What did they do with all their bodily wastes? 35 years of that would make it stink down there!
Well, they did have access to the sewers (for their ventilation!) so I guess waste wouldn´t have been such a problem either.
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The whole bunker is totally unbelievable. Just take the enormous amount of food they have to storage- besides that there are- as far as I know- no cans that last for 35 years.
But it´s just a comedy.
"Hooters, hooters, yum, yum, yum,
Hooters, hooters, on a girl that´s dumb!"
The Bundy credo
The sheer volume of the food required to feed 2-3 people for even one year would take up a lot of space. Many many other details that would prove unfeasible after even one year. I think even the biosphere experiments have trouble holding out for two years and they have much more space and resources like sunlight.
The first thing that crossed my mind is where do they have the TV show from? Outside TV waves or some precursor to the VHS cassette?
It's actually explained in the movie that they didn't have TV, Christoper Walken's character merely sets up a film projector to display whatever they're looking at in a TV-like manner. Hence why Sissy Spacek's character looks so bored when they're watching TV when the kid has grown up a few years since she's probably seen that episode a fair number of times already (which is evident since the film is worn and there are plenty of scratches and such).
The moral of the story, pay attention when watching a movie :P
Sure there are, there are army issue canned food that last more or less forever (in that they don't have an expiration date on them). I've personally eaten food from the '60s and while it's not the most tasty thing in the world it was certainly edible. Though I would suspect the large quantities of preservatives aren't so gosh darn healthy for you.
shareEven normal canned food will last decades. The "expiration" date tells you just how long the contents keep a certain standard of quality - they will be long edible unless the cans bulb.
well it is just a film you don't have to find sensible explanations to every thing. Nobody could survive 35 underground. Let alone a boy be born and grow up in such conditions. What air did they breath? Any vent to the outside world could let in lethal radiation or any other killing gas from a polluted outer world. No sunshine?? You have to accept a lot of fantasy and then have a funny time - it's not a film for intellectuals or critics
shareA 1 year supply of food really isn't that big. Back in the 70's Mormon families were asked to keep a 1 - 2 year supply of food on hand in the event of nuclear war or other emergency. I had some Mormon friends and saw their stash once, it just took up a wall of their basement. I just googled "year supply of food". There are plenty of survivalists out there to feed the market. This site has pictures and prices: https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/food_storage/year_supply_of_food.htm
It just wouldn't take that big of a room to store 35 year's worth, particularly if you had hydroponic supplements using human waste as fertilizer and fish food. I'd be more concerned about power generation. I forget how they explained that . . .
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besides that there are- as far as I know- no cans that last for 35 years.
They had a water tank (which Christopher Walken is seen checking) so they probably recycled the liquid waste (i.e. urine) and possibly recycled the solid matter either in the garden or through some other means.
Though, I don't think that this movie was ever meant to be scrutinized so thoroughly :P
The tank he was checking was used to raise fish for food. Remember seeing the small fish when he checked it, and later, seeing him use a net to retrieve a much larger, grown fish?
They had running water from a well, which was stated in the film.
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Much of the solid waste was sold to the Nixon administration, and is rumored to still be in demand to this day.
share> Much of the solid waste was sold to the Nixon administration, and is rumored to still be in demand to this day.
Well said.
And the Obama/Biden administration are still using it to this day; as well as shoveling their own.................
Obama recycles it out of his mouth by giving the American people BS, recycles it, and gives them more BS.
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Canned food can easily last 35 years- hell, they've found freeze dried potatos in Incan tombs that have proved edible.
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I( remember reading the word Toilet either on the drawing Blue print of the Fallout shelter in the very beginning.I think they put 1 toilet in there and they had running water,so a toilet could work in that shelter.
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