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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.
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?
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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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... 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.
There's one in Denver for only $1,450,000.
Here's what looks to be a realtor specializing in old silos. Quite a collection for the truly paranoid!
"Most people think he's insane," said his wife, Lynette, 43, who admits to some initial dubiousness on hearing some of her husband's schemes. "But he has a way of seeing the potential. Things are obvious to him the rest of us don't see."
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It's always so funny to see what else these people buy/sell. ;-)
Genuine Canon Camera Everready Case Denim T50
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NEW ELECTRIC DEMO HAMMER / CONCRETE BREAKER
I was expecting cooler stuff.
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.
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.
Troll, at least read before posting. On page ONE of the Bunker site, describing their technical team:
Do check up on Ben Laurie. What kind of standards do you have?? Think RMS is a leech too? Sheesh.
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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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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.)
No he didn't. All the other items on his history were bought, not sold.
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.
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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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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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.
Keep the blast door, but built the glass dome over it. That way if you need the blast door, just close it. Assuming the door is still operational.
That would be one hell of a way to scare guests. The blast doors start closing. You say they only do that if there's an incoming attack. Guest panics. Hilarity ensues! Although it would probably only work with blondes. But if you have 3.5 mil lying about, you'd probably have many of them about too.
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