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Titan Missile Complex Up for Sale
ckeck writes "Take a look at this, some guy in Washington State is auctioning off a 'Titan Missile Complex' on eBay. I don't know if this is a fake auction or not, but I already talked to the gentleman running the auction on the phone and plan to take a visit to the complex! This would be an awesome place to live! Check it out here." Looks like he bought it in 1999.
Checklist:
;)
1. Move to Missile Complex
2. Change name to Dr. Evil
3. Hold the world hostage
4. Profit
See, I didn't use a ??? part, they are so lame
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Expensive? Did you see how much it is, and what you can do with it?
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Imagine mapping this (your HOUSE) for a Quake / Unreal map!!
you've always been able to buy missile silo's on the internet.
for-ever. since day one.
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or was there a similar facility for sale like 3 months ago or so.. then again the link might have travelled around in irc and didn't reach slashdot
If you look closely on EBay, 19 people have voted him up. 19 people are satisfied with his previous auction, which leads to this conclution: The person selling it may not be faking it, but how the hell did he get it in the first place?
this is probably the most boring sig in the world
I saw a show about something like this on TV a couple years ago. A couple bought a missle silo and moved into it. They fixed it up really nice, with a grand piano and carpeting and everything.
Or maybe I just dreamed it.
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According to the 1999 article, the original asking price was $300,000. The guy who bought it is asking $3,500,000. That's a bit of a markup, there.
It makes sense if he put a lot of money and time into renovating it; that's probably the case if there's someone currently occupying the property. (Which the auction hints at.)
In the UK The Bunker is an old nuclear shelter turned into a secure webhosting facility.
The guy who owns it wrote 'Stay Another Day' performed by East 17 and was a UK Christmas #1.
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... of a tour inside a similar missile silo, by underground explorers. Maybe it's the same, I didn't check that. But at least it gives you an impression of what is under there.
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Thisis not exactly new. Atlas and Titan silos have been up for auction/sale for many years.
Lameass Karma whore...the link is in the original article...
if someone actually buys that place for $4M, the newspaper article suggests that he paid $300k originally, granted he has made some improvements to the place but are those changes really worth $3,7M
There are no pictures of the land except a rather fuzzy-looking diagram. Were I interested in something costing almost $4M, I'd expect to see pictures. Available information leads me to believe that this is a fake or prank, possibly using a hijacked account.
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indeed.
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Alas. I suppose I will have to continue formulating my plans for the domination of the world's sexiest geeks from my livingroom. That's not nearly as exciting owning my own potentially operational missile complex.
Did anyone look at the auctions he's had before?
Jack Hammer of some sort... $360
Camera Flash... $12.50
Camera Bag.. $14.95
"Oh..Yah..I have a giant nuclear testing facility too...Four Million Dollars..."
It's always so funny to see what else these people buy/sell. ;-)
Genuine Canon Camera Everready Case Denim T50
Vivitar 550 FD C/R, Flash w/ Manual
NEW ELECTRIC DEMO HAMMER / CONCRETE BREAKER
I was expecting cooler stuff.
Missile Complex?
This wouldn't be in Central Montana by any chance? I hear Dr. Zefram Cochrane's been looking to buy one in that area.
I wonder, whether our Russian militaries can buy the complex to keep missiles closer to their targets? :)
There has been a silo house for sale for awhile in the Adirondack Mountains, and in Long Island, there has been talk of converting a silo location into a golf course.
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1. No shipping. Local pickup only. 2. To avoid stiff fees, PayPal will not be accepted. 3. Checks will be given ten days to clear. 4. Non-paying bidders without ABM defenses will be given NEGATIVE FEEDBACK.
Living underground has many practical advantages. All-year insulation from heat and cold, no neighbours, no leaking roofs, infinite space for expansion if you care to dig.
But... we're descended from tree-hugging primates, not moles, and living underground is a sure way to go crazy. A home needs sunlight, a view, and fundamentally, people within easy reach.
I'd rather live in a shoddy 1-room appartment than in a hundred room bunker.
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I'm surprised that Dick Cheney hasn't bought one of these. It probably cost at least that much to build his bunker at the Naval Observatory...
