Are we ready to live in a NUCLEAR SILO?

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00:00 INTRO
00:58 THE SURVIVAL CONDO
03:16 COLD WAR BUNKERS
05:37 LUXURY BUNKERS
07:11 EARTH SCRAPER CONCEPTS AND EXPLORATIONS
08:24 THE ROBARTS LIBRARY & THE ANTHROPOCENE
10:40 SILO'S HIDDEN SECRET
12:30 DARK CONCLUSIONS
#silo #apple #architecture #movies #bunker #preppers
Synopsys
The video explores the hidden world of silos and bunkers, contrasting their portrayal in popular media with their real-life applications (with a lot of references to the sci-fi show SILO). From Cold War relics to modern-day survivalist hideouts, viewers get an in-depth look at how silos and bunkers are designed, built, and repurposed, revealing the truth behind their mysterious and often misunderstood nature.

[@DamiLeeArch]

There has been a calculation error on my part!!! Climbing 1.6 km of stairs would only take a few days (max) to climb, NOT months... Sorry for the mistake and thank you for the correction!!! (Also, I’m a slow walker 😆)

[@dasc0yne]

But taking months is not inconceivable. Have you ever tried dragging kids around a city?

[@Hitman-zp5wi]

1:33 Yeah i have half of the floor 12 unit with a friend of mine having the other half its made for 75 people but they don't expect more than 30 to be able to make it to the bunker from where they are primary blast zones n all

[@MrMightyZ]

Thank you Professor Vocal Fry!

[@THExPOPEXIX]

days...? no, just no. people have climbed MT Everest in a day. 8.9km up without oxygen. and you would think they have some kind of lifts right? have not seen the show

[@FrodoSwagginss]

Think you still might be off. 1.6km would take a few hours (max).

[@thatshrian]

Dami is the only person to convince me to live in a silo, and then immediately told me it was a bad idea.

[@brodriguez11000]

Climate change may be the deciding factor. Not just temps, and drought, but tornadoes and hurricanes. Heck, throw in civil unrest, social collapse. Coober Pedy on a city scale. Edit: remember the metro series was in subways.

[@AI.Overlord.X]

​@@brodriguez11000😅

[@bryanshoemaker6120]

​@@brodriguez11000Metro was a great book.

[@charleshulsey3103]

😅

[@HopeOverOurDoubts]

Demi could convince me to live almost anywhere 😅 I love this channel

[@robertgronewold3326]

I've always thought that if you were to make a very large communal bunker, one key aspect would be to have several large, central areas that mimic external areas. Say for example, having a pedestrian city street and town square, with facilities and homes with windows looking out on it to give the illusion of an exterior space. Even if the bunker is large, if you could hop onto a bike and pedal your way across it, that would be beneficial for the occupants.

[@ciano5475]

Like in the movie City of Ember (2008)

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@ciano5475 Even there a little dark, but yeah, my very thought.

[@vulcanfeline]

this comment reminds me of the dread i felt looking at the "how good are we" pictures of a bunch of toolshed sized buildings on a huge (bleak) cement pad on housing the homeless. omg, a few patches of green wouldn't hurt. there's lots of low maintenance (edible) plants you could plant instead of having all that cement

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@vulcanfeline Things like that are truly miserable. At least put a communal garden in the center or something.

[@knightwolf3511]

@@robertgronewold3326 in the books though it was much darker then the movies, pretty much you couldn't see your hand if you placed it inf front of you but ya the larger the structure, the more maintenance is required. even though the building we have is led at the place i work at we have to change them every few years, the maintenance workers usually have to replace 1-6 lights a day. pipes depending on location and what not can last years or few years

[@peterholzer4481]

11:58 "the journey between floors should take days and from top to bottom it should take months". 144 floors 15 meters apart are just a bit more than 2 km. That's a rather small mountain to climb. The rule of thumb for hikers is that 100 m of elevation take 15 minutes, so that would be less than 6 hours from bottom to top. Probably 8 including rests. (Sorry for nitpicking)

[@BlunderMunchkin]

Yeah, that was a crazy statement.

[@josephfisher426]

I was at a meeting/retreat once at an Appalachian campground. There was a hill that was probably a bit less than 1 km high. I ran up it, off the trail, because I could. It really wasn't that challenging.

[@twinklefire7241]

Where did she get the math? And she’s supposedly educated?

[@anhnhvn]

Yeah the math in the video is quite a bit off. But in the context of the show I think it would probably not be as fast as 6-8 hours. There was only one central stairwell, it is bound to always be crowded, and some section might be closed off during certain hours for maintenance or security reasons, etc. So 2-3 days average for a journey from top to bottom would be more likely. More athletic people might make it in 1 day, but most would take more time.

[@danilooliveira6580]

I think you are missing the fact that they are not climbing in a straight line, but in an shallow spiral, they have to cover a lot more ground for the same distance. a month to climb is ways off though. I'm pretty sure in the show they show it takes around a day for old people in a slow pace with rest periods, and maybe less than half a day for experienced couriers.

[@DerLudwigVonZweihander]

I remember reading the excellent book "Raven Rock" by Garrett Graff about the US government's post-apocalyptic survival plans, and what always stuck with me was the response of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when he was offered a chance to ride out a hypothetical nuclear war with the rest of the government. After being told what this would actually entail, he refused, and basically said that he would rather die in a nuclear war than have to live underground with nothing but the Joint Chiefs of Staff for company. Strong Dr. Strangelove vibes to the whole concept. We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft Gap.

[@screwandwrenchrob4778]

gotta resolve that mineshaft gap, and the fluoridation issues

[@tomcushing3619]

Graff did a great interview with Terry Gross on NPR. Lots of good back story stuff.

[@e21big]

So that's where Fallout base of the same name came from?

[@cbrancier9341]

You ALL Missed the point. Jeez(Pun)

[@DerLudwigVonZweihander]

@@e21big I think so, yeah! Although the in-game design is pretty different from the actual Raven Rock (I think...been awhile since I played Fallout 3).

[@KeiPalace]

More studies have shown that instead of people going feral in times of catastrophe, they organize for the collective good, so maybe we need more media and stories about that, to get rid of this idea 'you're on your own' the problem with a bunker of course is, what do you do when/if you get out? In the movie Threads, a town committee goes down into their bunker, and the town hall above collapses on it, so they all suffocate inside, unable to help the community they were supposed to be protecting.

