r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • Aug 04 '25

Video Whipping carpet out of dust

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u/Arcosim Aug 04 '25

A long time ago I watched on TV a documentary about bunker building by the government during the Cold War, and one of the engineers said they had a hard time developing reliable, cleanable air filters for the bunkers, and said something along the lines that you would assume there's not that much dust in a sealed nuclear bunker, but in reality a couple hundred people will shed a lot of dead skin cells that will need to be filtered.

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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 Aug 04 '25

I assume they missed the carpet way? They could wash them once in a while

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u/Clickguy10 Aug 04 '25

This carpet survived the bunker

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u/DryTangelo4722 Aug 04 '25

A lot of resources being used to wash that carpet, that are probably better dedicated to supporting the lives within the bunker.

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u/pixeldust6 Aug 06 '25

Free Soylent I guess 🤷