# Billionaire Preppers - Whoosh or Weird?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 4, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billionaire-preppers-whoosh-or-weird/970952 "2022-09-04T21:14:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billionaire-preppers-whoosh-or-weird/970952/42 "2022-09-07T17:44:52Z")

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> [@Red\_Wiggler](#):
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> _Lucifer’s Hammer_ (Larry Niven?

Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

> **[Lucifer's Hammer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer's_Hammer)**
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> Lucifer's Hammer is a science fiction post-apocalypse-survival novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle that was first published in 1977. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. Two issues of a planned six-part comic book adaptation were published by Innovation Comics in 1993.
> When wealthy amateur astronomer Tim Hamner co-discovers a new comet, named Hamner-Brown for its discoverers, documentary producer Harvey Randall persuades Hamner to have his soap compan...

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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billionaire-preppers-whoosh-or-weird/970952/43 "2022-09-08T23:06:15Z")

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> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> Wasn’t there a Twilight Zone episode about this?

Yes, and I think at least one company included a machine gun as part of the bomb shelter supplies. My father didn’t fo to parochial school, but he was taught to pray while ducking under desk.

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**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billionaire-preppers-whoosh-or-weird/970952/44 "2022-09-08T23:38:26Z")

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> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> Wasn’t there a Twilight Zone episode about this?

Yes, a great one. One of my favorites. Neighbors are having a dinner party at the home of the family who has a bunker. Air raid sirens go off during dinner. The host family heads down to their bunker and tells everyone else to go home. The other neighbors don’t have bunkers and think they’re going to die unless they get into the host’s bunker, but the bunker is only big enough for one family. Human nature ensues.

> **["The Twilight Zone" The Shelter (TV Episode 1961) ⭐ 8.6 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734676/)**
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> 25m | TV-PG

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