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<\/a>I do think however that it became only recently that humankind developed the means for mass death on this scale. But I wanted to focus on what makes Chernobyl such an attractive tourism site for what the article describes as “between 18 and 28 […] more interested in ‘fear, fun, and thrill.'”<\/p>\n
There have been quite a few disasters that have happened on a relatively recent scale, but these events do not occur such an ‘enchanted’ site as the Chernobyl exclusion area. Things such as the Mt. St. Helen eruption, the Southeast Asian tsunami, Rape of Nanking (and so on) don’t attract the same type of visitors to their commemorative sites. For one, they are not considered to be still dangerous. But I do think that another significant factor is the cause of the incident. In this case, it’s nuclear radiation. Because the forces at hand in Chernobyl were invisible to the naked eye, it leaves a sort of mysterious, almost sinister atmosphere on the incident.<\/p>\n
Nuclear fallout’s association with horrific mutations and scarring of all animals, regardless of veracity, is what contributes to this perception, which is what attracts dark tourism. As humankind progresses in technology, more opportunities to ‘mess up’ will arise. Imagine not a nuclear fission plant meltdown, but a fusion plant meltdown. A software\u00a0bug that single handedly wipes out digital currency.\u00a0Or a genetic experiment\u00a0unleashes a horribly invasive species, destroying entire ecosystems. Wait… these sound like they’re not even that crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A quick look into my post history reveals that I am a massive nerd, with\u00a0a bizarre affection for nuclear power\/radiation (see: Half Life, haunted media project, etc). Chernobyl is one of the topics that both inspired my haunted media project and serves as what I think to be one of the most entrancing disasters in … <\/p>\n