Some of you might have already seen this twice on Slashdot. I'm surprised nobody reposted it here, as I think it is a totally amazing documentary.
If anyone doesn't know, Chernobyl (of the former Soviet Union) is the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. The result of the 1986 disaster is that civilization was razed within a 30 kilometer (18 mile) radius around the nuclear power plant. The Soviet Union hid it from the rest of the world for some time, but Swedish scientists spotted a radioactive cloud from the plant.
Google has more, it's a very interesting story.
Basically a woman named Elena rode her bike through Chernobyl twice in the last month or so, partly because she likes bikes, and partly because she likes to travel to see it.
It's about 25 pages or so, I wouldn't dare paste the contents here, especially since the images are truly worth a thousand words apiece:
http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/benoc/mirro...4/kiddofspeed/
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
(1st link is a mirror, 2nd original site)
Am I the only one who gapes for a while at these images? They're surrealistic. The place is, as she says, like Pompeii, completely preserved from 1986. I don't know what to make of it, only that such a terrible mistake must never happen again.