[@Vastin]

They do both, but as a rule the ones who go feral and individual don't last long, while the collectivists quickly form new power bases that can control territory, either integrating or displacing the individualists as they 'reclaim' territory lost in whatever disaster befell their society. So survivorship bias tends to heavily favor the collectivists - unsurprising for a social species. Individualism isn't a survival adaptation - human individualists classically have lousy lifespans - its an exploratory adaptation, they are the leading edge of the expansion of civilization, not the leftovers from disasters. A truly monumental disaster that quickly killed over 99% of the population might see individualists as some of the few survivors, but even the worst nuclear war scenarios aren't nearly that bad - and any scenario that IS that bad would very likely see the remaining 1% die out in a few years no matter what they did.

[@thewb8329]

Culture has something to do with it. Look at the contrast of the natural disasters of hurricane Katrina in 2005 and earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 after the first few days.

[@hWat-Ever]

​@@thewb8329how much of that is media and social biases.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

didn't it happen that arround the time Lord of the Flies came out a bunch of kids got into a similar situation & they did basically the opposite of the movie & cooperated?

[@rexibhazoboa7097]

"Station Eleven' shows a post apocolyptic world that is less "survival of the fittest" and more about the importance of community, art, and human connection. "The Last of Us" is somewhat of a mix of this.

[@TreadWalkin]

gotta say, the earth scraper that was shown that was a kind of reverse pyramid approach was cool imo. We always think about building higher and higher, but having visible access to light all the way to the bottom of the underground structure seems like a solid option to not feel berried and also have a mega structure.

[@sheld0n]

There's an old Polish sci-fi from 1984 called Seksmisja about two men woken from cryo sleep to find themselves in an all-women society living in an underground bunker. The way information was collected and controlled in the story made it a metaphor for living under Russian oppression. Pretty interesting looking back at it now.

[@horribleIRUKANDJI]

It was aired on the Ukrainian TV occasionally. Loved it, so quirky, but also kinda thought provoking.

[@martinknapp7640]

I find it completely mysterious why anyone would think that humans would want to live with architecture that sets out to be “brutal”. A case of theory running away with itself and forgetting the practicalities of life

[@realracing3specter295]

i saw that movie long time ago, maybe in late 2000s, and that Silo series was pretty much adapted from the same. it was such a fun movie to be honest, and nice dystopian ideas. Silo was super serious and strict upon their ideologies, still phenomenal acting from the casts.

[@firestorm165]

Thanks for the tip, I'll add it to my list

[@realracing3specter295]

@@firestorm165 beware, its an adult movie lol

[@jchan2888]

Just noticed, the channels got over 1.5 million subs now! Congratulations!

[@WebVid]

Regrettably, minus one. I am unsubscribing. Disappointed in the direction the channel has gone.😂

[@benas_st]

@@WebVidsucks to suck, I love it here!

[@V77710]

​@@WebVidIf I may ask, is it because its more "fantasy/future/dystopian" themed, or for other reasons

[@user-ln3ch7hy1x]

@@V77710 I think it may be because Dami's "most annoying voice on earth" narration

[@WebVid]

@@V77710 Yes. I find the whole fantasy/future/dystopian angle very uninspiring (depressing actually). I believe we live in a time where we desperately need inspiration. With Demi‘s gifts, she’s in a strong position to offer inspiration; to get people tapping into their own creativity and problem-solving skills.

[@Incandescentiron]

Remember the supply chain issues during the pandemic? I don't understand personal bunkers. Our species has relied on collective cooperation as a bare minimum.

[@TheInfectous]

Its just a grift capitalizing on the deluded.

[@Tricky117]

Zion is my favourite version of this style of bunker. I particularly liked the fact they had access to a cave to at least feel connected physically to an environment outside of the manufactured. It's a connection to something natural, not nature itself as would have existed on the surface, but something not created by man or machine.

[@CJOwen]

Something I have noticed is that many of those who are most enthusiastic about bunkers and end-of-world prepping (vs prepping for much more likely natural disasters) is their, already existing, alienation from society. This can be because they are socially isolated individuals due to personality, or ideological reasons, or because their extreme wealth has elevated them outside of normal human interaction (maybe a combination of those three). People who dream of surviving the apocalypse in a bunker have given up on trying to be part of the solution to stop the apocalypse from happening. They aren't even interested in working with other people to that end. They gave up. Which makes me wonder how they think they will manage to survive a real catastrophe in a bunker when they already show they are too weak to even try hard things like working with other people to fix the problems of the world? Prepping for a disaster is arguably very smart, especially if you are not within quick response distance for relief and rescue. Prepping for the end of the world is a waste of money, and shows you either have too much money, or you have very little understanding of the value of money.

[@Vastin]

Billionaires by their nature have a rather bizarre understanding of the value of money, or they would not have gone to such lengths to continue to collect it when it stopped benefiting them in any meaningful way a few digits back.

[@JohnDoe-og2bt]

To counter most of that, what have you done to stop the war between nuclear superpowers?

[@bobsteve4812]

@@JohnDoe-og2btThere isn’t much any common person can do besides try to ‘elect’ the right ppl and when things go south to disruptively protest or strike to force their hand. In reality those with billions can, in a day, do a lot more than the rest of regular humanity combined can do in a year, yet we can see what they choose.

[@phyrr2]

They would be communities of the elite - those used to comfort and endless people to manipulate and do work for them. My guess is each plans on taking serf-level staff for this reason. Otherwise, the elite are too weak to fend for themselves when surrounded by their own kind. Or their own elites would reshuffle, and you'd end up with the lower elites being forced into serfdom. Or whatever human traits end up deciding hierarchy, whether mental or physical. In the end, the most manipulative would still win out, aka the psychopaths.

