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Titan Missile Complex Up for Sale 262
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.
Time to move :) (Score:5, Funny)
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
Imagine the eBay feedback on this one... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Imagine the eBay feedback on this one... (Score:2)
Re:Time to move :) (Score:2)
Daniel
Re:Time to move :) (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Pack the bags! (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine mapping this (your HOUSE) for a Quake / Unreal map!!
Re:Pack the bags! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Pack the bags! (Score:2)
Re:Pack the bags! (Score:2, Funny)
We would have a poll,of course, and for once, "CowboyNeal" would be a real option.
Re:Pack the bags! (Score:5, Interesting)
Hell, with the strength of the pound against the dollar even I might buy it! $3,950,000 that's like, what, 2 grand of my money? (just getting one back for the Canadians)
duh. (Score:2, Interesting)
you've always been able to buy missile silo's on the internet.
for-ever. since day one.
Yes and no... (Score:5, Informative)
If it's for real, it's something somewhat special. The last one that went up was some 2-3 years ago in Colorado.
Owners reputation. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Owners reputation. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Owners reputation. (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe he should track down whoever ended up buying that F-18/A from a few weeks back... Maybe they need some real estate too!
Re:Owners reputation. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Owners reputation. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Owners reputation. (Score:2, Informative)
when I bought my Xl-1 camera the first person I bought from had a ebay rating of 98. and it was a scam. he set up a "escrow" company website and lots of other things to make him look legit..
ebay rating means NOTHING. anyone can get a high ebay rating easily by selling low priced crap for almost nothing, plus having fake accounts/friends help to bring things up by "buying" and rating it on up.
know your seller, CALL them, and then call back at w
With property (Score:2)
Re:Owners reputation. (Score:3, Insightful)
Saw a show about something like this on TV (Score:3, Informative)
Or maybe I just dreamed it.
Re:Saw a show about something like this on TV (Score:3, Funny)
They also flooded some of them and you can book dive trips to go scuba diving in them.
drug lab - biggest lsd lab busted (Score:3, Interesting)
Their whole lab as in a disused silo facility. Totally sealed, no way in.
Re:drug lab - biggest lsd lab busted (Score:3, Funny)
Quite the fix up (Score:5, Interesting)
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.)
Re:Quite the fix up (Score:5, Informative)
Here's [missilebases.com] what looks to be a realtor specializing in old silos. Quite a collection for the truly paranoid!
Pouring money into a hole in the round (Score:2)
Re:Quite the fix up (Score:4, Insightful)
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...
Re:Quite the fix up (Score:2)
They're not making any more of these (at least not for sale), and those that are out there tend to be in rough condition, so if it has one of the few in good condition without any groundwater problems it may just be "worth" more.
Is it apparent that he actually did improvements, too? Water-tight or not,
Could be a cool hosting facility! (Score:5, Interesting)
In the UK The Bunker [thebunker.net] 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.
Re:Could be a cool hosting facility! (Score:5, Interesting)
They love open source [thebunker.net].
So they could be reading! *waves*
Re:Could be a cool hosting facility! (Score:2, Interesting)
Even if they don't give any money directly or code themselves, they are creating jobs for people with skills in open source software.
Re:Could be a cool hosting facility! (Score:2, Informative)
Troll, at least read before posting. On page ONE of the Bunker site, describing their technical team:
Do check up
Re:Could be a cool hosting facility! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2)
Here's a couple of photo's.... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Here's a couple of photo's.... (Score:3, Interesting)
$4,000,000 is awfully expensive though. The ideal use for one of these things is for a group of people to pitch in and share the space; to limit the investment to $100,000 each, you'd have to share it with 40 buyers. It would probably work OK, but 1
Re:Here's a couple of photo's.... (Score:2)
Not New. (Score:5, Informative)
he'll make nice profit (Score:2, Interesting)
Looks like a fake (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
-bosozoku
Re:Looks like a fake (Score:5, Insightful)
C'mon, who buys such property based on pictures on an online auction site? If you were at all serious, you'd call the number listed and arrange for a tour. Pictures are only useful for curious web users as something to gawk at as most of us average citizens are already priced out of this offering.
What? (Score:3, Informative)
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 i
Not real bright, is he... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not real bright, is he... (Score:5, Insightful)
"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.
Flash back to 1999 (Score:3, Informative)
indeed.
He also sold... (Score:5, Funny)
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..."
Re:He also sold... (Score:5, Funny)
Well now you know how he found it.
Re:He also sold... (Score:2)
Other items. (Score:3, Informative)
Genuine Canon Camera Everready Case Denim T50 [ebay.com]
Vivitar 550 FD C/R, Flash w/ Manual [ebay.com]
NEW ELECTRIC DEMO HAMMER / CONCRETE BREAKER [ebay.com]
I was expecting cooler stuff.
