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http://www.terravivos.com/

So I'm watching Colbert Report, and he's talking about these fallout shelters being built. All I could think was "Holy crap! Vault-tec exists, and they're prepping up for the coming apocalypse!" So I decided to check out this company's site thinking it was just some company that's getting money via fear-mongering. But after watching the video, the people who are behind this venture are completely SERIOUS.

Then I started thinking about the practicality of such a place. It's designed to weather out a year of whatever could happen, but I don't think it would last that long. The video never references ways to scrub incoming air, or to protect outgoing exhaust. So it would be pretty easy to theorize that nuclear fallout, bio-hazardous contaminants, killer bees, heavy flooding could easily get into the place, and you would be stuck in tomb.


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Hijacker wrote:
Then I started thinking about the practicality of such a place. It's designed to weather out a year of whatever could happen, but I don't think it would last that long. The video never references ways to scrub incoming air, or to protect outgoing exhaust. So it would be pretty easy to theorize that nuclear fallout, bio-hazardous contaminants, killer bees, heavy flooding could easily get into the place, and you would be stuck in tomb.
It shows you the NBC filtration system about 4 minutes in...

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GECK or shens.

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charlieo wrote:
Hijacker wrote:
Then I started thinking about the practicality of such a place. It's designed to weather out a year of whatever could happen, but I don't think it would last that long. The video never references ways to scrub incoming air, or to protect outgoing exhaust. So it would be pretty easy to theorize that nuclear fallout, bio-hazardous contaminants, killer bees, heavy flooding could easily get into the place, and you would be stuck in tomb.
It shows you the NBC filtration system about 4 minutes in...
Well s***. Now I feel like an idiot for tabbing over to facebook mid vid.

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Encryptshun wrote:GECK or shens.
GECK? You need to at least make it through the timeframe needed for the traces of radiation to die down. Water chip is key here and there is NOOOOOO way in hell I'm going back down to Necropolis to get another one. Those guys are ***holes.

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charlieo wrote:
Hijacker wrote:
Then I started thinking about the practicality of such a place. It's designed to weather out a year of whatever could happen, but I don't think it would last that long. The video never references ways to scrub incoming air, or to protect outgoing exhaust. So it would be pretty easy to theorize that nuclear fallout, bio-hazardous contaminants, killer bees, heavy flooding could easily get into the place, and you would be stuck in tomb.
It shows you the NBC filtration system about 4 minutes in...
Doesn't matter. You let in just ONE zombie-infected human and the whole place is a meat grinder...

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R...

The idea is pretty useless. I mean you'd have to live pretty near the vault for it to be effective at all.

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I am ready to eat all of you to survive, I don't need to hide.


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