I've always looked for the perfect place to build an audio production studio. It would need to be stylish.. and well isolated.. I guess you could play with plutonium-powered speakers in this place, without getting complaints from your neighbours.
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I would love to work in a data store facility such as this! Just the kitsch value alone would get me to move across the country to do so.
:D
If anyone wants to turn this into a secure data warehouse, a needs a few good men- gimme a shout!!!
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Got my Titan Missile Complex but the tall backed leather chair did not swivel and the white cat was already dead when i got there! Avoid!!!!!!
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So it doesn't matter if you own the place or if you are a visitor or what, you are on cameras 24/7, just in case you tried something illegal.
So if a couple moves in, what does that mean, no anal sex?
Just think of all the Chinese/Russian missiles still pointed at your bedroom.
A shovel and a fire ax will fix that in a hurry. What, it's wireless? Can I borrow your tinfoil beanie for a moment?
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just to hazard a guess, but I don't think the vast maority of /.ers have $4mil lying around in pocket change.
I've seen this guy before he's done several fake auctions of really weird stuff, like a Nuclear Reactor and other stuff, and then he takes it down near the end of the bid.... it's sad he's getting the glory on slashdot....
A nice isolated semi-desert sort of place. Go there is you really want to escape everything.
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Uh, no. While that might be the procedure now, these facilities were decomissioned in the 60's. Any cameras made with 60's state of the art technology would not be hidden......what with the huge 50 lb. case and all.
Stay a while! Staaaaaay forevaah!
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I toured a live Atlas 2 missile silo near Florence, Arizona back in the 1970's when I was in ROTC. Even back then, the equipment was showing signs of disrepair. There were hydraulic leaks in the missile bay and when the captain pressed the light test button on one of the panels, only about 80% of the lights lit up. Still, it was pretty awesome to be at the bottom of the silo's missile bay, with the twin cones of an Atlas 2 about 4 feet away from me. I forget what fuel/oxidizer combination was used in the Atlas 2 missiles but I do remember they were very nasty so I was glad when the tour was completed
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Errm, come to think of it, that may have been a Titan 2 missile silo. =) It was a loooong time ago.
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i saw the guy who did this auction on irc and he was pissing about, look at the cost for fuck sake, he was joking and stuck it in the topic etc, that was ages ago, i can't believe people are still falling for it, and i can't believe /. editors are that stupid as to want to litter /. with this crap.
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Here's a "tour" of a missile complex for those yearning for a bit more than a small sketch on a web page...
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I don't get it. Why would the government spend lots of money monitoring property it has sold to private citizens, especially when said property (stripped of the nuclear missile, obviously) is not particularly useful for causing harm? Do you have some evidence to back up your claim or is it just a paranoid conspiracy theory?
Or are you just making stuff up to gain karma? A look at your journal reveals the answer, and it's one that should make your moderators ashamed:
Oh, and what are you planning to do afterwards? Why, flamebait your karma away. Moderators, please nip this plan in the bud by making sure that Archangle's karma stays low. And an advice to those with aspirations to cause mischief: don't post about them in your journal.
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Of all the cool things one can do with a nuclear missile launch site he thinks of making a wine cellar out of it? I can't believe my eyes!
Seriously... I wouldn't want to live there. What about contamination? Radon build-up can always pose a problem in underground places, especially if they were at one time used to store nuclear material.
Later titan missiles also used hypergolic fuel, which means that not so long ago a large quantity of toxic chemicals was stored in that bunker.
A turist attraction perhaps, but certainly not a healthy peaceful retreat...
Would it be worth anybody's time to check the radiation levels inside some of these silos before buying? You never know.
Damned fuckin TROLL!!!
Somebody set us up the bomb!
All your base....
This complex housed nuclear missiles, if I understand correctly. So when visiting, be sure to pack a Geiger counter, who knows?
Seems way too big for a house (for that matter, can anybody provide the surface in square meters?), but that would be one kickass disco / club / whatever.
Heh, I'm interested! Gimme a week to collect 4 million dollars and I'm in!
ckeck (the original submitter) says he's going to visit it soon: please, followup and post photos!!!
