People are bleak and dark perceptions of how they can spend their time in a disaster shelter or the end of the world, but this picture may not be suitable for the rich who will take refuge in the world's most recent technical hideout.
Welcome to Survival Condo, this former silo transformed into a luxury residential complex that offers the rich and powerful in the world the chance to have a final life insurance, an Apocalypse hideout that promises an ideal mix of shelter, elegance and technology.
Prevention of nuclear winter
Servo Condo has a lot of well-known facilities for shelters. It is underground at a depth of 61 meters, in the middle of a countryside about 322 km from Kansas City. It was built during the Cold War (as a nuclear missile launch facility). It has also been modified with reinforced concrete walls with a thickness of 2.7 meters designed to withstand everything from hurricanes to nuclear warheads weighing 12 kilos (kilotons equals one thousand tons) and fall 800 meters from the shelter.
The nuclear winter is the global nightmare that people fear to face, as the ice-age temperatures continue for years, and residents and lives are perished as we see in science fiction movies, which encouraged the construction of this shelter.
"If a 100 kiloton nuclear weapon strikes and falls" if it goes a mile or so, the pressure wave is so severe that it will blow up the concrete buildings, and somewhere in that region, "says Brian Ton, professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the University of Colorado on the global effects of nuclear war. There is an explosion of radiation ... and half of the people exposed to it die for a week or two due to radiation burns on their skin and radiation poisoning. "
Ton says that a nuclear explosion is like "bringing a piece of the sun to Earth", and that this kind of explosion causes huge fires. These fires push huge amounts of smoke to the top of the stratosphere. Because it never rains in the stratosphere, sunlight cannot reach Earth, resulting in a nuclear winter.
For the rich only
This is precisely the reason that there is a Servo Condo to protect from the devastation of the global nuclear war, but not for anyone, you and your family cannot hide in one of these units and follow the end of the world without paying a million dollars in the beginning, in addition to 2500 dollars per month to cover your living expenses from electricity and water The Internet and all the canned food that you may dream of, to ensure that the strongest and richest people in the world can live in comfort, rather than shivering in the coldness of arid lands, awaiting their inevitable fate.
From the outside the building does not look nice in design. A guard behind a barbed wire fence, wind turbines quietly circulating in the breeze, carefully placed surveillance cameras, an 8-ton door in a huge dome inside and one of the most luxurious residential complexes you might find.
The building consists of 15 floors with a depth of 61 meters underground. On the upper level, there is a spacious dome that includes the main entrance and group leisure facilities. This is where you will find the petting zoo, climbing wall and pool (complete with water slide).
Under the dome, the cylindrical silo has another 14 floors, the first three floors are where you will find mechanical rooms, medical facilities and a food store (complete with full hydroponics and aquaculture preparation), followed by 7 levels of apartments. Below, the last four floors contain a classroom, library, cinema, cafe and exercise room (with sauna).
Apocalypse technology
Beside the main entry room (which functions as a protected parking lot if residents need to empty their vehicle during the closure) there is a radioactivity disinfection room, the chemicals here can take care of everything, iodine pills for your radiation treatment, Geiger counters to detect radiation, and special chemicals to extract Both biological and radiological pollutants from you.
"If there is a riot or food shortage, this is normal," says Larry Hall, owner of the Servo Condo of the clean-up room, referring to the type of emergency that could happen at the end of the world. "But what if there was radiation from a dirty bomb? You should go to this room."
With special techniques in the rooms, volcanic ash can also be cleaned from the air if a volcano erupts and causes the end of the world.
On the last floors where the cinema, gym and sauna room are located. The school is equipped with modern computers and the Internet.
The buyer provides a unit in the shelter with a list of his interests and hobbies from carpentry and sewing to programming and building robots. Hall and his team feed this information to computers that download and store information and websites for each resident.
"In the event of a disaster where the internet is disrupted, we will download a lot of medical, survival, and hobby information to our residents so they can use their search engine," Hall said.
Protecting and resting the population is important
After touring the shared facilities, you can take a look inside the apartments themselves. They are not small rooms but rather units in a new apartment complex in San Francisco or Manhattan. The kitchens are full of stainless steel appliances, fridge and cooker. There are new sofas, coffee tables, and untouched beds.
Lives of the fearful rich
"All of our people are self-made millionaires," Hall says. "They are very successful, doctors, engineers, lawyers and international businessmen ... almost all of them have children. And they are concerned about a disaster scenario."
Hall notes that the list of potential concerns includes many things, including a sandstorm or tsunami, Pacific earthquakes or hurricanes in Texas, and possibly a global climate change, food shortage or riots as a result of the economic meltdown, or the impact of a meteor collision and many others.
"If these are the things that bother you, this is the kind of facility that you need in order not to worry," he says.