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Titan Nuclear Missile Base for Sale, ICBMs not Included

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:09:42 EDT

What does 57 acres of land in Spokane go for WITHOUT a missile silo?

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

Titan Nuclear Missile Base for Sale, ICBMs not Included

gizmodohomepage — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:23:13 EDT

YOU ALL CAN LISTEN UP TO THIS. Get everyone to join in my venture here. We buy this place up, turn it into the world's largets and most elaborate Air-Soft park in the WORLD. Admission is $100/day and it could perhaps hold well up to 800 people. That's $8,000 a day. Weekends would be more to make our average legit. So monthly income would be $240,000/mo. Mortgage on 1.5m is about $10k on an 8% interest only. Operating expenses would be well under the $230k difference. We'd even offer underground housing for full metal-jacket overnight trips at $400 a head.
Any takers??????????????????????????????????????

gizmodohomepage

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Collins1 — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:42:32 EDT

You actually get a lot of usefulness for your money.

"Hello, Iran? I believe I have something you may find EXTREMELY convenient in the coming years..."

Collins1

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freelunch — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:34:27 EDT

a fool would buy this...
Consider for a moment why it is that these missile bases don't sell like crazy --- it is not because they are creepy, and dark, and run-down (ok, it may be one reason)...
$1.5mil is a fraction of what it would cost to actually use the base. The concrete walls are so old that they will require serious reinforcement to ensure a reasonable level of safety, since many silos are old enough that walls are collapsing from weaknesses created from groundwater seeping through the concrete.

Don't forget to keep the sump pumps running to keep the floor dry as you excavate the collapsed tunnels in search of old 'valuable' equipment that you will have to pay someone to take away. As a note, most sales of missile silos include a clause stating that if you by chance actually find something valuable, you are required to split the proceeds with the seller of the property - this is not because they expect you to find something valuable, it is to fool you into buying the property with hopes of finding something of value to offset the $1.5 million wasted on purchasing the property only to realize that it will take $10 million to restore it ---- give it a few years, and it will be back on the market.

Very cool if you have more money than you can spend in your lifetime, but certainly not something for Joe Shmo that has $1.6mil burning a hole in his swiss bank account.

freelunch

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willyolio — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:09:11 EDT

the fish tank idea is actually a good idea. these silos are larger than most aquarium tanks.

if i had the money... i'd buy one, and use at least one of the silos as a giant fish tank. then there's enough leftover buildings to make a decent mansion-sized house.

sure as hell don't have to worry about security.

willyolio

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theimmc — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:52:23 EDT

I can't believe no one posted the obvious "all your base are belong to us" quote yet...

theimmc

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Zanderkinn — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:18:56 EDT

@B.WAITE
You could keep your sharks "WITH LASERS" in your fish tank.

Zanderkinn

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mangamonster — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:18:37 EDT

Actually, a missile silo (cant remember which one) is already being used for scuba training.

mangamonster

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MeNotYou — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:24:23 EDT

"I was wondering if you had any pictures of the interior of this property.
thank you

Sorry, not for public display. There is great value in the "unknown - what's down there". Curiosity seekers are willing to pay for tours to see "what's down there". "

.....What an asshat.

MeNotYou

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B.Waite — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:52:50 EDT

I almost bought an Atlas F missile silo back when I had more money than sense. This was 15 years ago when they were selling for around $100k.

Wish I had gone through with it. You can't find one for less than a million now.

Think of it... Land as far as the eye can see surrounded by a ten foot high fence topped with razor wire. Two landing strips and a hellipad. An underground bunker larger than most houses, mounted on massive shock-absorbing springs.

The silo itself had been flooded (to prevent accidental falls), but it would have made an excellent scuba pool.

Or a *really* large fish tank.

B.Waite

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kaylix — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:49:38 EDT

Does it come with a W.O.P.R. remote access term?

kaylix

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mangamonster — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:36:24 EDT

It's probably not a fake. Silo's usually sale for this much, some less...the money it takes to make it livable is where you go broke.

BUT, I would seriously buy this if I had the $$ and stock it up like the Blast From the Past movie, crazy mad. Have an armory and enough ammo to blow away any zombie/alien army that crosses my path.

Stock 3 tons of spam, deviled ham, noodles, orange crush, coffee, salt, water, all seasons of Seinfeld, Star Trek, Family Guy, 30 recycling generators, HAM radio, have a private contractor build an underground escape tunnel that goes straight to Canada (golf carts included), hire the beauty and the geek contestants to live with me and to repopulate the world after it's all over....

