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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.
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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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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Except that it's not actually an auction. I made the same mistake (hey, it's EBay), but there's no place to enter a bid and if you look down at the bottom it says:
"This listing is an advertisement. There is no bidding! If you are interested in this property, you may contact the seller/agent to request additional information."
Which is probably smart. If it were an auction, it'd have eleventy-million fake bids by now.
It also tends to indicate that this is a real property. If it was just someone goofing around, it'd be an auction. That's not strong evidence, but it's certainly an indication.
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.
not millionares, but rather just landowners in the area (farmers, ranchers,...) for really low prices. the high cost is in cleaning the chemicals and whatever other crap is in there before you can "move-in." There is even a real-estate agency that specializes in stuff like this (no time to search for it right now). I've seen smaller silos go for about $250,000 plus the cost to cleanup.
If the Anonymous Coward had taken the trouble to actually read the website they would have discovered that the owners of the bunker were also some of the leads in developing Apache-SSL. If that doesn't count as giving something back to the community I don't know what does.
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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1. Buy missile complex for $300K or less.
2. Get $500K in donations to fix up your own private property (a scam in and of itself).
3. Sell on eBay for $3.95 million.
4. Profit.
-- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@pobox.com PGP KeyID: 0x0BD32C9B What I'm up to: http://intuitives.mine.nu
My guess: he got an extremely good deal on the property in the first place, perhaps at a government auction. More power to him: if someone is willing to pay $3.5 million for his property, that's what it's worth! We'll see...
i just wait for a law that grants US coporations the right to have their own nuclear weapons in order to protect their business imagine SCO blackmailing IBM with nukes to stop using their IP
Except that IBM would probably have so many nukes that SCO would never have bothered them in the first place.
Remember, the auction here says there is "NO WATER SEEPAGE!" meaning that this silo is probably kept up much better, and doesn't have the dangerous flooding.
Yes. This site (each contain multiple silos) is clearly different for the partially-flooded site.
But the lack of flooding is probably because groundwater is simply lower in this area. The site has still been abandoned for over 40 years, so I wouldn't expect it to be in good condition unless the guy made significant improvements.
Looking at the tour pages for the partially-flooded site gives some idea for the problems can be expected: No lights, no active ventilation, asbestos contamination, possible chemical contamination, lots of rust, and debris left over from the site's original use. And if trespassers have been in the area, there may also be graffiti and other vandalism, and possibly garbage.
It would be neat to fix this place up, but due to its size it would cost a LOT of money.