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    The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built

    Norway Builds Giant Shelter For The End Of The World
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    Image of amazingmao amazingmao
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    Ah, a Chinese version of Vault 101
    These will make fine reference for making Fallout: Chinese version
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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 fatetwister64 fatetwister64
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    But they dug too deep . . .
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    Image of CarrerCrytharis CarrerCrytharis
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    DEEP CROWWWWWW!
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    Image of winshape winshape
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    Would this be the opposite of "Rapture"? Instead focusing on the ideals of Objectivism, it adheres to the principles of Communism.

    Luckily, they didn't go the Big Daddy route.
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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 minivolt minivolt
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    I visited the underground city 7 years ago. It was a guided tour, and what we saw was much more tourist-friendly. The place was cleaner, and I could actually see myself "camping" there for a few nights without any major complaints.

    But sadly, it was tourist trap. At the end of the tour they sang and praised the effect of silk drapes that kept the people warm, dry and healthy while underground. And guess what. There was a big souvenir shop selling silk products at the exit of the tour. Let me just say that they were very persistent.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/18/09

    @minivolt: i never went to the underground city but during my tour of china that trope was repeated over and over again. first with clay, then with jade, then with etcetera ad nauseum.

    not that i regret my time there, not at all, i just regret the choice to bookend every stop on the tour with a sales pitch for yet another state run store.
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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 Arthur Smith Arthur Smith
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    I want to point out that photos 1, 8 and 10 are of areas still today inhabited by people, according to the article.

    And here I was thinking it was hard to depress me.
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    MargaretMoony promoted this comment Arthur Smith was starred Arthur Smith was unstarred
    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/18/09

    @Arthur Smith: Well, on one hand you get to tell people you live in an underground city. On the other, so do hobos who live abandoned subway tunnels.
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    Image of myrlin myrlin
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    This needs to be a horror movie or video game with a horror movie made to be based off it which will be based off of the novel that will be written about it before the video game is made which might be based on real life events that never really happened.

    yes just like that
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    11/18/09

    In reply to The City-Sized Nuclear Bunker Chairman Mao Built
    This reminds me of the part in World War Z with the speculation about what happened to North Korea. I love when real life is sci-fi.
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    Image of Two2teps Two2teps
    11/18/09

    @RavenNemain: That's what I was thinking too. I wonder if he knew of this or was just going with the general idea that N. Korea is fucking insane.
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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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    SJ_Edwards promoted this comment Edited by MrPliskin0 at 11/18/09 1:38 PM MrPliskin0 was starred MrPliskin0 was unstarred
    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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