Comments on: 20 Years After Chernobyl

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:44:45 +0000

@29 Its not Chernobyl in COD, its Pripyat [=

I want to visit these places someday

By: Danzuya

Danzuya — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:28:20 +0000

The ferris wheel mentioned earlier is actually the last stand off you have in the game ‘call of duty 4 modern warfare’ i was surprised to see it cos they often just make the levels up on those games but the layout of chernobyl seems to be pretty accurate.

By: DrSinn

DrSinn — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:48:34 +0000

Well actually i think the planes are censored for security purposes as you can imagine Ukraine and Russia DO have enemys and those enemys want to screw there enemies up, so what do they do? Try and stop the repairs being done on Chernobly, thus the sarcophogus will crumble and release massive radiation that is being blocked in for 20 years.

By: VTECnical

VTECnical — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:44:04 +0000

Why are the planes hidden?

By: Michael Elliott (amberwolf)

Michael Elliott (amberwolf) — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:37:16 +0000

Those planes at Gostomel Airport are definitely blanked out but I have no idea why. (if you save the jpg file and open it in any paint program, you can see that all the pixels of the blanked areas are (after accounting for JPG compression) the same color, and obscure details and shadows that would exist even if there were overexposure or glare, indicating someone has deliberately done this, though I do not know why they would).

I’d love to understand why someone would obliterate knowledge and information in this way. It feels like vandalism (though since the imagery is their own property, technically that’s not true).

By: Mark Kwiatkowski

Mark Kwiatkowski — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:17:04 +0000

The Chernobyl-2 site is infact an over-the-horizon radar system known to NATO as Steel Yard.

The use of the shortwave spectrum, which was sensitive to ionospheric refraction, allowed the Soviets to detect alterations in ionosphere propagation caused by the depletion of ions by missile exhaust plumes.

Transmission power on some woodpecker transmitters was estimated to be as high as 10 megawatts. As well as disrupting shortwave amateur radio and broadcasting it could sometimes be heard over telephone circuits due to the strength of the signals.

By: Gesh

Gesh — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:47:47 +0000

Wow… nature does take back what humans have cleared in a hurry.
check out the football field.
Google Maps Link

By: V

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:22:23 +0000

The white or light structure of he surface is ether sand or calcit. This is result of massive decontamination efforts. Now levels are way down from they were and people are working more than 20 minutes on the plant, except certain areas under sarcofagus which is covering reactor No 4.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:28:29 +0000

I was browsing around the town Pripyat, and noticed some strange effects. Reflection or what?

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: FROM RUSSIA

FROM RUSSIA — Wed, 03 May 2006 08:45:39 +0000

In water channels about a reactor catfishes in the size 3 meters are found. It you throw a long loaf of bread and they swallow it entirely. Horror…
P.S My English is vert bad, sorry…