Most Toxic Place On Earth?

[Hamma]

In 1948, a top-secret Soviet bioweapons laboratory was established on the island in the middle of the Aral Sea (now disputed territory between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan). The exact history, functions and current status of this facility have not yet been disclosed. The base was abandoned in 1992 following the disintegration of the Soviet Army. Scientific expeditions (including American) proved this had been a site for production, testing and later dumping of pathogenic weapons. A joint international program is underway for cleaning such dumps, particularly those of anthrax.

The ecosystem of the Aral Sea and the river deltas feeding into it has been nearly destroyed, not least because of the much higher salinity. The land around the Aral Sea is also heavily polluted, and the people living in the area are suffering from a lack of fresh water, as well as from a number of other health problems�the receding sea has left huge plains covered with salt and toxic chemicals, which are picked up, carried away by the wind as toxic dust, and spread to the surrounding area; the population around the Aral Sea now shows high rates of certain forms of cancer and lung diseases, as well as other diseases. Crops in the region are also destroyed by salt being deposited onto the land. The town of Moynaq in Uzbekistan had at one point a thriving harbor and fishing industry employing approximately 60,000 people; now the town lies miles from the shore. Fishing boats lie scattered on dry land that was once covered by water; many of them have been there for 20 years. The only significant fishing company left in the area has its fish shipped from the Baltic Sea, thousands of kilometres away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea

Yikes.. not somewhere I would want to be :eek:

[Kam]

I do miss the soviet union...

[Hamma]

Then I found this:
Lake Karachay (Russian: ***1050;***1072;***1088;***1072;***1095;***1072;***769;***1081;), sometimes spelled Karachai is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in eastern Russia. Starting in 1951 [1] the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40).

According to a Worldwatch Institute report on nuclear waste, Karachay is the "most polluted spot" on Earth.[1] The lake accumulated some 4.44 exabecquerels (EBq) of radioactivity [2], including 3.6 EBq of Caesium-137 and 0.74 EBq of Strontium-90 [3].

The radiation level at the shore of the lake is 600 r�ntgens per hour, more than sufficient to kill a human within an hour. [4]
I think thats much worse now that I read it. :lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay

[OneManArmy]

you have a lot of free time dont you?

[Rbstr]

We've got a realy polluted lake in California(cali's larget lake aswell 0_o), very similar to the Aral Sea: full of agricultural run off and evaporating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea

[Hamma]

you have a lot of free time dont you?
Jen is back to playing the devil game that is WoW - so I spend alot of time working on PSU and whoring the intarweb ;)

[OneManArmy]

!!! you are harboring a WoW playing canadian???

I'm pretty sure thats grounds for a hangin'

[Jaged]

You cant hang hamma... hes like god.

[Derfud]

His neck is so strong the rope would just disintegrate around it.

[Hamma]

:lol:

I know, I know. I hang my head in shame everytime she logs into the game

[Peacemaker]

play eve. Much deeper and intelectual. Besides... if my alliance had hamma on our side... even in a noob ship.. we would reign victorious

[Kyonye]

I was just going to say Staten Island...

[Hamma]

:lol:

I am never playing another RPG again Peace - I regret every moment I wasted my life away in WoW.

The only exception I may make is that Star Trek MMO.

[MattxMosh]

I actually saw a show about that on discovry or the history channel not too long ago.

Also WoW is lame.

[Hamma]

Really? hrm need to find that show :p

[Ivan]

:lol:

I am never playing another RPG again Peace - I regret every moment I wasted my life away in WoW.

The only exception I may make is that Star Trek MMO.
I burnt myself out on WoW. Though I still feel the addiction even after 4 months of not playing. That reminds me. I should cancel my sub, no sense paying for a game I don't play...:huh:

[Hamma]

The only reason I would ever reactivate is to delete my characters. :lol: Thats how much I hate the game now :p

[WildEagle]

RPGs IMO are the worst games ever created cuz it's not live action

[Jaged]

play eve. Much deeper and intelectual. Besides... if my alliance had hamma on our side... even in a noob ship.. we would reign victorious
Eve has to be the most drawn out, slow paced boring game ever made.

[QuakCow]

heh...bet the real estate there is cheap...i think i may have found the place to build my "lab" :D

[Hamma]

Certainly will get a tan quick there.

[Derfud]

Most Toxic Place On Earth?
My Pants.

[Electrofreak]

Eve has to be the most drawn out, slow paced boring game ever made.
EVE isn't meant to be an instant gratification game like an FPS or WoW. You have to use your brain and put some effort into it and it's one of the most amazing games you will ever play. It's just not for people who aren't willing to try. I for one love it, it's an amazing game with a level of depth and sophistication I can't find anywhere else.

It's kinda like saying chess is a shitty game. It depends on whether you're willing to put in the effort to learn how to play or not.


OK: Back to subject. Damn, that's pretty nuts. Here in Rochester people have long been worried because we live on the lake, and the film company Kodak is headquartered here, with very large factories full of chemicals used in developing and making film. Over the course of the years stuff has been dumped in the lake that shouldn't have, and smokestacks have released some nasty crap into the air. At least everything is pretty well monitored now, though there are some places where you really don't want to eat any fish you catch out of the lake.