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Used ICBM Silo For Sale, "Cheap"
sprzepiora writes "An Atlas ICBM silo is for sale on E-Bay. Place your bids now, because it's only $1.5E6! Includes such amenities as: 1100 gallon hot tub, sauna,3 finished baths, 47 ton garage door, 66,000 lb. bank of batteries, chemical and bioligical air filtration, and more!" This is cool just to lust after. Of course its in Kansas (yeah I know, I'm in michigan, whats the difference, right?)
A big hole in the ground! Sweet.
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Perhaps.
Still, I wouldn't mind one!
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I live there so I think I should know. If you don't mind being surrounded by Royals and Chiefs fans you shouldn't have a problem adjusting. It does tend to get hot in the summer, but it can be nice weather.
that a reply of ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US might actually apply. Schweet ;-)
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I didn't expect the operators to sleep in sleeping bags, but this is better than most houses.
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Thats the one all the geeks from Columbia Internet were living in right?
If I bought an ICBM silo for a house, I'd be forced to become some sort of superhero. No, seriously. You'd wake up one morning and realize that the world's population has dropped by more than 2/3rds. Wouldn't have to worry about adding any ambient lighting to the silo part...should be glowing already. You could make the world's largest spiral staircase...Or world's bounciest trampoline/indoor skydiving adventure!
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
That's not huge or anything ... pools (backyard, in ground, at home, type things) are usuall in the 1000's (15,000 .. 25,000). I s'pose 1100 gal is bit large for a hot tub, but nothing like a 47 ton garage door (yikes!)
On the other hand, I guess that's the purpose for the 47-ton garage door.
(Considering what the owner probably paid for it, and the improvements made, any handymen might seriously want to consider purchasing old silos and reconditioning them. Fun and profitable!)
Dude, it's underground. It could be in Iceland for all I care - that is some *private* mad-scientist lab space...
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The only problem with the place is that it's not nearly as secret as it once was. I'd pay twice what the going price for this thing is, if only it *wasn't* plastered all over EBay. It's a bit hard to make plans to rule the known universe when everyone and their dog is coming by just to see "that mad rocket guy that lives in a bunker in Kansas".
Of course, there's always price-of-admission revenue for signed photo's. Oh, and I suppose there'd be a plentiful supply of fresh human brain matter to plunder for the "MegaBrain Computer" experiment.
Well, off to feed the kitty
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Now I can Flame those Terrorists...
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I hope it has more than 56k modem connection!
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I would just jump all over this deal, except that right now, my stock options aren't worth as much as they used to be...
I mean, is it possible to load the thing into a 18-wheeler and bring it to Florida?
probably good timing to get a high bid.
"i was saying gnu-rd"
...or is CmdrTaco going down the tubes again? ;)
OTOH, I can see the benefits: "Target acquired: Redmond is onscreen..."
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Kansas sucks ass. Michigan rocks the house. Go BLUE!
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RTFJ.
I can only assume the current high (only) bid is a joke. It's made by a guy named djblue42 ( feedback profile ) who, true to his handle, has purchased mostly musical equipment in the past. nothing more than a few hundred bucks.
Damn! Can they leave him a zillion negative feedbacks at once for backing out of such an expensive auction?!
Osama bin Laden will surely bid on this.
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I've been looking for a place to put my spare ICBM!
Loompanics Unlimited, that sterling source of all that They don't want you to know, has a section of books on these kinds of things. My favorite is this one. I want a decommissioned nuclear submarine I can berth at Manhattan! Then I can live "in" the East Village (where I live now - been interesting) and get away from it all.
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You could set up a nice web hosting business there, with guaranteed security, excellent UPS setup, and most likely a pre-installed fat data pipe (probably laying dormant though).
Did you say nuke-proof? Well, maybe, unless as someone pointed out earlier, the Russians have your home address locked directly into one of their nukes...
MadCow
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
this link was posted on the fuck dot org site yesterday.http://weblog.fuck.org
The cool part: it was in a retired federal bank. Literally a fortress: fully bulletproof, tempest-shielded, multiple sub-basements, iron gates and fully enclosed by fences or walls, the works.
The ICBM silo gets me thinking about the same thing. They have on-site power generation and battery backup and an obviously pretty damn secure setup. So, why not open a secure hosting facility? It's not HavenCo/Sealand, but it's not bad.
