Missile Silo For Sale On eBay

Posted on October 11th, 2007 by Ed Lau

On a scale of 1 to 10 for awesomeness, I’m sure this is at least a 12.

Reading Penny Arcade today led me to an eBay auction for, yes, an old decommissioned missile silo which used to house nuclear ICBMs. Apparently the place is a five underground buildings which total to over 45,000 square feet and connected by underground tunnels. One of the ceilings is 65 feet high! I’m not sure about you but this place has “Evil Lair” written all over it. Of course, I’d need a shark tank and an army of henchmen. Perhaps a bitchin’ evil swivel chair and buy a cat named Chauncey or something.

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The old base sits on a 57-acre plot of land in the middle of nowhere in Washington State. Of course, being over fifty years old, nothing in the place actually works so you’d have to hire out some engineers to fit the place with electrics, plumbing, etc in addition to renovating the place to be livable. However, sky’s the limit if you have the imagination (and bankroll).

Cost? A mere $1,500,000 for your own evil genius lair. That doesn’t include any time machines or frickin’ lasers.

…and you can’t have an awesome evil lair without frickin’ lasers.

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  1. Stephen said on October 11th, 2007 at 5:37 am

    1.5 mil? That’s a steal! :D

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  2. krillz said on October 11th, 2007 at 5:48 am

    yeah I always wanted to live in a facility made out of small tubes, connecting a lot of small rooms, hahah who would want to buy it. But then again there are a lot of strange people in the world.

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  3. ScottUA said on October 11th, 2007 at 11:05 am

    Wow, I could totally picture Dr. Evil hanging out there!

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  4. Leo said on October 11th, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    I’d turn it into a movie studio, then charge people for tours.

    Reply
  5. krillz said on October 11th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    it seems this isn’t the first time someone bought an old silo:
    http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/TXOPLmissile.html

    damn hahah.

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  6. Ed Lau said on October 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    Why not? After renovating it, it could be super awesome. Of course, it would cost millions and millions of dollars to do so but hey, if you have the money…

    I guess you’re not evil enough to want an evil lair!

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  7. James said on October 11th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    I wonder if asbestos is a problem.
    For cool places, how about the unfinished nuclear plant the Abyss was shot in?

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  8. Matt said on October 11th, 2007 at 10:12 pm

    But it doesn’t include the missiles… How do you achieve World Domination with a missile silo and no freaking missiles!?!

    :P

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  9. Gordo said on October 12th, 2007 at 1:16 am

    Evil lairs should be built on seismically unstable, uncharted volcanic islands.

    NEVER BUILD AN EVIL LAIR IN A SECOND-HAND NUCLEAR FACILITY.

    Jeez. What kind of evil plot could possibly be hatched from a tunnel that your opponent already knows exists? Come on people. Think. THINK!

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  10. krillz said on October 12th, 2007 at 1:57 am

    you pretend you have one, and hope everyone else believes you :P

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  11. Jonathan Bydendyk said on October 12th, 2007 at 1:58 am

    Hell I’d buy it!!!

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  12. Mike Olbinski said on October 12th, 2007 at 11:05 am

    If I had millions of dollars, I’d totally buy this thing.

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  13. Steve D said on October 15th, 2007 at 11:59 am

    I wonder if the area was dug out and refilled or if they contstructed it by tunneling.

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  14. Stephen said on October 16th, 2007 at 1:30 am

    Two Words: Stargate Command :D

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  15. Shawn Knight said on October 19th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    You could have one hell of a LAN party in there!

    Reply
  16. blopper said on June 26th, 2008 at 3:11 am

    imagine the postage and packaging costs XD

    Reply
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