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Bunny (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bunny) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank,@ 2004-09-14 16:27:00 |
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Nuclear wank
A Russian woman "Elena" posts a photo essay of her motorbike tour through Chernobyl's Dead Zone on her website.
Everyone is shocked and awed. David St Lawrence posts about it on his blog.
Cue first wank in the comments:
Chernobyl should be remembered, but hopefully not completely the way she tells it.
as not only a person who was evacuated from chernobyl, (Is there a jurisimprudence law about these kind of credentials?) but also a person who likes to read and research instead of pinning blame and making blanket statements, i would like to offer the following facts.
alexander akimov didn't push "the wrong button". a novice engineer would know not to design a reactor that can be destroyed by push of a button. he flipped a switch. an EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN switch, which was supposed to SHUT THE REACTOR DOWN. and it was the right thing to do. he followed the protocol. she doesn't mention that it was a gas explosion because xenon built up and the excess of neutrons was not absorbed (xenon poisoning). she also doesn't mention that the man who tried to stop the chain reaction died 3 weeks after the accident. she presents herself as a careless, insensitive and ignorant narrator.
she talks about serious issues and yet manages to smile and strike a pose for the camera, and then dares to call this site her "favorite part" of the ride! with this reaction, i doubt she ever lived there.
by the way, radiation does not "evaporate", and some of the numbers (death toll as well as levels of radiation) are misquoted.
- Veronika
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I think Veronicas pitiful attack is quite jelous and uncalled for. I would like to see what she has offered to justify the comments.
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I'm just a bit angered by Veronika's attack and hateful comments in regards to Elena
Veronika, Elena was just trying to let us know what happened from HER point of view and if you have something to say about it, then I suggest you post a website like Elena did.
The wank dies down, until a Mary Mucio reveals that Elena did not travel by motorbike through the Dead Zone, but by car. That she was not alone, but accompanied by her husband, a friend and an escort from the Zone administration. And that her representation of the Ghost Town Pripyat was false. In what way is never explained except for her husband putting a gas mask and photo of Lenin in a children's crib of the kindergarten to make a photo of it.
In the original thread posters seem to be more concerned with the existence of a husband rather than the faked facts.
David St Lawrence is also very disappointed in Elena:
I see this as a sort of Greek tragedy. Someone has a valid message to deliver to the world, and in the process adds untruth to the message. The end result is the social destruction (discrediting) of the messenger.
In the comments you can find wank, Robert Heinlein quotes, wank and wank.
To add insult to injury to this piece of radioactive wankery, Neil Gaiman chimes in.
A Russian woman "Elena" posts a photo essay of her motorbike tour through Chernobyl's Dead Zone on her website.
Everyone is shocked and awed. David St Lawrence posts about it on his blog.
Cue first wank in the comments:
Chernobyl should be remembered, but hopefully not completely the way she tells it.
as not only a person who was evacuated from chernobyl, (Is there a jurisimprudence law about these kind of credentials?) but also a person who likes to read and research instead of pinning blame and making blanket statements, i would like to offer the following facts.
alexander akimov didn't push "the wrong button". a novice engineer would know not to design a reactor that can be destroyed by push of a button. he flipped a switch. an EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN switch, which was supposed to SHUT THE REACTOR DOWN. and it was the right thing to do. he followed the protocol. she doesn't mention that it was a gas explosion because xenon built up and the excess of neutrons was not absorbed (xenon poisoning). she also doesn't mention that the man who tried to stop the chain reaction died 3 weeks after the accident. she presents herself as a careless, insensitive and ignorant narrator.
she talks about serious issues and yet manages to smile and strike a pose for the camera, and then dares to call this site her "favorite part" of the ride! with this reaction, i doubt she ever lived there.
by the way, radiation does not "evaporate", and some of the numbers (death toll as well as levels of radiation) are misquoted.
- Veronika
----
I think Veronicas pitiful attack is quite jelous and uncalled for. I would like to see what she has offered to justify the comments.
---
I'm just a bit angered by Veronika's attack and hateful comments in regards to Elena
Veronika, Elena was just trying to let us know what happened from HER point of view and if you have something to say about it, then I suggest you post a website like Elena did.
The wank dies down, until a Mary Mucio reveals that Elena did not travel by motorbike through the Dead Zone, but by car. That she was not alone, but accompanied by her husband, a friend and an escort from the Zone administration. And that her representation of the Ghost Town Pripyat was false. In what way is never explained except for her husband putting a gas mask and photo of Lenin in a children's crib of the kindergarten to make a photo of it.
In the original thread posters seem to be more concerned with the existence of a husband rather than the faked facts.
David St Lawrence is also very disappointed in Elena:
I see this as a sort of Greek tragedy. Someone has a valid message to deliver to the world, and in the process adds untruth to the message. The end result is the social destruction (discrediting) of the messenger.
In the comments you can find wank, Robert Heinlein quotes, wank and wank.
To add insult to injury to this piece of radioactive wankery, Neil Gaiman chimes in.
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