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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.
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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1.5 mil? That’s a steal!
Replyyeah 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.
ReplyWow, I could totally picture Dr. Evil hanging out there!
ReplyI’d turn it into a movie studio, then charge people for tours.
Replyit seems this isn’t the first time someone bought an old silo:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/TXOPLmissile.html
damn hahah.
ReplyWhy 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!
ReplyI wonder if asbestos is a problem.
ReplyFor cool places, how about the unfinished nuclear plant the Abyss was shot in?
But it doesn’t include the missiles… How do you achieve World Domination with a missile silo and no freaking missiles!?!
ReplyEvil 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!
Replyyou pretend you have one, and hope everyone else believes you
ReplyHell I’d buy it!!!
ReplyIf I had millions of dollars, I’d totally buy this thing.
ReplyI wonder if the area was dug out and refilled or if they contstructed it by tunneling.
ReplyTwo Words: Stargate Command
ReplyYou could have one hell of a LAN party in there!
Replyimagine the postage and packaging costs XD
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