Why is Chernoybl blocked out on google earth?

[highlander]

i just tried looking at it on google earth, and it's blurred and i can't see anything, even though the buffer is full. Or is it meant too be like that? :O

 

[Darkside55]

You don't want to see Chernobyl.

 

[Crushenator 500]

Blurs for me too, it's obviously not there for a reason

Whatever that reason is though, I have no idea. Probably the Ukraine not giving permission for it to appear or something

 

[highlander]

But why though? What could they be possibly doing with a destroyed Nuclear plant?

 

[Darkside55]

'Destroyed.'

Indeed...

 

[highlander]

Okay... Rebuilding? fixing? also Prypiat is alot further away from Chernobyl then i originally thought

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

YOU CAUSED CHERNOBYL HIGHLANDER?!

*ahem*

Military bases. Lol not.

 

[highlander]

Yes, i caused Chernobyl. Twice in fact. But why should they be blurring it?

 

[Que-Ever]

Erm, that's the radioactivity screwing with the sattelites.

 

[Qonfused]

Yeah; the radiation makes a straight line south.

 

[Baal]

Okay... Rebuilding? fixing? also Prypiat is alot further away from Chernobyl then i originally thought

hmm...yea, it's a bit further than I thought too. But it's still only 10-15 KM away, according to the scale on Google Maps.

Probably 20-25 KM from the actual center of the power plant, though...

 

[highlander]

That's alot of f*cking radiation.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

You should be proud of yourself.

 

[Raziaar]

They don't want you to see the giant roving band of rats. So large, they cannot fit through the chain links erected around the site to contain them.

 

[highlander]

I knew it! Those bastards.

 

[Irksome]

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&om=1&ll=51.389666,30.099932&spn=0.002002,0.004651

 

[Sedako]

They don't want people taking their ideas for literature and video games!

 

[Jintor]

That's where Helios is.

 

[aarathi]

In my opinin any person try a experiment that how a site should blocked? That the person did not know how it is recover. That is why it was disappear.

 

[Viperidae]

Get out of here Stalker.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

You can't go there.

 

[highlander]

Damn radiation...does anyone actually know when the radiation will be gone?

 

[delusional]

Chernobyl is actually a CIA prison.

 

[Narvi]

They're trying to keep the ZONE secret.

 

[Baal]

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&om=1&ll=51.389666,30.099932&spn=0.002002,0.004651

So, this explains why highlander and I were surprised by the distance between Chernobyl and Pripyat. The Chernobyl NPP is much closer to Pripyat than the center of Chernobyl, apparently.

 

[Danimal]

I hit it. But it's too ashamed to admit it.

 

[Cheomesh]

It's blurred because the last thing I need is you spying on me.

 

[Seppo]

aren't they going to build a huge concrete "shield" around the ruins of that reactor? they're kinda burying the whole structure. I read something like that a few months ago.

 

[Majestic XII]

They has actually begun work on the new sarcophagus, so there is construction going on.

 

[Acepilotf14]

In my opinin any person try a experiment that how a site should blocked? That the person did not know how it is recover. That is why it was disappear.

What?

 

[Seppo]

I think he's trying to say, that maybe they were testing how to block something, but don't know how to turn it off? or something like that

 

[alehm]

Google censors when it comes to government requests.

 

[Baal]

But what is exactly censored?

Isn't this http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&hl=en&om=1&ll=51.389666,30.099932&spn=0.002002,0.004651

the location of the explosion and resulting radiation?

 

[Seppo]

that's what I was wondering too. doesn't look like anything was blurred

 

[Baal]

that's what I was wondering too. doesn't look like anything was blurred

Other than vegetation, anyways...

 

[Cheomesh]

What's there to stare at anyways?

 

[Tarkus]

I swear I saw Chernobyl from google earth like a year ago, and at that time it wasn't blurred... Not anything interesting to see either

 

[Narvi]

What's there to stare at anyways?

The blown reactor, I suppose.

 

[kineaesth]

Just found this...


Dear HL2.net,

Regarding your questions about the blurring of this 'Chernobyl' area on Google Earth, we would like to make it clear that this area does not exist, and, in the unlikely event that it does, no major, embarrassing nuclear incident ever occurred or will occur there. Please stop looking.

Yours Sincerely,

The Government of Russia,
and The Board for the Covering-Up of Nuclear Incidents.
xox

 

[highlander]

Haha. What the hell.