This Country Would Surely Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Anyone with big plans to invade a country better stay the hell out of Switzerland, because they are not having it.
If the dead ever rise and attack us or aliens try to invade the planet, Switzerland has it made.
In fact, they’ve rigged their entire, breathtakingly beautiful country to self-destruct just in case that happens.
On top of that, they went the extra mile to make sure that whatever blows up can’t be fixed.
Switzerland is basically designed to “seal itself into a kind of self-protective oblivion, hiding out in artificially expanded rocky passes and concrete super-basements as all roads and bridges into and out of the country are instantly transformed into landslides and dust,” according to BLDGBLOG’s Geoff Manaugh and his explanation of John McPhee’s book about the Swiss military.
Don’t let these stunning pictures fool you; there’s dynamite in them tharr hills… to say the very least.
More on how this all came to be after the jump!