Comfortable bunkers ready for periodic lockdown and 'inevitable catastrophe of the world: طویل مدتی لاک ڈاؤن اور ’دنیا کی ناگزیر تباہی‘ سے بچاؤ کے لیے پُرآسائش بنکر تیار
A mound of soil is visible in cornfields in Kansas. It is surrounded by a wall with military-style chains and a large wind turbine in its shadow. A security guard is guarding with a gun. If you look closely, you will see a box of cement on top of a pile surrounded by cameras.
But beneath it is an indestructible, incredible bunker.
This is a secret government installation for outsiders. There was a time when it was really a secret installation but now it is a bunker. But this is not the bunker that was built to save the politician or to hide the citizens.
It was an underground bunker to house the Atlas F missile, built by the United States in the 1960s at a cost of 15 million. There were also 72 other such bunkers designed to house nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.
They were hidden from public view, but during the Cold War, these intercontinental ballistic missiles played an important role in world politics.
But the bunker is no longer owned by the government. It is now owned by Larry Hall, who once held government contracts. He is now a property developer and 'prep'. Larry Hall bought the bunker in 2008.
Preparers are people who believe that a major catastrophe is inevitable and prepare to prevent it.
According to Michael Mills, a criminologist at the University of Kent, prepers collect food and basic necessities for a situation that could be reduced in an emergency, and the government is not in a position to provide these items on time. They will have to acquire these items individually for their survival.
Larry Hall bought the missile bunker and converted it into an underground 15-story building, which he named Survival Condo.
The 15-storey underground 'Survival Condo' is designed for 75 people where they can live comfortably for five years without contact with the outside world, and when the disaster is over, they leave. Will be able to shape human society once and for all.
Over the past three years, I've met hundreds of people in ten countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Thailand, Korea, and the United States, who think there's going to be a catastrophe. There are plans to save. I have also seen their security projects.
I have seen that some prepers have armored vehicles and some have set up secret hideouts to grow food in wars, while some religious groups have stockpiled food intended to be distributed to the people in times of need. Are
In their eyes, the Codex-19 epidemic is a medium-sized event and a precursor to a major crisis.
Unlike ordinary people like us, the prepers were not surprised by the arrival of the corona virus, but were prepared for the crisis.
Most prepers aren't busy preparing for a catastrophe, they're just ordinary people like us who figure things out and adapt to the situation. He believes that destruction must come because of human arrogance and over-reliance on technology.
Most prepers are not preparing for an accident, such as a large-scale nuclear war, or an electromagnetic wave from the sun that consumes all electronics.
Rather, the majority of prepers store items needed to deal with moderate crises, such as Code-19.
Larry Hall's Survival Condo website states that his filters can prevent harmful particles from biological, nuclear and chemical weapons, as well as the germs of the corona virus.
Most of us have a laid back attitude when it comes to painting a picture about ourselves, but we can learn from them.
Survivalism is the history of survival of one's caste or group
Even during the Cold War, in the event of a nuclear war, some practical measures were prepared. It was during this time that the idea of Survivalism flourished.
Survivors believed that the cause of the nuclear war was scientists, elites and politicians who were willing to sacrifice world politics for the people.
That is why many Survivors were against globalization and strong governments. They often try to avoid taxes and the law by relying on the freedoms enshrined in the US Constitution.
Kurt Saxon coined the term Survivalism. He preached an armed struggle against the governments. To this end, they sought to popularize methods of making weapons and ammunition.
Inspired by Kurt Saxon, many Survivors took the path of extremism and sought self-reliance by breaking the law. They included Oklahoma bombers Timothy McQuey and David Qureshi.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the US government targeted such surveyors and filed lawsuits against many of them.
An estimated 3 million people in the United States at the time believed in Survival. Randy Weaver, Bow Gretz, and William Stanton became known from house to house.
Modern-day prepers have a soft spot for distancing themselves from the old Survivors, and they talk about practical measures rather than ideological debates.
Larry Hall's Survival Condo, prepared with the approval of the state of Kansas, shows that much has changed in a few decades.
Survival Condo
When Larry Hall took me to see the Survival Condo in 2018, he said the idea was to build a structure that could be used as a second home, and a home that would also be a nuclear bunker.
Larry Hall calls it the experimental architecture of a safe, long-lasting, self-sufficient building that is on par with Arizona State University's underground structure, Biosphere Two.
