All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
From Cold War Missile Silos -- h/t Boing Boing -- Sotheby's is listing the following:
Cold War Era Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Silo/ Adirondack Airpark
MISSLE SILO-Home Built on Former Missile Base (19.20 Acres) Offering Underground Living & Access to Missile Silo NEW LIST PRICE $750,000
Aircraft Hanger Building on 10.75 acres NEW LIST PRICE $125,000. 7 Building Lots Ranging From 3 -9 Acres Overlooking White Face Mountain NEW LIST PRICE $68,000 Per Lot. PHASE 2 (125 Acres of Land) NEW LIST PRICE $150,000. Log Home on 4.1 Acres with Runway Access for Airplane NEW LIST PRICE $259,000.Total Package $ 1,760,000
You know, in case you were wondering what to get me.
Am I the only one who thinks living here would be really cool? I mean, really cool?
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Jun '11
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
I should think your Ricochet expense account will cover this. Looks like you can even land the Ricochet private jet there.
Aug '10
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I saw a tv show about the one in the Adirondacks. It is, indeed, very nice.
There are others around the US that have not yet been renovated. They go for way less money than the one in the Adirondacks.
On the one hand, the cheaper ones ARE "fixer-uppers". On the other hand, they more closely resemble what one imagines when one thinks "missle silo".
The one in the Adirondacks, after all, has been renovated to such a degree that it really doesn't resemble a military installation any more.
For some that's a feature. For others, however, it might be a bug.
Aug '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
On another point: The one in the Adirondacks has been on the market for YEARS now. The fact that nobody has bought it after all this time might be a red flag.
May '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
There was a park I used to play at as a kid known as "The NIKE Site", which was an obsolete NIKE Missile site (short-range nukes intended to protect cities from literal invasion). We played right on top of the huge yellow and black silo doors and rode our bikes over these little mounds which had bunker doors built into them.
Looking back, it all seems so bizarre. It's since been covered over with soil and renamed "Tri-city Park". Much better.
Sep '11
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
My husband showed me that listing a couple of days ago. He thought the silo would make a great homebrew cellar. Perfect temps for lagering in the winter.
Jan '11
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
The blast doors are too big for my Christmas wreath and since the important locks require two people and two keys I'm screwed because my wife keeps losing her set.
This property should be marketed in High Times or Hydro Happiness. I suspect some hydroponic farmers can grown some underground cash crops in this facility.
Merry Christmas Friends.
Feb '11
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
Too many ghosts there...not from what *did* happen, but from what *might have* happened.
Anyhow, the runway is too short for the jet.
Aug '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
The silo itself is full of groundwater. Underground swimming pool?
Apr '11
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Apr '11
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A friend of mine at work (who looked and sounded like a Medici) used to, over coffee breaks, hatch elaborate ways to take over the world.
One of mine had been to buy a bunker when the price was down, secret another missile in the silo, aim it at DC and hold the country hostage.
That water in the basement sounds like an awesome place to put the sharks with lasers on their heads.
Bonus.
Sep '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
The runway is pretty short and narrow (2050 X 20 feet) and looks sloped as well. No ILS system, either, so be prepared to divert to Plattsburgh Airport in bad weather.
It would be a nice summer place. Personally, I'm holding out for when one of my students bribes me with a private tropical island with a 10,000 foot runway and a Gulfstream 550. That would be worth a passing grade. Of course, if that student wants an 'A', now we're talking real money.
Dec '11
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
There was a popular mechanics article on this very subject circa 1996.
Dec '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
Nope, walk away.
I really try to avoid work, but when I do work I read lab reports.
Forget Erin Brokovich and the crappy data from the PG&E site in Hinckley, CA. I've read the lab reports and the Carbon6 is nothing like that story made it sound like, to a jury.
You can do worse things with your life. You can buy an old, leaky, dry cleaner site, with a horrendous plume of Carbon4 that has been leaching into the ground, for the past 40 years.
Or you can buy a site that once, ever, had a leaking rocket peeing into your real estate litter box. I've done old rocket sites and I wonder, do you really need to adopt a stray pit bull?
Please don't and Merry Christmas to all!
Oct '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
I completely agree. The one time I toured a missile silo (set up as kindof a museum) was really cool. Did you know they isolate the silo area from earthquakes with giant springs?
Aug '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
If you're ever in Ottawa (Canada's capital), try to make time to head a wee bit out of town to visit the Diefenbunker, the government's underground shelter for surviving nuclear war.
The tour of that place is awesome. As well as being isolated on springs, there's lots of other cool 1950s-era high tech.
There's also a lesson in absurd modern government meddling.
You see, the Diefenbunker is a privately-owned museum today that depends on donations and receives no government funding.
In order to raise funds, they used to rent out the mess hall for private parties.
Sadly, even though the concrete-and-steel facility was designed to house the government for months underground, the parties were shut down by the fire marshall who decreed that it's a fire hazard and only 50 people can be in the structure at one time.
Why, one might ask?
Because there is only one exit.
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Aug '10
Re: All I Want for Christmas? An ICBM Silo.
If you cannot afford an entire missile silo, how about a missile silo condo?