The Secret Histories, #2

[Jasper]

Needs more brushed aluminum.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

An artists rendering of a common area in a shelter.

Wow, much nicer than the ones in the movies....

[Doktor Howl]

70s wood paneling or GTFO.

[Jenne]

Also:  needs avocado and goldenrod as color scheme, complete with orange shag carpet!

[Adios]

Want to know the really funny part?

The company sells fiberglass shelters that can accommodate 10 to 2,000 adults to live underground for one to five years with power, food, water and filtered air, McCarthy says.

[Zyzyx]

Also cameras and twisted social experimentation. If Vaults are going to become a reality, we at least need to start pumping hallucinogens into the air filtration systems.

But if post-apocalyptic survival fiction has taught me anything, it is to be competent, mobile, in a group and well-equipped. Don't know if I'll actually survive, or what I'll exactly do. Nor am I sure I'd live, even in a group.

But don't you think it'd take more than an economic collapse to do us in? Apparently Argentina's recent economic collapse didn't change much for them, and they kept using their currency. Let's get Cain in on this.

[Jenne]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124298/~~> Reminds me of this movie here.

[LMNO]

This calls for a massive prank that would make them all run for the shelters and see how Lord of the Flies it would really get.

[Adios]

This calls for a massive prank that would make them all run for the shelters and see how Lord of the Flies it would really get.

War of the Worlds.

[Triple Zero]

Just a few years?

That will simply not do.

2000 people in an underground shelter? I give them a few weeks, months tops.

[Requia ☣]

So where do I sign up for the team that designs the horrible social experiments that will be run in these things once they close up.   

[the last yatto]

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_43

[Roaring Biscuit!]

Maybe, we've just gone done established a culture which favours efficiency over accountability.  Because somebody has to be killing those people, they didn't just fall onto those bullets...  They didn't fire the missiles at themselves.

But you know, the more detached we are from it all the better right?  We can't go mistaking those person-shaped things for real people, they're on the other side of the glass!  There's a whole wall of pixels between us and them, it's just like a game.  It's ok to kill as long as there are no consequences, maybe that's why violent games and films are so popular.  Maybe we're all a little bit Greek deep down.

It's so depressing when people die in real life

It wasn't my fault, the machine did it!  I didn't expect it to actually go through with, I just programmed it after all.  I thought they were more rational than this, they wouldn't jump off a cliff when I told them to, I thought they understood.  But look, they must be intelligent, they're maiming the bodies are reclaiming the meat to use as an energy source.  Ingenious isn't it?  So perfect?  So efficient?  I'm building a better world, don't you see?

and there's arms races RACING

Science can save us, we recreate ourselves in our own image, gods of steel and titanium, a bright future for all who can afford the surgery.  People need this!  They need a higher power, who has not the moral obligation to keep things alive.  We have become arrogant in our evolution, thinking we are the pinnacle of creation.  How blind we are!  We have created the future!  But we still fear to embrace, still fear the joy of destruction.

AND WE ROCK WE ROCK WE ROCK TO THE NEW SENSATION

Science will save you.

Even if it kills you in the process.

[Don Coyote]

This brings to mind several SF novels I have read in which a society develops taboos against using distance weapons or automation, however, I think humanity is just stupid enough to collectively continue the this cycle unless we destroy ourselves, or have our technological spawn do the do to us.

War should be nasty. It should be unpleasant, except when suddenly YOU have to be the dude getting shot at.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

An artists rendering of a common area in a shelter.

Pic is missing water dripping from the ceiling, and dessicated husks of people after, you know, the food ran low and everyone started knife fighting.