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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg via extropy-chat<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Keep in mind that the wealthy elites of America long before this pandemic even got started, were hiring specialty construction companies to create multi-million dollar custom build underground facilities … John<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Of America? Why only America? And why only wealthy elites? It wouldn’t cost all that much to cache survival supplies for a coupla years methinks. It would take determination for sure, but consider how many ordinary proles we see whirring around town in Teslas costing in the upper end of the 5 digit range, some in the 6 digits, when any used 4 digit dinosaur burner would do the same job (granted with less… elegance.) There is money around for doing things like this should one decide it is the thing to do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It wouldn’t even necessarily be underground: that runs up cost. It would only need to be defensible. The underground notion is a holdover from the days when we were thinking nuclear blast. But now it might be the risk of that is subsiding.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On this forum we have discussed the notion of an off-planet lifeboat so that humans could again populate the planet in a catastrophe, but it appears to me individual lifeboats could be assembled down here in the dirty now and now. Regardless of the virus, it is conceivable that a small minority of humans could survive to repopulate the place.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>