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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Bunsen Honeydew" data-source="post: 537349" data-attributes="member: 9338">To quote Bill Hicks from his album Dangerous:"...Keith Richards is shooting heroin into his eyeball and still touring, allright - I'm getting mixed signals.I picture nuclear war and two things surviving: Keith and bugs.'Where'd everybody go? I saw a bright light and thought we were on...'"In the introduction to Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation he writes:"During the mid-1950s, high-level officials at the Pentagon worried that America's air defenses had become vulnerable to sabotage and attack. Cheyenne Mountain (Colorado) was chosen as the site for a top-secret, underground combat operations center. The mountain was hollowed out, and fifteen buildings, most of them tree stories high, were erected amid a maze of tunnels and passageways extending for miles. THe four-and-a-half acre undergound complex was designed to survive a direct hit by an atomic bomb. Now officially called the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, the facility is entered through steel blast doors that are three feet thick and weigh twenty-five tons each; they automatically swing shut in less than twenty seconds. The base is closed to the public, and a heavily armed quick response team guards against intruders. Pressurised air within the complex prevents contamination by radioactive fallout and biological weapons. The buildings are mounted on gigantic steel springs to ride out an earthquake or the blast wave of a thermonuclear strike. The hallways and staircases are painted slate gray, the ceilings are low, and there are combination locks on many of the doors. A narrow escape tunnel, entered through a metal hatch, twists and turns its way out of the mountain through solid rock. The place feels like the set of an early James Bond movie, with men in jumpsuits driving little electric vansfrom one brightly lit cavern to another....has the capability to be self-sustaining for at least one month...it's generators can produce enough electricity to pwer a city the size of Tampa, Florida...underground reservoirs hold millions of gallons of water;workers sometimes traverse them in rowboats...has it's own underground fitness centre, medical clinic, a dentist's office, a barbershop, a chapel and a cafeteria...Almost every night, a Domino's deliveryman winds his way up the lonely Cheyenne Mountain road, past the DEADLY FORCE AUTHORISED signs, past the security checkpoint at the entrance of the base, driving towards the heavily guarded North Portal, tucked behind chain link and barbed wire. Near the spot where the road heads straight into the mountainside, the deliveryman drops off his pizzas and collects his tip. And should Armaggeddon come, should a foreign enemy someday shower the United States with nuclear warheads, laying waste to the whole continent, entombed within Cheyenne Mountain, along with the high tech marvels, the pale blue jumpsuits, comic books and bibles, future archeologists may find other clues to the nature of our civilisation - Big King wrappers, hardened crusts of Cheesy Bread, Barbecue Wings bones, and the red, white and blue of a Domino's Pizza Box." p.1-2I did a quick Google search and found more information at <a href="https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/" target="_blank">https://www.cheyennemountain.af.mil/</a> and <a href="http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/milarticles/blnorad.htm" target="_blank">http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/milarticles/blnorad.htm</a>The book is also a fantastic read for the all-pervasive reach of the US's fast food giants.</blockquote>

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