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Photos: Chinese Farmer Builds Apocalypse-Proof Noahs Ark Pods
Liu Qiyuan poses with his pods in Hebei Province in China on Dec. 11, 2012. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Liu was inspired by the blockbuster film “2012” and the massive earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Indonesia and Thailand in 2004 and killed hundreds of thousands, reported AFP.Liu Qiyuan, a Chinese farmer from the village of Qiantun in northern Hebei Province, located just south of Beijing, has built what he describes as “Noah’s Ark” survival pods in case of a cataclysmic event.
He hopes that his circular pods are adopted by government agencies and international organizations in the event of earthquakes and tsunamis.
His seven pods, which are airtight, are made out of a fiberglass shell wrapped around a steel frame. They are able to float on water. Some of them even have their own propulsion device installed.
They also come complete with oxygen tanks and can hold as many as 14 people.
The Dec. 21, 2012, Mayan prophecy, which some people have interpreted as the end of the world, struck a nerve with ordinary Chinese after the “2012” film gained popularity there in 2009.
Last month, it was reported that Lu Zhenghai, a man from Xinjiang, spent some $150,000 dollars to build his own “Noah’s Ark”-like vessel. According to the Daily Mail tabloid, he spend his entire life savings on constructing the ship.
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A worker stands beside a survival pod. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Liu Qiyuan sits inside one of seven survival pods. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Incomplete survival pods sit in Liu’s workshop. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Workers reposition one of the pods . (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Liu secures a hatch inside one his pods. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Liu poses among his survival pods. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Liu Qiyuan and his daughter sit inside one of his pods. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Liu looks out from inside. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
There’s no place to hide from the wrath of God/Jesus!
Only in his heart, Belive or go to hell.
Who in the world would care about putting wallpaper in one of these things. Also these are nothing more than sealed lifeboats that the cargo ships, oil platforms and cruise ships have been carrying for years. The only difference is these are round which is not very good for steering.
Those Chinese farmers… all well trained and fed from the abundance of rice and pork they yield every day (from the frozen fields..). And being fed up with the boring Mao blue uniforms, they decided to already dress for the apocalypse, in a design copied from the military… Yeah, those Chinese farmers… amazingly creative and what one can do with those savings of the 2 US Dollar a day they earn.. yeah, those Chinese farmers…
But in essence great idea, only 300 million pods to go, for the rest of the Chinese farmers…
What happens if you’re inside one and it starts to roll away? How will that save you? D :
Well,
that’s why they have seat belts!
Maybe it could become a new extreme sport…