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posted by janrinok on Friday February 03 2017, @07:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the "I-will-survive" dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday February 03 2017, @07:22PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday February 03 2017, @07:22PM (#462541)

    The main problems with taking your harem with you are the maintenance of said harem, the distraction required to keep them off each other's throats if there is no media, and how having a harem will attract every crazy ass in a 200-km radius...

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @09:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @09:26PM (#462593)

    The obvious solution is to use electro-shock aversion therapy to gradually reprogram yourself to find only cabbages sexy. Then you can keep a huge harem of cabbages instead. Much lower maintenance.

    • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday February 03 2017, @11:07PM

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday February 03 2017, @11:07PM (#462649) Journal

      There's nothing in that plan that actually requires a zombie apocolypse. Why not start now?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @11:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @11:27PM (#462658)

        This is the type of intelligent and quality advice I want to get out of a tech site like this. Thank you, I'll start tomorrow.