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I’ve just been having a look at the google street view routes through Pripyat which are brilliant and well worth a look. One recent set of google sphere photos caught my eye though, someone has posted spheres from inside the new containment tent thingy, totally fascinating, I can only presume the photographer now glows in the dark! I’ve no idea how to post a link but it’s not hard to find. Enjoy!
Also saw this for the first time recently, suitable Chernobyl level bonkers: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/this-image-of-chernobyls-basement-is-genuinly-terrifying/
Looks like an old-school accidental double exposure on photographic film to me but who am I to contradict the internet?
This fascinating website belongs to the daughter of a Chernobyl technician who taught her all about safe radiation levels and she took advantage of the lack of people and vehicles to ride her motorbike extremely fast in the dead zone: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
A lot of the kiddofspeed thing turned out to be fake but it's still interesting to read
as another curious sight-seeing thing to do on street map / street view.....
California City - http://www.bldgblog.com/2009/11/california-city/
An ill-fated city that never got built - but if you look on google maps the streets have all been laid out and named - toggling between street view and satellite view the city seems to appear and disappear. A handful of people must have built into the dream because if you zoom in you find little isolated plots where houses have been built but they're surround buy miles of empty dusty roads. Some look like the kinds of compounds where mental survivalists would go to ground but some just like a typical suburban plot
@35.1456609,-117.9176856,12424m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c229d213a60943:0x3458deb43bf50b32!8m2!3d35.125801!4d-117.9859038">California City on google maps
Also saw this for the first time recently, suitable Chernobyl level bonkers:
That'll be the "elephants foot", made from corium. Apparently to find out what it was they used a marksman to shot a chunk off (it was way to radioactive to go near) and a childs remote control toy with a scoop to retrieve the bits shot off as the proper robots could not survive the radiation!
As stated in the article, sorry should've read the link first, D'oh
I like the selfie of the two guys in the control room.
California city might look shit but it still has a maccy d's....
there's some cool/obscure stuff parked up on the apron of the airport in CC (Anyone heard of a Fouga Magister?)
https://goo.gl/maps/gb2zzQ9LLfFJveJh6