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
A few months ago 2 guys were busted for being the major suppliers in all of usa of LSD, they were responsible for like 30% of all sales.
Their whole lab as in a disused silo facility. Totally sealed, no way in.
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A school friend of mine got his silo in kansas for 100$ a month lease, for 100 years from a farmer in kansas. With the only restriction of allowing the farmer room to park his tractor inside in the winter.
The problem with these, is you do have to heat them, and keep the humidity down. With a constant wall temp, you better be able to afford a big humidifier, or just build a house inside. My friend just build his own walls inside, cleaned it up etc.
Its so quiet and dark in the night, you wouldnt even hear a tornado if it went overhead right on top of you.
If Bush wins or steals the election again, this guy could have gotten SO much more money.
I would guess asbestos and other hazmat would be
more likely. Missile liners were
one of the few legal uses of asbestos
last i checked. Also missile
propellant either solid or liquid can
be pretty nasty( i think titans were liquid).
I'd buy it but I'd want to see what
cleanup efforts had been performed.
And then I can get all of the problems on this idiot planet straightened out once and for all!
Maybe after I can get a good night's sleep.
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The nuclear material was inside lead-lined caskets in the warheads at the top of the missiles inside the concrete silos which are hundreds of feet from the power and control domes. Radiation risk is right around 0.0%. Even then, risk factors are based on populations, and our modern paranoia over radiation is the result of anti-nuke activist scare tactics. Some people are completely unaffected by low-levels of radiation, others are simply genetically predisposed to develop cancers and radiation triggers it. Madame Curie probably has more exposure to radiation than any other person in history. Sure she died of cancer...in her 80's, after nearly five decades of handling radioactive isotopes. Women who suffered cancer as a result of radium paint used on the clocks they built ingested radium when they licked their brushes, and many of them didn't develop cancer for years. Nobody is ever believed to have developed cancer or illness as a result of secondary exposure to radiation. (And before anyone brings up chernobyl, that's not secondary exposure: the reactor explosion seeded the entire area with very small very hot particles of nuclear fuel and coolant.)
In Arizona, there is the Titan Missile Museum. Since the Titan was nuclear-capable, and in the cold war era, they were very closely tracked. The museum claims to be the ONLY surviving launch facility; they even have a video presentation showing how they demolished the others, and (if I recall correctly) a map of all other locations. One of the conditions placed on keeping this location and not demolishing it was to permenantly wedge the silo door half open - in a position that they could be clearly seen from a spy satellite, but the missile could not be launched.
So, either this is a fake - or you'll need to send the museum a letter after you move in.
That's his idea? To create a day camp? "Hey, how was camp?" "Oh, a bit cold. We were 100 feet underground all summer." Boy, that sounds like fun.
I think it should be use for playing games. "Would you like to play a game? How about Thermonuclear War!" Now that sounds like fun.
Er, let's all take that to heart, m'kay?
(original in all-cap shouting, I think they really really mean it)
Now I can finally move out of my parent's basement, and into - oh, never mind.
If we make it legal for corporations to have nuclear weapons, we would easily want jobs to go overseas than!
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Some have already been converted to housing ("Spacious marble bath complex, with high ceilings, heavy beams and red cedar 1100 gallon tiled hot tub"). All need some work. Often quite a bit of work.
They're all in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, you know it.
with this star wars hummer
There were several Nike missile bases in MD one of which I did some exploration in. Now a developer has build and entire subdivision over it and I doubt that the new home-owners know about what lies beneath their gated community.
If you are going to use one of these for a house it is very expensive to remove the lead paint and asbestos insulation on any pipes/walls... but in the 50's men ate lead and smoked asbestos....
now you have plenty of room to grow pot and shrooms underground without getting caught.
Real Life Comics' Tony bought one of these beauties ages ago. You can buy them here for around $2,500,000, and I can personally vouch for VillainSupply's extremely consistent customer support. (None at all, ever.)
