A ride through a Ghost Town

[Noite Escura]

I was not sure if I should post this here or in SE, but I thought thios is too serious for Speak Easy. This girl has got a bike ride around Chernobyl area. The pictures are amazing and the history also. Something that shall never be forgotten...
Read all the way thru the end:

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

 

[Huge]

Discovery had something on this a while back.

 

[Stop Laughing]

All I can say: Wow.

 

[Inkara1]

I found it interesting that it takes 100 times as much radiation to kill a cockroach as it does a man. The firefighters first on the scene when the reactor blew were zapped quickly, but the levels weren't high enough to kill any roaches in the area.

I believe it, though.

 

[Inkara1]

Oops, I misread. The dose of radiation listed to kill a human was over the course of 5 hours, and the amount of radiation the plant was putting out was listed over the course of one hour. So if the plant had a roach problem before, it didn't after. Not that roaches would be very high on the list of worries after a meltdown.

 

[Stop Laughing]

It makes perfect sense though. Cockroaches aren't even close to as complex as us. If they can survive without a head until they starve, what's a few thousand roentgens? Is there some reason cockroaches seem to be so hard to kill except for the splat method?

 

[Inkara1]

I dunno, dousing one with half a can of raid also seems to work pretty well.

 

[ImRaptor]

Ball pein hammer all the way.
Course, roaches are extremely rare in Sask, but the same principle applies to Grasshoppers.