A Wired investigation reveals that the tech mogul’s top-secret Hawaiian estate will feature a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker and will generate its own energy
  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
    39·
    8 months ago

    I hope that when the apocalypse comes, whatever the cause, people remember all these bunkers and the soft fat fleshsacks that inhabit it.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    24·
    8 months ago

    I’m sure his security staff won’t frag him and take over the second the apocalypse comes. No question they’ll want to work for some rich asshole as subordinates after society collapses.

    • CubbyTustard@reddthat.com
      18·
      8 months ago

      this is something they worry about:

      Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.

      This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?

      The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      7·
      8 months ago

      This one defies Betteridge’s rule because he really is building a bunker in Hawaii. Which will work out for him really well if the Kauai volcano erupts and covers it with lava.

      • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        That’s not gonna happen, the Hawaiian volcanos are created by a hot spot in the Earth’s mantle which Kauai shifted away from centuries ago.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        if the Kauai volcano erupts

        Unfortunately, that’s not how the Hawaiian hotspot works. Kauai is the second-oldest and northwestern of the islands in the state, and since the hotspot has been moving southeast the only places where activity occurs are Maui, the Big Island, and the Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount to the southeast of it (which is expected to be a new island in 10k years or so).

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Unfortunately, Kauai is no longer active. His lair would have to be on the Big Island or Maui instead for that to be the case.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I LOL’d, but I think you’re still being too optimistic. Unless Kauai itself has a military target on it, the closest strike would probably be at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, and that’s 100+ miles away.

  • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
    51·
    8 months ago

    Unrelated fact but did you know all bunkers rely on air vents to the outside? These are often well disguised but they do exist and it would be trivial to pour a flammable substance down them.

  • ExfilBravo@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    Yes the 5000 square foot compound that you will now have to maintain yourself since no one will give a fuck about money when shit hits the fan. Forcing you to live there alone with maybe a few weak yes men still around?