Biosphere Two is also called the 'greenhouse arc'. This project is considered to be the biggest project of social separation.
In 1991, three men and four women experimentally locked themselves in the greenhouse arc for two years.
According to one person involved in the experiment, the experiment failed due to scientists, food shortages and other social and environmental problems. But Larry Hall thinks he can change the model and make it better.
"It's a completely closed system," says Larry Hall. People try to build such systems on their farms, but rainwater and insects also get into them. But we have removed all these things.
Larry Hall says his bunker is an excellent training for a closed system needed for space travel. Buying a bunker like Survival Condo is not easy.
If you want to buy Larry Hall's Survival Condo, you'll have to spend سا 4.5 million. Since you don't even get a loan from a bank to buy such a condo yet, you will have to arrange cash.
Larry Hall's first Survival Condo has sold out and he is working on a second Survival Condo. One thing is clear, people are worried about their future.
I have visited a place called X Point in South Dakota many times. Bunkers built during World War I are being sold in an open field here.
There are 575 such bunkers and one bunker is being sold for 25 to 30 thousand dollars. Xpoint is rapidly becoming a large colony of prepers.
I walk through Larry Hall's door, which weighs 7.2 tons and can be closed at a moment's notice. Larry Hall showed me nuclear, biological, and chemical air filters that he said filtered 2,000 cubic feet of air per minute. This one filter costs ہزار 30,000.
Larry Hall spent کروڑ 20 million to buy the bunker. "When you start buying military-grade items, you have no idea how much they cost," he says.
Hall's team has dug a 4500-foot-deep well for water supply to the Survival Condo and installed carbon paper filters to disinfect the water.
This system can filter 10,000 gallons of water per day and the water tank designed for these survival condos has the capacity to hold 25,000 gallons of water.
The most important thing for the success of this Survival Condo is to ensure the power supply because if there is any interruption in the power supply, all the people living in the Condo will die.
Five alternative systems have been developed to ensure power supply, and if one system fails, the other will be up and running.
Larry Hall says we have 386 submarine batteries that last for fifteen, sixteen years. At the moment we need 50 to 60 kW which comes from wind power.
"We can't get solar power here because its panels are very weak and there are a lot of storms in Kansas," he said. In addition, we have 100 kW diesel generators capable of supplying electricity to this condo for two and a half years.
The Survival Condo has high-rise residential buildings as well as private and community spaces. But there will be no outside help in this underground tower during the lockdown and it has to work like a completely closed system where the occupants stay healthy and busy.
Investigations by politicians and the military into the confinement have ignored the social aspect. Larry Hall says the quality of survival of his Survival Condo is not just technical.
They opened another door and we had a 50,000 gallon indoor swimming pool with comfortable chairs and a picnic table nearby. It looks like a holiday resort with only a few sunshine.
There is also a theater in the same condo where we saw the James Bond movie Skyfall in Fork Resolution. It is also adjacent to the cinema bar and is a neutral ground for future residents. There is also a supply of beer.
When Larry Hall was showing me all this, he was emphasizing that the entertainment facilities are just as important in the design of the Survival Condo as the technical ones.
In view of the underground housing obligations, the residents of Survival Condo will have to behave as a unit as the action of one person can affect all the residents.
That is why this bunker becomes the abode of a submarine where it is cut off from the outside world in the event of a major incident.
At a time when citizens are being monitored, underground housing is perhaps the only hope for human privacy.
A prep who is building his bunker in East America told me in an interview: 'We can't build a space station like Elon Musk, nor can we live on Earth, so we have only one way that we can Go underground and I'm building an underground space station. '
Larry Hall says his Survivor Condo residents will take turns doing different things over the next five years to keep them busy. "When people are on vacation, they start developing destructive behaviors."
To keep themselves busy, Survival Condo residents will learn the various bunker operations. This lesson was learned during the experiment of Biosphere II.
Larry Hall has hired a consultant working on the Biosphere Project to oversee everything from the color of the walls to the LED lighting in the design of the Survival Condo.
Larry Hall explains that when people come to see his Survival Condo, they say that there is a need for luxuries like cinema, table tennis, video games, sauna bath and library.
"People don't understand that the problem here is not luxury, but these things are important for survival.
