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by hollerith 337 days ago
It would easy to tell: (unless they were occupied by only a handful of people) they would be useless as fallout shelters without a lot of ventilation, and you can't rely on the wind: you'd need big fans and ducts, and the fans would need to keep running after most of the electricity-generating capacity available in Tokyo is destroyed, i.e., this ventilation system would need its own hardened electricity supply.
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Also, using this as a shelter would have a pretty obvious downside if torrential rainstorms happened.
Never mind all the wasted space above peoples' heads. The picture further down has people walking. They're tiny.