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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. Somewhere in the former Soviet Union... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is a silo in the ground, complete with a missile dialed in to your new home! This is one thing the Real Estate agent will conveniently forget to mention.

    On the other hand, I guess that's the purpose for the 47-ton garage door.

  2. Kansas? Who Cares? by torpor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, it's underground. It could be in Iceland for all I care - that is some *private* mad-scientist lab space...

    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 ...

    --
    ; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
  3. What one looks like before it's all dressed up by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. Only on Slashdot... by Nate+Fox · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..would this be labeled as 'News' and not 'Its funny. Laugh'.