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Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse

by hobolobo on 1/26/17, 12:20 PM with 10 comments

  • by delegate on 1/26/17, 2:03 PM

    If you need a bunker to survive that, then you're better off dead.

    That is, unless you want to be the one eating the last cats and rats and witness what's left of a once 'great' civilisation.

    Of course it helps to be prepared for unexpected disasters - natural or accidental - be ready to survive for a couple of days maybe weeks - but if we're talking doomsday - all-out nuclear war, meteor strike or something like that, then death is probably the better option.

    After all, we really don't know what's next ! If this life is some sort of simulation (which I personally believe it is), then we will see doomsday .. otherwise it wouldn't be interesting .. we enjoy that it seems ..

  • by RichardHeart on 1/26/17, 12:32 PM

    You could invest the money you spent in your bunker into helping avoid needing a bunker. Elon Musk wants interplanetary redundancy, which to some degree, increases the chance that we die here, for whatever money goes into leaving, could have went into protecting what we have.

    I'm ok with a chance of being extincted if it increases the chance I don't have to rot and die a slow death like so many of my forefathers. Screw redundancy, save this planet.

  • by privong on 1/26/17, 1:41 PM

    This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13482107 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13462865. The Independent article links to the New Yorker piece and doesn't really add any information.

  • by dpflan on 1/26/17, 1:16 PM

    Is this article really this short? The headline is all that is required given how little information it contains. Truly not worth following the link for.

  • by jankotek on 1/26/17, 12:55 PM

    Sounds like yet another hobby, you do not have to be a billionaire to build an bunker on backyard. And with all that fear-mongering about global warning, nuclear weapons, politics...

    Also not everyone comes from America. Some are migrants from less stable countries, where government builds bunkers for civilian population.

  • by max_ on 1/26/17, 1:31 PM

    I can't believe you guys fell for this! (its pure click bait)

  • by spodek on 1/26/17, 1:06 PM

    A fool and his money are soon parted.