Real Life Vault-Tec?!

[Souper]

[url]http://www.terravivos.com/[/url]

Apparently, a company named Vivos is making actual Vaults for rich families. I'm just wondering, is it a scam? And how would it actually work?

[fredinno]

[quote name='Souper'][URL]http://www.terravivos.com/[/URL]

Apparently, a company named Vivos is making actual Vaults for rich families. I'm just wondering, is it a scam? And how would it actually work?[/QUOTE]

Yes, people do buy these things, surprisingly. Let's just hope they're not conducting human experiments on the people who buy them.

[jwenting]

sounds like a hoax. Any organisation on that supposed scale that refused to list so much as a PO box or fax number for requesting information, let alone contact information for their PR department is highly suspect.

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[quote name='fredinno']Yes, people do buy these things, surprisingly. Let's just hope they're not conducting human experiments on the people who buy them.[/QUOTE]

if they're Vault Tec they are, that's the very purpose of Vault Tec after all.

[gooddog15]

I'm not surprised at all that this exists. People have been building large shelters since the start of the cold war, although the only ones doing it now are probably some of the most paranoid people you will ever meet.

[More Boosters]

[quote name='gooddog15']I'm not surprised at all that this exists. People have been building large shelters since the start of the cold war, although the only ones doing it now are probably some of the most paranoid people you will ever meet.[/QUOTE]

Though you'll never get to meet them.

[jwenting]

[quote name='gooddog15']I'm not surprised at all that this exists. People have been building large shelters since the start of the cold war, although the only ones doing it now are probably some of the most paranoid people you will ever meet.[/QUOTE]

And that's why I think it's a scam or hoax. The typical survivalist isn't going to want to work together with others, let alone strangers. He's too paranoid and will mistrust everyone.
The smart survivalist isn't going to trust a setup like this that wants him to "sign up" and pay a fee for a possible future assignment to a shelter that may be built somewhere at some point because he recognises a scam when he sees it. And the stupid survivalist isn't going to pay because he wants nobody to know he's a survivalist and secretly digs his own shelter somewhere.

[MircoMars]

either I can't reach this site from germany or it was taken down. what was it? a shelter timeshare scam? how much did they ask?

[GluttonyReaper]

[quote name='MircoMars']either I can't reach this site from germany or it was taken down. what was it? a shelter timeshare scam? how much did they ask?[/QUOTE]

It's still here, and it seems to be offering shelters to survive some very unspecified disasters. The only price listed is the cheapest, at $35,000 for adults, and $25,000 for childs. Apparently the more expensive ones are "invite-only", where you sign up, and they tell you whether you're applicable or not.

There's also a bunch of other stuff, like advertising for various bits of survival gear, and something they call a "DNA vault", which is free aside from the $30 per person it costs to take the sample. Edited November 26, 2015 by GluttonyReaper

[ChrisSpace]

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Apparently, a company named Vivos is making actual Vaults for rich families.
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Buying ready-made shelters is for the weak, true survivalists build their own bunkers!

[RainDreamer]

The Switzerland government is already far ahead of them. There is a bunker space for every Swiss citizen in their country, mandated by law.

[Mikki]

[quote name='RainDreamer']There is a bunker space for every Swiss citizen in their country, mandated by law.[/QUOTE]

every swiss [I]resident[/I] btw...

[prophet_01]

That seems like a big waste of money. it's likely not build something 100m below the surface considering the budget ;) It might survive the heat at the edge of a blast and might be useful if a war with conventional non-nuclear arms is going on. But even without considering the fallout, that vault would have to be in the midle of nowhere to have enough distance from the centre of a nuclear detonation...

There is a good reason why many countries stoped building bunkers. To resist even a small hydrogen bomb that detonates something like 50km away from a vault it would need to be pretty deep underground and requires a suspension between it's walls and the material surrounding it. With just a regular basement like shelter, the walls will colapse due to shockwaves.

The US and former USSR actually did build some VERY large facilities into big mountains located in the midle of nowhere. Those bunkers have building like structures on springs and are very, very deep underground. Guess what, that's expensive as hell. They were build in the 70's and 80's when bombs got bigger and bigger with the intent of having at least a chance of surviving a direct hit. 'Direct hit' is relative when it comes to nuclear arms though...

If ww3 is coming, go camping in australia, sibiria or alaska :P

[ChrisSpace]

The Switzerland government is already far ahead of them. There is a bunker space for every Swiss citizen in their country, mandated by law.

So the one neutral country that wouldn't get nuked is the one that has prepared to get nuked.