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Used ICBM Silo For Sale, "Cheap"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the homes-for-nerds dept.

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?)

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  1. Other missile silos available for less money by jms · · Score: 3, Informative

    The main link to their website is here.

    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 ... 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.

    Lotsa fun to dream, isn't it :-)

    1. Re:Other missile silos available for less money by bad-badtz-maru · · Score: 2, Informative


      In missle silos the presence of water typically means that the silo door leaks when it rains. The sealing of the door is typically the first step in turning it into a residence.

      maru
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  2. Re:We know where are tax dollars went. by Sawbones · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you check out the sellers home page (missilebases.com) You'll see that this is one has had quite a bit of work done to it to make it worth the 1.5 mil. They normally go for about $200,000 and then usually just have a few hangers on the surface and maybe some of the interior structure still intact.

    I do like the idea of using the silo as a scuba diving tank though (they did that at one site).

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  3. http://www.missilebases.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.missilebases.com has more info... including an Atlas-F site which is *much* cooler (with a private runway and an actual silo).