[@roseeze166]

I dont want any bunkers. The ones who survived are the unfortunate ones

[@magnus4752]

going back to tsutomu nihei, the silo reminds me of his manga Knights of Sidonia where the remnants of humanity live in a spacefaring "seed ship" called the Sidonia. it's structured exactly like the silo but is 28km long, with residential housing attached onto the outside of the central shaft ( what was the barrel of a massive ship-long cannon ), a sea populated with fish, a beach suspended from the ground, along with commercial, residential, and manufacturing districts located along and inside the outer wall. even some parts have districts with japanese style houses and religious shrines, its very cool

[@chromesucks5299]

And also a society living under a lie, controlled with their fates not initially in their hands

[@JefferySmiley]

It's a great series

[@orciencor6001]

I was just thinking about that manga as well, and how it could be an interesting structure for her to consider looking at since it's in a very similar vein. Albeit, it's a space faring 'bunker' instead, with the need to consider additional aspects required for space travel. But still would be an interesting addition to these sorts of structures.

[@Vastin]

​@@chromesucks5299 The information environment in that one is interesting, because the leadership is clearly lying to the population about a lot - but the Gauna are still quite real and exceedingly deadly.

[@minetruly]

Muse made a sci-fi music video called Knights of Cydonia, but from what you've described, I'm having a hard time seeing it being inspired by the manga.

[@TheAncientAstronomer]

No thank you! 😁 I live in the countryside in Germany, lots of trees, lots of nature and, more importantly, its getting really dark during nighttime, so dark that i can actually see the milky-way galaxy and lots and lots of stars. I wouldn't change it for all the riches in the world!

[@Alex-fy7sc]

i envy you

[@mikethespike7579]

This is about surviving after a nuclear war. The assumption is that after such a war there won't be much left of your country side, trees or nature. Personally, I don't think I'd want to be around anymore if that happened. BTW, Germany is one of the most light polluted countries in the world. If you want to see the Milky Way in fantastic clarity you need to travel to northern Denmark, Norway, Sweden or Finland. Scotland is supposed to also be good. Or southern Peloponnese, (best weather there).

[@5t4n5]

@@mikethespike7579 West coast of Ireland is the best place i've been for no light pollution. A moonless night sky is incredible.

[@TheAncientAstronomer]

@@Alex-fy7sc I do as well prefer to be part of the grateful and lucky dead, no pun intended 😁, than trying to survive a post apocalyptic nuclear waste land. I can assure you, where I live its pretty dark..

[@mikethespike7579]

@@5t4n5 I can imagine. It's important that there are no big urban centres for at least 100 kilometres. The further away the better. Villages don't count so much because they have hardly any street lamps.

[@samwayne8961]

i read a book called Wool and it takes place in a silo like this, maintenance in the very bottom, all admin up top, the low skill workers spend all day transporting products and message by stair. the worst punishment is getting sent outside in a suit that will fail and let radiation in, nost people are given wool rags to optionally clean windows so the people inside can see outside.

[@asmaloney]

This is from the TV adaptation of that series.

[@rouelejour4080]

What impressed me about the Wool books was the way the reader thinks he understands but is proved wrong. The people in the silo certainly think the Earth is a radioactive wasteland, but is that true?

[@Steve-sw8ts]

Silo is based on Wool.

[@ngm132]

Read the rest of the series. It isn’t what you think.

[@jamesduncan578]

@@ngm132 worth reading the whole series

[@thebaccathatchews]

There are parallels to living in a space settlement like an O'Neil cylinder: inhospitable outside, self-sustaining environment, limited resources.

[@sapphicdisaster8390]

I'd love to have more of those involved in media. I was so happy to finally see one on the big screen when watching Interstellar.

[@thebaccathatchews]

Mobile Suit Gundam has a bunch of them. Babylon 5 is a miniature O'Neill.

[@TomLoveman]

While one might feel some security in having a bunker, the bigger question is "would you want to live in the post apocolypse?" Surviving an event and living for a few days, weeks or even a year in a bunker in whatever level of comfort you can afford is fine. But you're either going to die in there, making it a tomb, or you, or your descendants, are going to have to come out at some point and try to exist in the world with whatever and whomever else is there. I guess that's just the human drive to survive. The stories in the City of Ember series take on similar issues.

[@attckDog]

You'd not need to stay in a bunker forever, just a couple months, maybe a year max. After that it's just a home like any other.

[@V3RTIGO222]

​@@attckDog depends on the scenario, the real risk with Nuclear war is the effect it'll have on environmental sustainability (nuclear winter) due to serious climate change and to a lesser extent, radioactive fallout. Actually rebuilding a civilization where starvation is the biggest risk factor is problematic.

[@Vaeldarg]

@@V3RTIGO222 radioactive fallout iirc becomes lessened down to background radiation in like a couple weeks. The worst of it being in I think was in just the first few hours. The biggest issue would be supply chains being completely in pieces, whether for food growth/distribution or healthcare and so on.

[@V3RTIGO222]

@@Vaeldarg That's what I said... the nuclear winter would cause serious subsistence issues, fallout would exist and would be damaging but generally more limited in scope. We could still have dust storms with radioactie particles from some nuclear weapons and the like, but generally most that exist are designed to have minimal radioactive permanence for a reason.

[@ResidualSelfImage]

In City of Embers, the government leader in order to keep political power over the residents misinforms the residents telling them the outside world is dangerously radioactive when it is not so the residents will stay in the underground bunkers and keep the socio economic of the underground bunker infrastructure and his job as leader going.

[@roberthealey7238]

Reading the entire series makes the show more understandable: Wool Shift Dust The show is essentially based on the first book, wool. It will be interesting to see if the series will continue through shift and dust story lines.

[@NotTheGuyYerLookinFor]

I really hope it does. Loved the books and we enjoyed the show quite a bit as well.

[@JaneNewAuthor]

I started reading Dust but as I hadn't read the other two couldn't get into it. Cool concept though.

[@Vtarngpb]

So… what Vault number is this?

[@0ok43]

420

[@CroatiaSurvival]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Prepping, especially in terms of stocking up on food and other supplies, isn’t just for civilization ending events. It can help in situations most of us will experience. You lost your job? Stocked up food can save you quite a bit of money while looking for a new one. Scratch that. Any conceivable circumstances when you must save as much as possible is a good example of when it could come in useful.

[@islembenzegouta]

Actually Fallout too depicted the same subject about underground bunkers. I loved the entire video🧡 especially the Robarts Library chapter, it brings interesting details and facts. Great explanation, thank you🧡

[@Vastin]

Of course, in Fallout all the shelters are also explicitly a variety of specific social experiments - mostly of the extremely unpleasant sort.

