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Our underground future

Buried nuclear plants? Subterranean stadiums? The next great frontier may just lie beneath our feet.

A finished basement can be a beautiful thing. With the right accoutrements and enough effort, what might otherwise be a damp, empty space lined with concrete can be turned into a cozy playroom, or a den, or an office and gym. Properly planned, the basement can become an integral part of a household, even a kind of engine that powers it from below.

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What is this the next step in gated communities? /// At the 1964 World's Fair they had the 'Underground House of Tomorrow'. Inspired by fears of nuclear annihilation, yet even then, just 2 years after the Cuban Missle Crisis, living, and working underground seemed like a dumb idea, even to a ten-year-old. /// I'm an Eloi, the subterranean world is, and should be, reserved for the Morlocks and C.H.U.D. They are more than welcome to it.

Hey, undergound tunnels? Google "Underground tunnels." The govenment has hundreds of them.

It won't take long until they come up with the idea of sending the poor people underground.