Missile Complex (Score:4, Funny)
This wouldn't be in Central Montana by any chance? I hear Dr. Zefram Cochrane's been looking to buy one in that area.
Re:Missile Complex (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Missile Complex (Score:2)
-- Khan.
Are Russian customers allowed there? =) (Score:5, Funny)
Well, it proves that... (Score:2, Funny)
We'd want jobs to go overseas then! (Score:2)
If we make it legal for corporations to have nuclear weapons, we would easily want jobs to go overseas than!
Re:Are Russian customers allowed there? =) (Score:3, Insightful)
Except that IBM would probably have so many nukes that SCO would never have bothered them in the first place.
In New York State (Score:2, Informative)
Re:In New York State (Score:2)
"Oh man, bad lie on that last shot. Guess I'll have to bank it off the MinuteMan."
Terms He Didn't Disclose... (Score:5, Funny)
Not good for a home (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Not good for a home (Score:5, Interesting)
If it's far enough away from civilization, you could also use the solarium for a decent telescope.
Re:Not good for a home (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Not good for a home (Score:2)
Re:Not good for a home (Score:2)
Plus you've got asbestos everywhere, contaminated propelant and diesel tanks... it'd be fun, but above all a giant money pit.
Cheney (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cheney (Score:2, Funny)
"Mommy, Mommy, there's a monster under my bed."
"No dear, it's just Dick Cheney hiding from the terrorists in case they attempt to decapitate the US Government."
"Oh..."
"Good night dear..."
sound studio! (Score:4, Insightful)
Need a Backup/Restore Professional? (Score:2, Interesting)
If anyone wants to turn this into a secure data warehouse, a needs a few good men- gimme a shout!!!
Top 5 Reasons for buying ba Missile Complex (Score:2, Funny)
I'd be scared (Score:5, Funny)
Just think of all the Chinese/Russian missiles still pointed at your bedroom.
Re:I'd be scared (Score:2)
Re:I'd be scared (Score:2)
China has been a nuclear superpower since the early 1970s. They just don't have nearly as many weapons or warheads as the US or Russia.
Re:I'd be scared (Score:2)
You have *got* to be kidding. India and Pakistan? Israel and the first Islamic country that manages to acquire nukes?
Perfect... (Score:2)
Real Pics... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Real Pics... (Score:3, Informative)
housed nukes (Score:2)
radiation paranoia (Score:2, Informative)
Just a few thoughts (Score:2)
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!!!
Too Pricy (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:Too Pricy (Score:2)
There was one tank that was just to big and deep for them to pull out. It would have made a great water storage tank. If my memory serves me, it was about 24' diameter, and about 75' down, with walking platforms (3) and ladders, which were all stainless.
There are many silo in
All I need now is an 80 foot robot. . . (Score:2)
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.
-FL --"Wonder Twin Powers, . . !"
A day camp (Score:2)
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.
Re:A day camp (Score:2)
Just what modern kids need; less exercise and sunlight. It causes cancer, after all (unlike any left-over radioactivity).
You *did* buy the combo fire / CO / giger counter detection system, right?
Real missile bases for sale (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Real missile bases for sale (Score:2)
Nike base in .... (Score:3, Funny)
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....
Re:Nike base in .... (Score:3, Interesting)
The most extensive Nike bases I've seen: SF-88 and one of its sister sites in the Presidio of SF, had an above-ground radome or two, an above-ground launching area, and a small below-ground bunker - more of a garage, really - for storing the Nike missiles. The bunkers were not hardened; their purpose was to protect the surrounding area if one of the missiles exploded in storage.
--P
And the best part is... (Score:2)
Way ahead of ya (Score:3, Informative)
Go Ahead (Score:3, Funny)
Dream home (Score:5, Interesting)
A real estate agent specializing in Missile Bases [missilebases.com]
A virtual tour made by some tresspassers. [triggur.org]
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.
This is real. (Score:4, Informative)
There are people who like to rennovate these old Silos into homes which are earthquake-proof, nuke-proof, and pretty much everything else-proof.
that would make a great meth lab (Score:2)
Re:Host Your Own Big Brother TV show. (Score:3, Funny)
So if a couple moves in, what does that mean, no anal sex?
Re:Host Your Own Big Brother TV show. (Score:2)
Moderators, you've been had (Score:5, Insightful)
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 [slashdot.org] 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.
Re:Watch Out! troll! (Score:2)
Re:visit to the bank (Score:5, Funny)
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....:-)