[@MsLilly200]

@@Vastin Not all of them, just most. There are a few controls. 3, 8, 13 and 76 were control vaults according to the wiki.

[@brucepeters9575]

I think we need to ask ourselves the question; Do we want to be a part of the solution, or a part of the problem? If we spend the resources, either individually or collectively, on solutions, we won’t need to worry so much about the problems.………..I’m so delusional.

[@andrew_owens7680]

I think the concept of prepping is disempowering. A billionaire creates a bunker with tip money by signing a check. A prepper takes all the time and resources he could use to protest, donate to political campaigns, write articles, go make speeches, organize and puts it into dried potato powder.

[@nemo-79000]

The problem is humanity. Our ability to harness and develop technology has removed us from the normal control mechanisms of the natural world. As a result we procreate uncontrollably, destroy parts of the natural world in the rush to gather resources to feed the ever expanding needs of our culture and the species; all without responsibility. Nature will correct our activities as the CoVid-19 pandemic has just demonstrated. The question is are we sufficiently advanced to use our technology to build a human biome that separates ourselves from the world, integrate controls to limit the demand on space, resources and energy availability and alter our cultures to encapsulate survival traits that promote sustainability, enlightened co-operation and the abandonment of authoritarianism, selfish ambition and the delusion that a small group of people can make the world better. If we as a species can do this then the universe is ours, we could live in orbital habitats, on the surfaces of alien worlds or live between the stars as a truly independent race. Living in bunkers is another sign of how petty minded we have become.

[@nilspochat8665]

realistically you can forget about large-scale self-sustainable silos anyway. Most ways to make electricity takes a shit-load of water so it's not doable if you don't have access to an underground river or lake.

[@AngryKnees]

It's such an obvious dead-end too, that we can't stop ourselves from rendering an entire lush green planet uninhabitable, but we'll be able to maintain our existence in extremely precarious tubes. It's like a person is taking the GED, and if they fail, their plan is to take the GMAT instead.

[@DSAK55]

what is the solution for Stupidly?

[@darkenergy7904]

I read the first two books, and I never pictured the center atrium. I always just imagined an enclosed staircase with a central drop down the middle.

[@jakubadamec3243]

Yes! We should definitely live underground! I always wanted to. You can plant flowers and farm on the surface and live below. Light is not a problem. It would lead to less consumption if you don't have to heat or cool down your homes. Just have to dig a little...

[@njalthemighty5378]

I think within 76 hours those filters would be block by the people that were left above ground, if not to spite the rich but to smoke them out. Unless the locations are secret.

[@downrangefuture6493]

The vents are usually hidden/disguised for that reason. Larger shelters will have oxygen generators.

[@attckDog]

yeah, part of prepping a bunker is hiding it from surface view as best you can, Remote locations go a long way.

[@donnguyen3795]

Who have enough resource to do that kind of things when people fighting each other for a bottle of water probably stay in their own bunker

[@Vastin]

@@donnguyen3795 Given the amount of resources available in such a large structure, anyone stuck on the surface would likely see it as their only chance, so the people inside would either have to allow them in, or eventually expect to be attacked - and the most straightforward way attack any closed bunker is to choke off it's oxygen supply, which is usually a simple affair. At that point they MUST come out to deal with you and risk direct conflict.

[@Vastin]

@@downrangefuture6493 Unless you have a force that can sally out to drive off determined attackers, camouflage and internal generators only buy you time - and for a structure of this size, there is no way you're going to realistically hide those air vents. They'd need to be huge and/or very numerous - substantially larger than ones you'd expect for a major urban vehicular tunnel, and those are quite large already. They would likely have to be actual towers to function properly as well.

[@zackmorrison470]

They just used the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library next to Robarts as the setting for an alien archive in Star Trek Discovery. I find something both unsettling and comforting about Brutalist architecture. The bleakness and coldness of the forms and the implication of a governing entity which can mobilize vast resources to impose such structures on the world is very unsettling. That being said, there is a sense of order and familiarity to institutional settings. There is the sense that there are rules and that they are knowable which is some comfort compared to the uncertainty of the natural world. I get both of those feelings from shows like Silo and Loki where they use Brutalist architecture to great effect.

[@kirk1968]

Right? I've noticed every McDonald's I see is now a dull gray box, the only color is the logo. No longer red roofs and colorful kids' play areas in the front. So freaking bleak, I just don't get why they went that direction.

[@skylarking12]

Good brutalist design makes you feel like you are working with nature, like being part of a granite mountain, maybe.

[@yjlom]

brutalism is hit or (usually) miss but I love well-executed brutalist architecture and for cases where it doesn't work out on its own, it pairs really well with street art

[@antred11]

Brutalist architecture is simply just a crime against humanity.

[@4729Punisher]

My dad had a 15k sqft bunker built in the 2000s, his dad had one built in the 80s, another in the 60s and his dad had one built in the 40s. Now I have one just built last year. It's 5 times bigger than my main house. We spend some weekends there. We love it. We don't believe we'll ever need it but it's fun to travel half way around the world to spend a weekend underground.

[@DeronMeranda]

There was a TV sci-fi series "Cleopatra 2525" that aired around 2000-2001 in N. America. Much of the action took place in very deep underground habitats/shafts with hundreds of levels. They would travel down levels by jumping into the open shafts and freefall, with some kind of wearable tech to slow down at their destination; though they didn't show them going up very often. They could sometimes go to the surface, but it was controlled by hostile aliens. The show was campy but fun in the best way.

[@mjs28s]

@11:55 "the journey between floors should take days...." Based on what? The distance is not miles an miles between floors, at least not as it is represented in the renderings. What am i missing? Even if the silo was nearly 1 mile in diameter and at say 4 revolutions per level you are still a few hours between levels IF you have to walk the outside of the silo. But if there is a staircase near the center core your transit time could be minutes per level.

[@pynchon9]

In the book, porters do it in a day or less but most people don't have the stamina for hundreds of flights of stairs and typically journey just 20-40 levels in a whole day of travel.

[@Vangard21]

@11:50 Why would travel between floors, or top to bottom, take days or months? It's only 1 mile deep. I haven't read the book, but even if the spiral staircase is ~10 miles long that'd still only take like 4 hours.

