"Daniel-San" wrote in message
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jcook wrote...

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The original was better ;-) A few years ago this person's trip through
Chernobyl land got quite a bit of emailing around (enough to get a web
domain, I guess):

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/


I've been interested in the aftermath of Chernobyl since I first saw the
"kid of speed" essay a few years ago. You're quite correct that hers is
much more interesting (and in-depth), but for some reason, the more recent
pics reinforced the eerieness of the area. It's the whole ghost town
thing, I suppose -- life just stopped happening here. Unlike the abandoned
towns of, for example, the gold rush era or the Route 66 era in the US, in
the Chernobyl area, life literally stopped.

Well, human life, anyway.

Coincidence, once again, is as mystifying as it is powerful. Just this
morning I started reading a book about Siberia. The first short chapter is
devoted to the Tunguska event, which resulted (among other things) in the
native population avoiding the area for a long time. In the case of
Chernobyl, we know very well why the place is, as it should be, avoided by
humans......not so in the case of Tunguska. At any rate, life still abounds
in both places.

Wolfgang