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    Apocalyptic Images We Should Have Seen in 2012

    The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built

    Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012

    Seven Ways the World Could End in 2012

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    Image of Nasdaf Nasdaf
    12:26 PM

    In reply to Apocalyptic Images We Should Have Seen in 2012
    This gallery was better than the movie
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11:56 AM

    In reply to Apocalyptic Images We Should Have Seen in 2012
    Where's the one with Sarah Palin taking the oath of office?
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11:49 AM

    In reply to Apocalyptic Images We Should Have Seen in 2012
    Passing a video camera in front of these paintings and then editing the resulting footage together with some loud Wagnerian music would be about 100 times more entertaining than anything Roland Emmerich has ever made.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10:48 AM

    In reply to Apocalyptic Images We Should Have Seen in 2012
    In the second image I seriously doubt that Bamboo Reef Sharks would be in such deep water. Furthermore, in the...

    Oh who am I kidding? These are stupid cool and probably more entertaining than sitting through that movie.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11:32 AM

    @Grey_Area: It looks like the water has just swept into the city, hence the trucks still floating around with their lights on. The poor sharks were probably swept in by the water. As soon as the water settles they will find a better place to live.
    These pictures are amazingly cool. They are my kind of end of civilization.
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    Image of 5AMfrenchtoast 5AMfrenchtoast
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    Creepy as FUCK.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    Sure it could have held six million people...for several hours, stacked like cord wood. then the air would have given out. Hey! the air would give out first! We don't need restaurants, showers, food or water, the air will give out! It can hold 12 million people!
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/19/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:
    Even if they packed 15 million in there, when they died they could always blame it on Western capitalism. Though, to be fair...
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    looks like a great teen drug takin party spot.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    It didn't help that Mao underestimated the destructive power of Soviet warheads (the Sovs compensated their less accurate warheads with bigger destructive yields) and the actual cost of building a city sized shelter on the then fragile Chinese economy.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    ... jeez, Dixia Cheng literally translates to "Underground City". I thought we Chinese people were supposed to have more flowery terms for these kinds of things? Like Prosperous Subterranean Utopia or something.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    11/18/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Maybe since its a dirty, wet, swampy, nasty, nuclear fallout shelter intended to squeeze 6 million people into it, they just said ehh fuck the silly name, just call the kettle black..
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/18/09

    @burlybax: Never underestimate the Chinese tendency to completely euphemize (made up word) something that's utterly shite. Oooh, believe me, I know this first hand.
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    Image of Shini: R.O.A.C.H. Shini: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/18/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Maybe they were feeling really utilitarian that day.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    Nothing dank or depressing here.
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    11/18/09

    @BadUncle: Nope - all you need is an attractive wall sconce, maybe some decorative potporri - would fit nicely in the pages of Better Homes and Bunkers.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/18/09

    @BadUncle: yep, and no possibility of Ghosts or weird underground dwellers, the last insane survivors of political prisoners or fringe science experiments!
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    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/18/09

    @goldfarb: So you find the Observer yet?
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/18/09

    @goldfarb: Watch out for the Albino ratboy! He's a bitch when you don't pay your neighborhood fees.
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    Image of 5AMfrenchtoast 5AMfrenchtoast
    11/15/09

    In reply to Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012
    This film had the worst and most hilarious final line of any movie ever. #2012
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    Image of B B
    11/13/09

    In reply to Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012
    My problem with this movie, and all Emmerich productions, isn't the elaborate CGI destruction, but the rampart boringness between them. I doubt I can sit through a 2 hour movie with no plot. #2012
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    Image of Nasdaf Nasdaf
    11/15/09

    @B: movie was terrible. a regret. theres not nearly enough CGI destruction to hold your attention for 2 1/2 hours. Movie could have been 43 minutes long.

    Also - if you've seen the LA destruction/plane scene online - its the only thing worth watching. Though some of the dialogue in the film is so laughably bad it borders on entertainment (but this will one day be online as well in an edited 2-3 min clip) #2012
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/13/09

    In reply to Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012
    I haven't see this movie yet (and probably won't until it comes out on DVD).

    But a fun game might be to try to figure out how one would survive all the cataclysmic stuff that happens in it. I'm thinking along the lines of being in a nuclear sub over deep ocean -- would the earthquakes and subsequent tidal waves still get you? In the international space station -- would ejecta from volcanoes reach high enough to get you? Are you pretty much screwed anywhere but in deep space?
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/13/09

    In reply to Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012
    "All in all, it's a very Hollywood view of how the world ends. With the exception of a few token minorities, it's American and European characters we're tracking, American and European high culture people are trying to save, and American and European monuments we're seeing destroyed"

    Europe exists and it's not for a happy couple visiting Paris or the Nazis invading us? That's not very Hollywood, in Hollywood the Aliens tend to destroy Washington, New York, Los Angeles, or the whole world, from NY to LA. #2012
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    11/13/09

    @Dirk Anger: "tend to destroy Washington, New York, Los Angeles ..."
    Meh, all uh them're yankees. so ain't no great loss. #2012
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/13/09

    In reply to Turn Off Your Brain and Watch the World End in 2012
    One of the first to go will be a selfless black man who gives his life to save his white friend/little kid #2012
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