15,000-Square-Foot Las Vegas Doomsday Wellness Bunker For Sale For $18 Million (cepro.com) 71
CIStud writes: The 1.05-acre lot near the Las Vegas Strip houses a 5,000-square-foot home built in 1978. Beneath the five-bedroom, six-bathroom home across the entire property is a 15,000-square-foot subterranean concrete and steel rectangular-shaped doomsday wellness bunker outfitted with an array of lighting control that highlights a pool, spa, waterfall, trees, guest house, barbecue, fountain and 500-linear feet of floor-to-ceiling illuminated murals. While the home's lighting mimics dawn, dusk, day and night, CE Pro notes that it's not automated or tied to an astronomic clock. "In order to change from day to night to dawn to dusk, the user has to physically flip the lights switches on multiple banks of fixtures, each one containing four separate colored fluorescent tube bulbs," the report says.
The home has been for sale for nearly two years at a price of $18 million. All furnishings and one year of caretaker and upkeep are included in the price.
The home has been for sale for nearly two years at a price of $18 million. All furnishings and one year of caretaker and upkeep are included in the price.
$18 million and still not finished (Score:2)
Rose Red, is that you?
Paging Robert House (Score:3)
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Seriously, if society collapses that badly, expect some local warlord to arise with a dozen followers to come Negan the place.
In computer science theory, it's the difference between decision theory, where you try to solve a problem (radiation, disease, societal collapse) and game theory, where the universe works against you. Like Yucca mountain, do you design for long-term survival of the ravages of time and the occasional person poking around, or do you design for a concerted effort to break in.
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It's Vegas. Just having a decent-sized, quiet space with cool colors and a fountain where it's not 110 degrees with an off-the-charts UV index would have some appeal.
But if anything it reminds me of a Casino, with their 24 hour artificial lighting that destroys the perception of time. It's like the Forum Shops as Caesar's palace which has a domed sky with clouds painted on it and all. It's a weird, not-out
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I'm not getting Fallout from this. I'm getting the movie Blast from the Past. Seriously, this basically seems to be the underground house that Christopher Walken's character hides his family in when he thinks the Soviets have attacked.
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the movie seems inspired by this
WTF is "doomsday wellness"? (Score:2)
Is it a place to feel refreshed and fabulous before WW3?
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Re: WTF is "doomsday wellness"? (Score:1)
No, it is the place where I feel refreshed and faboulous *because* of the holocene extinction event. :D
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Upgrade intelligently (Score:4, Funny)
Just imagine what this might look like with a 21st-century upgrade with lighting control and fixtures!
Just don't use IoT, if you don't want your fancy bunker to go dark when the internet goes down, or when Linksys or Amazon decide to EOL your light controllers.
Re:Upgrade intelligently (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a doomsaday bunker, it should be setup with backups of all vital cloud services including a duplicate of Nest's backend, and the Pornhub back catalogue.
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It's a doomsaday bunker, it should be setup with backups of all vital cloud services including a duplicate of Nest's backend, and the Pornhub back catalogue.
I'd be more worried about backup power, otherwise it's all useless anyway.
Words that don't go together (Score:4, Funny)
Though in reality it's just a house with a horribly decorated giant basement. I don't know house prices in Vegas but 18 million seems a tad excessive.
Re:Words that don't go together (Score:4)
An acre of land "near the strip" as described would probably explain the price more than a big basement would.
Although there's the open question as to what the Vegas economy is going to be like over the next few years thanks to COVID-19.
Re: Words that don't go together (Score:1)
Since the "Vegas economy" consists mainly of organized crime ripping of stupid people, I think there are plenty of directures to venture to. Like selling some stupid market aggregation Ponzi scheme to Softbank, for example. :) Or making iDevice accessories with more vanity and overvaluation than anyone else.
Re: Words that don't go together (Score:4)
No, Vegas was BETTER when it was organized crime. The mob recognized the need to keep customers happy. Now it's just run by soulless corporations.
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IMHO, Vegas was better when it was financed almost purely by gambling. Once it gained a reputation as kind of a permanent spring break party destination it seemed like the prices went up and the freebies went down.
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Do you wear pants?
Vegas is back, baby (Score:3)
Although there's the open question as to what the Vegas economy is going to be like over the next few years
Let's see... you coop up the entire population of the world for months on end, forcing them to live as modern day monks or nuns...
And then you have questions about if Vegas will flourish immediately as the people are released from months of chastity?