[@DelIsInYourMind]

Have you tried to scale a steep mountain without stopping?

[@pressefr]

There is this Japanese anime Pale Cocoon (2006) directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. I love his overall work as they all connect together. To get to the point, for this particular work, this anime is starts of with two data researcher piecing together photos of green pastures, leaving the suspense of what is exactly going on. They're working alone in a silo style hole on some level, they talk about how everyone else has move to lower levels deeper in the structure. The boy gets frustrated and starts climbing up the structure. His friend joins him; curious what is above, when everyone has has gone deeper, given up on the research of what's on the surface. When they get to surface. SPOILER: They're on the moon inside a dome with a view of Earth!

[@fleepflorp2347]

0:03 It’s not just a show, it’s also a three-part book series. It’s really good with its descriptions and I’ll just say that the show looks nothing like it.

[@daedalusdreamjournal5925]

it's apple TV and, like many other people, htey think that their revised version is better than any original; it rarely work that way though.

[@Shmoobus]

11:43 why would it take any more than a few minutes to climb 4 floors worth of stairs?

[@daniele4568]

I came here hoping to find an answer to that. I don't understand why it would take "days" to go up fifty feet of stairs.

[@mattwayne4800]

50 feet per floor is equal to 5 flights of stairs , silo is supposed to be 144 floors at that scale its equivalent to a 720 floor building that's a lot of stairs to do in a day

[@daniele4568]

@@mattwayne4800 thanks for the reply, but she said it would take a day to go up one floor. Which doesn't add up. I thought maybe it was something from the book.

[@gillorien]

I was wondering the same thing. Indeed it would take a long time to climb the length of the silo so she's right about separating communities and restricting the flow of information but to go 4 floors / 50 feet wouldn't take long multi-storey apartment blocks are taller than that! I can well imagine different communities residing in sections of a few floors though as people tend to stick together in smaller communities / tribes. Irl there would be some mass transit / lift system in place- even if its use was restricted to authorised personnel otherwise policing, governance, technical and emergency services would be a nightmare.

[@anythinggoesguy]

And how would it take months to transverse about a mile's worth of stairs? I would estimate that it would take roughly 400 minutes to go up a mile worth of stairs non-stop, but maybe double considering multiple rest breaks. It would likely take roughly half of that to go down with very less need of rest.

[@TVirus91]

I never heard about that Library before and I get the feeling that people don't wanna live in a concrete bunker but in the pictures alone this looks awe inspiring. I could imagine a few hundred years after civilization collapsed the people standing before this structure telling stories how this was built by giants or gods

[@HughHo]

One detail from the Silo series that shouldn't be too much of spoiler, since this video says a few times that the apocalypse is from nuclear war and the resulting fallout: it's not. This key part of the plot directly affects the amount of time and types of protection needed to be safe in the world of Silo.

[@user-rj3ei2ih1e]

I always enjoy your videos for their in-depth research, the unique topics you discuss, and the astonishing visuals. But that transition from Mars to Voyager to the Silo - bravo, that was something out of this world.Thanks to everyone who took part in creating this (and all the other) videos!

[@SettlingNomads]

I'm not a Brutalist, but Robart's Library doesn't seem all that bad. Given all the copy paste between victorian houses, 80s era architecture and worst of all shitty shoebox condos we are finding sprouting up in Toronto, Robart's Library seems like something diverse/unique to rather bland Toronto architecture scene. Sure, won't negate your experience as a student and on the campus it might be an eyesore. But, as a whole when it comes to the whole city, I think it's a welcome edition from a bygone era.

[@matthewmahler9212]

Slap artdeco sculpture and details on the outside and it becomes beautiful

[@CortexNewsService]

I've always kinda love Brutalist buildings and design. Not an architect or an engineer, but there's something about the starkness and severe lines that give me this futuristic vibe that I like. I also like rainy days and hiding in my house, so... I may be a bit odd.

[@KIVagant]

I've never been there, but the building looks beautiful to me.

[@powdergate]

You can't *be* a Brutalist by simply appreciating Brutalist style

[@peterholzer4481]

@@KIVagant Same here. Maybe its different if you are actually standing in front of the building, but the images she showed were beautiful.

[@biffwalen]

I feel like individual bunkers will never last as small groups are not what people in our society are used to. A communal bunker for a town or city were there is enough room for all to stay fits our society better. In a way this giant bunker does that to an extent, obviously with major flaws present in their hugely unused space. I question their concepts of air flow, a bunker that huge would need its own ecosystem for every floor.

[@sharongillesp]

What’s sad about these silos is that updated nuclear bombs could easily attack to have the silos cave in on themselves. No need to blast it all the way down. And several layers that are destroyed would still adversely impact the remaining levels. Basically, it’s a concrete tomb. Not unlike some ancient Egyptian tombs. Many of which caved in. And at some point resourses from the Earth are necessary whether available or not.

[@AlphaMachina]

I'm really surprised you've never made a video about the game Control (if you have, sorry, I couldn't find it). The architecture in The Oldest House is INCREDIBLE. The screenshots I got from that game are stunning. The lighting, shadows, the geometry in the design aesthetic. The way the building has a mind of its own and shifts rooms. That game blew my mind, especially the Ashtray Maze. I hope you see this, because if you haven't seen Control, I think you'd be fascinated by the game.

[@bryanshoemaker6120]

I always liked the idea of a Subterranean house. In my area we have fire and on the opposite side we have tornadoes. The part of the house that's above ground would be living room, kitchen. Non-important rooms. Below would be bedrooms and Storage. That way all the important stuff like valuables in your family are safe under the ground. Also since maybe only 10% of the structure is actually being destroyed. Rebuilding two rooms would be cheap in resources comparing to rebuilding an entire house. These are not meant for surviving nuclear war. You only need to be able to survive underground for a week at the most. On average maybe 2 days.

[@MissMeganBeckett]

Tornadoes and wildfires are the main natural dangers where I live too, flooding might be a danger too if we didn’t live high enough away from the river, but we are far enough from the river to not be in danger of flooding every year like the people who live right next to the river have to deal with every year so it isn’t a problem that effects us like it would if we were closer to the river. I also like the idea that you can have a much larger yard space if part of your yard is actually on top of portions of your underground house, I like the thought of having an extra big yard with some nice flowering shade trees like lilacs and room to barbecue and for the dogs to run and play together with lots of flowers and a vegetable garden.