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if he thinks he can get $3.9 million for something he bought for $300,000. Based on the article discussing his original plans for the facility as well as his recent ebay purchases, I am concluding that:
- The $500K he collected in donations to supposedly turn the place into a camp probably paid for a new coat of paint and an extra-large can of Lysol (minus "operating expenses" such as a new Town Car, some hookers and a tractor trailer full of gin)
- The extent of the modifications he has made to the place are probably (I say probably since although he purchased a camera flash that's perfect for illuminating dark underground spaces, he doesn't see fit to provide you with a couple fucking pictures of what you're getting for your $3.9 million) limited to some impromptu drunken demolition using the hammer/concrete breaker.
I say screw this guy. To me it's juts wrong that that this guy took donations and is now trying to make millions.
By the way, I'm not sure anyone else has mentioned this but:
- He already tried to sell the site on ebay back in October of 2003 for the same cool $3.9 million
- He had a web site until around the end of 2002 at www.camptitan.com that shilled for child labor in exchange for food and lodging
Is my assumption no longer true?
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Some links for the interested:
A real estate agent specializing in Missile Bases
A virtual tour made by some tresspassers.
I was fascinated about the chance to own one of these properties. Doing some research, I found some ceveats though. First, the base had to be de-commissioned prior to 1965. After that, there were new treaties which required the complete destruction of the base after de-militarization. Second, being underground can lead to some health hazards, i.e. Radon. Third, missile bases aren't ever located in easy to reach places, and I like to be able to go to the store without a bunch of planning beforehand.
I'd still love to own this monstrosity though. The Titan 1 sites are the most elaborate and extensive. Kind of makes me sick to think about the money spent of this thing when it was built only to be decomissioned ~5 years later.
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A quick search on google leads you to Missile Bases, a site that has missile silos for sale.
There are people who like to rennovate these old Silos into homes which are earthquake-proof, nuke-proof, and pretty much everything else-proof.
Most of the silos on the 'net have been older Atlas silos. Very, very few of the Titan I silos ever got into public hands AND have no apparent water seepage into any parts of the building (Typically, the actual missle bays would fill up with water because of location- they'd sump pump it out, but with them being abandoned...).
If it's for real, it's something somewhat special. The last one that went up was some 2-3 years ago in Colorado.
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How often do you see these two statements in a real estate ad? 3 missile silos all interconnected by 1/2 miles of tunnels. Mountain views, just 20 minutes from metropolitan area and international airport
I can't help but wonder how much money it costs to keep and maintain these structures in habitable condition.
"Wall thicknesses 2 feet to 14 feet."
So, this mean my WiFi won't work throughout the silo?
um uh like ... The dude selling this is uh pretty smart
.... If you are babi101 or what ever the handle it is..... It says to click here... right ....
.... Or someone should have let me in on the JOKE....
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All the sold items on ebay resemble an easy pattern to pick up on... and out of the last three for sale.... At the top it states
So that means that maybe someone was in on it with him or it had been planned for a while....? Right...
Well I live near the area of the companies that I did the "whois" on, and everything says BOGUS...
More thought should have been put in to this
Little easy to see through , But thanks for playing
or some other drug factory. oooh, a casino!
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
I remember seeing an episode of HGTV's "Extreme Homes" that talked about underground dwellings. One of the sites featured was a renovated missile base. Therefore, I believe this auction is legit.
its about 30 min out of spokane near a town called sprague. My wife took a tour there about 11 years a ago when she lived there.
I just moved from there and want to setup a long term data backup facility any one got 3.9 million? either that or I would like to make a bording school, and no b.s. here either you kids are gonna stay where we put ya. I dont think I would have minded a bording school like this.
Have you ever met guys like this? The man buys a piece of land, relatively cheap. He has some really stupid ideas for it. Suckers in some church youth group to clean it during the summer. His business ideas obviously failed. Fortunately his wife is a banker.
I doubt he gets his 4 million.
1. Buy property
2. Stumble onto silo
3. Build underwater adventure, rock climbing, and recreational facility...
4. Profit
Somehow I don't think Sam Walton would have done things this way!
