Did Microsoft ever build a bomb shelter?

I just watched the latest Jericho episode (well, it was an omnibus/recap special, just to job my memory of episodes past), and thought, since the Microsoft campus was built in the 80s, long before the cold-war ended, along with the second mini-crises in the mid-80s, did Microsoft ever build a fallout/bomb shelter underneath the campus, like where they might want to put archival media in a Faraday-cage, so future generations in a post-nuclear-war-world might have the benefit of Windows

Yeah, it's building 7. http://members.microsoft.com/careers/mslife/locations/images/campus_map.jpg

That's the secret! [6]

(not serious)

It would be cool if we got a video of Microsoft's big vault of backup tapes. Rory?

Hey, where's building 7? :O

ZippyV wrote:

Hey, where's building 7?

Hehe, you are not supposed to know where the bunker is

PetKnep wrote:



Yeah, it's building 7. http://members.microsoft.com/careers/mslife/locations/images/campus_map.jpg

That's the secret!

(not serious)

Sadly, this won't work anymore soon

I have a WWII practice bunker on my property. Soldiers used it for machine guns and rifle target practice. You can see bullet holes all over it. I enter it sometimes but have yet to find any empty bullet casings. [C]

Its a nice piece of history in my own backyard.

Xaero_Vincent wrote:

I have a WWII practice bunker on my property. Soldiers used it for machine guns and rifle target practice. You can see bullet holes all over it. I enter it sometimes but have yet to find any empty bullet casings.

Its a nice piece of history in my own backyard.

Cool. I would like to have a bomb shelter in my garden (an underground one) I have asked, but my parents didn't like the idea.

Some of those old World War 2 bomb shelters are really cool; I've been in a few, but they all seem to be locked up now.

Angus Higgins

palo, i'm pretty sure we could use the parking garage under 36 (4 stories), or one of the undergrounds on RedWest, those are pretty big and stable too. only question would be radiation.

Building 7 is where you send someone you want to get lost.

Shouldn't that be called Building 101?

Anyway, wasn't there a bomb blast near a Microsoft building a couple of years ago? I forget which country this was.

MS may not own a fallout shelter, but Bill Gates certainly does.  He owns the photo archive company Corbis, which in turn owns the famous Bettman Archive of 11 million photos, including some of the most famous, valuable, and historic photos anywhere.  Although Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, the Bettman archive is housed in a limestone mineshaft in western Pennsylvania, where the old and highly perishable prints and photo negatives are kept in cold storage (very cold storage; -4 degrees Fahrenheit, in fact) for long-term preservation (thousands of years, it is claimed).  So even if someone does something to trigger the Doomsday Machine, at least Bill Gates doesn't need to worry about the "mineshaft gap" - he has his own mineshaft, and it's all set up to house its contents for posteriority!

C'mon, guys, we are living in peace now, why we need to build bomb shelter? but sadly we've got many drug shelters[6]

Sheva

footballism wrote:

C'mon, guys, we are living in peace now, why we need to build bomb shelter?

Just to say we have one. Plus it'll finally give me a reason to finance/build an underground data center.

Jason Cox wrote:



footballism wrote: C'mon, guys, we are living in peace now, why we need to build bomb shelter?

Just to say we have one. Plus it'll finally give me a reason to finance/build an underground data center.

You mean something like this : http://www.thebunker.net/  

Xaero_Vincent wrote:

I have a WWII practice bunker on my property. Soldiers used it for machine guns and rifle target practice. You can see bullet holes all over it. I enter it sometimes but have yet to find any empty bullet casings.

Its a nice piece of history in my own backyard.

I grew up next to the Forth Bridge, which was apparently a major bombing target during the war.  The house I grew up in had a small brick shelter (above-ground), but our neighbours had an anti-aircraft gun emplacement (minus guns now) with a complete underground complex.  It was pretty cool.
Unfortunately, they sold the property and the new owners filled it all in!  Madness!


Herbie