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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
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Honey, we're moving to Washington!!!
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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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.
Fact.
No. This isn't about football.
... 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.
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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"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."
indeed.
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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.
You can buy anything on E-Bay
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.
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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5. Your basement will be the biggest in town 4. You could have your own nuclear reactor 3. You can hide from militant feminists 2. The best place to be when millennium bug II (somewhere around 2047 I guess) comes around. 1. You can dodge the special skills draft
Nothing to see here
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!!!!!!
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
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.
We could recreate scene's from Half-Life within the silo complex. I want to be Gordon!
I can see it know...(cheesy guy looking up as the camera blurs/wave effect)
"Nothing you need to worry about, Gordon. Go ahead."
"I have just been informed that the sample is ready, Gordon. It should be coming up to you any moment now. Look to the delivery system for your specimen."
"Standard insertion for a nonstandard specimen. Go ahead, Gordon. Slot the carrier into the analysis port."
"Gordon! Get away from the beams!"
Oh the fun we could have....:-)
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'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
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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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.
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.)
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.
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....
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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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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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.