[Sixstrings]

Going underground? Sales of spaces in U.S. doomsday bunker soar 1000% after Japan quake reawakens nuclear fallout fears

Reservations for a doomsday bunker in the U.S. have rocketed since Japan's catastrophic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
The 137,000sq ft bunker - designed to house 950 people for a year and withstand a 50 megaton blast - is currently being built under the grasslands of Nebraska.

Vivos, the California-based company behind it, is taking $5,000 (£3,100) deposits, which will have to be topped up to $25,000 (£15,600) to secure a place.

It says applications have soared 1000 per cent in the wake of the disasters in Japan. And the bunkers will be kitted out with all the modern conveniences the American consumer has come to expect. Once finished the complex will feature four levels of residential suites, a dental and medical center, kitchens, pet kennels, a bakery, a prayer room, a fully stocked wine cellar and even a prison to detain any misbehaving residents.

There will also be a 350ft tall lookout tower so residents can see what is going on around them - and if it's safe to emerge.
'People are afraid of the earth-changing events and ripple effects of the earthquake, which led to tsunamis, the nuclear meltdown, and which will lead to radiation and health concerns,' said Vivos CEO Robert Vicino.

The news comes after low levels of radiation were detected in milk in two U.S. states, the first sign Japan's nuclear crisis is affecting American food.

At least 15 states have now reported radioactive particles from the stricken Fukushima reactor. Earlier in the week the Environment Protection Agency confirmed radiation was found in air filters in Alabama and in rainwater in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
Though the trace levels are very low and not hazardous to health, residents have been warned not to use rainwater which has been collected in cisterns.


Cower in luxury: Vivos's doomsday shelters are to be kitted out with all the modern conveniences American consumers would expect


Social space: The company is building one bunker under the grasslands of Nebraska with the capacity to house 950 for a year


Self-contained community: Once finished the bunker complex will feature four levels of residential suites, a dental and medical center, kitchens, pet kennels, a bakery, a prayer room and a fully stocked wine cellar


Rebuilding society: The bunker even features a prison in case any residents misbehave and become a liability to others


Intimate: Space is limited in the bunker, the floor-plan of which resembles a youth hostel in this graphic
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372289/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Sales-doomsday-nuclear-bunkers-soars-1000.html

My only problem with this is that to be effective you really need to be living out there. If TSHTF quickly, it might not be possible to get out to Nebraska in time.

Also.. as nice as this may be, "fully stocked wine cellar" and all, bottom line is 950 strangers are going to be holed up together underground. The bunker has a prison. *Somebody* is gonna end up in that jail.

[Ibon]

The characters most inclined to be baited into buying into this will be the very characters you really don't want to be stuck underground with.

[dolanbaker]

Fools and their money are soon parted.

Gas

+100

Hopefully the new owners are the likes of Bernanke and we can just call a false alarm, they'll all go into the bunker and then build a motorway over the top of it.

[Lore]

So after a year when they are all let loose on a barren inhospitable landscape do they give them, as a parting gift, enough Mazola oil to grease down and wrestle to the death?

[Daniel_Plainview]

The bunker has a prison. *Somebody* is gonna end up in that jail.

So if the bunker has a prison, then it must also have some form of law enforcement and a court system. Perhaps there's also a political system, with a mayor and his/her deputy.

[Lore]

The bunker has a prison. *Somebody* is gonna end up in that jail.

So if the bunker has a prison, then it must also have some form of law enforcement and a court system. Perhaps there's also a political system, with a mayor and his/her deputy.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!

[Ferretlover]

HHhmmm... Plenty of room for the House & the Senate, all the governors and a goodly number of WH staffers, don't you think?? I wonder how many would be babbling idiots at the end of a year? *heehee*

[dinopello]

"The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature..."

[Sixstrings]

Some more info from their website:

Millions of people believe that we are living in the “end times”. Many are looking for a viable solution to survive potential future Earth devastating events. Eventually, our planet will realize another devastating catastrophe, whether manmade, or a cyclical force of nature. Disasters are rare and unexpected, but on any sort of long timeline, they're inevitable. It's time to prepare! Read this risk assessment.