Armageddon baby...armageddon.

mangamonster

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ideaman2020 — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:23:45 EDT

If it were a base on Titan, I'd buy it in a second...

ideaman2020

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diem — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:15:40 EDT

A group of us here in Seattle looked at it. Originally Barry wanted $6MM, but it looks like it has gone way down. He was very interested in turning it into an executive retreat, but he may not have gotten too far.
He's a really nice guy, I hope someone cool buys it so I can throw a party in that 125' dome.

diem

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inajeep — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:03:27 EDT

Seriously, someone buy it. A film studio could use the location over and over and over again for the action movies it keeps making over and over and over again. It would make a great site for keeping my backup DVDs of home movies and photos!

inajeep

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girraffesack — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:44:16 EDT

@strider_mt2k:
reference tower stacks high indeed.

girraffesack

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whiskey — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:24:06 EDT

Buy it, get it to the moon, collect multimillions from google for transmitting from the moon, place the phone call and get 10,000 more... easy, right?

But if i had 1.5 million dollars i would surely find more appropiate ways of expending it (like buying lots of OLPC's, keeping two and donating the rest to some local schools).

whiskey

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wezelboy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:53:39 EDT

Or someone needs to buy this thing and use it to make a bunch of acid!

Oh wait... someone already did that.

wezelboy

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NNTPgrip — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:29:59 EDT

Some people take these things, remodel them, and live in them as huge ass houses. Just try getting ANY woman to live down there with you. Put the lotion in the basket indeed...

Someone needs to buy this thing and put the "It's a vagina, not a clown car" family in it for 10+ years, after making them think its the end of the world, and see if they resort to incest to repopulate. Then invite a bunch of people, open the thing up, yell "surprise", then point and laugh...

NNTPgrip

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Roto-Rooter — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:02:59 EDT

Step 1: You buy an underground box
Step 2: You put your...

Roto-Rooter

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dicknervous — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:53:43 EDT

Now if this was near a real city, it would make a nice location for a disaster recovery site....

dicknervous

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Jesus Diaz — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:23:20 EDT

really? I heard the fumes are quite nice.

Jesus Diaz

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JChristopher — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:20:13 EDT

@Jesus: I do not think you would want that missile. The fuel is extremely dangerous and not your normal gas. Now, one of the new solid fuel rockets, that might be interesting.

JChristopher

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strider_mt2k — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:09:11 EDT

This would be awesome for my home-built warp-speed breaking starship.

Hope you like Vulcans!

strider_mt2k

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majortom1981 — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:06:02 EDT

This has to be fake. I did see on hgtv that in NY ssomebody bought a missle silo .

It has TONS of room. they used the crew quaters and built a house ontop of it. They plan on turning the rest of all that underground space into an office.

If I had the money and this was real I would definitely buy it.

majortom1981

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Zipway — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:45:37 EDT

Seems to me that $1.5M isn't half bad of a deal considering all this stuff's original value would be over a billion dollars... assuming they leave anything more than empty buildings behind.

Zipway

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adaminc — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:41:10 EDT

There is also the site [www.missilebases.com] which also sells them.

adaminc

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Narfmaster — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:45:01 EDT

Oh man, anyone want to pool some cash and make a Paintball arena?

Narfmaster

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almostinfamous — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:27:48 EDT

@weak_pig: yeah that's what i was thinking too... but spokane?

that place is whack!

almostinfamous

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greewny — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:12:42 EDT

and there goes my Christmas present ... :-(

greewny

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DivZero — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:09:25 EDT

you could rent it out as a set for die hard 5.0 release candidate 2600, SP3.2, and easily make back the 1.5m!

After that you can use PJK's can-o-beans idea and rent out rooms in the underground buildings when the flesh-eating-zombies come!

Brilliant!

DivZero

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weak_pig — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:03:10 EDT

if i had my own missiles, can they be launched from there if i own this joint?

weak_pig

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PJK — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:57:05 EDT

If I had the money I would live here in a heartbeat. Set up a few pillboxes around the entrance with IR activated sentry guns. Buy enough MREs and cans of beans to last a century and wait out the apocalypse.

PJK

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Thunder_Child — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:35:54 EDT

if i had the money i would take it in a heartbeat..lots of fun things you can do, but the first thing that came to mind was indoor bungee-jumping....

Thunder_Child

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Tedinasia — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:27:01 EDT

and 6 months later your hit with a $7m enviromental clean up bill from the government to clean up "low level" contamination on "your land" wont be the first time this has happened...

Tedinasia

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digidandy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:08:10 EDT

That would go perfectly with my new living room!

digidandy