The main problem is it's in the middle of nowhere (Mapquest link ), about 50 miles from Topeka. Paying the local loop charges for dedicated (and redundant) Internet access is probably going to cost a fortune.
Just go here: http://www.missilebases.com
If they throw in a missile, the commute's only 40 minutes to anywhere on the planet.
This looks like just the kind of compound a cult or cell would love. Easily defensible, low visibility.
Anyone else thinking this is a gov't honeypot?
Kevin Fox
This looks bogus to me. The gov't would never sell something like this over ebay. They'd sell something like this to one of their cronies or offer it in a sealed bid auction of their own. And you better believe there would be some paperwork to fill out, just to qualify for the auction.
And check the seller's profile - he has no history at all. This is the first item he's selling.
Slashdot is dumb and getting dumber. This is used to be an interesting site, but not any more.
This silo is screaming for an entrepreneur. Now if I can only get in the Corporate Welfare line for some of that $70 Billion action...
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
Hmm, this make a far better colo than even the ex-Bell System CO's. You know the ones, the pre-breakup buildings that all look alike and have 2ft thick walls and floors that can hold scans of equipment and survive a nuking.
Especially given the fact that these already have scads of high quality power runs, those pretty Tempest enforced wire paths for comm cabling, and hellacious power backup prebuilt, etc., this price is a fraction of what it cost to build out something a facility like this.
This would be the place for a startup hosting company with the vc cash of 2 years ago to make a real run at it. Wish I had it!
I know a guy who has a fat folder of business plans and research papers detailing just exactly what it would take to create an indestructable, cant-be-taken-down, freedom forever ISP. This would be exactly the kind of facility he'd need (Are you out there James?)..
Too bad there was insufficient investment.
"Avast! Prepare for the rodgering!" THWACK! "Arrr.. me nards.."
User Friendly has been doing a storyline about this all summer. It all started when they needed some more office space...
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
http://www.missilebases.com/todd/index.html for more info on this particular property. Floor plans and all.
Woot!
has 47 ton drive-in door that operates electrically
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Phew - I was worried for a second.
Unique, historic, functional property.
That's good, because I've good, because with this and a few more items, our rocket will be ready to move in!
note: this is meant to be funny!
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Several thoughts came to mind here.....
1. The original National Command Post in Denton, TX., was sold for a measly $50K. This is not the FEMA command post but rather the 1950s version. Nothing interesting left down there, but still mad scientist quarters on the cheap.
2. This would be a very nice secure site for web services. Who cares if they know about it, try and get past the door. Plus you can laze about in the jacuzzi with your internet babes.
3. I've driven past that town and had no clue it was there.
4. What were they doing putting a silo launch center in the middle of a town? Makes you wonder how many 'secret' targets still exist in residential areas.
5. Having a launch silo center in your town truly gives you 'Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority'.
6. Finally, you have got to wonder about the fellow that bought this thing and built a party palace in it. Assuming this isn't just a lark or an investment, it takes some serious weird to actually buy and outfit the thing for residential use.
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" Of course its in Kansas (yeah I know, I'm in michigan, whats the difference, right?)"
Maybe because you're not in Kansas anymore?
(Can anybody believe that I got that post in so early... fff me I must be drunk).
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I can just see it now, a bunch of people inside the silo playing UT while outside all these nukes shower upon the land.
Like all other decommissioned military sites of this era, these silos are probably 1) sitting in a puddle of PCBS, and 2) filled with loose asbestos.
The previous occupants moved out a couple weeks ago!
"Get them before they get....
Hmmm.... this could be a great site for "reality TV" shows like Survivor or The Mole. Besides, we already know it makes a great plot for UserFriendly. Producers? Anyone?
Dude, its perfect:br.
tourist step in, Brain washed hypno-drones step out.!MUahahaha
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I am interested if they will pay shipping.
The main link to their website is here.
... That's a lot of land, and you could easily sell some of it off and keep the silo goodies for yourself. Anyone got some money left over from the Redhat IPO? Yeah. Right.
:-)
Sure, this one is super expensive, but if you look at their web site, what's really intriguing is that they have other properties for sale that are much cheaper -- because they're in, ahem, rough condition. Probably saturated with rocket fuel and dioxins, but what the hell. You're young. You're immortal. Why not go for it!
