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1950s bomb shelter diagram Diagrams, cutaways, or architecture (media.piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/historyart@piefed.social
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[–] 28 points 11 months ago*

I love how formal they are. "Why yes honey, the bombs did fall. That's no excuse to show up to the apocalypse looking like beggars."

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    [–] 23 points 11 months ago

    The unvented plumbing into nothing is interesting.

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    [–] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Hope you don't have to move your bowels.

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    • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Uhm, what charges those batteries, where do you poop, how do you change the air filters....

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It's not a bunker, just to survive a short salvo. As somebody who's survived artillery and missile strikes just by laying on the ground, this one is one posh manor

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Then why does it have a Geiger counter?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    To tell if the air is contaminated.

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    • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    Don't see an ironing board or a cocktail trolley.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    lol the burned out house in the background

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Classic .... 'let's put the women next to the entrance/exit'

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Ah yes. The air filter, used to filter out all that harmful nuclear fallout.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Well... yes?

    Fallout is irradiated particulate matter. Especially in a 1950's style (near) surface nuclear detonation, you would get a LOT of irradiated dirt and dust carried up from the blast, then spread by the rising air and irradiated by the blast. That "falls out" of the cloud and spreads through the air by wind.

    The majority of fallout would be stopped a decent filter. And if you need to sit out the halflife of the most short-term dangerous stuff, a week or two would do a LOT of good.

    EDIT: Pooping in the corner for two weeks is still quite a lot.

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