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Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Mustaine on January 06, 2007, 01:42:18 AM

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=42.881879,47.6567331&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&om=1&z=18&ll=51.39448,30.100179&spn=0.001526,0.005407&t=k



looks like they finished building the "10,000" year structure

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Gunslinger on January 05, 2007, 07:42:38 AM

WTF is that?

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Gunslinger on January 05, 2007, 07:43:10 AM

ummm why did my previous post go on top?  anyone else see that?

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Mustaine on January 07, 2007, 02:12:39 AM

this kind of got fudged withe the whole forum post time...

anyone got thoughts on this?

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Debonair on January 07, 2007, 02:43:40 AM

i dont thinks u shoold b hijaking gunslingers thread:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Title: Re: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Masherbrum on January 07, 2007, 02:51:54 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Mustaine
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=42.881879,47.6567331&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&om=1&z=18&ll=51.39448,30.100179&spn=0.001526,0.005407&t=k



looks like they finished building the "10,000" year structure

Reactor 4 is about 6 inches Down, from startup on this map.

Title: Re: Re: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Mustaine on January 07, 2007, 02:55:51 AM

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Reactor 4 is about 6 inches Down, from startup on this map.

yeah, but i thought from the pics I have seen on the construction this is "the structure"...


either way it is a creepy look into life there, scroll over about 2 miles east into the city and see the vegetation overrunning the streets. :O

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Debonair on January 07, 2007, 03:07:18 AM

thats better

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: AWMac on January 07, 2007, 05:15:52 AM

I think I'll peddle my tricycle there... 35 ~ 50 rads can't be that bad.

I'll turn around when my eggs get poached...

Mac

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: crockett on January 07, 2007, 05:41:31 PM

They say the next Chernobyl is going to be Chernobyl when the roof finally caves in..

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Gunslinger on January 07, 2007, 08:01:08 PM

I was referring to this aircraft that's sitting on a barge.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=42.881879,47.6567331&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=42.881861,47.656878&spn=0.002213,0.006062&t=k&om=1

I have now learned (i think) that this is an A90

(http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~pitroad/mp/mp46.jpg)

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Vudak on January 07, 2007, 08:23:08 PM

Forget Chernobyl.  Go grab yourself an atlas from a year or two ago and then look at the Aral Sea.

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: nirvana on January 07, 2007, 09:58:17 PM

Quit confusing them Vudak, that's a desert not a sea.

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: DEMONSLAYER on January 07, 2007, 10:09:16 PM

how did u find that and is that in Chernobyl like where the factory is?

wtf is that a plane???? i mean that thing is freaking huge?????

that looks way bigger then the model plane u have there. like in comparison.

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: DEMONSLAYER on January 07, 2007, 10:22:25 PM

did some research if you want to see it type Soviet Ekranoplan 2 in youtube. this thing is freaking huUUUUUGGGGEEEEE. i wonder if its bigger then the spruce goose?

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: RAIDER14 on January 07, 2007, 10:37:40 PM

it's a Ekranoplan

here it is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster)
(http://www.home-taylor.freeserve.co.uk/caspian.jpg)
it is bigger than spruce goose

Title: speaking of google maps... anyone look at Chernobyl lately?
Post by: Mace2004 on January 07, 2007, 10:48:32 PM

Based on the planform, swept trailing edge of the wing and turbofan engines forward it's a Soviet Lun, a wing in ground effect (or Ekranoplan) transport.  One was completed with six anti-ship cruise missile launchers on it's back, construction of the second was supposedly ended when the Soviet Union fell.  286 Tons, 242 feet long.  Big but smaller than the Spruce Goose.  The Lun was designed after the famous "Caspian Sea Monster" which was much larger at 550 tons and 330 ft.  The sea monster is what's pictured in Raider's post.

Edit, I take some of that back, it's longer than the Goose, not sure about the weight.  The sea monster is definently bigger.