• Doomsday shelters making a comeback
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[QUOTE=bravehat;23689862]Carrying around survival shit is a bit far though ain't it man?[/QUOTE] Actually, its come in handy many times, more than I really expected. There's a nice variety of stuff in it, so it helps in a lot of situations. The medical stuff helps when you have accident prone friends who somehow manage to break their arm by stumbling down a hallway. The tools in it help often too, especially when one of us breaks down on the road. The only thing that hasn't found a use yet is the entrenching tool. (It's a German entrenching tool from the mid 60's.)
[QUOTE=Zeddy;23690072]Actually, its come in handy many times, more than I really expected. There's a nice variety of stuff in it, so it helps in a lot of situations. The medical stuff helps when you have accident prone friends who somehow manage to break their arm by stumbling down a hallway. The tools in it help often too, especially when one of us breaks down on the road. The only thing that hasn't found a use yet is the entrenching tool. (It's a German entrenching tool from the mid 60's.)[/QUOTE] i bet you were that weird kid that sat alone at lunch in school.
[QUOTE=Zeddy;23690072]Actually, its come in handy many times, more than I really expected. There's a nice variety of stuff in it, so it helps in a lot of situations. The medical stuff helps when you have accident prone friends who somehow manage to break their arm by stumbling down a hallway. The tools in it help often too, especially when one of us breaks down on the road. The only thing that hasn't found a use yet is the entrenching tool. (It's a German entrenching tool from the mid 60's.)[/QUOTE] Fair do's about as far as I'd go is carrying a leatherman or a knife.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;23690100]i bet you were that weird kid that sat alone at lunch in school.[/QUOTE] Actually no. Quite the opposite. Hell, I had my own little entourage. Still have them. There was never a major jock population. Most of the school was geeks and gamers. [editline]03:39PM[/editline] [QUOTE=bravehat;23690219]Fair do's about as far as I'd go is carrying a leatherman or a knife.[/QUOTE] I have a nice multi-tool with a pretty good blade on it. I sleep with a large knife next to me, hanging from the wall. Never needed it, but protection is protection.
I want an underground house designed to also function as a bomb shelter. Constructed directly above an underground river as both a source of water and power. Ideally it would also field windmills on the surface for power in the event the water fails to produce enough or dries up. Windmills would be constructed similarly to how we construct microwave communication towers. Namely that when they are deactivated, they do not possess enough surface area in any one direction to allow wind or shockwaves to knock it down. Of course I'll never actually GET that house, but I can dream. If nothing else it would be nice living in a constant 60 degree house.
fucking humans if doomsday comes, we should just die, no point in continuing a shitty existence like in the end of [sp]cats cradle.[/sp]
I have a fallout shelter built in my home from the 70s. It goes 3 story's down and is connect to the old style cylinder shelter where supply's are stored.
Better safe than sorry. Better safe than sorry. Better safe than sorry.
[QUOTE=thisispain;23690857]fucking humans if doomsday comes, we should just die, no point in continuing a shitty existence like in the end of [sp]cats cradle.[/sp][/QUOTE] You go do that, I'll try and survive.
So, instead of manning up and building your own shelter, you're paying thousands of dollars for a piece of paper that says "I'm entitled to this space in this other guy's shelter,"? That is fucking stupid, if the world ends nobody is going to respect the piece of paper you're waving around.
