#739 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday August 30)
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Good morning, I recently finished watching the show Silo on Apple+. It’s a great concept. Some 10,000 people live in a silo that extends over a hundred stories below the surface. It is a complex creation that is a self-contained universe, existing much as a terrarium, where all the ingredients of society (farms, power sources, hospitals, etc.) are contained inside. The outside world is contaminated and unsafe (for reasons we aren’t told). The people in the Silo don’t know their history, why they’re there, what the catastrophe was, and what they can do to change their circumstances. Obviously, there is a lot of metaphor packed into this concept and the story is not without its twists. In some sense, there are echoes of Isaac Asimov’s
#739 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday August 30)
#739 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday…
#739 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday August 30)
Good morning, I recently finished watching the show Silo on Apple+. It’s a great concept. Some 10,000 people live in a silo that extends over a hundred stories below the surface. It is a complex creation that is a self-contained universe, existing much as a terrarium, where all the ingredients of society (farms, power sources, hospitals, etc.) are contained inside. The outside world is contaminated and unsafe (for reasons we aren’t told). The people in the Silo don’t know their history, why they’re there, what the catastrophe was, and what they can do to change their circumstances. Obviously, there is a lot of metaphor packed into this concept and the story is not without its twists. In some sense, there are echoes of Isaac Asimov’s