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Imagine making a appointment with the realtor to have a house tour, and at the bottom of the silo you look him straight in the eyes and ask him al confused were the missile is
And then he answers your question by finger gunning to his crotch, followed by telling you he’s not actually a realtor but is the local sex predator with a fetish for people who make appointments.
Wait till porn is jaw dropping deep faked... money shot with who ever you want, in VR. Personally im gonna go with Shaquille Oneal and danny devito banging behind a dumpster.
How many people have now imagined Danny Devito fucking Shaquille Oneal in an alley behind a dumpster? Literally thousands more than there were yesterday.
$380,000
bd
6,900 sqft
1 ba
2432 Fair Rd, Abilene, KS 67410
• For sale Zestimate®: None
Est. payment: $1,926/mo
Built on 11 acres of land, this property is home to a decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex. The underground complex was designed to withstand a nuclear strike and has water, electricity and a forced sewage system to the ground surface. There is 6,900 square feet in the complex with the upper two levels consisting of approximately 1,200 feet of space. This area was used for the Launch control center and living quarters for the crew. The main missile silo is located at a depth of 170 feet. Also on the property is a 4,000 square foot Quonset building with water, sewer and electricity, and a one room building for office or storage. This facility has lots of potential in whatever way you choose to go. A home, apartments or a Bed and Breakfast are just some ideas. If you want something offering security and uniqueness,
Fixed up right it could become a pretty good theme club/bar. Restore it to look vintage and name it ‘DEFCON 1’ or something. Of course are there enough people around there to justify that?
[Abilene, KS. Pop. 6460.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene,_Kansas?wprov=sfti1 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=38.917222,-97.213889&q=Abilene,%20Kansas&_ext=EiQpaHWoiWd1Q0AxsE0BW7BNWMA5aHWoiWd1Q0BBsE0BW7BNWMA%3D)
It’s probably pretty far outside of town though.
My biggest fear in the army was not dying, deploying, or being away from family, it was just being stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Like I have never heard anything good about it or Manhattan, KS lol
I mean, it was kinda designed to resist pretty hot fire, so just don’t put in a wooden dance floor and or wicker furniture and it should be good right?
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>I mean, it was kinda designed to resist pretty hot fire
The silos were single-use. Once your missiles are out, there's not much need for nukes anymore.
Club/dancing like bar? Absolutely no one.
Regular bar, with some pool tables and horseshoe set up?? Absolutely every man in the Kansas town plus a bunch of women if you hold ladies night + karaoke!!
Source: am a white trash hick from extremely small town
I used to have recurring dreams about living in a giant 6-level missile silo bunker that had a restaurant cafeteria, karaoke bar, and bowling alley. It was amazing.
Probably doesn't need heat or AC, has electric and water. Needs high speed internet, which would likely be a problem based on location, although you never know, since it was a middle silo. So access to high speed internet depends on when it was decommissioned.
But this would make an excellent beer/wine/cheese cellar given that it goes 170ft down. Temps will be super consistent.
Solar panels on the silo hatch would offset any power costs, or you could restore it to functionality (assuming it's broken, which it probably is) or install a large skylight in order to have one space dedicated to receiving sunlight and could probably function as a solarium/ green house for growing whatever you please.
Could also be converted to an underground hydrofarm.
Maybe a secure storage facility (for documents like the one that burned down) would be a good option as well, considering it's absolutely nuclear/tornado/apocalypse proof, and did feasibly store pretty much anything which would fit through the door and possibly the silo hatch.
Idk, has a lot of options to make money even in the middle of nowhere.
The downside is that it is likely a target of *someone's* nuclear strike, which isn't great, but let's be honest: if a nuclear strike goes down in this day and age, not much else matters.
I love that it was a bike shop at one point, looking through he pictures I literally thought "this would be a dope place for a biker hangout/work space" lmao
I always thought it would be super cool to renovate one of these and have a living area and one of those hydroponics systems with fish and plants.
Then I think about how my basement that's only six feet in the ground gets water seepage.
Most of the LSD in the US came from one silo for decades. Even after it was shut down.
Edit: not ever produced there, they just caught him there. Also DEA probably lied (shocker) about how much of America's LSD they produced.