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I like Las Vegas. Maybe more than most people. I spent last Thanksgiving there, where we looked into some properties for sale as a potential vacation/second home location. It's got great access to the outdoors, all the nightlife of the strip, and hey, legal marijuana as well.
But I'm in no hurry to get in a COVID tube and fly there or spend time in the crowds there until the risk of infection and disease is much lower. rt.live is showing the R(t) value for Nevada possibly as high as 1.4, I can only guess
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I like Las Vegas. Maybe more than most people.
Walking around Las Vegas is like a browser page filled with ads, everything around saying "click me! click me! look at me!" There is good stuff there but it really needs a hosts-file ad-block.
Couple of problems here (Score:2)
Automation (Score:2)
While the home's lighting mimics dawn, dusk, day and night, CE Pro notes that it's not automated or tied to an astronomic clock. "In order to change from day to night to dawn to dusk, the user has to physically flip the lights switches on multiple banks of fixtures, each one containing four separate colored fluorescent tube bulbs," the report says.
It was built in 1978, before Arduinos.
If you've got $18 million to buy this then another $100 for some relays and an Arduino with RTC module won't be a problem.
I'll do the coding for $50/hour.
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Also replace the limited-life fluorescent tube bulbs with frequency-equivalent Philips LED lightning.
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Utilities? (Score:3)
After doomsday, where does the electricity, water, air, etc. to support the bunker come from? Where does all the sewage and trash go?
Re: Utilities? (Score:1)
*Obviously you run th
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I don't know what RTG means, but I do know that RTC means Real-Time Clock, so I'll assume RTG means Real-Time Grog. Glad to see another Monkey Island fan!
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Thermoelectric modules, though very reliable and long-lasting, are very inefficient; efficiencies above 10% have never been achieved and most RTGs have efficiencies between 3–7%.
Yikes. Talk about wasting energy.
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Re:Utilities? (Score:5, Funny)
Where does all the sewage and trash go?
Usually what happens is that alarms go off and the sewage and trash flee to the bunker.
Re: Utilities? (Score:2)
Well, given that the outside WILL already consist sewage and trash... ;)
For air and water: Filter, purify, recycle. The ISS teaches you half the job. And it's not like bunkers haven't been built to protect people from poisonous gas attacks before. A nice self-cleaning micropore air filter and reverse osmosis system will probably suffice. Electricity should be easy in such a sunny and probably windy place. For energy storage, you will probably find enough electric car batteries around you to last you for cen
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After doomsday, where does the electricity, water, air, etc. to support the bunker come from? Where does all the sewage and trash go?
Years ago I heard a quote to the effect of that all the people stocking up items in their basement are merely playing at doomsday prepper. The genuine peppers own a farm in the boonies and have been learning how to live totally off the grid.
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I saw this earlier today. I'm not sure if he's entirely self-sufficient, but he's got food, water, electricity and real scenery on 40 acres. 2 hours from the nearest stoplight.
Modern Cave House is Man's Life Long Dream - 5,700 sq ft! [youtube.com]
He says it's more of a lifestyle than to survive some coming apocalypse.
I'd much rather live there.
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After doomsday, where does the electricity, water, air, etc. to support the bunker come from? Where does all the sewage and trash go?
15,000 square feet will hold a lot of poop.
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After doomsday, where does the electricity, water, air, etc. to support the bunker come from? Where does all the sewage and trash go?
It's a wellness bunker, not a doomsday bunker. When doomsday hits, anyone in a wellness bunker feels OK about it until the power goes out. Then they're just sitting in the dark.
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So whole-home peril sensitive sunglasses?
Does it come with a doomsday pool boy? (Score:3)
Dancefloor (Score:3, Funny)
OMG is that ugly! (Score:4, Interesting)
Imagine someone stuck in the early 60ies doing interiour decoration with late 70ies plastic. You could shoot an episode of a Fallout or Bioshock spinnofff series here and wouldn't even need to redecorate. Creeeeeepy.
I'm not sure I would take it for free.
18 Million? I seriously doubt it's worth that.
Re: OMG is that ugly! (Score:1)
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I'm pretty sure this was used as a set for the Blast from the Past movie with Branden Fraser, either that or they rebuilt it on a soundstage.
How is I powered? (Score:1)
Is it still on the grid? Given the age I assume so. A complete novelty home, nothing more and not practical at all. Someone here mentioned sewage and water requirements as well. How can you call this a doomsday house if it's just a space underground that isn't at all prepared for a doomsday?
