"An opulent $300 million doomsday bunker complex, to protect ultrarich clients from disasters, has been unveiled by protective design specialists.
Set to open in 2026, a Virginia-based company called Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments (SAFE) says the bunkers will house 625 people, at up to $20 million per “project Aerie” unit.
Newsweek has reached out to SAFE outside of normal working hours via email for comment.
Why It Matters The vast majority of U.S. citizens do not have access to a nuclear fallout bunker or the means to build one. Relatively few people will be allowed into Government bunkers, which are intended for continuity of government operations. Billionaire wealth surged by $2 trillion in 2024—equivalent to $5.7 billion per day—as global inequality reached unprecedented levels, according to a report from Oxfam International.
What To Know The Aerie project, which is named after the resting place for birds of prey, will offer a network of luxurious residential bunkers across 50 U.S. cities, with 1,000 affiliate locations planned worldwide.
According to their website the facilities will “provide robust defense against the most severe threats, including nuclear fallout and electromagnetic pulses.”
The company has been commended for their creation of many different kinds of bunkers, including one which came complete with a Formula 1 track. "
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Who will be doing their cooking and cleaning?
It houses 625 people apparently. But I imagine there wouldn’t be that much cooking without fresh ingredients
- start a company that does this - $1M each to secure your spot
- hire only leftists
- build luxury bunker with a pool and sweet ass air hockey table
- wait for inevitable collapse of capitalist world order
- let in employees only
- seal the doors
Honestly you could make some pretty cool earth-bermed apartment complexes fairly cheaply, which aren’t quite bunkers but can have a lot of heat insulation, water filtration, concealment, and might be a bit more resistant to radiation than conventional construction.
you had me at pool and air hockey
Set a fire at the air intake.
Problem solved.
Have they solved the “how to prevent concrete being poured into air intakes” or “how to prevent people outside from welding the access doors shut” issues yet?
Well hiding bunkers tends to be a very basic tenant of them so I assume they’d go to great lengths to conceal where exactly such bunkers are beyond being in a vague 20 mile region.
Secondly I’d assume they be might be clever enough to think to conceal the vents. To put serious resources into hiding them a distance from the actual bunker in say fake houses or office buildings that have a concealed level in the attic or basement with an intake. All kinds of ways to hide these things that would require extensive search to locate and maybe equipment.
One should assume they’d also conceal the entrance, also a common thing for anything but military bunkers. Could do that to fake buildings, a wall in a basement of a house that opens or even something more elaborate like an elevator that pops up from a concealed space in an area people wouldn’t look which you cover with a layer of dirt to hide the signs of until it’s first used (or just put it in a fake closet or bathroom in a building).
All of which is to say the wealthy have good reason to feel this wouldn’t necessarily be an issue. People assume that the rich would run into these things to hide from a successful worker’s revolution when that’s not IMO what they’re for (that’s what the bunkers tech billionaires build in New Zealand are partially for being remote, on an island run by a pliant settler-colonist state). These are for mythical things like an asteroid impact, solar flares, or more realistically instigated nuclear war that the US government informs important people to shelter from an hour ahead of time. Maybe for things like a proletariat uprising in a given region ala BLM summer type situation where people are trying to Luigi CEO’s but don’t really have the ability to completely control an area for an extended period and without a vanguard party would at any rate mostly target visible banks, homes of the rich, police stations, etc.
If they set off nuclear war (a real fear I have that they’d rather destroy most of the world rather than give up power) and nuke China and get nuked back they also won’t have to worry about that many people being around to try and kill them and those who are around will probably be so messed up with grief, pain, hunger, and other immediate needs that they won’t dedicate the resources to finding and killing people in bunkers if that information even still exists (hall of records could be destroyed entirely or at least thrown into disarray) because they’d be too busy trying to survive. At least for the tech billionaires they do tend to surmise in their planning that they/their servants/guards/remnants of the state apparatus of violence will be able to emerge eventually and re-assert order under their control of course and that’s something that obviously could go wrong for them but it would potentially buy them the ability to survive the immediate threat and even be rescued if some elements of the state still survive (as is likely in a situation where they set off nuclear war intentionally as the government has their own bunkers as well as remote military bases not worth being hit by an enemy nuke) the bourgeois state might rescue at least some of these people to manage their rebuilt society or at least that’s what they’re banking on.
Presumably a bunch of robotic turrets
Those are gonna have ammunition and that’s not going to be unlimited. Making the auto turrets spend all their ammunition will not be a difficult task.
