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Inside the Fukushima exclusion zone
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Hey so you guys like cool places right? A weird landmark, an abandoned mine you spelunked in, that picture of a tiny house on a giant hill, Pip's mom's butt, there are all sorts of crazy locations all over the world! This threads for sharing photos and stories of the crazy lands you've explored. Or saw on your tumblr feed and liked. Whatever!
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"You can't see it. It's not tangible. It's a fear of the unknown."
Patrik Lundin is telling me what it feels like to be surrounded by an invisible danger: high levels of radiation. Lundin's photography project, 36 Views of The Fukushima Dai-ichi Exclusion Zone, explores the effects of the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plant following the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. The work pays homage to Hokusai and is inspired by a series of woodcuttings, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, that the Japanese artist produced between 1826 and 1833.
Lundin, who is studying for a Masters in Photojournalism at the University of Westminster, spent seven days inside the exclusion zone, exposing himself to a total of 60μSv (microsieverts) of radioactive material. Although he was working in the 30km zone around the plant, where evacuation is voluntary (mandatory exclusion applies within 20km of the plant), he was stopped seven times by police who wanted to know what he was doing there.
Hey so you guys like cool places right? A weird landmark, an abandoned mine you spelunked in, that picture of a tiny house on a giant hill, Pip's mom's butt, there are all sorts of crazy locations all over the world! This threads for sharing photos and stories of the crazy lands you've explored. Or saw on your tumblr feed and liked. Whatever!
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population density: 1.3 million people per square km
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why
they had to light the streets with fluorescent bulbs because sun never reached the ground
I studied abroad in Spain 5 years ago, and this was probably the highlight of my travels. The Wiki article says it's popular, but my friend and I had to catch a regular city bus out of Seville out to the site, which was pretty uncrowded when we visited. (Of course, it was a pretty hot day in the middle of July.)
"In 1842, during Qing Emperor Daoguang's reign, Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain in accordance with the Treaty of Nanjing. As a result, the Qing authorities felt it necessary to improve the fort in order to rule the area and check further British influence. The improvements, including the formidable defensive wall, were completed in 1847. The Walled City was captured by rebels during the Taiping Rebellion in 1854 before being retaken a few weeks later.
The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory of 1898 handed additional parts of Hong Kong (the New Territories) to Britain for 99 years, but excluded the Walled City, which at the time had a population of roughly 700. China was allowed to continue to keep officials there as long as they did not interfere with the defence of British Hong Kong. The following year, the Governor, Sir Henry Blake, suspected that the Viceroy of Canton was using troops to aid resistance to the new arrangements. On 16 May 1899, British forces attacked the Walled City, only to find the Viceroy's soldiers gone, leaving behind only the mandarin and 150 residents.
Though the British claimed ownership of the Walled City, they did little with it over the following few decades. The Protestant church established an old people's home in the Yamen, as well as a school and almshouse in other former offices."
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That one?
What about that huge cave you can skydive into?
Or, wasn't there a forumer on here who went exploring a missile silo? And it was the best place ever.
EDIT: Booyah
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/141306/exploring-a-titan-silo-awesome-ive-always-wanted-nightmares-forver/p1
edit: Whoops, same time'd
The Missile Silo Boomerjinks went exploring is the scariest place on earth.
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i really want to visit cambodia when im old and rich
vietnam?
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off that edge is a 2000-foot drop right into the fjord
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mount roraima, bordering venezuela, brazil and guyana
every side is a sheer vertical cliff
it gets so much rainfall that nutrients are washed straight off, and has the highest waterfalls on earth
I walked up that ramp. In 105°F weather.
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Today you - yes, even YOU! - can visit scenic Uijeongbu!
Here is a place where I was over the weekend. These are the photos that everyone takes, but let me tell you, there is a reason and the reason is because they are awesome places.
The Summer Palace
Bonus backwards view:
The Great Wall
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the ocean, floods, sunken ships, none of those things bother me at all but that does
but maybe you could learn to swim?
no that's okay
It's such a nice place to wander around in.
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well, partly that
and partly so you could be able to swim. I mean, it's a useful skill.
Seriously, it's possible that there are other compelling reasons to learn to swim as well. It's probably a pretty good idea if you have the time and the money it'd take for basic lessons.
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So like I don't remember not swimming.
It is odd people not doing that.
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I am powerful afeared of water for various reasons a-and I d-d-don't want to talk about it anym-more
last summer we were trying to teach my friend's 19 year old brother to swim and you realise why it's important to learn this stuff as young as possible. It required two people to do the 'hold him up from underneath while they learn to float without panicking' trick. With kids you can do that shit with one hand.
On the other hand, I got to tell him to imagine his cock is tied to a balloon (to get him to lift his pelvis). YOu get in trouble for saying that stuff to minors.