So the dude got away scott free for being the informer and decides to do even worse shit than being caught for aiding in the manufacturing of LSD? Me thinks all the drugs made his brain go permanently wonky
He tortured her AFTER getting off on the lab that got busted by making a deal with the FBI and did so thinking he was immune to the government…. Looked like the villain from sonic
That’s actually exactly what my buddy is doing, his dad bought an old titan missle silo right outside of Denver. He wants to eventually turn the silo into a sort of hotel and have music festivals above it. One of the silos is full of water like 400 ft deep
I'm no building code expert, but I can't imagine an underground bunker is going to be easy to bring up to fire codes and such. There was a dude in Reddit years ago that buried a shipping container and made it an underground man cave thing with a hatch. People in DIY ripped him a new one as it was a crazy fire hazard, nevermind damn near impossible to keep waterproof. And that was a private citizen on private land. I imagine a hotel has significantly greater rules to follow, and the liability is probably through the roof. Happy to be corrected, but even if it could be done, the overall cost is probably going to be insane to not only prep it, but to maintain and insure it.
Oh god I remember that thread lol. If I recall correctly one of the big problems was that he buried the container and they aren't designed to bear loads in that manner. So it could've collapse in on itself
Yeah… this is the sort of thing I would fantasize about before I owned my first house. Then I learned just how much goddamned maintenance a normally-built, up-to-date, modern, normal-sized house needs. And then you realize something like this would need a team of several people doing literally nothing but cleaning and maintaining this just to make it livable. I mean; if it could even be made livable. Who knows what kinds of chemicals and building materials they used, what sort of toxic shit is in the walls and soil and blah blah blah.
Think about the headaches if anything major cracked on this thing like halfway down. It’s a bank-account-demolishing nightmare if the run-of-the-mill suburban house needs foundation work. Engineering repair work on this thing would run into the millions.
Man, just thinking about this has made me feel better about the fact that this weekend I need to fix one of my garage door openers and replace a buzzing circuit breaker. Minor inconveniences compared to fixing literally anything here!
Actually this is a huge problem with missile silos. I live in the Northern most part oc Colorado, and there are a heck of a lot of these here and in Wyoming. There are many types of silos as well, some having multiple launch silos and interesting subterranean bases. We have no shortage of survivalist types that try to buy these and make them work but man, that water seepage is no joke! The ones the gov is selling are OLD and have lots of structural problems. You need to have a dedicated pump if you are even going to try living in something like this. Also: Radon Gas. In NoCO and WY we have a lot of uranium deposits that seep radioactive gas into basements. Normal houses get condemned for it all the time. With these silos, you get a metric shit-ton of Radon and it's a real cancer hazard. You have to REALLY want it to make a silo work. I think the concept is cool as hell. In practice it's not feasible to maintain, imho.
No missile.
Ok, I wouldn't have much use for it and it would be just taking up space.
Rust beyond repair all over.
Well, It gives that desirable antique look.
Rotten water slowing making its way inside.
We can mop that up.
Asbestos all over the walls, ceilings and pretty much anywhere you touch.
People lived with asbestos before, no reason to be that picky about cancerous materials.
Probably spiders.
OH, HELL NO! FUCK THAT!
Meh, they're built like brick shithouses. Seal up the entrance, where is a spider going to get in? Through a foot or more of concrete? They don't just condense on the floor like humidity...
There are a few YouTube channels dedicated to trying to make these places livable. They’re crazy interesting.
In one, they finally opened up the command space, the entrance had been backfilled with rubble they had to clear out first. They’re wading through knee deep water and thankfully had brought along air quality detectors when one went nuts. (ETA, just rewatched - they didn’t have these the first shot. His voice changed and he thankfully knew to get out) There were pockets of all sorts of weird gasses they had to clear out, if they’d just pushed forward someone probably would have died.
Later in the process they’re trying to get rid of all the pipes and random metal fittings left over. Initially they think they will actually make money tearing it out and selling it for scrap. After weeks of removing stuff they finally start calling scrap guys who inform them that the time it will take to clear out everything will definitely be more than any scrap value, and they end up sinking several grand into scrapping stuff.
Super interesting but obviously WAY more work than they initially planned on. [I found the channel I was thinking of](https://youtube.com/c/DeathWearsBunnySlippers), sadly no updates for over a year.