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It's not a real problem. It's all handled through title agencies, banks, and escrow agencies. You can physically verify a property exists, either by going and looking at it or by having a home inspector do it for you. You then secure financing from your bank or get the money in a liquid form (you don't usually keep $3mil in a checking account, even if you have that much). Then you place a bid on the place. If the seller accepts, you deal with escrow and transfer of title. Basically they don't get the money until the paperwork is signed, sealed and delivered to the county recorder's office. At that time the place is yours, and the escrow company cuts the money loose to the seller's account.
This is PROPERTY we are talking about here, as in a fixed, physical location, not an item that will be shipped to you. If someone was interested in buying, they'd call the seller up and go have a look. Not only would they have a look, they'd probably bring with them a real eastate agent and, if they liked what they saw, a home inspector later.
It's not like you see a house lising online, like the picture, and PayPal the guy $100,000 (or $4million in this case). You locate a property you might like, go see it, check the records, get it insepcted, secure financing. THEN you make a bid, if that's accepted escrow the money, sign the paperwork, get it recorded, and then you get the property and the seller gets paid.
I found my current house online. I browsed the local real estate listings and found a few places I though sounded interesting, my real estate agent found a few more. Some had no pictures, and none had more than a front shot and one interior shot. No matter, we priortised and then spent a Saturday driving around looking at places. Found the one I liked and decided to work on buying it. Came back one Friday with the agent and an inspector who checked the building for any problems and gave me a report. A few weeks later, all the paperwork was done and the place was mine.
eBay feedback is a somewhat useful indication when purchasing normal small dollar items to be paid for over the Internet and shipped to you. Pictures can be important since you've bought and paid for it before you ever touch it. Feedback is irrelivant to property sales, since you or one of your agents WILL be going there to see it, and records checks will be run to make sure the seller owns it.
Makes me wonder. With the state of disarray that the former soviet union is in, is it possible that ICBMs will still be targeted directly at what is now your house because of lapses in buerocracy etc.?
refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
Finally I can contain my baby and her toy projectiles behind blast locks and save myself.
Great Falls VA, on Springvale Rd. Has a historic marker across the street. It's been turned into a county park.
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Seriously, a perfect Supercomputer centre. And secure, just get some guards, and some Half-Life/Quake players to defend the inside.
Anyone want to loan me some mony?
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We may have descended from tree-dwellers, but we're hardly beholden to our arboreal heritage!
/.) for whom this "bunker" would be a dream house.
Personally, I'd be thrilled with a subterranean existence! I have no love for the Cursed Daystar, or even being outdoors at all for that matter, and feel that I would be perfectly suited to life underground (or in a spacecraft, or on Mars, or what have you). I've been fortunate enough to be able to avoid any contact with the outdoor environment for days at a time, and have nothing but good things to say about the experience!
Submarine crews do it all the time, presumably with little adverse effects. In fact, a cow-orker of mine used to be a submariner, and it was his experience that the only real problem was separation from family and friends. I've just done a quick survey of my immediate loved ones, and the unanimous decision was that, provided we had internet access, this would be an ideal environment for us to live in!
Of course, your mileage may vary, and I've met people who become depressed if they're away from the sun during the day for even a short while. My whole point is that there are people out there (probably many on
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Year Round Youth Camp or Boarding School
1 silo could be a 155' Rock Climbing Wall
1 silo could be a 100' deep SCUBA Training Pool
Youth camp/boarding school??????? Yes, a great way to educate a kid, keep them unground for several years without seeing the sunlight.
I think this is just a cleverly disguised plan to get Osama's mailing address. Extra Note on auction:
**Must sell by election day**
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It doesn't look like this guy is actually selling it, but buying it. He's looking for someone to go in on the purchase with him.
Three phase power supply - it could run my Vax 11/780. Now lets see if I can rustle up 4 million dollars before someone else snaps it up.
Chris
This would be an awesome place to live!
if you're researching the effects of radiation
Now I've got some place to put that Titan that's been taking up SO much space in my hotel room!
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Camera bag. Big camera flash. Jack hammer.
The silo has been used for construction porn.
There are three possible locations:
47d,11m,18s;118d,49m,23s
46d,55m,4s;119d,3m,19s
46d,54m,30s;119d,45m,23s
What a piece of sh!t you are...
Do you really think you're cool, or that you've got some clever experiment going on? You're a waste of skin.
