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Doomsday prepping is not a usual Soylent subject, but apocalypses are a staple of geek culture. Do Peter Thiel's preparations make sense?
You know things are getting risky when billionaires start making plans to flee to New Zealand on the off chance civilization might collapse. This week's New Yorker details the doomsday survival plans of Peter Thiel, and other notable Silicon Valley tech moguls.
The thing is, despite their virtually unlimited budgets, none of these guys is doing it right.
[...] In more realistic circumstances, there are 21.8 million veterans in the U.S., with various levels of professional expertise in solving problems like bunker busting. Hell, there's more guns than people in this country. Fixed locations are inherently vulnerable by their very nature, subject to siege, and allowing attackers to patiently plan ways to penetrate them. Any billionaire's hoard of survival supplies will be a natural target following the breakdown of society. Keeping them secret will be a challenge too, when contractors have been paid to construct them, delivery men have carried the supplies in, and even the armed guards may decide their friends and families could use all those tins of spam a little more desperately than their paranoid employer.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday February 03 2017, @11:45AM
How will he defend against Sauron and army or Orcs? New Zealand just doesn't sound like a good place to bunker down.
If you build a bunker you have to do it yourself or everyone else involved have to have some kind of fatal "accident", dead men tell no tales. You can't just buy 50000 cans of SPAM all at once. You have to slowly stock up.
But if the Apocalypse depends on me surviving on SPAM I think I'll just pass and join the zombie horde.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday February 03 2017, @02:13PM
Spam, macaroni and tin tomatoes with salt, fresh cracked pepper and sriracha sauce!
OH MAN!!!!! It's like heaven in a bowl...
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @04:02PM
Don't forget the Vegemite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @07:11PM
Absolutely. Kiwis just LOVE IT when they're mistaken for the Aussies.