World’s most advanced autonomous turret vs cardboard cutout with articulated limbs in the breeze
Eh, they’ve got a finite amount of bullets. Just keep setting them off with RC cars until they go click and then it’s time to poop in the air intake.
Oh yeah, I don’t think it will work. Shoot it with a big gun from far away.
Synthesis: Those giant slingshots for water baloons but you fill them with doodoo to cover the sensors of the turrets. Then you walk up and shit in the air intake before you pour concrete into them.
My job on the commune will be shitting in the balloons
I never thought my highly regular bowel movements would be so vital in establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat
Which we already know can be beaten by wearing a cardboard box.
Lol wut
The us army did an experiment with “ai” cameras that were simulating a automated turret situation and the grunts sent out to try and beat the cameras did so by disguising themselves with various things. Turns out, LLM’s trained to recognize human beings will be fooled by a walking cardboard box. The ai isn’t looking to shoot trees, so dressing up like a bush or a tree lets you walk right on by. Cause the cameras just aren’t looking for trees lol. Same with anything other than whats its looking for, people.
Google ‘shadow Moses’ for more info
we should start training pigeons to shit all over the sensors along with feeding them a heavy metal diet. lol
It may look like a lot, but all of that medical equipment is just for measuring nighttime erection duration for a father and his son.
I hate that I know what you mean
Oh wow that’s so cool! Where is it located? I want to see this incredibly cool project, I’m so curious about the infrastructure involved, like how many vents it has and where they’re dispersed on the surface and what they’ve used to disguise them!
How long would these people last before they broke all the shit and had nobody to fix it or ran out of parts? How long before the pecking order got out of hand and people started slaughtering each other?
Living in a hole would lose its novelty pretty quickly I’m betting.
These fuckers couldn’t even stay in their lavish compounds for two weeks during covid. Ain’t no way they’re staying in those bunkers without losing their shit.
They won’t last that long because if these fucks really start a nuclear war because they can’t stop doing capitalism any survivors will find the air intakes and pour cement into each one.
Edit: someone beat me to it, so yeah with my dying breath as my skin sloughs off from the rads, I’m dumping that concrete in.
Hoping that they are inspired by Vault-tec and will run inhuman experiments on the ultrarich specimens.
Vault 114 sounds like a winner.
Social experiment in which wealthy inhabitants would be stripped of luxury and forced to live in cramped squalor under an incompetent Overseer
I’m partial to Vault 43
I’d feel bad for the panther. Most likely it will be killed immediately, maybe taking 1 or 2 humans with it, and on the off-chance that it survives that fight, it will simply starve to death.
the promo images are made with AI
Yea lol it’s so obvious I was cracking up a bit. Whats funny is that among our tech elite instead of screaming “scam!” that’s probalbly attractive to them.
I mean it even has a fucking “medbed” in the first image. No MRI looks like that. It’s a fucking sci-fi conspiracy Elysium thing.
It’s really telling how now all these startup grifts just ask the computer to make something up instead of even putting in like the most basic effort to throw together some concept art and there has been absolutely zero change in the quality level because that bar was already so low. Like empty, poorly thought out compositions with details that don’t make sense, which hinge entirely on vibes is their whole thing, and image generators are amazing at producing exactly that sort of slop.
Startups don’t have a vision, they don’t have plans, all they have are some empty vibes because the economy runs on making rich dipshits feel the right warm fuzzies when they look at your pitch so they give you free money.
I feel this. As murderously selfish as Amerikan bourgeoisie are, industry there doesn’t have the organisation and capacity to build this shit. Maybe in the 60s, but not now.
Lol, it’s a rug pull!
At least Cryptoland had that cartoon.
“The Aerie project, which is named after the resting place for birds of prey”
What a fitting fucking name…
They’re aware of how evil they are and they’re just laughing at us
I’m surprised they didn’t make another LOTR reference, e.g. palantir. How much more on nose can you get?
They could’ve easily gone with Valinor
guarantee you it was on the final whiteboard
I guess Eagles Nest was already taken
Lmao ai powered medical care.
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You don’t even have to be a socialist to understand why these should just be straight up criminal to build
But you have to be a communist to know how to solve them
For back in our forefathers’ time, the devils ruled this land
They made cruel wars and laws to rule the folks on every hand
They spoiled the land and water, and they poisoned half the sky
They cared for nothing but their power, though man and nature die
[…]
They hid themselves below the ground and left the people here
Amid the blight that they had made and even they must fear
But still the people stayed alive, and well they promised then
That all the devils hid in Hell would never rule again
Pile high, pile high, the devil’s underground
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