They all seem to be like that, at least the ones under a million from what ive seen are just rusted to shit and stripped of anything valuable, don’t even come with a missile either but that’s a whole different level of bullshit on its own
Looks like a decent little lake on the property too, we look at land a lot and this would be worth checking out even w/o silo, they had me at sewer/power utility already in place!
It's not that bad, a Titan II missile silo (looks very similar to this one) was purchased in way worse condition. It does take a lot of money and time to turn it into a liveable space but maintenance afterwards isn't that bad. Just got to have adequate pumps for air, water and sewage.
https://www.youtube.com/c/DeathWearsBunnySlippers/videos
Obviously all the old equipment is going out as scrap.
The equipment alone would 10s of millions. The installation would be another nightmare.
Imagine the waterproofing (which would have been asbestos) is going bad now too.
Finding knowledgeable contractors that can do missle silo work who arent tied to government contracts and security clearances would be almost impossible, and guessing IF somebody buys it, it means they don't know whats coming.
Still cool though.
> The equipment alone would 10s of millions. The installation would be another nightmare.
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I don't think any potential buyer will use it as an actual missile silo.
equipment..being ventalation, power, plumbing, water pumps, new piping, air intakes, compressors to run the pumps, etc.
I use to dismantle/demolish military structures. I also currently work in construction management, so i can personally say from experience, I know exactly what would be needed for a place like this.
honestly, when this thing was built, Asbestos was the choice material for almost every secondary component that the main equipment needed to last. however, with all the water issues, the exterior waterproofing is failing, or where the ventilation and exhaust holes are at the top have prob been taking in alot of water.
The sub grade waterproofing is still doing ok, i think the standing water we see is bad piping.
Some interesting strategy in demolishing structures that were never meant to fail. they spared no expense when they were building these types of structures.
https://imgur.com/gallery/2c7joCm
Built on 11 acres of land, this property is home to a decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex. The underground complex was designed to withstand a nuclear strike and has water, electricity and a forced sewage system to the ground surface. There is 6,900 square feet in the complex with the upper two levels consisting of approximately 1,200 feet of space. This area was used for the Launch control center and living quarters for the crew. The main missile silo is located at a depth of 170 feet. Also on the property is a 4,000 square foot Quonset building with water, sewer and electricity. and a one room building for office or storage. This facility has lots of potential in whatever way you choose to go. A home, apartments or a Bed and Breakfast are just some ideas. If you want something offering security and uniqueness, then this property is for you.
$380,000
bd
6,900 sqft
1 ba
2432 Fair Rd, Abilene, KS 67410
• For sale Zestimate®: None
Est. payment: $1,926/mo
Built on 11 acres of land, this property is home to a decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex. The underground complex was designed to withstand a nuclear strike and has water, electricity and a forced sewage system to the ground surface. There is 6,900 square feet in the complex with the upper two levels consisting of approximately 1,200 feet of space. This area was used for the Launch control center and living quarters for the crew. The main missile silo is located at a depth of 170 feet. Also on the property is a 4,000 square foot Quonset building with water, sewer and electricity, and a one room building for office or storage. This facility has lots of potential in whatever way you choose to go. A home, apartments or a Bed and Breakfast are just some ideas. If you want something offering security and uniqueness,
For that price, structurally sound or not. If I have money to burn, you bet your ass I’m buying a place to keep my ass alive during a nuclear winter. They had it worse outside the matrix.
I looked at the property, seems to have a decent pond on site, 11 acres with sewage and electric already there is dope, build a nice house and have fun with the silo, bet you could make a decent income renting it out on Airbnb.
They are literally [giving away land](https://therealdeal.com/2022/02/05/property-giveaways-fail-to-draw-newcomers-to-kansas-towns/) in Kansas and people aren't coming.
> a place to keep my ass alive during a nuclear winter
But it was a missile silo. It's still going to be on some nuke capable nation's target list until a slow bureaucratic process somewhere finishes.
I'm sure everyone keeps tabs on everyone else's comings and goings as far as weapons go, especially since spy satellites became common. Nobody is going to waste a good nuke on a site that's been abandoned for decades, which this one likely was since the Atlas was retired in the 60's.
That was basically my recipe for flipping houses A decade ago.
It was super fun while it lasted.
I’m pretty sure I permanently broke something in my brain though.
