Mark Zuckerberg's Top-Secret Hawaii Compound

The author quotes someone in construction who is familiar with high end work who says it's extremely unusual to force everyone to sign NDAs.

Couple that with the scale of the project? 1,400 acres is two square miles. That's a quarter of the size of the largest town on the island.

Right now on the North Shore there is Mark Zuckerberg, tons of wealthy people moving in, AND a giant mega resort called the 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay all putting strain on the economy and ecology.

I am still carrying through with my vision of a better world. It started back in 2010 when this account was created. I was laughed at then for wanting to take on Facebook. I never quit and kept learning this whole time. I am close to Mount Doom now, Ring is still in tact. I am a little beat up after the Maui fires and that I had to relocate to here but I'm still going.

Maybe not ideal, in the perfect sense, but not bad at all.

It's probably the best choice on US soil. Most physically isolated (significant) plot of land on earth. If the airspace shuts down, that's it. No one in or out. It's a 3 week boat ride to the nearest continental shelf. Also happens to be defended by over half the Navy's nuclear carrier and sub fleet, and multiple divisions of Army/Marines.

I'm sure this applies to your situation, too.

I feel super skeptical about these "billionaire survival" compounds because they are going to require a lot of work for survival (read: hired hands). And where are these hands going to come from? If SHTF won't their pilots, drivers, security details, maids, cooks, gardeners, maintenance/mechanics crews, etc abandon them to tend to their own families? Or are these billionaires finding orphans who have no allegiance to anyone but the billionaires? Not to mention this is going to require some kind of "military style" command to prevent mutiny and ensure compliance under the threat of force. Sure, the billionaires can bury themselves in a comfortable (even luxury) bunker eating dehydrated rations for many many years, but I think I'd rather die that point. They can hide out on their yachts for about week before they run out of diesel and food, and then crew commits a mutiny.

It all seems like a really stupid expensive LARP or Howard Hughes style paranoia. IMO if SHTF for real those bunkers are worthless.

Unless you are quite literally at the airport when the news breaks then you'd have hard time reaching it to jet to NZL

Minions wearing electric shock collars.

"They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?"

"The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

My favorite quote, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?". These oligarchs even talk about trying to control people with food or maybe bombs on their necks.

Jesus. Maybe don't be an antisocial dick your whole life, and you wouldn't be in this mess.

The first thing those locals are going to do if society actually breaks down is find those water and air intakes (that they built!) and shut them down. The latter by lighting a garbage can full of plastic on fire and flushing the inhabitants out. If they actually have an active life support system with CO2 recycling, the locals will just destroy the bunker from the outside because... well... we've been quarrying giant blocks of rock for thousands of years. It's not that hard when you've got unlimited physical access. Even the steel door is a minor barrier when you don't have fortified towers or parapets to defend from.

The question is whether the island has enough explosives on it or whether the locals would have to boat over to a bigger one to borrow some. If not, a cheap jack hammer would make quick work of the bunker but even if they were reduced to wood fires and a single pickaxe it wouldn't take more than a few weeks to pick the structure apart using prehistoric techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-setting

If it's just a standard blast door, captured hinges with grease. You just pull it open, and a cam pulls it closed tight. If it's a sliding door, you can use bearings, cams and screw gears. For very large doors that swing open they'll still use captured hinges, with hydraulics to actuate it, but humans can still close it themselves.

> And curious about the purpose/logistics of a 320,000 gallon water tank.

The same purpose as towns that have water tanks. You'll still pump water into the tank slowly, but you need a much smaller pump capacity to slowly fill it. And it's way more efficient to distribute the water using the force of gravity; it would be very difficult to distribute lots of water at the speed needed to maintain adequate water pressure. The tank's excess capacity allows you to service peak usage easily, and operates in the absence of electricity. Work smarter, not harder.

If extradimensional aliens are invading, maybe it wasnt soo useful.

I suppose it depends on the collapse scenarios it's designed to protect against. In a nuclear war, I doubt they'll be many left outside to challenge their little monarchy.

lol