Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse 150
pigrabbitbear writes "'I was inspired with a very powerful message around 1980 that I needed to build a shelter for 1,000 people deep underground to survive something that was coming that was going to be an extinction event,' he explained in an extensive phone interview. 'That's it, that's all I had. But it was powerful. So powerful that I had a successful business with 100 employees and I took time off to go up into the mountains and search on weekends looking for an underground mine or cave that could be cartoned and converted.' Today, Vicino is the owner and founder of Vivos, a company that sells space in luxury survival complexes around the country. It's what he likes to call 'life assurance'--mini underground cities, in effect, for people ride out the end of civilization in a community setting with good food, television, even a potential dating pool. He says demand has increased 1,000 percent this year compared to last—itself a 1,000 percent increase over the year before."
Re:EOW scam (Score:5, Funny)
The Mayan calendar is base 20 with the first place only going to 18. This year represents the end of the 13th "great cycle"(13.0.0.0.0). That means that there have been 12 "end of the world events" preceding this year. So the next real end of the calendar doesn't happen until 4000 something when we reach the 20th great cycle. But then it will just start all over with 1.0.0.0.0.0. In short this is NOT the end of the Mayan Calendar.
Wrong! The great catastrophic event killing large amounts of people around the globe did happen early this morning. Don't believe the media hype - it's just a cover up.
The event only killed people below ground.
Obligatory Dr. Strangelove quotes (Score:5, Funny)
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
Re:so... up to 100 customers then? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For the right price... (Score:4, Funny)
I bet there'll be a bunch listed on real estate sites at firesale prices starting Dec 22.
Re:To ride out the end of civilization (Score:4, Funny)
Mien Fuhrer! I can walk!
Re:To ride out the end of civilization (Score:2, Funny)
Socialist rubbish. You'll need to learn to get along, sure, but you must MASTER the ability to perceive deception before you get fucked over, because being fucked over, even once, in such a situation, probably means you starve to death or are killed outright and robbed. such a world will be very thin on people willing to share what they have. The sane default is to assume deception at some point along the way in any cooperative endeavor. That doesn't mean you avoid all coops but you should plan contingencies. A lot of them..
Not in the Simpsons but should be (Score:4, Funny)
(In Homer voice) So it's fears you're selling, ay?I'd like a dozen fears please. That costs HOW MUCH??? I'd like one fear please. What? Can I get just a taste? Mmmmmmm.... fear.
Welcome (Score:4, Funny)
Re:To ride out the end of civilization (Score:5, Funny)
I tried camping once. The experience helped shape my current "head for a decent bar located as close as possible to something worth nuking and attempt to be vaporized with a gin and tonic in hand" strategy for apocalypse management...