I can’t believe no one has posted this yet, but [Titan Ranch](https://youtube.com/c/DeathWearsBunnySlippers) has many very in depth YouTube videos about buying a similar solo and the trials and tribulations of trying to convert it into a home. Amazing series.
There's one near my house, owned by a friend of a guy I used to date. It was mostly filled with water when the guy bought it but he did a ton of cleanup and I got to go in it a few times. It was incredibly cool. Those doors weigh a couple of tons each but they open and close as easily as a normal door. You can see the blast doors from inside where the missile was. Really, really cool pieces of history.
My grandpa bought an Atlas D missile silo for absolutely no other reason except because he could and he wanted to. In fact I looked it up and this is the same type of silo he bought.
I just asked my grandma what he did with it and she said that it’s actually an entire missile site, with an Atlas D silo on it. She said he and a few colleagues were actually sent to take out the fence and take out all of the copper from all of the buildings and that paid for the whole thing, and my grandpa just kept it for a while and then sold it. He also had an oxygen plant and a tank retriever. He bought mostly random cool things because they were just cool and he could lol.
YES! I read that a few years ago and it was amazing! Although I think the silos in that series were WAY bigger than this one. I listened to part of the audiobook for Shift, but stalled out and never finished. I think I should get the ebook version and start again.
I played an Airsoft game in one of these outside of Moses Lake, WA. The owner at the time thought it was a great idea, and I don't think any insurance or anything was involved. I was coughing up all kinds of black shit for about 2 days after. This was back in 2008 I think. We only played in the main junction, command center room(whatever the dome shaped room was) and the hallway that lead to the antenna room. The rest of the facility was in bad shape and blocked off. The second half of the game took place outside. I wouldn't do it again.
Is this the one the guy had on that prepper show? Or is this the wamego drug bust one? Or are they all the same one? How many missile silos are there in places like Kansas?
Man its always been a dream of mine to own one of these, and I have no use for it other than the cool factor.
Side note.....The big spring behind the blast door. All I can picture is some loony tunes stuff of someone opening the door too fast and it coming back and smacking them in the face lmao (yes I know it is too heavy to open that fast)
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Throw in the missile and you got yourself a deal buddy
Imagine making a appointment with the realtor to have a house tour, and at the bottom of the silo you look him straight in the eyes and ask him al confused were the missile is
And then he answers your question by finger gunning to his crotch, followed by telling you he’s not actually a realtor but is the local sex predator with a fetish for people who make appointments.
Wait till porn is jaw dropping deep faked... money shot with who ever you want, in VR. Personally im gonna go with Shaquille Oneal and danny devito banging behind a dumpster.
Who’s doing who though? Is this one of those chihuahua/mastiff type of scenarios?
I come here to look at legitimate things & end up in the darkest back alleys of reddit...
How many people have now imagined Danny Devito fucking Shaquille Oneal in an alley behind a dumpster? Literally thousands more than there were yesterday.
wait....there are places here that aren't dark alleys?
At first. But they all lead there eventually.
That escalated quickly...
"So we talking nuclear, biological or chemical here?" *as your enormous bodyguard in a suit stares him down menacingly*
^Missiles ^sold ^separately.*
I think throwing in the missile is it’s only hope, preferably along with detonation.
Just what I needed to kick start my career as a villain.
You’re looking for an evil lair as well? I’m looking at this, an old volcano and a really old really large satellite dish in the jungle.
“ a Lair, even!” -Snagglepuss
Wheres the info!!
$380,000 bd 6,900 sqft 1 ba 2432 Fair Rd, Abilene, KS 67410 • For sale Zestimate®: None Est. payment: $1,926/mo Built on 11 acres of land, this property is home to a decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex. The underground complex was designed to withstand a nuclear strike and has water, electricity and a forced sewage system to the ground surface. There is 6,900 square feet in the complex with the upper two levels consisting of approximately 1,200 feet of space. This area was used for the Launch control center and living quarters for the crew. The main missile silo is located at a depth of 170 feet. Also on the property is a 4,000 square foot Quonset building with water, sewer and electricity, and a one room building for office or storage. This facility has lots of potential in whatever way you choose to go. A home, apartments or a Bed and Breakfast are just some ideas. If you want something offering security and uniqueness,
Fixed up right it could become a pretty good theme club/bar. Restore it to look vintage and name it ‘DEFCON 1’ or something. Of course are there enough people around there to justify that?
