Captivating - Chernobyl "dead zone"

[Handruin]

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I thought this was a very interesting read. I saw this on another forum and thought some of you might want to read more about a personal tour of the Chernobyl "dead zone" area...

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/page2.html

 

[zx]

Amazing...

 

[Howell]

Interesting.

 

[jtr1962]

Those pictures of the dead city are haunting. I also wasn't aware that the death toll was so high.

 

[Handruin]

yes, they are very haunting. To be able to go into a large city and hear nothing but the wind...It was interesting to read about the radiation levels if you strayed off the road. I think she wrote the numbers doubled within a few feet...scary.

 

[ddrueding]

Yeah, the first (well maybe second) thing I though of was..."damn, how much to get me and a motorcycle over there?"

 

[ddrueding]

Well, it got slashdotted. Which one of you did it?

 

[GMac]

The original link's dead now

GM

 

[CityK]

Its been mirrored

Can someone tell me what the point of slashdot is? Everytime I have a look at the comments attached to any particular story, it would appear that they are just a collection of noise.

The other thing that cross my mind is whether or not the slashdot crowd can manipulated for alteriative motives i.e. intentionally knocking servers offline

 

[Mercutio]

Slashdot's discussions can, in some cases be highly, HIGHLY technical and educational, especially if you browse at high moderation levels (+3 and up). Sometimes you can even talk to tech luminaries, if you're lucky - I had a couple of back-and-forth comments with Lawrence Lessig once, for instance. If you spend quality time at lower moderation levels, you'll run into lots of funny things and off-topic sub-discussions that can be quite enlightening. I've probably learned more stuff that's useful to me as a day-to-day tech from slashdot than I did in getting my Bachelor's.