[QUOTE=bravehat;23691685]You go do that, I'll try and survive.[/QUOTE] but why why is the question, especially if we caused doomsday it would show we're better off dead
Because the few don't speak for the entire species. At best a few hundred folk will bring about doomsday and everyone will suffer for it. I intend to survive at all costs :v: I ain't dying just because of a fucking ice age, a nuclear holocaust or it's aftermath. I live in glasgow I see that sort of shit daily anyway :cool:
[QUOTE=PEn1s lol;23691494]I have a fallout shelter built in my home from the 70s. It goes 3 story's down and is connect to the old style cylinder shelter where supply's are stored.[/QUOTE] pics pl0x
[QUOTE=bravehat;23691841] I intend to survive at all costs :v:[/QUOTE] you'll just live a shitty existence and eventually starve to death best thing to do: go to a mountain, lie down towards the sky, and kill yourself so if there is a deity you can stick your nose at him
[QUOTE=thisispain;23691891]you'll just live a shitty existence and eventually starve to death best thing to do: go to a mountain, lie down towards the sky, and kill yourself so if there is a deity you can stick your nose at him[/QUOTE] Nah not really, I know how to grow food, I can find canned shit in stores and abandoned homes. The only major issue in a nuclear aftermath is radioactive water thanks to beta radiation and alpha sources in the form of dust. And even then as long as I know which way the winds are moving at the time of detonation I can avoid most of the fallout indefinitely. Then there are the countless others that survive. It really isn't as bleak as people make it out to be, and this is from a realist and a nihilist (to some degree)
[QUOTE=bravehat;23691978]this is from a realist[/QUOTE] just read cats cradle and buy a cyanide pill
If I were rich I'd get the 41 million one, just for fun :v: And if a worst case scenario happened I'd be the king of a 750 people community :smug:
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[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;23691759]So, instead of manning up and building your own shelter, you're paying thousands of dollars for a piece of paper that says "I'm entitled to this space in this other guy's shelter,"? That is fucking stupid, if the world ends nobody is going to respect the piece of paper you're waving around.[/QUOTE] Its not like fallout shelters come cheap or anything
[QUOTE=First 10'er;23691864]pics pl0x[/QUOTE] I'd also love some pictures, I live in the UK so there's really no underground shelters over here. Closest to underground is an old British military bunker on a cliff near here. I should probably take some pictures for you guys some time, there use to be two big Gatling guns mounted in it. I live in Northern Ireland by the way. But yes I'd like to see that shelter!
My dream home is built into the side of a mountain, perhaps a gutted mine or such and the furbished into a livable condition.
My friend has an airtight bunker under his house. Dunno that it protects against anything other than airborne toxins, but still pretty intense.
If anyone was interested in the military bunker I was talking about, maybe a fellow Irishman or tourist here's the location. [url]http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&sll=55.080873,-7.511129&sspn=0.032574,0.104628&g=55.083428,-7.51379&ie=UTF8&ll=55.080873,-7.511129&spn=0.032574,0.104628&t=h&z=14[/url] As far as I know it does have a magazine that goes pretty deep. There's a little port and you do have to climb up the hill to the left of the small port ( it's pretty well hidden ). But, yeah. Just for reference.
[QUOTE=Sickle;23687872]Twilight. Both were shit, the book was worse. Although the movie incited fucking teenage anarchy.[/QUOTE] I don't really count it twilight as a book.
Me: Hey guys Friends: Hey Me: Welcome to my house. I'll give you a quick tour. Here's the living room, bathroom is the second door on the left, kitchen is out there, my mom's office is here. Oh and that door before the bathroom, that leads to our [b]bomb shelter[/b].
In Manchester there's loads of underground tunnels in the centre of the city, they're called the Victoria Arches and they were made for an underground canal. In the Second World War they drained the canal and it was put into use as an air raid shelter, it's pretty cool. I've also heard rumours about a secret underground railway also but I can't clarify that.
Thats quite cool
[QUOTE=XxPsychoxX;23686496]Wow, I looked at Radius Engineering's website, I expected it to just be some cheesy cold-war style tin cans in the ground, they bunkers they make are pretty awesome, not going to lie. They've got one with an actual house built inside a giant dome, complete with astro-turf front and back yards. Now that's a bomb shelter lol. Edit: The best protection you can get, denial. Lol[/QUOTE] Needs geothermal energy. In the event of war it'd be really hard to get diesel. [editline]09:32AM[/editline] Guys I'll start the Brotherhood Of Steel, who wants to be part of my Lyon squad? [editline]09:35AM[/editline] [QUOTE=UnstableIsotope;23702174]In Manchester there's loads of underground tunnels in the centre of the city, they're called the Victoria Arches and they were made for an underground canal. In the Second World War they drained the canal and it was put into use as an air raid shelter, it's pretty cool. I've also heard rumours about a secret underground railway also but I can't clarify that.[/QUOTE] The Sub way? [editline]09:40AM[/editline] [QUOTE=PEn1s lol;23691494]I have a fallout shelter built in my home from the 70s. It goes 3 story's down and is connect to the old style cylinder shelter where supply's are stored.[/QUOTE] Where do you live? I would love to see that.
[QUOTE=lol12;23703149] The Sub way? [/QUOTE] There are no subways in Manchester to my knowledge, only overground Trams and Trains.
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