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Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: ThunderWulf on January 07, 2012, 12:29:56 am
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19617_the-6-most-mind-blowing-modern-ghost-towns.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_19617_the-6-most-mind-blowing-modern-ghost-towns.html)
Some of these would honestly be badass to play like laser tag or paintball in.
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If you wan't to see a really creepy abandoned town, go to Pripyat in the Ukraine.
Very eerie place.
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So, essentially the world blew billions of dollars building a brand new supercolider in Switzerland (partially) when instead they could've just finished off the one in America and ended up with something three times bigger. Say what you will about scientists, but they're not the most financially savy lot.
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I can't help but feel a sense of schadenfreude that Dubai's most impractical and ill-advised vanity project - and yeah, consider for a moment the scope of that assertion - has gone completely tits up, just like anyone with a brain told them it would. ;D
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Not so much 'ghost towns' as 'ghost places'. But cool.
I want to go play in the SSC.
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So, essentially the world blew billions of dollars building a brand new supercolider in Switzerland (partially) when instead they could've just finished off the one in America and ended up with something three times bigger. Say what you will about scientists, but they're not the most financially savy lot.
It was built in America. You do the math on what would've happened had they turned it on.
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Newark.
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So, essentially the world blew billions of dollars building a brand new supercolider in Switzerland (partially) when instead they could've just finished off the one in America and ended up with something three times bigger. Say what you will about scientists, but they're not the most financially savy lot.
They didn't "blow" billions. Those money are utilised quite well. The USA project was not an international one. It would have been very difficult (for a variety of reasons) to ask and get the financial support of the world at that time.
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I would go to that mall for the novelty of it.
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So Dubai has fallen in the gutter, huh? That's good. Maybe soon, the "worlds tallest building" award will go to a city that deserves it.
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Some of these would honestly be badass to play like laser tag or paintball in.
Six Flags New Orleans would certainly fit the bill.
http://www.lovethesepics.com/2011/05/creepy-crusty-crumbling-illegal-tour-of-abandoned-six-flags-new-orleans-75-pics/
WARNING: Overuse of HDR and cheesy captions ahead.
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Some of these would honestly be badass to play like laser tag or paintball in.
Or looking for hidden cats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20sRvGZX55U).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhnt2JFUvjY
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I like the islands shaped like the world.
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So, essentially the world blew billions of dollars building a brand new supercolider in Switzerland (partially) when instead they could've just finished off the one in America and ended up with something three times bigger. Say what you will about scientists, but they're not the most financially savy lot.
The US one stopped construction first...It freaked the fuck out of the locals, some even considered it a portal to hell. Also, it was too fucking expensive.
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Have you seen a little girl? Short, black hair? About seven years old?
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Have you seen a little girl? Short, black hair? About seven years old?
Silent Hill!
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Not so much 'ghost towns' as 'ghost places'. But cool.
I want to go play in the SSC.
Fancy taking a motorbike trip around the Chinese Mall? ;D
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I love abandoned places: Some of my happiest times have been spent exploring old factories, houses, hotels.... They can be quite eerie, but there's also a strange sense of sadness about them, as though they're stuck in time just waiting for the people to come back.
Some of the ones I've been to have been amazing: There's a couple of abandoned hospitals in huge areas of land that are crying out to be used, but sit there slowly rotting away. In another place I went into, there was a set of offices with the personnel files still in the file cabinets.
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Not so much 'ghost towns' as 'ghost places'. But cool.
I want to go play in the SSC.
Fancy taking a motorbike trip around the Chinese Mall? ;D
I love motorbikes! And huge malls that are mostly empty. Sounds good to me.
I love abandoned places: Some of my happiest times have been spent exploring old factories, houses, hotels.... They can be quite eerie, but there's also a strange sense of sadness about them, as though they're stuck in time just waiting for the people to come back.
Some of the ones I've been to have been amazing: There's a couple of abandoned hospitals in huge areas of land that are crying out to be used, but sit there slowly rotting away. In another place I went into, there was a set of offices with the personnel files still in the file cabinets.
Seems a bit odd to leave personnel files where anyone can get them. There are a few abandoned stores here and I think the insane asylum is mostly empty. They made a new building to put everyone in. I like hospitals and the like myself.
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With the abandoned files, I'd guess that the company went into receivership, so the receivers probably left it intact in the hope someone would take over the place.
There's quite a few hospitals in Scotland that are abandoned, famously there's the School for the Deaf, a huge Victorian construction in Glasgow that's now empty as well.
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I have this fascination with closed down amusement/theme parks - they have their own kind of abandoned creepiness. I even recognised the 'Spreepark' filming location used in 'Hanna'.
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I have this fascination with closed down amusement/theme parks - they have their own kind of abandoned creepiness. I even recognised the 'Spreepark' filming location used in 'Hanna'.
I've seen the pics - I'd like to look around during the day, think the night time would be too creepy.....
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I want to go to the amusement park in Pripyat.
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This was posted by someone on the old forum, but I forget who sorry.
Abandoned Oklahoma (http://www.abandonedok.com/)
Lots of cool abandoned places.
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This was posted by someone on the old forum, but I forget who sorry.
Abandoned Oklahoma (http://www.abandonedok.com/)
Lots of cool abandoned places.
Thanks for the link.
Here's a couple of more sites:
http://www.opacity.us/
http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/
http://www.artificialowl.net/
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/
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So Dubai has fallen in the gutter, huh? That's good. Maybe soon, the "worlds tallest building" award will go to a city that deserves it.
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Unfortunately, Riyadh is bidding to overtake it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Tower
Some of these would honestly be badass to play like laser tag or paintball in.
Six Flags New Orleans would certainly fit the bill.
http://www.lovethesepics.com/2011/05/creepy-crusty-crumbling-illegal-tour-of-abandoned-six-flags-new-orleans-75-pics/
WARNING: Overuse of HDR and cheesy captions ahead.
You can get a great look at that place in 45º on Google maps: http://g.co/maps/v4qnw