[@greatsol2444]

I love Dami’s videos, so informative, curious and enthusiastic!

[@arrjay2410]

The Silo TV series is based on the Book 'Shift' by Hugh Howey. It is an expansion of a short story called 'Wool' (if you read the story the title is self-explanatory) Some of the details in the TV show are different from the books, with the TV show making certain events more dramatic. Also, some of the details of The Silo in the TV series are not the same as the books. It makes for a different feel between the two - the TV series is much more claustrophobic.

[@fradethornes]

Dami's blending of architecture, philosophy and psychology boggles my mind 😮😊

[@myghkl]

I read Howey's trilogy when it came out. It's a really good twist on the seed ship genre, and the author does more explaining of the mechanics of how the silo is able to sustain human populations indefinitely than the show is able to include. But I can't help remembering from years ago reading about experiments with rats in captive environments made from different materials. As I recall, the rats kept in a concrete environment ate each other.

[@ebrock1972]

Something I found ironic was all the preppers getting ready for the Apocalypse.. Yet when we get hit by a pandemic and have to go into lockdown they were the worst at handling it.. 😁

[@sporkstar1911]

Depth will make the ambient temperature 84 F Degrees at the bottom, there will be no cold running water. Temperature rises by about 1F every 330 feet you go underground, starting at about 60F. About the maximum depth you can have habitation is around 2/3 of a mile.

[@Neuvost]

great vid! this reminds me: PBS recently made a doc about trying to foresee the psychological stress that humans traveling to Mars would face. and, at least astronauts have a destination and a plan to get home. living in a little bunker for the rest of life sounds like being on a flight that'll never end.

[@soibamxavier2]

0:41 "Concrete manifestation" 🥁

[@LazloVimes]

I'm sorry for a stupid question, but why does it take days to travel between floors? its only 50 ft of vertical, what am I not understanding?

[@doomslang]

Came here to ask this too. Makes no sense. Do love her videos though.

[@ll-cu3kb]

right? i dont see why it would take days.(50 ft=15.24 m) a stair is usually abaut 12 to 18 cm high, lets take the lower one in this case, so since the floors are around 15m high that would be 15.24/0.12=127 steps that is doable in like 10-20 minutes i would say

[@thomaswilhelm3384]

This reminds me of a story from the magazine Mobius about an adventure in an underground city that is built around the same principles but more futuristic. The surface was mostly covered with farmland to support the population of billions. The cities were all built in this way so that more land was freed up for food production rather than an apocalyptic period.

[@knightowl1985]

A missed opportunity for making brutalism beautiful is that it provides a lot of big flat spaces for artists to create amazing murals. I also think VR could help with having creative spaces to unwind in.

[@lucaslanier5866]

I recommend adding a "Spoiler Warning" at the start of the video for the show Silo, since some of the clips shown were used as end-of-season reveals.

[@smaualex9720]

Lol, not even a 1/3 of the minute in and bam...., end of season 1 scene =))), ayyyyyy

[@CybershamanX]

In the book, the stairs were on the wall of the cylinder. I'm glad they changed it in the show. Definitely much more esthetically pleasing and more/longer sightlines. 😎

[@Incandescentiron]

Our species has relied on large swaths of land to grow agriculture, or animals who cover large swaths of land eating vegetation we can't digest to sustain ourselves. A community living in a hole will eventually starve to death.

[@luisostasuc8135]

I think the biggest problem with a bunker from an architectural/planning point of view is that flooding would be an issue. Not necessarily that it couldn't be sealed from water (it won't last without maintenance, water never sleeps), but that the ground itself might shift if water starts seeping in down the outside of the shaft. Personally, I would love a silo, but only as part of a larger building. I would want, say, 10 stories of silo, 3 stories above ground, a decent courtyard and outer yard, and several acres. I wouldn't want to live alone with that setup though, lol, so it would get paranoid pretty quickly no matter what (thanks minecraft peaceful mode for the unrealistic expectations 🤣).

[@domonkosscheiling5809]

climbing an endless staircase reminds me of the manga: blame! where you don't really know if you're underground or not. not that any sci-fi using brutalist architecture wouldn't do the same. that one is a masterpiece. now i have to check silo too :)

[@christiaanterveen4633]

DamiLee actually talks about Blame! in her video Architect reacts to 5 famous Sci-Fi movies.

[@manuelka15]

Dami did an episode on Blame too (or it was mentioned in one episode, I don't remember)

[@Vastin]

The architecture of Blame! is a great blend of awe-inspiring and terrifying - which of course is the point - while the generation ship in Knights of Sidonea appears to share a fair number of concepts with Silo, which is appropriate given that it is in effect a survival bunker for humanity in space. Given that Tsutomu Nihei studied architecture before becoming an manga-ka it's not surprising that it always features prominently in his work.

[@Lightice1]

I suggest checking out Girls' Last Tour (Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou), it's an anime and manga series about a dystopian post-apocalypse where humanity replaced nearly the entire Earth ecosystem with machinery, and then went all but extinct. The ruined brutalist megastructures that have been subsequently been coated with post-apocalyptic additions by the less advanced civilization that rose from the ruins and then also died out are really something to behold. It's also an atypical example of post-apocalyptica, in that the threat of violence and conflict is almost nonexistent. The human population left on the planet at the point of the story is counted at most in hundreds, more likely just dozens, so those prone of solving their problems with violence have pretty much died out already, and just the chance of running into another human being is something to be celebrated, not feared.

[@domonkosscheiling5809]

@@manuelka15 i think there was one, i tried to find it but no luck :/

[@Skyseeker-hb9ji]

Love your channel!

[@blankityblankblank2321]

ngl i kinda like brutalist designs with their interesting shapes, the grandness to them, the blatant declaration of "yes this shape wouldn't be nature, because it is human", etc. I just wish they used more than flat monotone concrete for EVERYTHING.

