another reason why life is worth living
Apr. 25th, 2006 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ALTAI, Russia - Villagers collect scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, 2000.
Environmentalists fear for the region's future due to toxic rocket fuel.
ALTAI, Russia - A farmer takes an evening stroll past the wreck of a Soyuz spacecraft, 2000. In this farming village, rockets routinely fall into people's back yards.
KAZAKHSTAN - Scrap-metal dealers wait for a rocket to crash, 2000.
KAZAKHSTAN - The booster engine section of a crashed Soyuz craft, 2000.
ALTAI, Russia - Dead cows lie on a cliff, 2000.
Locals say that whole herds of cattle and sheep regularly die because rocket fuel poisons the soil.
KAZAKHSTAN - The fiery wreck of a rocket after crashing, 2000.
ALTAI, Russia - A man cuts a wrecked spacecraft to sell off as high-grade titanium alloy, 2000.
KAZAKHSTAN - A Soyuz rocket-fuel tank lies on the steppe, 2000.
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Date: 2006-04-26 05:01 pm (UTC)It's an interesting study in oddball economics, certainly.
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Date: 2006-04-26 12:12 am (UTC)In fact, a friend of mine was over there for a helicopter something-or-other and brought back a video of the Russians he was working with drinking anti-freeze. "Thiss stuff ais greht! You can see aghaihn in tree dace!"
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Date: 2006-04-26 01:41 am (UTC)Also, flickr appears to have a couple of them unavailable
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Date: 2006-04-27 03:48 pm (UTC)Agreed, it is time to learn Russian (they don't have kanji, so it should be a breeze) and check out some space crap. I've never touched anything that has touched nothing.
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Date: 2006-04-28 02:36 am (UTC)That's space polution!
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