Wow, these random thoughts about doomsday bunkers just won't stop coming to me. I got more questions. First and foremost, I will leave the research on what's this 12.21.12 Mayan calendar doomsday thing to each of your own research. All I have to say is, just because a calendar ends doesn't mean it's the end of the world, else our world will end on 12.31.xx at 00:00 every year. Anyways, as a somewhat morbid person myself, I certainly enjoy entertaining the doomsday idea, so let's just say it's real. A few other thoughts came to mind.
Many great person had wrote many science fiction stories with the same premises: doomsday, bunkers. Many of them optimistic individuals like to fantasize that they are funded by the government and people who get to "stay behind" are hand chosen. And to be the devil's advocate, who is to say there aren't such bunkers exist? You and I will probably never find out. Whilst I am not certain how well these "hand chosen" individuals will get along for an entire year in a bunker, now we are talking about random individuals who has the cash to afford a bunker, and I think it's safe to say that most, if not all, of these individuals probably have a pretty strong sense of entitlement and are used to being waited upon. The best scenario I can imagine is like a real, year-long Big Brothers show. There will be anarchy, and the most obnoxious ones will be the survivors. A few more thoughts stemming from that.
1) The company selling the bunkers boast there's enough supplies for one year. How do we (assuming we own bunkers) know that is true? What if supplies run out after three months? What are you going to do? Sue the company?
2) There are computer rooms. These bunker people do realize that they might have computers to read ebooks, watch DVDs, or listen to audio books, but the internet will be gone, right?
3) The most plausible way the world is going to come to an end, in my humble opinion, are a) natural catastrophe like an asteroid crashing into earth and kicking up dusts, blah blah blah, very much like how the dinosaurs went out or b) not so natural catastrophe such as a nuclear war. So what happens if the world's still no inhabitable when the supplies ran out? Are they going to start killing / eating each other? In all honesty, way before the year is up (assuming the supplies last that long), it will be like Lord of the Flies in close-quartered bunkers. People will be murdered way before then.
4) Say it's safe to come out of the bunkers after a year. Then what? Civilization will be gone. Everything will have to start from scratch again, farming, hunting, construction, societies, etc.
No, thank you. If I have great financial means AND truly believe that 2012 is the end of the world. I'd rather quit my job and enjoy my life until then.
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