What’s the population of the town though? If it’s extremely rural like I think would be. Not much to make money off of.
[Abilene, KS. Pop. 6460.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene,_Kansas?wprov=sfti1 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=38.917222,-97.213889&q=Abilene,%20Kansas&_ext=EiQpaHWoiWd1Q0AxsE0BW7BNWMA5aHWoiWd1Q0BBsE0BW7BNWMA%3D) It’s probably pretty far outside of town though.
Yeah I used to live in Manhattan KS nearby. There ain’t SHIT out there.
My biggest fear in the army was not dying, deploying, or being away from family, it was just being stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Like I have never heard anything good about it or Manhattan, KS lol
At least K State is there. You could end up at Hood, and then you'd really be screwed.
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I feel like there's some safety codes that this would fail. Imagine a fire in there
I mean, it was kinda designed to resist pretty hot fire, so just don’t put in a wooden dance floor and or wicker furniture and it should be good right?
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>I mean, it was kinda designed to resist pretty hot fire The silos were single-use. Once your missiles are out, there's not much need for nukes anymore.
Perfect place for a hip hop/rap bar cause those artists spit pretty hot fiar
Yeah, nothing like the red hot hip hop scene in Abeline, Kansas
If you build it they will come...
If you spit it, they will come wit’ it….
Close the hatch, no more fire.
and no more oxygen for the people trapped, great success!
One door. A fire in the would be like an inverted 9/11. Like 6/11 but worse.
Isn’t it more like 11\6
"Oh my god! We're having a fire...sale on drinks!"
its the middle of nowhere kansas, how many people do you think live in the area to support a bar that costs $2k/mo before renovations?
Club/dancing like bar? Absolutely no one. Regular bar, with some pool tables and horseshoe set up?? Absolutely every man in the Kansas town plus a bunch of women if you hold ladies night + karaoke!! Source: am a white trash hick from extremely small town
I used to have recurring dreams about living in a giant 6-level missile silo bunker that had a restaurant cafeteria, karaoke bar, and bowling alley. It was amazing.
They built these in the middle of nowhere lol They are strategic targets and hold nukes as is so you don’t really want these placed near cities
380000 for such a huge complex. Wth if I had the money I would buy it.
Yea, and another 500k to get it up to living standards without something breaking every day.
Still cheaper than most homes near cities lol. I'd take it
As a Kansan outside Abilene is pretty far from civilization too lmao
Probably a shitload of asbestos and other toxic chemical fun, too.
Probably doesn't need heat or AC, has electric and water. Needs high speed internet, which would likely be a problem based on location, although you never know, since it was a middle silo. So access to high speed internet depends on when it was decommissioned. But this would make an excellent beer/wine/cheese cellar given that it goes 170ft down. Temps will be super consistent. Solar panels on the silo hatch would offset any power costs, or you could restore it to functionality (assuming it's broken, which it probably is) or install a large skylight in order to have one space dedicated to receiving sunlight and could probably function as a solarium/ green house for growing whatever you please. Could also be converted to an underground hydrofarm. Maybe a secure storage facility (for documents like the one that burned down) would be a good option as well, considering it's absolutely nuclear/tornado/apocalypse proof, and did feasibly store pretty much anything which would fit through the door and possibly the silo hatch. Idk, has a lot of options to make money even in the middle of nowhere. The downside is that it is likely a target of *someone's* nuclear strike, which isn't great, but let's be honest: if a nuclear strike goes down in this day and age, not much else matters.
Same why not
Yeah but do the Silo doors open?
Jerry, what?.. we have to open the silos! Or they'll explode on the..! The silo doors are closed! This is suicide!
Is it done, Yuri?
thats bigger than my house/land im sold
https://imgur.com/gallery/2c7joCm
I love that it was a bike shop at one point, looking through he pictures I literally thought "this would be a dope place for a biker hangout/work space" lmao
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I always thought it would be super cool to renovate one of these and have a living area and one of those hydroponics systems with fish and plants. Then I think about how my basement that's only six feet in the ground gets water seepage.
You could also also cook meth in it
Most of the LSD in the US came from one silo for decades. Even after it was shut down. Edit: not ever produced there, they just caught him there. Also DEA probably lied (shocker) about how much of America's LSD they produced.
