Come the end of the world, you might like to sit it out in style. All you need is money and a few DIY skills…
Prepared for the end of the world: model of the living quarters in a Vivos underground bunker. Photograph: Terra Vivos/Barcroft USA
Abandon any notion of surviving the apocalypse by doing anything as boringly obvious as running for the highest hill, or eating cockroaches. The American firm Vivos is now offering you the chance to meet global catastrophe (caused by terrorism, tsunami, earthquake, volcano, pole shift, Iran, “social anarchy”, solar flare – a staggering list of potential world-murderers are considered) in style.
Vivos is building 20 underground “assurance of life” resorts across the US, capable of sustaining up to 4,000 people for a year when the earth no longer can. The cost? A little over £32,000 a head, plus a demeaning-sounding screening test that determines whether you are able to offer meaningful contribution to the continuation of the human race. Company literature posits, gently, that “Vivos may prove to be the next Genesis”, and they are understandably reluctant to flub the responsibility.
Should you have the credentials and the cash, the rewards of a berth in a Vivos shelter seem high. Each staffed complex has a decontamination shower and a jogging machine; a refrigerated vault for human DNA and a conference room with wheely chairs. There are TVs and radios, flat-screen computers, a hospital ward, even a dentist’s surgery ready to serve those who forgot to pack a toothbrush in the hurry. “Virtually any meal” can be cooked from a stockpile of ingredients that includes “baked potato soup” but, strangely, no fish, tinned or otherwise. Framed pictures of mountain ranges should help ease the loss of a world left behind.
Vivos says it has already received 1,000 applications.
How long do the rest of us have to decide? “Nobody knows” when disaster will strike but Vivos takes a shot at guessing, sourcing clues from Nostradamus, the Bible and Native American lore to suggest 2019, 2029 and 2036 as danger years. But the real fear is for 21 December 2012, a date forecast for doom by the Mayans and towards which a countdown clock on Vivos’s website ticks.
We ought not to get too comfy over the next couple of years either: President Obama’s recent warnings about nuclear terrorism proved “timely”, a Vivos spokesperson told the Observer. “Doomsday may be closer than many would otherwise like to believe…”
It’s warning enough. £32,000? Check. Carpentry skills? Check. Jogging bottoms? Check. Good luck in the hills.
Tom Lamont
Sunday 18 April 2010
Source: The Observer
All of these governments, corporations and people like Bill Gates seem to have nothing else to do …
– Iron Mountain: 22 Stories Underground, Experimental ‘Room 48?
– More Seeds For Doomsday Seed Vault
– ‘Doomsday’ seed vault opens in Arctic
– Investors Behind Doomsday Seed Vault May Provide Clues to Its Purpose (Part 2)
– African seed collection first to arrive in Norway on route to Arctic seed vault
– Scientists to capture DNA of trees worldwide for database
– Hungary to start the world’s first wild seed bank
– Experts prepare for lunar ‘Doomsday Ark’
… or maybe they know more than you do. (These are just a few examples of scenarios mentioned in the article.):
– The No.1 Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente on ObamaCare, Dollar Devaluation And Gold
– The Food Crisis of 2010: USDA vs Reality
– John Pilger: Have a Nice World War III, Folks
– US Government Preparing For Civil Unrest In America
– US shipping hundreds of powerful bunker buster bombs for coming attack on Iran:
“They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran,” said Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London, co-author of a recent study on US preparations for an attack on Iran. “US bombers are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours,” he added.
Any attack on Iran will start WW III.
– Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months
– Yellowstone National Park hit by swarm of earthquakes
– UPDATE: Scientists Eye Unusual Swarm of Yellowstone Quakes
I have given this a lot of thought and come to the conclusion that the last place you want to be during earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis is underground!