading the whole thing...I just feel...solemn, and quiet... I recommend everyone read this and think about how great your life really is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters April 7, 2004 Share gOOters Member April 7, 2004 Ive seen the site. I can actually almost understand her risking her life to do that. Looks like a trippy and pretty badass experience to be the only living soul in such a large area. trippy when you are in the city...badass when you are cruising through the woods and countryside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeabos April 7, 2004 Share Zeabos Member April 7, 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman April 7, 2004 Share Hitman Member April 7, 2004 Just... wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xterminator April 7, 2004 Share Xterminator Member April 7, 2004 (edited) it would scare me to do something like that. I'd be affraid of radiation Edited April 7, 2004 by Xterminator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san` April 7, 2004 Share san` GC Alumni April 7, 2004 no words can describe how i feel now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheepNutz April 7, 2004 Share SheepNutz Member April 7, 2004 That is very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchtower April 11, 2004 Share Watchtower Member April 11, 2004 Yeah wow. Nice link. Captivating. The things we've done to this planet... How could you ever clean that up? We are all affected. And it's getting worse! *Feels ill. I nominate for Pulitzer.. Great piece of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGSHaW April 11, 2004 Share BIGSHaW Member April 11, 2004 And yet NONE of us wouldlive without electricity.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubblegum Bandit April 11, 2004 Share Bubblegum Bandit Member April 11, 2004 I must agree that is extremely interesting. I am involved in the clean up of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility just outside of Denver, so I deal with radiation all day at work. Some things that she talks about don't sound right from what I was taught, such as wood absorbing radiation, however, her dad was a scientist that dealt with radiation. I'm going to pass this site along to some of the guys I work with who know a lot more about it than I do and see what they think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 11, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 11, 2004 Wow, I'm forwarding this to a few motorcycle buddies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBugs April 11, 2004 Share TheBugs Member April 11, 2004 very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san` June 24, 2004 Share san` GC Alumni June 24, 2004 Did anybody happen to save these pages as they aren't working anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL June 24, 2004 Share dwEEziL Member June 24, 2004 Hmm, do a search for "chernobyl motorcycle" and you will find many hits claiming that this was a hoax. Nothing on Snopes yet though. http://dbs.homeport.org/archives/000201.html http://johnford.net/mt/archives/chernobyl_...ride_a_hoax.php http://www.zx1112.bigbikeworld.com/forum/topic.asp?id=12404 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossad June 24, 2004 Share Mossad Member June 24, 2004 yea they no workie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer June 24, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member June 24, 2004 The bandwidth is probably maxed out. A friend I showed that to told me the other day it was on the Lycos Top 50 recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General J June 24, 2004 Share General J Member June 24, 2004 I have read that these are fake stories. There is a forum for people that write these. Can't remember the addy of it but it was posted on the ninja 250 rider club a while back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa June 25, 2004 Author Share Playaa Member June 25, 2004 so where exactly did the pictures come from then? I don't really care whether some human actually rode their motorcycle through there...I just really enjoyed the pictures and the thoughts of a place as silent and lonely as Chernobyl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer June 25, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member June 25, 2004 I don't think this one was fake. It showed the reactor and the abandoned equipment with the lady in some of the pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongHair June 25, 2004 Share LongHair Member June 25, 2004 (edited) Wowza, I finally found the page with the story (were there 24 chapters?) The pictures were VERY eerie Pretty scary stuff... (And I work with and around large amounts of radioactive material every day) The numbers she quoted as far as instantaneous death due to acute radiation exposure were perhaps a little exagerated. 500 REM(or RADs) in 5 hours will not drop a person instanteously dead.... they may go down, but with proper medical treatment it is possible to survive a Radiation dose this high althoguh with serious health effects. ie: I remember a few years back (maybe early 90's?) hearing of a criticality accident in Japan. Three inexperienced and untrained workers made the mistake of transporting too many nuclear power fuel rods in one container and what is known as a "prompt Criticality" occured. They were hit with a very very very large dose of radiation by today's industrial standards (5 REM/year in the U.S. under NRC regulations) One man died two weeks later from massive organ failures. I don't remmber the details, but for some reason their dosimetry was not functioning or they wreren't wearing any... but they estimate his dose to be around 850 REM instantaneously. The other two got doses a bit lower (550 and 650 I think is what was estimated) I think the 650 guy passed away like 5 years ago from unrelated causes( I wanna asay a car crash) and the third is still alive today, granted I believe he is now fighting Leukemia(probably caused by the dose) I could go on for quite sometime on this. But I'll sum up with a few facts. microREM's are nuthin... The background outside the facility I work at is around 5-10 microREM The background exposure rate in my office is about 20 microREM. The average person in the Midwest takes in roughly about 250-550 milli REM per yaer due to background radiation (cosmic rays, Radon Gas seeping from the soil, various naturally occuring radioactive materials in food ie: Potassium-40 is a high energy gamma emitter, medical x-rays, and we are all globally exposed to roughly about 5 mrem a year due to above ground nuclear weapons testing from the later half of the 20th century.) Radiation is scary to the public b/c it is not well understood by many.... including the media largely in part b/c of the reporting of 3-Mile Island. No reporter at the time coudl say "Radiation". It was always "Deadly Radiation" or "Dangerous Radiation". Oh, and before I sign off: Radiation does not "glow" per-se. The blue "glow" coming off of Fuel rods in a cooling pool is called a Cerenkov Glow. Its caused by the electrons being emitted from the rods moving faster than the speed of light. (In air or in a vacuum electrons cannot surpass the speed of light, but under water its possible) So NO I will not "glow" after working around radiation... that is unless I somehow get a massive electon/Beta Particle emitter attached to me and submerge myself underwater... but then the immediate danger isn't the radiation... its the possibilty of me drowning. Whoa... who put this soap box under my feet. LongHair aka: Noy Health Physicist (Radiation Safety Specialist) Edited June 25, 2004 by LongHair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san` June 25, 2004 Share san` GC Alumni June 25, 2004 Link please LH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san` June 25, 2004 Share san` GC Alumni June 25, 2004 Nevermind, found it HERE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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