[@evilwelshman]

11:45 Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but I don't follow why it would take so much time to travel between floors, and from top to bottom. It was mentioned that the floors are about 50 feet high or equivalent to 4 conventional floors high; which should take only a few minutes maximum to travel. Many people travel up and down such distances multiple times a day. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something?

[@ll-cu3kb]

a stair is from 0.12 to 0.18m tall 50ft is 15.24m 15.24/0.12=127 so betwen floors there is at most 127 stairs, that would not take several days ,at most it would take 20 minutes per floor that is if you can barely walk

[@mitchellquinn]

127 * 144 levels (Wikipedia ... ) = 18288 stairs total. "Average" person roughly 600 stairs per hour (ChatGPT .... ) = ~30 hours / 8 hours per day = 3.75 days. So, yeah, a month is a bit overcooked, but certainly more than 20 minutes. One imagines that there'd be couriers, specialised in stair climbing (I can't remember from the book, been years since I read it) ... one also imagines they'd generally retire early to a sitting job, as their knees would be absolutely wrecked.

[@ll-cu3kb]

@@mitchellquinn a floor

[@ll-cu3kb]

Edited it to make it clearer

[@mitchellquinn]

@@ll-cu3kb Ah! Understand now. 🙂 Still an interesting discussion; I was driving soon after commenting and thinking about block & tackle / pulley systems for moving cargo between floors. I don't think that's in the book or the series.

[@ll-cu3kb]

@@mitchellquinn i do think there would need to be something besides humans to nove cargo, since moving things from top to botom would be quite hard, i think your idea would be just about perfect.

[@stinkymccheese8010]

The bunker wouldn’t bother me it’s dealing with people.

[@h3rpad3rpacifilis]

Its a paradox, because as introverted as we can get, we humans crave socialization one way or the other. We need stimulation, and just as some people may think being surrounded by concrete walls for 10 years is something they can live with, there's a reason solitary confinement is considered one of the worst forms of punishment. There's only so much you can do in a bunker, no other humans means no new influx of information/entertainment that starts turning into its own brand of hellish isolation.

[@CaelWhiz]

I feel like the workers in the bunker would eventually lose their shit (justifiably) and rebel against these paranoid rich bunker denisens.

[@Xeonerable]

@@h3rpad3rpacifilis Yep, as anti-social as I am every now and then its nice to talk to someone. And solitary confinement for us social creatures is basically psychological torture, those studies on it show that it really fucks up your mind, it's scary.

[@stinkymccheese8010]

@@h3rpad3rpacifilis solitary confinement isn’t as straightforward as the name implies, the prisoner is usually disturbed at irregular intervals, so they are usually sleep deprived and there are usually less than sanitary conditions, as well as a multitude of other stressors in place to turn the prisoner’s life to a living hell, in isolation so long as the individual has something to do they can keep themselves sane indefinitely. Unless a person is already mentally unsound most would be fine.

[@stinkymccheese8010]

@@CaelWhiz from what I understand, although the bunker silos that she mentioned were geared toward the wealthy people they would have been expected to perform their own duties, there is no space reserved for “servants”

[@jaegerschtulmann]

Nice video, always learn something new in this channel. ❤

[@moneycash7]

Absolutely love your perspectives and thoughts and ability to flip ideas on their head while making us look at the way we live, making us question fundamental aspects of our lives we normally see as ‘normal’. But it’s the beautiful imagery your channel encapsulates that really transports me almost to another world and makes me look forward to every new video. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@nathanfay1988]

Dami, I'm curious what you feel it would take to construct a modern brutalist structure that avoids causing negative reactions in passers-by. Would you use more exotic geometries?, a mixture of other materials?, or is some fundamental aspect of brutalism so problematic that ditching brutalism is the only answer?

[@llysistrata]

Omg my fav book series!!

[@johnray1956]

DamiLee: This is becoming one of my favorite channels. The reason being is because if i get a design issue wrong. i come here, and its easier to spot the errors in my own work.

[@RNMSC]

I'm reminded of one of the problems I've seen with many tall buildings and waste disposal. Yes, I'm sure that the design includes both recycling, and re-using pmaterial, using waste for growth medium for plants for food, and many other things. The problem I am aware of though is that any time you have a convenient place to throw away stuff you don't care about, say a hole in the ground that's going down a mile or more from where you live, it's often easier to just take all your waste, put it in a bag, and throw it down the hole. Ask the residents of the first floor of many brownstones and apartment buildings in the NY, NY area The airspace the architects were required to build into the buildings, ended up being the dump for the residents who couldn't be bothered to take their trash to the garbage drop for the floor. I'm seriously betting that no one will want to live near the bottom of this bunker. Almost no cost to live there, except the derision of all the neighbors above you.

[@nattyboomboom7026]

I think maybe KZbin is preparing me for ww3 😂 - just watched the reality of life in a fallout shelter by another channel then got recommended this video. I'm now off to bulk buy toilet roll and beans.

[@maxdep1150]

I m in switzerland curently… there is plenty of underground shelter in case of bomb

[@angeliek7488]

I can never get over this beautiful mesh of architecture, thoughts on the future, and films!! Love what you do Dami!!🫶🏽

[@bmobert]

There are more than one legend of peoples surviving in caves during very hard times. Sometimes the climate goes haywire for various reasons and the oral history ofancient peoples turns out to be far more reliable than we once thought. Which means descendants of survivors would know to use caves as storage areas in case of future need for refuge. I honestly think these are another manifestation of generic memories of these moments where we survived in caves.

[@JohnReiher]

When a house was demolished for a new condo complex, they found a fallout bunker set into a hill. It had reinforced concrete walls up to a meter thick in places. It's been there for 60 years.

[@Ilyak1986]

"Can you stay inside for extended periods of time?" All the shut-in gamer gremlins: "hi, hello, yes?"

[@TheDeathlyPrince]

Your work is so remarkable. It is so educational, but not boring. It keeps one entertained!

[@TheJooClemente]

As someone who read the books from the Series (Silo). I can say, without spoiler, that there is, in fact, the considereation to "72 till Animal" just in other perspective.

[@absiddique139]

I waiting for Silo season 2.

[@ClayMann]

the three books are there for the taking now. The TV show only deals with the first book. I'd read the books before the show but I also re-read the book after the show too and it took on a whole never detail level as now actresses and the voices, a lot of the set design. It was all there in my head as I read the words. Great trilogy and the author has some other good stuff too if sci-fi if your thing.