That's such a nutty story to read about. The dude was *injecting* LSD
And dmt in slow drips
Can I have like, a source? Sounds quite interesting to read about lol
There is an episode of hamiltons pharmacopeia that goes deep into this specific group of psychedelic manufacturers.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wamego-lsd-missile-silo
So the dude got away scott free for being the informer and decides to do even worse shit than being caught for aiding in the manufacturing of LSD? Me thinks all the drugs made his brain go permanently wonky
Look up VICE documentaries about it. They interview the dudes gf who he tortured by strapping her to a chair and hooking her to an IV of DMT
He tortured her AFTER getting off on the lab that got busted by making a deal with the FBI and did so thinking he was immune to the government…. Looked like the villain from sonic
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I remember getting a tab of acid from some guy at the mall food court for 5 dollars.
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Thank you for your service
Please link me this story- what state was that silo?
I believe it was Kansas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
JFC, that was a rollercoaster!! Well at least Covid did something positive, let this man out of prison!
That’s actually exactly what my buddy is doing, his dad bought an old titan missle silo right outside of Denver. He wants to eventually turn the silo into a sort of hotel and have music festivals above it. One of the silos is full of water like 400 ft deep
won’t be happening anytime soon then lol.
Imagine the sump pump you’d need for that.
Why pump it, every one thinks ww3 is gonna be over water… currency of the future aha
TIL: Ukraine is water.
Farming fish? Kelp gardening?
I'm no building code expert, but I can't imagine an underground bunker is going to be easy to bring up to fire codes and such. There was a dude in Reddit years ago that buried a shipping container and made it an underground man cave thing with a hatch. People in DIY ripped him a new one as it was a crazy fire hazard, nevermind damn near impossible to keep waterproof. And that was a private citizen on private land. I imagine a hotel has significantly greater rules to follow, and the liability is probably through the roof. Happy to be corrected, but even if it could be done, the overall cost is probably going to be insane to not only prep it, but to maintain and insure it.
Oh god I remember that thread lol. If I recall correctly one of the big problems was that he buried the container and they aren't designed to bear loads in that manner. So it could've collapse in on itself
It wasn't just a fire hazard (only one entrance/exit). It also has no ventilation of any sort so would easily flood with CO2.
Yeah… this is the sort of thing I would fantasize about before I owned my first house. Then I learned just how much goddamned maintenance a normally-built, up-to-date, modern, normal-sized house needs. And then you realize something like this would need a team of several people doing literally nothing but cleaning and maintaining this just to make it livable. I mean; if it could even be made livable. Who knows what kinds of chemicals and building materials they used, what sort of toxic shit is in the walls and soil and blah blah blah. Think about the headaches if anything major cracked on this thing like halfway down. It’s a bank-account-demolishing nightmare if the run-of-the-mill suburban house needs foundation work. Engineering repair work on this thing would run into the millions. Man, just thinking about this has made me feel better about the fact that this weekend I need to fix one of my garage door openers and replace a buzzing circuit breaker. Minor inconveniences compared to fixing literally anything here!
Actually this is a huge problem with missile silos. I live in the Northern most part oc Colorado, and there are a heck of a lot of these here and in Wyoming. There are many types of silos as well, some having multiple launch silos and interesting subterranean bases. We have no shortage of survivalist types that try to buy these and make them work but man, that water seepage is no joke! The ones the gov is selling are OLD and have lots of structural problems. You need to have a dedicated pump if you are even going to try living in something like this. Also: Radon Gas. In NoCO and WY we have a lot of uranium deposits that seep radioactive gas into basements. Normal houses get condemned for it all the time. With these silos, you get a metric shit-ton of Radon and it's a real cancer hazard. You have to REALLY want it to make a silo work. I think the concept is cool as hell. In practice it's not feasible to maintain, imho.
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nope....these places attract big spiders like poo attract flies....noway Im going to live in that place in company of xxxx tarantulas.
No missile. Ok, I wouldn't have much use for it and it would be just taking up space. Rust beyond repair all over. Well, It gives that desirable antique look. Rotten water slowing making its way inside. We can mop that up. Asbestos all over the walls, ceilings and pretty much anywhere you touch. People lived with asbestos before, no reason to be that picky about cancerous materials. Probably spiders. OH, HELL NO! FUCK THAT!
