another reason why life is worth living

[foxtongue]

Spaceship Junkyard: some amazing photos of the retro-tastic Future As Now by Jonas Bendiksen.

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.

Comments

[lucaskrech.livejournal.com]

I want butterflies.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

It feels like a trip to Russia would be infinitely worth it.

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Yowza - those are awesome.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

My immdiate reaction is to kiss the earth to say Thank You For Existing.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Space Launch Scraps Providing Sustenance For Russian Villagers

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Wild - and well, I guess you do what you've got to do.
It's an interesting study in oddball economics, certainly.

[mentalwasteland.livejournal.com]

I never managed to get on a task that got me sent to Star City, but some of the stories that I heard from flight controllers and astronauts (often involving ridiculous amounts of vodka) were always hilarious.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* I'm not surprised int he slightest. Every single story I have ever heard about aeronautics in Russia has involved copious amounts of drinking.

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!"

[inri33.livejournal.com]

They all link to the same image, which is 4th in the series. :P

Also, flickr appears to have a couple of them unavailable

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite one, and yes, I noticed the FLickr problem. I'm assuming it's only temporary.

[inri33.livejournal.com]

im inquiring about the cost of a print

[radiodog.livejournal.com]

I'll bring you pictures from Chernobyl.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

There will be such a hell to pay if you don't that shakespear will return fomr the dead simply to write a play upon my wrath.

[kahoki.livejournal.com]

Very cool, and an intrigueing juxtaposition of the foibles of technology and the practicality of the local populace.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I love how people have been interacting with it, how it's just been integrated. "Yes, dear, sometimes money falls from the sky"

[silver-notebook.livejournal.com]

They're all brilliant, but that first one is magical (I saw it linked to a few days ago inside Warren's new little play-den).

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

That's where I found them too. The one with the butterflies looks like fiction or another world. It's like "Yes, that's where I want to go."

[arrogant-gamer.livejournal.com]

Hi

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.

z.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

There's a group offering to let you pay to put small objects into space.

[arrogant-gamer.livejournal.com]

Hi

That's space polution!

z.