[@absiddique139]

@@ClayMann Spoiler

[@TheCollectiveHexagon]

@@absiddique139 no spoilers on that comment

[@StraightArrowNews]

In a world filled with fear of the worst case scenario, it's so important to be able to access objective information! Thank you for collabing with us!

[@ryanmacs2486]

When DamiLee videos stop coming out, there will probably be a historical video essay about her work in the old'n days of 2024. The camera team, researchers, and all the other supporting people will get an in depth spotlight. Compared to syndicated television shows about architecture of days gone by, nothing measures up to DamiLee. The combination of intelligent, yet digestible productions that is DamiLee, sets it apart. Sure there is a paid sponsorship ad, like all prominent producers of the time. That ad is usually well thought out for placement and selection. It perfectly blends in to subliminal messaging, because its just a quiet looking garnish, not the dish. The meat of a DamiLee story is, Architecture meeting people's imaginations of the fantastic. Bravo to the team and what an awesome impact you all will have shaping the face of humanity, though inspiring people and making dry obscure concepts engaging. Of all people watching and listening today and tomorrow, finding inspiration, and escaping into the joy of this content, it will be hard to pick out which of them will go on to have the next eureka moment at the time. At least one viewer is going to make a significant impact for the better. Being a role model is something to be proud of. If yall ever get down or burnt out, you can at least be proud and tired. Excellent no comment and don't quote me

[@2Trundle]

I've always loved the concept of bunkers ngl

[@RareVDO]

Dami, I think you will agree no one imagine this kind of Brutalist Architecture and what will happen better than Tsutomu Nihei in the manga “ Blame! “, where “MEGASTRUCTURE” divided the humanity into tiny niche tribes each with unique cultures. One of the key characteristics of brutalist architecture is the way it “segregates” and compartmentalises spaces - with heavy masonry walls diving each space. This creates division, over time, society and culture will start diverge and evolve into its own unique traditions. Biologically people and organisms may even start diverging unto unique subspecies as adaptations to its own environment.

[@GarganoGambino]

Things deteriorate, where are the materials for maintenance, etc, coming from? …..I’d rather die quickly on the surface than slowly underground!

[@randycampbell6307]

A point? Vevos Xpoint, (think I got that right) actually DOES have roads between the bunkers. They are not well maintained or very good roads but they were better when the place was still an active munitions storage area. That's right, the 'bunkers" are in fact "bunkers" that were originally built to store military munitions.

[@mnmlst1]

Omg I just love this woman and her team!

[@sharongillesp]

Why not make silos all over the world to house everyone? It would reduce ammunition or chemical warfare between nations because you’d end up killing the silo, the spread of pandemics would be limited, people work together as units or die out, the earth can be less subjected to people’s destruction because demands/resources are limited. Yeah, there’s a lot of possibilities with that idea. Fiber optics would recreate sunlight.

[@neokoga]

Fantastic video, one of the best you've ever done, really nailed this one.

[@Pixl8dwhmsy]

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

[@kc-sz6cw]

This channel deserves way more subscribers Your content is very informative and the way you convey information makes it interesting this the end.

[@sbcinema]

I'm one of those who builds individual VIP bunkers, and I can say from experience that it only depends on your mindset whether you go crazy or enjoy life/survival (I spent years indoors during the "2020 event" ). It is also the case that the radiation decreases quickly after a nuclear explosion, and after a relatively short time it is safe enough to be evacuated to a non-contaminated place. But most customers have a bunker built because they are afraid of uprisings or a civil war or a virus Terror...

[@younggunpark]

I love how you connect fictional mega structures with real life inspirations, and get deep into their designing languages and histories, makes them feel much more meaningful.

[@AramisWyler]

Thank you for this discussion.

[@lylaxblake]

I saw the thumbnail and KNEW it was "SILO" one of the best shows I've ever watched.

[@olivervelasquez-perez6369]

Simply, another amazing videeo. Thank you, love.

[@gabehernandez2876]

At 4:20 it’s b/c we’ve seen big corporations talk & show that we’ll never own anything & just rent & be happy about it. Retirement is going to be gone completely so it feels pointless to try & save money backed by nothing.

[@yourfairyGodgod]

Love how much research and effort you put into each video

[@jessehatred3667]

This channel deserves another 49.5 million subscribers.

[@Vahari_Bahamut]

I love most brutalist architecture. I get why some people wouldn't like it but I don't understand why there aren't more people that like it. It's simple and strong and can have a lot of artfulness in the geometry (sometimes). It also allows for more focus to what is in it such as the people, furniture and artwork.

[@wh0_am_152]

Other factors to consider. 1) an open silo like that would be... Incapable of resisting a medium to high yield nuke. 2) a silo of that population density would have definitely been a target at the height of the cold war. Where each side had tens of thousands of nukes.

[@IAmTheAce5]

Before you brought this up, I imagined such a megastructure as part of a whole fictional nation-state. From the outside going in: neighboring nations see only an expansionist empire of new-age bandit-slaves, in everything but name Outside its capital city, only a large shallow sloped hill can be seen. Cresting the hill reveals a deep trench and defensive parapet set lower than the crest, circling the whole city, and hidden while still covering the slope with arcing ballistic weapons. Inside the city, everyone and everything is crammed together entirely for expedience with no regard for quality and sustainability of living. Hidden in the sprawl, the center of power starts with an opening, a pit, down which all the ‘elites’ of this backwards society have wealth and privilege funneled down to them, and inside which, any incoming attack can be hidden from in bunkers withdrawing into the Earth from the silo-core. Instead of boldly towering themselves over their society and the world, these ‘elites’ dig themselves down, hiding from threats real, imagined, and _earned_ with defenses in desolate-distances, exposed killing-fields, near-impassable barriers, impenetrable sprawl, and masses of humanity as living shields, all before a hole in the ground from which individual bunkers form the last defense. The mindset of this ruling class holds that to rise is to invite destruction at the hands of all the humanity they’ve abused, in spite of all presumption to deserved power and privilege. This would be called the shining city on “The Hill”

[@timknight68]

You and your team are a credit to your craft as it evolves into the middle of the 21st century.