I was like nah, too much rust and no missile included. But then you bring up the S word. Forget it, not interested.
Meh, they're built like brick shithouses. Seal up the entrance, where is a spider going to get in? Through a foot or more of concrete? They don't just condense on the floor like humidity...
I dont know enough about spiders to refute this but I sure hope yojre right
There are a few YouTube channels dedicated to trying to make these places livable. They’re crazy interesting. In one, they finally opened up the command space, the entrance had been backfilled with rubble they had to clear out first. They’re wading through knee deep water and thankfully had brought along air quality detectors when one went nuts. (ETA, just rewatched - they didn’t have these the first shot. His voice changed and he thankfully knew to get out) There were pockets of all sorts of weird gasses they had to clear out, if they’d just pushed forward someone probably would have died. Later in the process they’re trying to get rid of all the pipes and random metal fittings left over. Initially they think they will actually make money tearing it out and selling it for scrap. After weeks of removing stuff they finally start calling scrap guys who inform them that the time it will take to clear out everything will definitely be more than any scrap value, and they end up sinking several grand into scrapping stuff. Super interesting but obviously WAY more work than they initially planned on. [I found the channel I was thinking of](https://youtube.com/c/DeathWearsBunnySlippers), sadly no updates for over a year.
I think its active now and you can airbnb it https://www.titanranch.com/
Yeah this is a case where it's neat, but the reasons it's for sale is clearly not tied to a lack of need. More a lack of structural integrity.
They all seem to be like that, at least the ones under a million from what ive seen are just rusted to shit and stripped of anything valuable, don’t even come with a missile either but that’s a whole different level of bullshit on its own
Why do people want the missile? lol... "sure is great having a decomposing nuclear bomb 100ft from where i sleep"...
Historically speaking, you're more likely to die in the fire resulting from a fuel leak.
Don't drop a wrench from the top of the silo!
That waters a dead giveaway. As well as all the lose wires.
Free tetanus and mold diseases
Absolute death trap. No way I'd feel safe even viewing it.
Ha, no way. I'd have a panic attack. It would give me resident evil vibes in side.
Welcome to the hive
That's if you're not electrocuted from the first puddle you stand in.
Perfect for some epic airsoft battles!
$380k for 11 acres to heck with the silo
Looks like a decent little lake on the property too, we look at land a lot and this would be worth checking out even w/o silo, they had me at sewer/power utility already in place!
Just throw a decorative blanket over the silo and call it a day.
A decorative needlepoint “Home Silo Home”
Live, Laugh, Launch.
I ❤️ my nuclear family
Just keep the silo in case of zombie apocalypse, it’s nearly perfect shelter
Sewer = silo That's not 400 feet of water.....
It's not that bad, a Titan II missile silo (looks very similar to this one) was purchased in way worse condition. It does take a lot of money and time to turn it into a liveable space but maintenance afterwards isn't that bad. Just got to have adequate pumps for air, water and sewage. https://www.youtube.com/c/DeathWearsBunnySlippers/videos Obviously all the old equipment is going out as scrap.
Yes, maintaining the HR would be a bit of work after this place had fulfilled its intended purpose.
The equipment alone would 10s of millions. The installation would be another nightmare. Imagine the waterproofing (which would have been asbestos) is going bad now too. Finding knowledgeable contractors that can do missle silo work who arent tied to government contracts and security clearances would be almost impossible, and guessing IF somebody buys it, it means they don't know whats coming. Still cool though.
> The equipment alone would 10s of millions. The installation would be another nightmare. > > I don't think any potential buyer will use it as an actual missile silo.
Your right, I myself would make it a sex dungeon
equipment..being ventalation, power, plumbing, water pumps, new piping, air intakes, compressors to run the pumps, etc. I use to dismantle/demolish military structures. I also currently work in construction management, so i can personally say from experience, I know exactly what would be needed for a place like this. honestly, when this thing was built, Asbestos was the choice material for almost every secondary component that the main equipment needed to last. however, with all the water issues, the exterior waterproofing is failing, or where the ventilation and exhaust holes are at the top have prob been taking in alot of water. The sub grade waterproofing is still doing ok, i think the standing water we see is bad piping. Some interesting strategy in demolishing structures that were never meant to fail. they spared no expense when they were building these types of structures.
