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Now we know why they don't give a shit about the destruction of the biosphere.
Somehow I missed this story when it first appeared.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/super-rich-doomsday-shelter_n_1417895.html
But then there are those who have too much money not to.
Four buyers have already spent about $7 million on luxurious doomsday-safe condos built in a Cold War-era missile shaft below a Kansas prairie, according to the AFP. The cylindrical underground building not only includes condo space, but its developer is also adding an indoor farm, pool, movie theater, a stockpile of five years worth of dry food, and space for a medical center and school, the AFP reports.
Its inhabitants should be well protected. The condo building, which extends 174 feet underground, hosts concrete walls that are nine feet thick, according to The Daily Mail. The shape of a silo, Forbes adds, also makes it an even more ideal hiding place.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Boy, talk about egotism.
I suppose there are the Kochs and Cheney for 3.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Had to settle for the second from the top, which is of course riskier.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)fitman
(482 posts)in the air ventilation pipe and watch them scurry up like rats...
kentauros
(29,414 posts)do they also have a nuclear self-destruct to keep the Andromeda Strain from getting out?
Oh well, this just makes it easier to seal them up with a little more concrete poured on top
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)FSogol
(45,527 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)who will be lobotomized for docility at the age of 5.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Problem solved.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Mwahahahahahaha
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Just put armed guards and a fence around the thing so nobody can get out. Problem solved.
Say! When can we build more of these? After all, it's only 1%. We could make a pretty good dent in our problems with far less than all of the 1%, I would bet.
Plus, those guard jobs would be good for the economy.
Just seal that baby up and shove some MREs down the food chute once in a while.
There are a lot of those silos around Wichita. Let's get crackin'!
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Shoot anyone that comes out.
longship
(40,416 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)Weird.
Blaukraut
(5,695 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... to piss down the ventilation shaft.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
Dr. Strangelove, talking about the male/female ratio in the mine shafts designed to survive the Doomsday Machine.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Tempest
(14,591 posts)Besides them killing each other over tensions and a complete breakdown into lawlessness?
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)no way I'm going down a hole with the 1%. they're ruthless s.o.b.s
Tempest
(14,591 posts)Let them waste their money.
Buffalo Bull
(138 posts)Any see any parallel with the Peter Sellers classic.
Cirque du So-What
(25,984 posts)It's nothing that a few D6 dozers can't handle, though.
Pull yourselves up & out by your bootstraps now, hoi polloi.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)I didn't read all the posts. Also, if the surface of the earth becomes uninhabitable or too hot it could also bring in other geological shifts like magma bubbling to the surface, maybe? Also, are they going to be able to keep livestock? I think not. Cows and sheep require a lot of range. What would you feed them if you don't have enough space to grow hay? They would have to become vegan.
Like everything the conservatives come up with, they don't think things through.
MzShellG
(1,047 posts)What apocalypse???
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)That show on National Geographic shows things like this. This one woman spent over $200,000 on an underground bunker. Another guy has spent a million building a compound in the middle of the wilderness.
IADEMO2004
(5,560 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Auggie
(31,191 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Four Buyers with $7 Million? Ted Nuggent, Larry the Cable Guy, Dennis Miller, some other dumbshit with more money than brains. Would you want to survive with only people like these as your fellow survivors?
Auggie
(31,191 posts)and all water rights. They'll own the most fertile farmland and let us sharecrop in exchange for feeding them.
Welcome to the new feudalism.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)Somehow I doubt they will sell out the condos.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)most likely will give off toxic gases. "My Kingdom for a breath of fresh air."
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)Great book. That image reminds me of the book. Things did NOT go well.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Ain't no Vitamin D in an underground shelter.
Heywood J
(2,515 posts)What are they going to do when all their shit builds up? If it has 9ft thick concrete walls, I don't think it has a septic tank at the bottom. In the event of the apocalypse, I don't think the city sewer connection will work (if one exists). If it was a missile silo, there would have been no original need for plumbing at the bottom. Will the lower levels just be overtaken by a creeping brown wave?
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)For starters, their shit don't stink.