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Be prepared but not crazy. (Score:5, Interesting)
I find it interesting that these Prepers seem to plan for the worse case sci-fi level problems, but not so much for the problems that can actually happen.
Just apply some basic wilderness survival techniques and you will probably be better off in your life than being locked up in a bunker.
Stock enough Water and food to last a few weeks, keep it rotated (to not have it expire), so make sure it is stuff you are willing to eat, as you will be eating it normally. So you may have 10 boxes of pasta. you probably should have pasta from your stock before the emergency, then buy an other box when you go to the store next. Normal disasters will only have you cut off from normal supply chain only for a few weeks.
But in case the big one happens.
1. Know how to build a fire without normal fire starters.
2. Know you area. Is there places where you can get clean water. (Still boil and filter that water as best as you can, Boiled water in a sock filled with charcoal is good)
2. Know you edible plants in you area, account for seasons.
3. Know how to hunt without guns. You can't waste bullets. if you have a gun.
4. Be able to perform first aid on yourself and others.
5. Know how to make a shelter.
6. (Re)Build a community your survival with be much better as a team than trying to fend for yourself alone. This will also include getting rid of the notion of Fairness, while everyone should be doing their best to pull their own weight, efforts should be focused on keeping everyone alive an healthy. Not measuring the value of everyone.
We are not going to go back to the Stone Ages or the Dark Ages. We know how things work, and can rebuild things again. There is also a mass of junk that we can use for parts.
Having a bunker where you live the rest of your life, in static luxury, really isn't living. You just locked yourself away to to die. While those on top side may have a few hard months ahead of them, are actually living and thriving and getting better.
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It seems to me that your list actually applies mostly to the kind of worst case sci-fi problems that you mentioned. Basically everything you listed seems to be how to survive in the wilderness without a home or any supplies and either no other people around, or only people who are in the same boat. You're basically talking about an alien invasion/ evil AI with an army of killbots/zombie outbreak or something where 99% of the population is dead and everyone else has to hide in the wilderness or the ruins. Yo
Shoe chair, disco ball and stripper pole... (Score:2)
I mean, if we're going to talk about it, we shouldn't leave out the best bits...
https://www.cepro.com/projects... [cepro.com]
https://www.cepro.com/projects... [cepro.com]
Trump got it. (Score:5, Funny)
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Trump might bid for it for next time a protest happens.
Are you even trying anymore?
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And he will paint it in gold and have someone pay for it! :P
Blast from the Past (Score:2)
So, ..this was the set for the underground scenes for "Blast from the Past" with Fraser/Silverstone/Walken/Spacek? Or maybe it was just the inspiration for the settings? It sure feel like they're related.
https://www.realworldsurvivor.... [realworldsurvivor.com]
For those interested (Score:1)
15000 square feet is a bit less than 1400 square meters.
Just so even people more used to sane units can understand that this is quite a lot of room. Certainly bigger than my basement man cave.
HomeAssistant (Score:2)
"In order to change from day to night to dawn to dusk, the user has to physically flip the lights switches on multiple banks of fixtures, each one containing four separate colored fluorescent tube bulbs," the report says.
First on the list after purchasing, replacing all of the switches with HA compatible switches and then looking at replacing the florescent tubes with LED equivalents. Ahhh, now I can change the lighting with a flick of my watch.
News for nerds (Score:2)
The home has been for sale for nearly two years
News? for nerds...
It doesn't seem very well thought-out. (Score:2)
18 million is a lot to live in a simulation of a tacky motel, complete with astroturf around the pool and Elvis-on-velvet level paintings. I'll admit the stripper pole is a clever touch, although the doomsday use-case is somewhat dubious. I also note there is not a single bookcase in the entire place.
But a proper doomsday bunker provides for the basics first. There doesn't appear to be any provision for food storage and preparation, or electricity. Water is the first survival necessity. Refugee agencies
The apocalypse happened and you... (Score:3)
For once, RTFA! (Score:3)
The article has just 2 pics but it also has a link to the actual listing. Click it! https://www.redfin.com/NV/Las-... [redfin.com]
Pic 6 shows a disco ball and a stripper pole. Other rooms are worth looking at too.
Looks like it'd be awesome for parties, more so than survival. Not sure how necessary the Flintstones-inspired grill (pic 8) is.
Do any of you think this is the only one? (Score:2)
Appears to have sold for 1.15 million in 2014 (Score:1)
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LOL. Doomsday shelter. bla bla bla... What happened to the previous owner? Oh, he's dead.