This week my friend Kathleen sent me this excellent and quite humorous New Yorker story by Patricia Marx on her forays into the survivalist bunker real estate market.
So, are people _already_ living in the Vivos shelters? There's already a sprawling subterranean city-state / network of villages, full of wealthy preppers? Are they _under me right now_?
If this hasn't happened yet, would you be interested in starting one???
Ok this started as a joke but now I'm thinking about the abandoned Biosphere 2 research and the excellent book A City On Mars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_City_on_Mars), which covers the sorry state of all non-dick-swinging scientific inquiry that would both help us actually make long-term, sustainable cities on other worlds (probably subterranean cities, because radiation) as well as improve life right here right now. Even if you and I wanted to make a beautiful, plantful, long-term underground city, _no one knows how._
OOh I'll have to read A City on Mars. Re: the Vivos shelters, I don't think anyone is living in them right now, but the thought of wealthy preppers living under us as we speak cracks me up. You should definitely check out Mark O'Connell's "Notes From an Apocalypse" where he goes way into these wealthy preppers including those with their sights set on Mars. What I imagine is all these rich people going underground while the rest of us rebuild a better society right on top of them. And then when they emerge they'll do their damndest to F that better society up.
Look sprawling subterranean cities from history times!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city
Ha! it's an ancient concept!
“modern luxury bomb shelters”
So, are people _already_ living in the Vivos shelters? There's already a sprawling subterranean city-state / network of villages, full of wealthy preppers? Are they _under me right now_?
If this hasn't happened yet, would you be interested in starting one???
Ok this started as a joke but now I'm thinking about the abandoned Biosphere 2 research and the excellent book A City On Mars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_City_on_Mars), which covers the sorry state of all non-dick-swinging scientific inquiry that would both help us actually make long-term, sustainable cities on other worlds (probably subterranean cities, because radiation) as well as improve life right here right now. Even if you and I wanted to make a beautiful, plantful, long-term underground city, _no one knows how._
OOh I'll have to read A City on Mars. Re: the Vivos shelters, I don't think anyone is living in them right now, but the thought of wealthy preppers living under us as we speak cracks me up. You should definitely check out Mark O'Connell's "Notes From an Apocalypse" where he goes way into these wealthy preppers including those with their sights set on Mars. What I imagine is all these rich people going underground while the rest of us rebuild a better society right on top of them. And then when they emerge they'll do their damndest to F that better society up.
Good plot for a solarpunk novel!