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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/01/3m-price-tag-inside-luxury-doomsday-bunker
Afraid of nuclear war, natural disasters, economic meltdown? The Survival Condo could be the answer
"Mechanical level", "medical level", "store level" the voice announces as the lift descends into the earth. I'd entered at parking lot level, the building's apex. I am travelling through an inverted skyscraper, the floor numbers ascending – third, fourth – as we plumb the building's depths. A hulking man in his late 50s called Larry Hall stands next to me, whistling, black shirt tucked into blue jeans.
When the doors open, I can't suppress a laugh. In front of us, four storeys below central Kansas, is a supermarket complete with shopping baskets, cold cabinets and an espresso machine behind the counter. Hall smiles.
"It's good, isn't it? On the original blueprint for the renovation, it just said 'storerooms' on this level. The psychologist we hired for the project took one look at that and said, 'No, no, no, this needs to feel like a miniature Whole Foods supermarket. We need a tile floor and nicely presented cases, because if people are locked in this silo and they have to come down here and rifle through cardboard boxes to get their food, you'll have depressed people everywhere.'"
I am inside the most lavish and sophisticated private bunker in the world: the Survival Condo. It was once a cold war US government missile silo. Constructed in the early 60s, at a cost of approximately $15m to the US taxpayer, it was one of 72 structures built to protect [against] a nuclear warhead 100 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Many of these silos were blown up and buried after decades of disuse. But not all of them.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday August 03 2020, @12:32AM (8 children)
Anyone in there is going to run into problems long before then. The bunker is a giant sign saying "we have all the stuff you're dying to get your hands on" to the survivors stuck outside. Zombie jokes aside, you're going to need some serious defence-in-depth obstacles to keep the survivors who want to get in away from you. A bunker designed to survive an airburst several miles away won't stand up long to targeted drilling, strategically-placed explosives, and bulldozers operated by the survivors.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday August 03 2020, @12:44AM (6 children)
The people on the inside will be the useless class anyway.
If they don't bring their servants with them they'll starve.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @12:47AM (1 child)
Duh, they'll order from Uber Eats.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday August 03 2020, @02:40AM
In Post-Apocalyptic America, the Uber eats you!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 03 2020, @01:10AM (3 children)
I have this feeling the survivors outside won't have "what class these guys belong to" in their mind when using those bulldozers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday August 03 2020, @02:00AM (2 children)
Probably not, but how satisfying will it be for them when they break in to find the idiots didn't even bring anybody who knows how to do anything, and starved to death trying to open a can of beans?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 03 2020, @02:16AM
Very. Not for the schadenfreude feeling, but... moar bean cans for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Monday August 03 2020, @05:54AM
Probably a good thing too, if they're recirculating the air inside there you don't want to be feeding anyone beans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @05:47AM
uhm... no. all the stuff that people need will be outside, as well, much easier to get to.
the only advantage of the bunker is the shielding from explosion and subsequent radiation. both of these advantages go away if you destroy the bunker in order to get to the inside.
again. all the stuff that survivors need is already available on the outside, conveniently stocked by department in stores and store warehouses. since most people would die within the first few days/weeks (bombardment, panic, fighting over resources, etc), there would really be no reason to put in the effort of breaking into a bunker.
there would be a point to breaking into a military bunker once your group is organized enough: you may get control over remaining communication channels. but not personal bunkers.