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Interesting Underground Complex

That is straight out of Day of the Dead no way I would get stuck in there for a year with a load of loonies. You'd be far better outside with the mushrooms.
 
It has a nuclear blast detector. :oo:

In case you weren't sure what that loud noise was, & why everything outside had turned to glass.
 
Yep, you heared right . A nuclear blast detector. If you paid your 25k and moved in, you'd only notice a tremor. I keep thinking of that scene in "The time machine" where after everyone's in the "safety" of the subway station , The Volcanic Lava pours down the stairs after them.................
 
I looked at all of the equipment and wondered, after you were locked in there, which nut-job that paid $25,000 would actually know how to run and service it when it broke down. :oo: I don't think the company that bought the bunker can call up USAF specialisits for each piece of equipment after the disaster hits, so they better fill the first rooms with the appropriate engineers.
 
They'd sell more units if they'd just play up the camp of a Zombie Apocalypse. From the look of the video they haven't done much but put those Vivos stickers on things and hope for money to roll in.
 
I thought the design was good for a low-to-medium tech facility, a la The Thing, or for a subteranean facility on a moon or asteroid, perhaps even a crappy little space station. It works out to be about 400 tons displacement.

Reminds me of a local radio host, Zoh Hieronimus, who believed so strongly in the Y2K bug that she spent New Year's Eve 1999 in an underground bunker with her husband Bob, just in case. From an Outdoor Maryland article:

The Hieronimuses housed a jumble of possessions in their huge, sprawling basement, but the pod itself was farther down, in a nifty, secret, not-very-podlike subbasement. After descending some stairs, we entered a space of several hundred feet, fitted out with a large, bright kitchen, three toilets, enough bunk beds to sleep 40, and many shelves stacked with canned goods." It gets kind of boring doing this," Bob admitted after pointing out all the amenities and gadgets. "But we've gotta keep doing it!"
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A link to the article: http://outsideonline.com/outside/magazine/0299/9902field.html

As to the actual mission of the thing, uh... yeah. But I find the wierd and extreme make great fodder for gaming.

Enjoy!
 
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.
 
Actually, it looks fairly luxurious for a low- to mid-tech space station. Don't think too much of their effort at cinema seating - there will definitely be fights over who gets to sit in the front row. Is there only one washing machine?

At any rate, these would make useful graphics for a game, they convey the feel if not the exact details.
 
Agreed, it's good stuff for games, thanks for the link leo knight. My longer reply last night said so, but I deleted that with the long off topic rant :)

As to who gets the front row seats at the theater, one would hope for fairness, perhaps a rotating schedule.

I missed the laundry but yeah only one would be too little for more than a few families. Of course maybe they were thinking doing the wash would be a waste of good water. Disposable paper clothes for everyone! ;) (I noted on my quick second glance at the "facts" that each member is only permitted the clothes on their back (and a small suitcase of personal stuff), all other clothes are installed in the unit. Yeah, that'll work. Disposable paper clothes! Hurrah!

I would (and could) much rather do a year in a bunker solitary than with a random group of paying survivalists. Not that you'd find me in such a place to begin with. And my inner rant escapes again, briefly :)

Someone wondered above who's gonna keep the systems working. That might be the "free" tenents the article mentioned. I was wondering who got to stay for free, thinking maybe the builders/sellers. Adding maintenance personnel to that would be smart. Ah, nope, had a quick look in the "facts" link. It gets worse if my little look is any indication...

I didn't notice anything like an airstrip, hangers, or even hardened garages for that matter. I'd want a way to land a light plane if I lived any distance away. And facilities to house vehicles that might survive to aid in rebuilding post disaster. IF of course I was into it at all.

What about animals? Where's Noah's bunker?

What about plants? Where's the huge greenhouse with artificial sunlight?

Yeah, IF this is for real, it is really really disturbing on several levels.
 
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