For instance, you can pick up a 16 acre missile base in Winters, TX for $199,000. The web site mentions that the silo is "stripped of structure with app. 100' water depth. Seller eager."
Now THAT's a big hot-tub. Anyone know the diameter of one of those launch silos? Care to figure out how many gallons that comes to? You'd have the biggest hot tub in the world, if you could afford to heat it.
Another 11 acre missile base is available in Shep, TX for only $169,000, and, I love this, the missile silo is described as "used for scuba diving adventures." Woo hoo!
Still another 22 acre site is available in Creta, OK, for $133,000. Now that's almost affordable!
Even if you don't have a cool million to spend, the possibility of owning your own missile silo lies tantalizingly in reach to the eager geek
Lotsa fun to dream, isn't it
I, on the other hand, would pay extra to make sure that everyone knew which silo it was that no longer held an ICBM.
Especially the people who might have loaded silos of their own.
-- MarkusQ
Tell me this isn't something Right outa UF
I wonder if there's any in my neck of the woods? Probably not, since most of California is laced with fault lines and was probably all primary target anyway. I bet there's some in Michigan, in da U.P., eh?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Why buy one when you a build it for half the price?
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
The russians have better things to target, then I missle silo. It taks approx 32 minutes for an icbm to get from russia launch, to a US target. Do you really think our missles will still be in the ground?
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Sure it's built to withstand a nuclear attack (generally that means anything other than a direct hit)... but it's also probably a first tier target for... direct nuclear strikes. Of course, I'm SURE Russia has updated their target list over the years to remove this silo ;).
- StaticLimit
Do you have any idea how much marijuana you could grow in one of those silos?
How do they expect us to survive without cable television? I mean, I suppose you could, but why would you want to?! Would you really want to live through the apocalypse, be forced to stay inside for years, without pr0n?! More importantly, how would you go about getting it installed without compromising the integrity of the protection? "Uhh yeah just drill it on through my 47 ton front door"
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
A level for the original Marathon by Bungie, 'Colony Ship for Sale, Cheap' :-)
-Henry
"Useless organic meatbag" -HK-47
It's less expensive than a 4 bedroom house in Woodside, CA. But I sure wouldn't want to see the utility bills.
"Suppose you were an idiot..... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeate myself."
look at the counter on that page, over 40k now.
Maybe he's using bay area apartments for price comparison. If you take the NPV of the cash flow stream, it comes out about right, and I'll bet it's much better per square foot.
-- MarkusQ
That other silo might be in an ex-Soviet, currently Islamic, republic.
Has anyone else noticed that there is no mention of launch tubes anywhere? I think that makes this just a missile base, not a silo.
Also, I believe this property was seized as part of a drug bust. Story goes that the previous owner/occupants were producing pounds of acid. I can't find the article to confirm if this is infact the site.
-- Button up, your ignorance is showing
More to the point, who's "missilebases"? Why is his English so flaky? Why did he reject a bid from "fatihsenel" (who actually has quite a good record, despite the cancellation notice)?
A couple of years ago I could've gotten this baby for only 5,555 shares of VA Linux but now I'd need to scrounge up 1,327,433 shares. Ah, best to have had and to have lost...
Based on a true story!
There is also an article in Rolling Stong from July 5th, 2001 titled "The Acid King" about Leonard Pickard. The missle silo was owned by Todd Skinner, a shady bussinessman(drug dealer) who laundered money, trafficed drugs, and who knows what else. He made deals with the DEA to save his own ass many times, getting many of if friends imprisoned for life. Another example of America's idiotic war on drugs.
thought id check that out, see who my neihbors are:
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You know, these are tense times... people are fraught with the notions of impending cataclysm at the hands of bio/chemical terror... or worse...
What can be done about this?
Exploitation!
"The Hotel Sanctuary"
Yes that's right, throw in with seed money, renovate the hell out of the place, add rooms, a five star chief... a nice club... "spa"... and then book the hell out of it and horrifically inflated prices! No... seriously out of line prices... I mean Macaulay Caulkin (the home alone kid) levels of exploitation here...
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A shining beacon of capitalism during our nation's darkest hours. This is why we enjoy twenty-four hour grocery stores and a nation of connected roads damnit, this my friends, is the American way.
Much better than Waco.
Obviously, you haven't
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.
