B-b-but it's apocalypse proof!

bad photoshop in both idea and execution

its an artisanal cellar.

Once you add the underwater airlock in preparation for rising sea levels, it'll no longer be an issue.

Once the underwater airlock becomes a full-time essential feature, you'll get to test whether you properly installed explosive decompression preventions at high tide.

After that, you only have to worry about how much of your sand and bedrock the currents wash away.

Well you have to build your apocalypse bunker compound in a scenic area with a beautiful view, otherwise what's the point?

They are trying to sell a Shell out of Plastic which you burry in the ground

There are some shells you can get that you bury to make a cellar like this. Sand would be very easy to do this with. It would also be less efficient, pretty sure heavy soils make better cellars.

Maybe he needs further education with the story of the 3 little pigs.

This guy mustn't be rich enough to reinvent trains but worse like the others.

I hope they design their own fortresses and bunkers the same way.

Only $19.95 a month after setup fees.

I mean, additional insulation is good.

Not sure what else is “tech bro” here

at least radon is still affordable unlike nvida

Of course I can’t stay too long because of the radon.

Go diy a radon remover, 3in PVC and a centrifugal fan. Just get it as low as you can to the floor. No reason to get a real system unless you are gonna live there. Any abatement helps.

Edit: If its a dirt floor then it might not help.

My grandparents used to have an air raid shelter in their garden, you could use it to freeze water in the height of summer.

Although I wouldn't recommend storing food down there because it was always damp, and full of spiders. I don't particularly mind spiders but I don't want to accidentally eat them.

https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/

The idea was made by chatGPT, of course

Please don't mention anything even remotely related to Civ on this site for the next few days. I have too much to do.

Only if they rent it for $900 per month and list it as a single bedroom with access to subway

Negative Altitude Produce Storage Facility

Before refrigeration, they used to store big blocks of ice in similar conditions and the ice would last up to 10 months in there.

But it's perfect for storing root vegetables like onions and garlic

I keep my fridge at 35.6 F myself, not sure there's any point in going down to 33.8 though I've considered it

It might even predate words

Meat preserving dust? Yeah, I'm going to take those claims with a grain of salt.

You mean salt right? At least according to the picture they should have ready access to it.

xD

Meanwhile in Europe, in some places you can literally get a castle for free!*

*Just as long as you can pay the titanic maintenance bill to maintain it to historical standards.

In an era of rapidly evolving technology, there ultimately isn't much point to construct buildings, especially individual homes, that will last for centuries. Yes, the house may still be there two hundred years from now, but will anyone actually want to live in it? Or will it require so much updating that you would be better off just building something new?

If we hit a wall on rapid technological progress, then things will be different. If you can be reasonably certain that human beings will be living much as we do now in 500 years, than building a house to last that long will make sense to me. Until then, why waste the resources?

I definitely want to see houses be made of materials that can be recycled. But raw durability is not itself a virtue. Remember the ultimate truth here. Buildings serve people. That's why they exist. And most people in 2026 do not want to live in a home built for the lifestyle of a 16th century peasant. How many people today know how to tend and cook on an open hearth wood burning stove? Yes, some homes that age do survive. But if anyone is still living in them, they have been heavily renovated and modified, many times over the generations. Old buildings like that are very much Ships of Theseus.

The wisdom of the American style of home construction is precisely in its impermanence. It's an admission that we don't have all the answers for all time, and that many of our choices today will seem foolish to our grandchildren. Yes, American homes can be quickly built and quickly torn down. But that is the entire point.

I am Ozymandius, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.