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04/11/2004 11:49:32 PM · #1 |
sometimes you come across some individual's work, that isn't in some magazine or news program - but that tells an important story, and so vividly you can't turn away/put it down. that's what i think this person did, in photographs and accompanying text. but it's the photos the deliver the power of the message.
//www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html |
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04/12/2004 12:29:20 AM · #2 |
| Thanks for the link, Tom. A truly insightful story. |
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04/12/2004 11:25:27 PM · #3 |
| A story that calls for far greater exposure that it has had thusfar. I never realized the extent of the tragedy of Chernobyl. |
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04/12/2004 11:49:56 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Glen King:
A story that calls for far greater exposure that it has had thusfar. I never realized the extent of the tragedy of Chernobyl. |
It's pretty popular in the motorycle world. I've been following her website for some time. Some amazing stuff. I have some close friends from Russia so I've always been pretty "up" on that stuff, but so many don't really know the full effects over there.
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04/13/2004 04:41:16 AM · #5 |
devastating.
the journal and photographs say so much, esp. this one.. for me.
She is brave to go there to document this for others to see.
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04/13/2004 09:08:29 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Glen King:
A story that calls for far greater exposure that it has had thusfar. I never realized the extent of the tragedy of Chernobyl. |
Unfortunately you still don't. What this story fails to cover is the malformed children in Kiev and other areas around Chernobyl, or the increased leukaemia cases.
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II are still having after-effects now, how long will the after-effects of Chernobyl last? And I don't just mean how long it will take for the radiation to dissipate.
Something I would like to know more about is what happened at Windscale in Britain or on 3 mi. Island in the United States. Yes the Russians aren't alone, we beat them to it.
Nice to see the legacy of the Cold War being remembered. |
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04/13/2004 10:07:31 AM · #7 |
| Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the post Tom. |
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04/13/2004 10:25:21 AM · #8 |
This is quite interesting and original work not putted into some interactive stylish environment to hide the main subject.
But how many pages are there? Went through 20 and dont have time for more at the moment. |
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04/13/2004 03:38:48 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by sn4psh07:
Originally posted by Glen King:
A story that calls for far greater exposure that it has had thusfar. I never realized the extent of the tragedy of Chernobyl. |
Unfortunately you still don't. What this story fails to cover is the malformed children in Kiev and other areas around Chernobyl, or the increased leukaemia cases.
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II are still having after-effects now, how long will the after-effects of Chernobyl last? And I don't just mean how long it will take for the radiation to dissipate.
Something I would like to know more about is what happened at Windscale in Britain or on 3 mi. Island in the United States. Yes the Russians aren't alone, we beat them to it.
Nice to see the legacy of the Cold War being remembered. |
You are so right.
This is something I worry about quite often.
What about all the "testing" done in the desserts? What about all the things we are not even told about.
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We are killing each other and ourselves. |
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04/13/2004 04:57:26 PM · #10 |
Funny, when I entered my tree in the chaos challenge, I wanned to say in the comment "could be an effect of Cernobil" then I thought, probably many don't know what Cernobil means, and it may not be because I whas a child in the 80's I remember climbing that tree many times. Anyways, from what I heard from my parrents, the tragedy did not only affect that area, but the entire eastern europe. For years after it happened you could find areas of high radiations all the way from Vladivostok to Germany. Ofcourse nowhere as bad as it whas there, but number of cancers, malformations and other long term effects of exposure to radiations increased by alot after it all over europe. My country is neighbour to Ukraine, I live only 30 km from it, and I know there is a forest here in Romania that still holds high radiation values since then. I hear there whas a longer period of storms and bad weather after it, that spread it all over.
Great story, and I admire her for the courage of exposing herself, I'm thinking someone should probably publish it for the western world. I don't know how much you people know about it but for us here (behind the iron curtain) is probably one of the sadest things that happen during the cold war. Nothing but sad old news.
PS Some people say skyes were red that night here too but it might be only a story, a myth. You all know many people are verry imaginative when stuff like this happens. I heard many storries from religious to ones that involves extraterestrials and martians, so I don't know if that's true or not.
Message edited by author 2004-04-13 17:12:46. |
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04/13/2004 05:59:13 PM · #11 |
What a tragic and sad lesson. I really appreciate you sharing this with all of us. I was in high school when it happened, and of course, like most teens, it was far away and on another planet for all we knew. Becoming a parent gave me a different set of eyes with which to view everything, including places that aren't so far away now that I'm older.
Message edited by author 2004-04-13 17:59:47.
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