Here is a pretty interesting photo tour that was made by some guys who, by their own admission, "violated federal law" to get inside and tour around one of these silos, when it was just a bunch of abandoned cold war concrete. It's nice to compare the this with the eBay photos...makes that 1.5 million opening bid seem a bit more reasonable. Oh, and you'd better hurry...there's only an hour left to bid on it.
Incidentally, I lived in Topeka for some time, and I got to go to one of these abandoned silos, back around 92 or 93...there was a freaky survivalist dude living there, surrounded by all his guns and barrels of water...and I got to go stand where, at one time, there was a ICBM, ready to go...remembering the cold war dominated world that I grew up in, it was very, very surreal.
and don't forget it...
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.
You know what is really funny is that the real estate agents in the area tell me that it was only
around $200,000 - $250,000 before they put it on
E-bay.
I got repeatedly fragged by a guy in UT a few nights ago named madcow. Is that you?
Of course it all depends on how fast the other guy's warning system and missile commanders are. This is where all that trillion dollar hardware and design comes into play.
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A very poorly paid Karma Whore...
Woe is me.
Well, I wondered how the heck the missle base was so damn nice, until I found this article...
Wait till you check out the 3.7 ton cat-flap.
http://www.missilebases.com has more info... including an Atlas-F site which is *much* cooler (with a private runway and an actual silo).
..would this be labeled as 'News' and not 'Its funny. Laugh'.
The advertisement said "restored., not completely remodeled. But, it is possible.
This is most appropriate for this posting:
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In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your
time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
What university or college did you receive your education from?
No, Sesame Street and Pokemon don't count as educational facilities.
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For that price, you can get about 27,500 hours of service from one of these
I dunno... seems to me it took frigging forever to scramble a fighter to deal with the incoming terrorist jets. Hesitate to guess what kind of hold-ups and hitches there'd be for launching an ICBM.
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Dang, and i thought it was a pain in the ass sheetrocking my 100'sq bathroom!
I recall two New Age type people bought a silo like this in Arizona and converted it to 50,000 sqft art studio. It was freakin' BAD ASS. I'm all for subterranean living (my house is kept nice and dark).
But they needed to "cleanse" the place of bad vibes. This included incense burning, drum playing and chanting. I think that was freakier than the idea of living in the former home of a WOMD (weapon o mass destruction).
I'm game, but 1.5e6USD is a little steep.
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'Nuff said.
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How can this be flamebait? Surely the moderator didn't think the suggestion was serious?
Does anybody else remember reading a Rolling Stone article (I won't vouch for the general quality of the publication, but this particular article was very interesting.) about the career of one of the major players in the LSD market? One of his unfortunately shady associates (his main dealer, I think) bought and pimped out an old missile silo, if memory serves me correctly. The guy was eventually arrested, and of course all of his property went up for sale. Is this the same silo?
Steven N. Severinghaus
Someone wrote an adult story about doing this some years back, should be findable as "Castle in the Sand" by Deana Johns. Prepare for a long read.
uh...mah...gawd. That is sooOOOooo October third! I'm all past that and onto action figures already. *sigh*
Maybe that's what it's all about. It's going to be bought by some fake person and remain in military use. Then we'll have one silo that maybe isn't being targeted.
My cousin once said that he wants to make a house out of a water-tower someday - I wonder if he'd settle for a missile silo?
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High bid djblue42 (20)
Sure hope this was a gag auction after all, or else djblue42 is gonna have hell to pay...
Call on God, but row AWAY from the rocks!
This would make one serious hideout. Think of the parties you could throw.
On a scarier thought some group of terrorist could purchase it and make it a nearly impenetrable fortress......
Hey how would you like to come back to my pad? It is literally a launch pad.
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What would stop a criminal or terrorist from buying one of these? I can see it now:
Police: Open Up *bangs on 47 ton door*
Criminal: No.
Police: *gets battering ram, rams door*
Criminal: *yawn*
Police: *drives tank into 47 ton door*
Criminal *snore*
Police: Aw crap. *missile silo opens, missile launches*
Criminal: *giggle* ^_^
My other car is first.
Fighters scrambled from MA to deal with the second plane. Remember, nobody knew what was happening until the first one hit, and the second one only hit after eight minutes. Besides, the contents of the silo don't have to go very far to clear the blast area - they don't have to make it all the way to their targets before the first one hits.
