Yang calls each anti-disaster bubble “Atlantis.” 4. They’re designed to withstand a volcano, tsunami, earthquake, or nuclear meltdown. The balls are hollow, and inside each there are seatbelts.
Not to be outdone by his ship-building countryman, 32-year-old Yang Zongfu of China has been building 3-ton yellow steel balls measuring 13 feet in diameter. “They call us up just to make sure we have space in the shelter and I tell them, “For sure, come on down.” 3. “People have been in a panic because someone has prophesized the end of the world this particular week or whatever,” he told the Canadian Press. Beach rents out rooms in Ark Two, and like most B&Bs, Ark Two rooms boast a kitchen, shower, and separate bunks for children and adults. His life’s work, a sprawling underground labyrinth nicknamed “Ark Two,” was finished in the 1980s and is comprised of 42 underground school busses. He built his first in response to the Cuban missile crisis in the ’60s. The man who built a nuclear shelter out of school bussesīruce Beach, a 78-year-old former high school teacher living in Ontario, is no stranger to fallout shelters. It’s unclear if there will be any animals taken onboard. At 65 feet long, it weighs about 80 tons, built mostly of timber and steel. The house-sized ship is pretty substantial, too. Lu Zhenghai of China is sinking $160,000 of his life savings into a massive ship to ensure that he and his family are protected in the event of a worldwide flood. Here’s how they’re getting ready for the end of the world: 1. But the philosophy of these so-called “preppers” is that you can never, ever be too careful. Of course, the Mayan calendar predicting the end of times has probably been misread, and NASA insists there aren’t any asteroids headed our way any time soon.
And predictably, more than a few rattled souls from different corners of the globe are rushing to empty their savings accounts and stockpile nonperishable food, guns, ammo, gas generators, and whatever other doomsday supplies they can get their hands on. Circle your calendars: The world ends on December 21 … at least according to some out-there prognosticators.
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