I think, that if there is a planetary disaster bad enough to warrant living in a hole like rabbits, this overpriced, highly inefficient shelter will not likely survive. Shelters must have the strength of tanks with the cold hard discipline of a space capsule to be efficient. Full-sized kitchens in every dorm? Imagine how much energy would be wasted.
I suggest three alternate plans:
1. Build a big-ass ridiculous boat and grow yourself a ZZTop beard.
2. Build a more reasonable and realistic shelter yourself, or contract someone who can.
3. Wait for the rich folks to buy these fancy ones, figure out where they are, and then jack them for a room on doomsday.
I would stick with option 2, personally.
LIVING: Doomsday Shelters – Brilliant Or Scam?
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Talk about an upgrade when doomsday arrives. This is not your cranky old grandfather's bomb shelter, cement built and filled with sardine and tuna cans to help you survive a nuclear attack.
This is a spoke-and-hub complex, with 10 radiating wings surrounding a two-story central dome, built 35 to 40 feet below the surface. Each spoke has full-size kitchens, dining areas, a living room, a study area, computer desks, exercise equipment, four bedroom suites and two full bathrooms. The central dome has community gathering and dining areas, offices, a theater, kitchens, bathrooms, storage, an urgent-care medical and dental center, a security office and a detention area, along with most of the mechanical and support equipment to power the facility.
Selling for only $10 million each, the shelter can hold up to 200 people, according to Robert Vicino who is selling the underground chalets for a possible doomsday event.
"... I am sure that sometime in our lifetimes, or our children's lifetimes, or our grandchildren's," he says, "there will be some disaster that happens that requires people to seek shelter."
Want to start a fund?
This is a spoke-and-hub complex, with 10 radiating wings surrounding a two-story central dome, built 35 to 40 feet below the surface. Each spoke has full-size kitchens, dining areas, a living room, a study area, computer desks, exercise equipment, four bedroom suites and two full bathrooms. The central dome has community gathering and dining areas, offices, a theater, kitchens, bathrooms, storage, an urgent-care medical and dental center, a security office and a detention area, along with most of the mechanical and support equipment to power the facility.
Selling for only $10 million each, the shelter can hold up to 200 people, according to Robert Vicino who is selling the underground chalets for a possible doomsday event.
"... I am sure that sometime in our lifetimes, or our children's lifetimes, or our grandchildren's," he says, "there will be some disaster that happens that requires people to seek shelter."
Want to start a fund?
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Top Opinion
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Dave In Cali 2010/05/27 21:38:49
Having a shelter in a world scorched by wind and fire or severely flooded wouldn't be "living," it would be a bare and boring survival.
1. the wealthy, those who have gone their entire lives buying everything and everyone, truly the most pathetic 'entitlement' mentality there is, that which says i'm 'entitled to have anything and everything i want because i have lots of money'...the driving conviction is, of course, that everything and everyone is 'for sale, has a 'price'...
2. the 'survivalist,' those who already view life as a 'dog eat dog' proposition and see guns and violence as the solution to everything, 'might makes right,' that it's every man for himself...
ironically, any 'doomsday' that could target just those two and leave the rest of humanity behind would be a good thing....
so whatever 'it' happens to be (IF there ever is and quite frankly, i've discovered that living in perpetual fear of 'what if's' and hypotheticals and maybe's negates living in direct proportion to the degree that one entertains such notions)...so if/when 'doomsday' hits?
please let me be at 'ground zero,' front-row seat, just like this man and his daughter:
I mean, come on. There's little chance that something so bad would happen that you'd have to live in that.
And even if it did, (like nuclear war for instance) How would you know to get in there in time?
Although, it does remind me alot of that Dharma hatch from LOST.
I also don't know if I'd be willing to outlive other family members or live in this world if life as I've come to know it suddenly ended. I do know that I plan on being with as many family members as I can on Dec. 21, 2012 and we won't be in Florida.
... still, seems like a pretty good scam for capitalizing on paranoid millionaires... not too shabby!
Old nuke complexes are much cooler.
Black helicopters and men in blue helmets. Remember?
Ya morons.
1. an alien invasion
2. zombie apocalypes
3. 2012
peace out man, and i really do hope your day gets better.
One can be smarter in their Mutiny than the one who attempted to prevent it.