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cable so reception doesn't matter.
wireless network on the inside.
as long as you can get a fast connection inside, then that is my ideal pad. I'd love that - you could make it a really kick-ass loft. I never leave my apartment, so that would be great - not to mention those taliban fuckers don't give a shit about Kansas, whereas Boston is a target...
now I just need the $$.
and hookers. need them too.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
When UserFriendly WORKED in a ICBM silo! :) That was a good series. I tell ya one thing....you won't have to worry much about Chemical or Nuclear Warfare....
Gorkman
Am thinkink of startink ISP in das silo. Where is Dust Puppy when you need him?
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The RE agent isn't ALLOWED to mention that, because it's redlining.
They probably haven't put as much thought into what to do when a flight that suddenly deviates from its course. The military probably wasn't even aware of a problem until the planes were well along on their deviated courses. You can bet that a lot more attention is going to be placed on domestic low grade attack scenarios in the wargames from now on.
Well not actually in the Silo. But in Wamego. I spent all of my school years there, moved away when I was 19 to go live in the big city. I remember sneaking over the fence at that place when I was a kid. Last I heard it was a giant LSD lab. Kinda wacky.
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Problem is, it's only a one way commute.
Just think how many rakes we could store there!
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that is some *private* mad-scientist lab space... Actually, that isn't too far off. Almost a year ago, the worldn't largest LSD lab was found in that silo. I believe the reports said that it was not yet operational, but if it was, it could have supplied 15 million doses of the drug, or about a third of the world's supply. They were busted before it started producing, but damn, that's a lot of bad trips mannn.... You can read some about it here.[be a man, click it]
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Looking at the history involved with this auction, a couple of things got me to thinking... First, this auction ran for a month. While I'm not a usual customer to the real estate auctions, the longest I've seen any other eBay auction go for has been 10 days. Can someone shed some light on this? Second, I looked at the feedback on the winning bidder. The person is a music nut. What could (s)he want with a silo (apart from the intrinsic 'cool' value), and where are the coming up with the money? Unless this happens to be some famous artist/individual being discreet, this only makes me more suspicious.
I suspect that one of these choices is incorrect. Correct.
Just testing a theory-o-mine...
My link here.
There's a lot less beach-front property in Kansas
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Believe it or not, there was a place in Las Vegas in the mid 80s that did that. They turned a jet engine up in the air and you could fly around in this chamber. I think the place was called "Fly Away" (?).
They would put several people in at a time, and everyone wore these "flying suits" which had pockets for the air to catch in. Only one person would fly around at time, because they had to adjust the air flow to match your weight. There was a cricle of cushions that lined the chamber that everyone waited on.
Smaller people seemed to do better than bigger people. My buddy who was maybe 5'6", weighing 130 tops flew around easily. My being 6' 2" about 200 pounds required a lot more air power. :) When you have that much wind power, any small adjustment that you make in your "control surfaces" (i.e., arms and legs) makes a huge difference in how fast you move around. I made the mistake of cocking one leg slightly out and the other leg slightly in, and caused myself to spin around at great speed. :)
It was a lot of fun, but it was very expensive. It eventually died. Probably cost too much, and I'm sure the insurance was insane, even though they made you sign a monster disclaimer that you understood that you might die from the experience.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
*laugh* I like the way you think.
-- MarkusQ
IIRC, the engine was from a DC-3 and turned a horizontal prop that provided the upward air motion. Of course I never actually flew there, but did go in a check out the facility. (I lived there when it was operational in the early 80's.)
:)
Also, the baggy suit was what made all the difference. You had to wear a pair of coveralls (you can see them in the link in Reality Masters additional post) that had vent holes to fill up with air and help your total surface area and therefore lift.
(Please don't flame me if I don't have the science of the aerodynamics right.
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He doesn't even take paypal! How can he expect to sell it? :)
They that quote Benjamin Franklin on liberty and safety deserve neither.
Sounds like it to me. Come on...you mean CmdrTaco can't afford it? Well then make Hemos pitch in.
I know exactly where this is! This is so cool. Wamego is on the east side of Manhattan, KS, better known for Kansas State University where I used to work and school at. This is so cool! I never even knew it was there. There was a big drug bust right around that area a while back IIRC. A buddy of mine said it was in the paper up there.
What you don't know is that there was supposedly a big drug bust very near to that area (ie, within a mile) a while back. I used to live in Manhattan and Wamego is on the edge of Manhattan. I used to drive to the middle of Wamego and north a mile and back west 1/2 mile to my boss's nursery when I did some landscaping work. Pot indeed.
