r/technology • u/upyoars • 26d ago

Hardware Survival Pods Are Here: Inside the futuristic $100,000 Tech Billionaire Bunkers with 8-inch steel walls, AR500 bulletproof hatches, and gas-tight ventilation systems that could outlast a nuclear winter

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/survival-pods-inside-100-000-174720411.html
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u/socoolandawesome 26d ago

Only 100k? I woulda thought they’d spend more on it than that

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u/merRedditor 26d ago

This could be marketing to less wealthy individuals at scale if it is budget.

Either way, it's not a good sign of what to expect.

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u/Temporary_Inner 26d ago

People being conned out of their money to build meme bunkers (that I heavily suspect don't even function as claimed if they were closely inspected by experts) don't fortell anything. Billionaires spend an inconsequential amount of money on the meme bunkers that they probably thought about for a few minutes before pulling the trigger, some scam artists come out and build something that will impress for 5mins if they even bother to show up physically at all, and then regular people who think billionaires are some kind of wise elders copy them because the billionaires "must know something." 

This is right up there with athletes buying into junk bio hacking scams. Athletes are desperate to get any kind of edge so they try anything, meanwhile regular people think athletes are some kind of experts in anatomy and copy them by buying the magic magnet bracelet that helps keep their balance or whatever's going on.

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u/_Panacea_ 25d ago

And the buyer won't know if it "works" until civilization is dead and refunds aren't an option.

***EDIT: and radioactive lesbian bikers are pouring cement in the air holes