If I had 5 mil on hand, I'd buy it and call it Vault 13.
That'd be excellent.
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Living in Moses Lake Washington being nice! Bull*hit I lived in the area for two and a half years the entire area sucks! Water contamination, there are large amounts of nitrates in the water; 12.85 parts per million the government allows only 10 or so parts per million and even that is way too much! There is also trichloroethylene (TCE) from the airport! Did you also know the area is a superfund (WAD988466355) Climate, if you lived in the area all year round the weather can be unbearable; triple digits during the summer and don't think of staying inside unless you like paying high energy bills. The fall and spring are okay but you can only bare the winter because there are horrible amounts of mosquitoes and I don't like wearing chemicals and/or long sleeved clothes during the HEAT! Culture, not to say I have anything against hespanics as a whole, but the people in that area especially anger me! There are many gangs, both kids and adults. The people seem to have no scenes of moral, when they go south they leave their dogs to starve and do it again next year, they don't take their trash home ,where I lived I would constantly get them stopping and throwing whatever in the back of their automobiles onto my property! Not to say that doesn't happen elsewhere but I found it happened quite a bit there. I also found that most of these people don't even have a green card! Which angers me the most, taking away American jobs! I would also like to point out there are an excessive amount of FAGS around there, and predators! And more people speak Spanish than English, many can't even speak/understand the word GET OFF MY PROPERTY!
Did you also know that area is basically "down" wind from the Hanford superfund site! Which can be a problem especially when a storage facility full of plutonium goes off!
WHY DID I STAY THERE FOR TWO YEARS? I got conned and had to stay, sucks to me... But you live and learn. But I must say that place is a complete hell hole (OTHELLO, OT-HELL-O) I could go on but my rage has left me for now:)
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There's a lot of silos for sale right now and it's a buyer's
market. The Minuteman silos are much more spacious than the
Titan silos and have nicer amenities including nicer lighting and
better ventilation systems. The Minuteman III silos are the
top-of-the-line in missile silos and are just starting to appear on the
market...when they aren't being blown up
that is.
Really. And how did he get back to earth from Alpha Centauri within a lifetime *before* he invented any sort of FTL technology?
In southern Arizona, at Green Valley, there is a silo which has been kept intact, except for the missile itself. I found it an interesting and impressive place to visit. They still have the radar fan antennas surrounding the silo which were intended to detect ground intruders. Somehow, it was seeing those surface radar antennas that made me feel how lucky that those of us who are still alive are to be in that condition. Basically, scarey stuff!
About 20 years ago I exchanged some newsgroup postings with someone who "spelunked" some mysterious site in Colorado which had 3 silos (filled with water) that sounded just like a Titan I site. I couldn't tell which site it was.
There's a Titan II site open to the public, the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona . But those sites only had one silo instead of 3, and there's only one (smaller) domed area without the separate power house.
Rick.
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"Located in the Adirondack Mountains and nestled between lakes Champlain and Lake Placid, this secluded home is the brainchild of developers Gregory Gibbons and Bruce Francisco. The retired Atlas-F Missile Silo has been transformed into a quiet, safe and secure luxury home in an area designed by the government to withstand a direct nuclear hit... This may be your last chance to find an uncontaminated and usable hardened underground complex." (link from GMSV)
EBay item # 1761906773: Missile Silo Home
"Located in the Adirondack Mountains and nestled between lakes Champlain and Lake Placid, this secluded home is the brainchild of developers Gregory Gibbons and Bruce Francisco. The retired Atlas-F Missile Silo has been transformed into a quiet, safe and secure luxury home in an area designed by the government to withstand a direct nuclear hit... This may be your last chance to find an uncontaminated and usable hardened underground complex." (link from GMSV)
I forwarded this ebay item to a news editor friend in Seattle- KIRO TV- and they plan on running this at least on thier web site, possibly on the evening news. funny stuff.
never underestimate the power of denial
Is this near, or on, a regular 3 missle family neighbourhood, And does it have cable access. And will you take a personal cheque. I'd give somebody's left nut for this proprety Size and weight of said nut open for negotiation.