Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses
I had no idea these even existed! Kind of neat.
Fascinating stuff - thanks for posting this!
Wikipedia adds that they were powered by Radioactive thermoelectric power, not a nuclear generator as the article suggests. Still neat though.
It also mentions the locations of some of the beacons have been lost due to poor record keeping :eek:
Those look like a perfect location for either a horror movie or some kind of zombie-related video game.
Russia’s got so much of this weird, cool stuff tucked away that they’ve either forgotten about or was wiped from the records.
That is so cool. Who are the people that went there though?
Thanks for sharing this.
My first thought was “How in the hell did they build them?”
It must have been quite a job getting workmen and materials to such a remote location.
Amazing!
When I first saw this stuff on LiveJournal, someone else had commented “I think I killed a Combine Gunship up there once…”
From the same website:A Prehistoric Fish in the Russian Pond - English Russia
What is thisthing??
Triops -shrimp like creature that maxes out at around an inch or two. Look at the bulges the water tension makes next to it in the photos to gauge it’s true size. It’s minuscule, the back story to how they got the pics is the only whopper.
I’m not 100% sure… But the story sounds fishy… Like a bad horror movie plot.
The workers broke into a cave that has lain undisturbed for eons… And a scary movement in the water! A worker went back to grab his lunchbox. He tosses in a saltine cracker and WOOSH there’s a massive splashing sound and the saltine is gone…
Does anyone else have the Jurassic Park theme music stuck in their head too?
And the page listed it as being “5 feet long”… though that is obviously just several inches long at most. Might be a translation issue.
On edit: I kept this page open for some time while browsing around that website and some of the amazing pictures he’s got up. Astro beat me to it.
I wonder how much radiation they soaked up on their visit?:eek::smack:
So, let me get this straight: The leaders of the Soviet Union wanted to make a hazardous ocean course safely navigatable, and instead of equiping the ships which would pass through the area with radar, they went with nuclear powered lighthouses? :smack:
[Yakov Smirnov] What a country! [/YS]
Riding around in the remains of Chernobyl, more views of Chernobyl, cruise the Russian Front, or go urban exploring. (All threads on similar subjects, kind of old, so I wouldn’t bump 'em.)
The creature looks like some sort of horseshoe crab.
And they are a few feet long, but don’t usually have a tail like that.
What exactly tells people it’s obviously only a few inches long? Do people know precisely how big the corrugation on that foam pad is?
Look at Astro’s post regarding water tension.
That was faked… Great pictures, but the story… she was part of a regular tour, Hawaiian shirts, fanny packs, and all. Link. Wish I’d caught that thread a few years back praising her adventure mentality.
Yes, that was discussed in the various threads about her.
Ah, thanks Tuckerfan, I’d been absent for some time and only caught the reference to that thread in this one. I hadn’t seen further references to her trip.