I read about this somewhere. Wasn't this silo being used to manufacture LSD or something? Think I read it in Rolling Stone, recently... Can't remember the details though obviously.
No private citizen owns a missile silo. As such, e-bay has ended the auction. An unfortunate waste of space on /. that could have been used for more important news.
icksnay on hacking my boxsnay.
Of all the luck! You've got 3 Million burning a hole in your pocket, and they ruin the sale by posting it on eBay...
Does the buyer have to pay for the postage?
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Old Atlas sites are all over that area, and are privately owned. I grew up near one farther south. No one lived in it, and the owner wasn't very attentive, so kids (*cough*) would sneak in to check it out. Mostly they're just big holes in the ground with lots of rusting industrial crap bolted to the walls. The lower levels are usually flooded.
tourist step in, Brain washed hypno-drones step out.!MUahahaha
How do you tell the difference?
Reboot macht Frei.
I used to tell telemarketers for siding and replacement window companies that I lived in a missle silo (that was back when I lived in Kansas). I checked into it years ago, but they said they were filling them with concrete and weren't interested in selling at the time.
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check it:
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http://www.cjonline.com/webindepth/missilesilos
Is this the old silo that the geeks from UF had? Weird timing that that storyline ended as this came up for sale.
So did anyone notice that ebay is using MS Passport for an alternative sign-in?y .tcl?docid=205668)
There's a help page on passport that comes up as "last updated Oct/01/01" (http://webhelp.ebay.com/cgi-bin/eHNC/showdoc-eba
I hope this won't be a "transition"...
As if it'd make a difference?
Whether it's loaded or not, they'll target it anyway, since, after all, it could just as easily be a ruse.
They're thousands of miles away and unable to inspect it for themselves, and media coverage is always of questionable integrity.
Moof!
That way if someone was going to nuke the silos for the silo's sake it'd be less likely to nuke major population centers.
There's two properties available in Texas (Near Abilene...), two good ones in NY around the Adirondaks, another site in Central, KS, and one in Oklahoma near Altus. These are more for eccentrics than just rich people. They're for people that want to be left alone at all costs or want a nice integrated space for their business (which is what it looks like the Wamego site was being used for...) albeit underground.
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Let me guess the ad would go like this:
"Newly refurbised place. Finished Dec 31 1999. Never been used."
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It would be nice if all Geeks united and bought :)
the silo, to found their own city
Someone already did this with an old bunker here in the UK Check it out at http://www.thebunker.net/
http://www.missilebases.com/index.html
oh ya! you dont think kansas has anything but ordinary? check this out http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1839/a06.html? 345
the cost of living is really nice here too and i got pretty nice bandwidth. now damn thats slack!
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I always wanted to get or write a nuclear war game. I don't mean something like Missile Command. I mean a strategy game. Start the game at the beginning of the nuclear arms race, with the player being the leader of one of the nations (like in Civ). He would get to make decisions about how much money to spend on weapons, training, R&D, espionage, civil defense, missile defense, etc. He could make decisions about things like signing treaties, research priorities, picking targeting strategies, picking civil defense strategies, swapping or giving away tech, etc. He could change readiness states, evacuate cities, order recon flights, attempt espionage or sabotage, launch attacks (of course), etc. Along the way different problems would arise depending on how wisely the player spent his money and the "world situation." A player who didn't invest much in training and who didn't develop good weapon control procedures would have a higher chance that one of his units would unexpectedly "release" their weapons during high states of alert. Too strict of weapons control would slow down response time and might encourage The Enemy to think they could succeed in a decapitating first strike. A war might stay "cold" for decades, and then suddenly heat up when one side gets enough strategic advantage that they think they can win a nuclear exchange. A well played game might never go "hot."
'Things are going well and tensions are declining, and all of a sudden the game drops into "real time mode" the alarms go off. The Enemy calls up on the hotline (you did develop and implement The Hotline didn't you?) and says that one of their units has gone rogue (maybe you should have given or leaked Advanced Weapons Control Methods to them) and launched a nuclear tipped ICBM at one of your cities, "It isn't a deliberate attack, please, PLEASE, don't retaliate against our innocent civilians for the crimes of one madman." What do you do? Or everything looks fine, tensions are low, although sunspot activity is running high. Then your Air Defense Command reports a sudden first strike. Only some of the sensors are giving confusing or conflicting data. It could be a computer or sensor glitch; The Enemy has no reason to launch now. If you don't launch before the RVs hit (perhaps you should have invested in Mobile Launchers) then most of your ICBMs will be wiped out in their silos. What do you do?'
