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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 Subsentient on Monday August 03 2020, @03:10AM (3 children)
If you really believe that, then you haven't suffered extreme enough pain to know. To a point you're right, but only to a point.
There's a threshold, probably different for everyone, and I think that kind of world would be well over that threshold for me.
Myself, I don't really get much joy out of life as it is, I just stick around for the benefit of those who need and want me here.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Monday August 03 2020, @06:03AM (1 child)
I've seen your browser cache, I believe you get at least brief moments of satisfaction, even if it is to dwarf pr0n.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Subsentient on Monday August 03 2020, @06:50AM
Lies. That's not nearly perverse enough to be my browser history.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @06:49AM
I should have killed myself years ago when it became apparent I'm just a lizard person and can never be human. I stick around just because I want to know if the humans really will blow up this beautiful planet.
Grand finale of the anthropocene still looks good for 2025. I guess if 2030 gets here and the humans still haven't blown it all up, I'll need to find some other excuse for staying alive.