Great article. As someone who grew up in Cheyenne, WY near F.E. Warren AFB (an AFB without planes or a landing strip - you can guess the mission) the details of these monsters have always fascinated me. I'd hear stories from my friends whose dads worked either as the missile capsule crews themselves or were maintenance personnel.

If Slashdot readers are flying in and out of Denver International Airport (or any area around CO, NE, WY) you can look out the window and see the launch facilities from the air. Amid the farm lands and country roads, you can look down and see an outcrop of buildings and maybe a quonset hut or two, and then a separate concrete reinforced pad maybe a hundred yards away; the whole area carefully fenced. You can tell they don't quite fit in with everything else. The number of them is startling. Yeah, in fact a little scary. But the author is correct when he states that in the (then) USSR they had the exact same thing pointing at us. Gives me the willies still.

Here you go:

http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

The crew of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" used the insignias you could tap on as communicators. The original Star Trek series had flip-open handheld devices which they wore on their belts.

Sheesh! What is Slashdot coming to these days?

AL isn't the only place. Good ol' Louisiana has the best system money can buy. Take a look at this:

www.usobserver.com/archive/feb-09/louisiana-final.htm

She used to live up the street from us in the Houston area. Husband moved the family to Lake Charles, filed for divorce and his family knows the judges and police. She's got a heck of a fight on her hands. Good woman, too. He has alcohol, drug, and violence problems. Very sad.

Wherever it's buried they would need to fortify the sewer system to accommodate all of the people coming by to piss on the grave.