The accepted solution to most of the threat scenarios is to find underground shelter. The soil of the Earth itself can provide the best shelter for most catastrophes, including a pole shift, super volcano eruptions, solar flares, earthquakes, asteroids, tsunamis, nuclear attack, bio terrorism, chemical warfare and even widespread social anarchy. The governments of the world have been busy building vast underground shelter complexes for the elite. What do they know? The rest of us are on our own, without a long-term survival solution. Watch this video.

Vivos is a privately funded venture, with no religious affiliations, building a global network of underground shelters, to accommodate thousands of people. Vivos will provide a life assurance solution for those that wish to be prepared to survive these potential events, whether they occur now, in 2012, or in decades to come. Co-own an equity share of the Vivos shelter closest to your home area.
http://www.terravivos.com/secure/secureindex.htm

And if you can't afford a bunker timeshare, alternatively you can make a deposit in the "cryovault," after which I guess your sperm / eggs will be used to repopulate Nebraska:

In addition to the Vivos survival shelters that will accommodate thousands of people around the world, Vivos is now preserving the "seeds" of humanity in the world's only nuclear blast-proof, underground cryovault built to survive the next life-extinction event. The Vivos Cryovault expands your opportunity to be a part of the next genesis. Join us in the Vivos Cryovault gene pool!

[Ferretlover]

"The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature..."

The women? The Women? You have it backwards, my friend.

[dinopello]

"The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature..."

The women? The Women? You have it backwards, my friend.

Frontward, backward, any way you like it, my little ferret.

[Sixstrings]

"The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature..."

The women? The Women? You have it backwards, my friend.

Frontward, backward, any way you like it, my little ferret.

What happens in the bunker stays in the bunker.

[dolanbaker]

"The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature..."

The women? The Women? You have it backwards, my friend.

Frontward, backward, any way you like it, my little ferret.

What happens in the bunker stays in the bunker.

...for nine months!

[Oneaboveall]

Bear with me for a few moments please:

When I was a kid, I remember a Spiderman comic which consisted of the following plot: A mercenary named Chance, who had a jetpack and wrist blasters (it was a Spiderman comic), was hired under pretense by the Life Foundation (a group believes that the end of the cold war will bring about a nuclear holocaust that will result in the mutually assured destruction of modern civilization. To that end, they have constructed a large fall-out shelter and provide a place for their wealthy clients to live comfortably) to steal a secret arms shipment. The Life Foundation captured him instead, and sought to duplicate his wrist blasters. Chance joined forces with Spider-Man to overcome the Life Foundation.

What's the point? The reason the Foundation wanted Chance's wrist blasters was because they figured that their bunkers were vulnerable to a take over by the bunker's own security force, since they were the only ones with the guns, and hoped they could avert that by arming everyone with the blasters. While this isn't a comic, I think a valid point is raised. What's to stop security from taking over since they have the guns?

[eXpat]

In Russia too
Apocalypse Angst Adds to Terrorist Threat as Rich Russians Acquire Bunkers

Terrorism can be good for bunker builders. An apocalypse can be even better for business.

Danila Andreyev started building “panic rooms” three years ago, when fears of terrorist attacks and commercial disputes turning violent created demand in Russia. Now he’s selling “survival bunkers” for as much as $400,000 each to capitalize on angst over theories the world will end next year.

“I myself am not a believer in doomsday scenarios,” Andreyev, 31, whose Spetsgeoproekt company is completing 15 bunkers at hidden locations across Russia, said at his office in central Moscow. “But when you start hearing clients talking about the end of the world, it gets you thinking.”

While Russia has been a target for terrorists, with 37 people dying in a blast at Moscow’s busiest airport in January, more people are looking to protect themselves from what Andreyev calls a “global cataclysm” in 2012 based on predictions such as interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/apocalypse-angst-adds-to-terrorist-threat-as-rich-russians-acquire-bunkers.html