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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.
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Love these arial shots! There's a load of pictures people have uploaded to Google Maps, and there's even "street" view throughout the island. Pretty incredible stuff.
Cool let's buy it and turn it into a...
Uh.
Well... let's see.
I guess a prison? Or maybe a penal colony.
Important question: does this mean there are underground passages and stuff that are literally under the sea? This could be like the coolest Fallout vault.
Underground greenhouses powered by wave turbines and solar panels... ok I'm getting into this now!
I guess a prison? Or maybe a penal colony.
It sort of was.
Before and during World War II, Hashima, like many industrial sites in Japan, was a location for forced labor.
Korean and Chinese prisoners of war were kept here, enduring varying degrees of hardship.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hashima-skyfall-island-visit/index.html
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(Sorry about the reddit link.)
COOL.
One of my favorite PS2 games, Forbidden Siren 2, takes place in an island inspired by this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Siren_2
The history of this island is very bleak. The miners were slaves and did a lot of dying.
The very idea of that is a mixture of claustrophobia and thalassophobia. What could go wrong? Oh, lots.
Looks like a good squid game location or a Bond villain lair
Looks like a video game level
I wish I could buy it and turn into my own private orchard with a small hilltop tower in the middle. Bye bye cruel world!
Perfect spot to survive the zombie apocalypse long-term. Any get in, just throw'em in the hole! every once in a while, when the noises from the terrible depths become a bit too loud, just throw down some accelerant and a molotov cocktail and you're good for at least a year!
Enough land for farming, using solar and wave/wind-capture turbines for power, baby, you got yourself a stew going!