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🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | If the world ended tomorrow, what would you need to survive? |
0:10.0 | Food, water, after time you need maybe some plumbing or electricity. |
0:19.0 | But what about after that, after all the life and death stuff had been taken care of? |
0:25.0 | What about a library to pass knowledge on from the past? |
0:30.0 | Or some kind of language, maybe a universal language to communicate between all the survivors? |
0:37.0 | How about a dentist? |
0:41.0 | For one man in Canada, answering these questions was his life's work. |
0:46.0 | He built a bunker in Ontario, a sprawling 10,000 square foot complex. |
0:51.0 | And in it, he tried to prepare everything that would be needed for the end of the world. |
0:57.0 | And to start a new society out of the wreckage. |
1:16.0 | I'm Dylan Thuras and this is Atlas Obscura. |
1:20.0 | A celebration of the world's strange, incredible and wondrous places. |
1:24.0 | Today, we're headed to Arc 2, in Horning's Mills, Ontario, Canada, |
1:30.0 | to wait out the end of the world. |
1:35.0 | That's after this. |
1:50.0 | Imagine you're standing inside a school bus. |
1:55.0 | There's a curved metal roof above you and a familiar long rectangular aisle down the middle. |
2:01.0 | There are seats on either side. |
2:05.0 | Now, imagine that you're standing in that school bus, but buried underground. |
2:10.0 | Instead of seats on either side, there are bunk beds. |
2:14.0 | The roof is low and rusty and the windows are all blocked off. |
2:19.0 | Because the giant hole this bus is buried in is filled entirely with concrete. |
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