CNN did a segment on BB this morning that aired around 9:30 AM (EST). This dude is not living out of a full seabag. They may show this segment again...do not miss it. You will not want to be associated with this nut, trust me.

-- Look (at@the.facts), December 27, 1999

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Is that the Beach of Beach Bug fame???

-- Z (Z@Z.Z), December 27, 1999.

Why would I trust you, Look? Where are your bona fides? Bruce Beach raised an important issue concerning embedded systems, and the Pentagon sure hopped when they got wind of the problem of "secondary clocks", as Beach terms it.

It's often a mistake to look to folks that have expertise in one area to be your role models in all things. How many musicians do you admire whose lives you would not want to emulate?

You might want to be a bit more discerning--and if you really want to have fun and influence people, identify yourself by name or recognized handle.

-- silver ion (nothelpful@t.all), December 27, 1999.

Look

I caught the segment you are talking about and this Beach fellow is a real piece of work. If anyone asks you if he is a typical Y2K preparedness person, I suggest you separate yourself from this goof. He took the CNN camera crew inside his buried school busses and the studio crew just rolled their eyes and shook their heads after the segment aired. Loony tunes!!

-- Ready (4@it.com), December 27, 1999.

I would rather have a Bruce Beach (loony tune, as you described it)living next door to me if TSHTF than anyone in that studio crew.

-- gary elliott (gelliott@real.on.ca), December 27, 1999.

Too bad Beach didn't have a few million to spend on an underground bunker. Then, the media would have to call it a "command center".

As far as being associated, do you suppose that when Claus Von Bulow was accused of the attempted murder of his wife that other physicians worried the public would assume they were like him?

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), December 27, 1999.

Want to learn more about Bruce Beach? Go here: http://www.webpal.org/survival/books/Doomsday/index.htm#myth_04

-- UR2Blame (upower@jnb.com), December 27, 1999.

Typical of what the media wants to cover though, isn't it?

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 27, 1999.

ROTFL!! Command center indeed!! What does it take to make fashionable out of eccentric, an Extinction Level Event?

re-affixing my a$$ with a straight face

-- IMOK-RU (net@com.org), December 27, 1999.

Mr. Cook.

ToOOOOOO Typical for my tastes!!!!!!!! Thankyou!

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 27, 1999.

The shelter was actually constructed about 20 years ago as a fallout shelter. The thing that is amazing to me is how anyone is ridiculed if they are outside the mainstream. If a person believes there is a 5% probability of a nuclear attack, then he is considered some kind of nut.

-- Dave (dannco@hotmail.com), December 27, 1999.

Beach uses a junk school bus as a bunker, he's called a 'nut'.

LA, NYC, DC, etc etc spend hundreds of millions on state of the art fortresses, they are called 'prudent'

-- (@ .), December 27, 1999.

Those bunker folks are just jealous because their "command centers" or "communications centers" don't have horns and steering wheels.

We are ALL (like, the whole species) a bunch of loonies for ever having gotten ourselves into this mess. And about now a buried bus is looking better and better.

Sanity is just a figment of your imagination.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), December 27, 1999.