Interesting Underground Complex

[Blue Ghost]

Meh, I pity the paranoids, and sympathize, more than worry about them. It's the ones marketing this kind of paranoia I don't want to know. They're selling something that IF it's needed they won't get to enjoy their money, and IF it's not needed then the buyer get's nothing... well, maybe a little peace of mind. A very little since they still have to believe in some kind of doomsday scenario to justify the purchase, and worry about making it to the shelter in time, and the whole "what now" thing for after that.

It's like anything else; how much do you need it and how often are you going to use it? Stuff like this though really baffles me.

I mean, suppose you bought one. How would you keep yourself supplied after the "big one" hit? And if you invited friends and family for safety, then how would you provide for them? And what would you do while down there? Play cards or watch DVDs all the time? I mean... dang. How long do you stay down there? How do you know when to surface?

I don't know. It's like the high end equivalent of tin-foil hats or an AK-47.

 

[far-trader]

Maybe it's a B Ark...

:rofl:

...but nah, the promotion is all wrong

 

[Thunderbolt]

I was thinking Morrow Project all the way through that video...

 

[Gray Lensman]

I'd rather spend the 25k on an end of days party then be standing at exactly ground zero when it happened

 

[Kyron]

I'd rather spend the 25k on an end of days party then be standing at exactly ground zero when it happened

Thats at least 2 of us then, i guess the sight will be pretty astonishing.

 

[BlackBat242]

They'd sell more units if they'd just play up the camp of a Zombie Apocalypse.

Zompocalypse?

 

[abomination]

Zompocalypse?

For the Zompoc I'm moving here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man's_Land_Fort

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=no...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1260&bih=644

It's a luxury hotel

 

[nats]

Meh, I pity the paranoids, and sympathize, more than worry about them. It's the ones marketing this kind of paranoia I don't want to know. They're selling something that IF it's needed they won't get to enjoy their money, and IF it's not needed then the buyer get's nothing... well, maybe a little peace of mind. A very little since they still have to believe in some kind of doomsday scenario to justify the purchase, and worry about making it to the shelter in time, and the whole "what now" thing for after that.

I think that if you paid that kind of money for a place in this shelter you would have to then spend most of the rest of your life hoping for an apocalypse just so you could justify the expense to yourself.

And you would spend the rest of the time worrying about whether they would open the door to let you in if the fateful day ever arrived.

And thats not even taking into account the concern of not knowing who else you would be stuck with for several months - Celebrity Big Brother would be a picnic compared to what life in there would be like after a few months of isolation.

And would it really be a world worth surviving for when you finally got out?

Its more than a tad worrying that people are actually creating these kind of things for real. They must be great people to have along at parties.

 

[nats]

For the Zompoc I'm moving here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man's_Land_Fort

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=no...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1260&bih=644

It's a luxury hotel

Surely they must have some shark tanks under the trapdoors in the lifts.

 

[abomination]

Surely they must have some shark tanks under the trapdoors in the lifts.

I will certainly install them, along with a map with flashing lights

 

[Icosahedron]

I think that if you paid that kind of money for a place in this shelter you would have to then spend most of the rest of your life hoping for an apocalypse just so you could justify the expense to yourself.

Nah, these things are marketed at filmstars, footballers and fatcats who would spend that sort of money on a new watch. It's not for the likes of us.

And thats not even taking into account the concern of not knowing who else you would be stuck with for several months - Celebrity Big Brother would be a picnic compared to what life in there would be like after a few months of isolation.

Maybe they could get their money back by selling video footage - can you just imagine it with the sort of divas who could afford to get in? :rofl:

And would it really be a world worth surviving for when you finally got out?

I'm doing a bit of research for a Traveller Post Apocalypse game just now, *vacancies available if anyone's interested* and I reckon you wouldn't have to spend more than a few weeks in there, and the world probably wouldn't look much different when you got out - tougher, yes, you'd wake up to your great-great grandfather's lifestyle, but I reckon there'd be a lot more left than most PA stories suggest. You'd probably be bombed back to the Mayflower rather than the Stone Age.