To get a really good sim of nuclear brinksmanship you'd need to have other countries that could have alliances, critical resources, their own nukes (of course), etc. 'Tensions are running high between you and Nuclear Power A, when all of a sudden atomic explosions start lighting up your cities (Suitcase Nukes? Stealth?) and sabotage takes out several of your units. Nuclear Power A is the obvious culprit... except that it could also be Nuclear Power B that is trying to use current tensions to get you and A to wipe ea. other out. Do you launch against A, against B, against everybody*?'
You'd also want to simulate some basic level of internal economics and politics so that nations could change attitude and power, The Senate could overrule your decisions if your position wasn't "secure" enough, or leaders could get deposed without a shot being fired (the ultimate victory... or loss). That would mean adding non-state actors (like terrorists, revolutionaries, legitimate and "faked" protest groups) and some level of psychological warfare. "Are you sure you want to order all the major cities evacuated, Mr. President? That could hurt your approval rating and our economy considerably. If you are wrong..."
Oh, and to make the most of it you'd want to add non-nuclear weapons, so you could have Chemical, Biological, and Conventional, arms races and wars along with Nuclear. Although non-nuclear "hot" wars would need great simplification in order to keep the interface manageable. 'You are losing a very important conventional war involving several major allies with critical resources and bases. Releasing the use of tactical nuclear weapons would turn the tide. Doing so could also escalate to a strategic nuclear exchange. Without your allies resources you will not be able to maintain your current weapon parity with The Enemy. What do you do?'
If done properly and OBJECTIVELY then it could also be a useful teaching tool on Grand Strategy, Games Theory, and The Cold War. Maybe you could even have it so you could alter physics or human nature or add "exotic" weapons to the game to experiment with hypothetical scenarios. A player could try to emulate Stalin or Kennedy, they could try arms reduction talks (trust but verify) with peaceful co-existence or sneak attacks, they could wage "limited" wars or test out that Nuclear Winter theory (something else that might could be customized). Of course, you'd want a multiplayer version. You can see why I have never even bothered to write it... it is a HUGE project. Quite beyond my abilities and free time.
But, perhaps The Bazaar could do it. I have put the idea in the public domain, is anyone willing and capable of pursuing it?
* A wargasm as they say, and my likely response.
what kind of people would produce this? http://www.midusa.net/~rsoldan/eden.html/
kansans are pretty bizzare gus and the further into the sticks you go
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http://www.missilebases.com/index.html
Here's an article originally from the San Francisco Chronicle about the LSD missile silo situation. IIRC, there was also a big article about it in Rolling Stone a while ago, but I don't have the issue around to check.
I have a positive modifier on Troll. When I mod someone Troll their karma should go UP!
somebody bought it for 1.5 million $ !
It's always so easy to identify people who have never taken LSD--they're the ones who speak of "bad trips" and "flashbacks" and all that COINTELPRO fiction. Maybe you can leave the world of the naïve and join the world of John F. Kennedy, Cary Grant, Carl Sagan, Huston Smith, and other examples of highly effective people who have tripped on LSD.
You must have gotten these statistics from the Dealers of Ecstacy Agency, who must be the ones selling all the drugs, since they seem to know so much about the quantities, prices, etc. Have you noticed that their shingle reads "Drug Enforcement Administration" rather than "Drug Law Enforcement Administration"? It appears they are forcing everyone to take drugs, since per capita consumption of illegal drugs has increased even though over 1,000,000 people are currently jailed on drug charges and over $17,000,000,000 has been stolen from drug users/sellers to finance the police state.
If all the bad things they said about illegal drugs were true, the ground would be piled about three feet deep with all the bodies of people who jump from buildings in anticipation of flying, and 50% of men would have to wear B- or C-cup bras to hold their enlarged breasts. Alas, the voices of science and reason have been drowned by the baseless rhetoric of politicians. Thank you, Mister Gunnery Sergeant, for serving as such a fine example of the effectiveness of semantic programming.
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