Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
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Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#2You could invest the money you spent in your bunker into helping avoid needing a bunker. Elon Musk wants interplanetary redundancy, which to some degree, increases the chance that we die here, for whatever money goes into leaving, could have went into protecting what we have.
I'm ok with a chance of being extincted if it increases the chance I don't have to rot and die a slow death like so many of my forefathers. Screw redundancy, save this planet.
Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#3Sounds like yet another hobby, you do not have to be a billionaire to build an bunker on backyard. And with all that fear-mongering about global warning, nuclear weapons, politics...
Also not everyone comes from America. Some are migrants from less stable countries, where government builds bunkers for civilian population.
Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#4You could invest the money you spent in your bunker into helping avoid needing a bunker. Elon Musk wants interplanetary redundancy, which to some degree, increases the chance that we die here, for whatever money goes into leaving, could have went into protecting what we have. I'm ok with a chance of being extincted if it increases the chance I don't have to rot and die a slow death like so many of my forefathers. Scr…
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Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#5A fool and his money are soon parted.
Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#6Is this article really this short? The headline is all that is required given how little information it contains. Truly not worth following the link for.
Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#7I can't believe you guys fell for this! (its pure click bait)
Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#8You could invest the money you spent in your bunker into helping avoid needing a bunker. Elon Musk wants interplanetary redundancy, which to some degree, increases the chance that we die here, for whatever money goes into leaving, could have went into protecting what we have. I'm ok with a chance of being extincted if it increases the chance I don't have to rot and die a slow death like so many of my forefathers. Scr…
How do you propose protecting earth from asteroids, solar storms and other cosmic dangers?
Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#9This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13482107 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13462865. The Independent article links to the New Yorker piece and doesn't really add any information.
Re: Silicon Valley billionaires buy underground bunkers preparing for the apocalypse
#10I can't believe you guys fell for this! (its pure click bait)
completely. new yorker articles lately are seriously stirring it