Hall says that if these facilities are not developed, the human brain accumulates extraordinary things and then begins to grasp depression or the fear of closed spaces.
Says Larry Hall: 'Whether you're doing woodwork or walking your dog, it's important that you feel like you're living a normal life, no matter the devastation around you. Don't be upset. '
In addition to good food, water and a sense of security, a sense of participation in a collective work is essential for people to feel good. This (Survival Condo) is to operate as a small cruise ship.
During the Cold War, different governments experimented with how people could cope together if they were trapped underground.
In a 1999 experiment in Pleasant Hill, California, 99 prisoners were locked up underground for two weeks. When they were evacuated, everyone was in good mental and physical health. It concludes that if people know that the situation is temporary, they will adapt to it.
It's like sailors living in cramped submarines when they know how long they're underwater. Larry Hall plans to stay in Survival Condo for five years.
We saw two hundred feet of underground shelves full of food that would be edible for twenty-five years.
There are also baskets nearby, and an espresso machine behind the counter. Hall says they had to paint the black roof, tiled floor and walls light brown so that if people were locked in the building and had to come down here to find food in boxes, they would soon be disappointed. Will
Larry Hall says the rule here is that since the purchase of essential food items is a social process, no one in the building will store food for more than three days.
"Here, since everything is already paid for, you have to encourage people to come down, smell the bread, make coffee, talk to each other, exchange some things."
We saw a 1,800-square-foot condo that was as clean as a hotel room. I looked out the window and was surprised to find that it was night outside, even though we had only been in the condo for a few hours.
I completely forgot that I was underground. Larry picked up the remote control and pressed the video feed button, then the weather outside came on the big TV screen. We can see the leaves falling from the oak tree where our car is parked and the far orange is also standing where it was when we came here.
Hall tells us that he has been reminded by the consultant that as a developer it is my duty to make the place as normal as I can.
"We don't always want to remind people living here that they're living in a spaceship or a submarine.
Coming out of the condo
All these preparations are to be in lockdown. But what happens when the condo doors open?
Ogi, a prep who is building a survival bunker in Thailand, said: 'I think when the lockdown is over, the panic will come out of my body when I get out of the bunker, I think I will He has spent time here safely with his family and I will be a good father.
When I asked another South Dakota prep what he would do in his bunker, he replied: 'You can do anything, you can learn to meditate, or you can fly in the air with the power of the Spirit. You can also learn how to get through the walls. When you get rid of the worries around you, who knows what you can get.
Some people think of a bunker as a shell that you can enter to change yourself. Many of us have felt the same way in the early weeks of the lockdown after the Code-19 epidemic.
During the lockdown of Code-19, many people got rid of unnecessary travel and sat at home with satisfaction. Lockdown is a paradise for some, but not less than a torment for those who have lost their jobs or become ill.
I learned from research that preparing for a bad time, if a little selfish, is a very hopeful act. Selfish because the prepers are taking care of themselves and they don't trust the government.
However, some prepers said during the Code-19 epidemic that being self-sufficient is actually beneficial for others as well. For example, if they did not use public health resources, it would benefit others. Unlike Survivors, prepers do not want to leave society, but strengthen themselves by preparing themselves.
I was told by a bunker builder in California that no one likes going into a bunker as much as he likes getting out of it.
Therefore, bunker is a means of transportation. Instead of carrying humans and objects into space, they are a way to get them out of bad times.
Hope and fear
The bunker for the prepers is a controlled laboratory where they can build their own better. For them, the bunker is a place where they can break out of their shell and make a fresh start in this complex and delicate world.
In the face of the Code-19 epidemic, it is clear that prepers are not rebels against society, but rather help to understand the current human condition. Just as some people in the past reflected the Cold War anxiety.
Preparing places like Survival Condo is difficult if not impossible, and the option to build it is important because fear can lead to hope.
As Larry Hall put it at the end of Survival Condo's tour: 'It was not a place of hope. The bunker was part of a weapons system where nuclear-armed missiles were kept safe, but we have turned this destructive structure into a defensive structure.
But the important thing is not to understand what the prepresses are building, but to understand that they are born out of social inequality, declining trust in government, frustration with globalization, rapid social and technological changes. Reflecting the worries of the taker.
The Code-19 epidemic will increase fear among the people, which will make individual preparations for survival more common. Perhaps the future of humanity is not in the distant stars but below the surface of the earth.
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