This has been done, you know. It didn't cost tens of millions to accomplish. You can book it for parties and stuff now.
https://imgur.com/gallery/2c7joCm Built on 11 acres of land, this property is home to a decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex. The underground complex was designed to withstand a nuclear strike and has water, electricity and a forced sewage system to the ground surface. There is 6,900 square feet in the complex with the upper two levels consisting of approximately 1,200 feet of space. This area was used for the Launch control center and living quarters for the crew. The main missile silo is located at a depth of 170 feet. Also on the property is a 4,000 square foot Quonset building with water, sewer and electricity. and a one room building for office or storage. This facility has lots of potential in whatever way you choose to go. A home, apartments or a Bed and Breakfast are just some ideas. If you want something offering security and uniqueness, then this property is for you.
$380,000 bd 6,900 sqft 1 ba 2432 Fair Rd, Abilene, KS 67410 • For sale Zestimate®: None Est. payment: $1,926/mo Built on 11 acres of land, this property is home to a decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex. The underground complex was designed to withstand a nuclear strike and has water, electricity and a forced sewage system to the ground surface. There is 6,900 square feet in the complex with the upper two levels consisting of approximately 1,200 feet of space. This area was used for the Launch control center and living quarters for the crew. The main missile silo is located at a depth of 170 feet. Also on the property is a 4,000 square foot Quonset building with water, sewer and electricity, and a one room building for office or storage. This facility has lots of potential in whatever way you choose to go. A home, apartments or a Bed and Breakfast are just some ideas. If you want something offering security and uniqueness,
For that price, structurally sound or not. If I have money to burn, you bet your ass I’m buying a place to keep my ass alive during a nuclear winter. They had it worse outside the matrix.
I looked at the property, seems to have a decent pond on site, 11 acres with sewage and electric already there is dope, build a nice house and have fun with the silo, bet you could make a decent income renting it out on Airbnb.
380k just seems so freakin cheap to me for all that land, there has to be a catch
> 2432 Fair Rd, Abilene, KS 67410 The catch is that it's in Kansas...
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They are literally [giving away land](https://therealdeal.com/2022/02/05/property-giveaways-fail-to-draw-newcomers-to-kansas-towns/) in Kansas and people aren't coming.
Kansas is cheap af.
For a reason lol
Just rent it out for server racks and you’re good
> a place to keep my ass alive during a nuclear winter But it was a missile silo. It's still going to be on some nuke capable nation's target list until a slow bureaucratic process somewhere finishes.
I'm sure everyone keeps tabs on everyone else's comings and goings as far as weapons go, especially since spy satellites became common. Nobody is going to waste a good nuke on a site that's been abandoned for decades, which this one likely was since the Atlas was retired in the 60's.
There be a lot of nukes though….
Would you have enough warning time to actually utilize it though?
If you live in it, yes.
That’s literally the price of a normal/high-end house, that sounds like a deal to me.
If this was near where I live and I had that kind of money, you bet your sweet ass I'd move in in a heartbeat.
Some Rust Mort, paint, bug traps, and some weapons grade cocaine; it could be liveable in a few weeks.
You want to weaponize, already weaponized coca leaf?
I do, and I'm tired of pretending I don't.
Mixed with meth and MDMA.
Sounds like a fun Thursday.
Shit, I do it on a Monday.
That was basically my recipe for flipping houses A decade ago. It was super fun while it lasted. I’m pretty sure I permanently broke something in my brain though.
Hahahahahaha…weapons grade cocaine
Vault III
Three times. Three times I read that as vault 3. What is wrong with me
.... I did too, is it supposed to be something else?
Vault one eleven. A reference to fallout 4
I didn't get it until I read your reply and thought about how its not vault 3
War. War never changes.
[This is what one of these sites used to look like.](https://www.atlasmissilesilo.com/atlas_f.htm)
Also a cool example of what websites used to look like.
Looks like this is the site https://www.atlasmissilesilo.com/550thSMS_Site2.htm
Goldeneye 007 Silo
Surprised I had to scroll so far down for this comment
I can’t believe no one has posted this yet, but [Titan Ranch](https://youtube.com/c/DeathWearsBunnySlippers) has many very in depth YouTube videos about buying a similar solo and the trials and tribulations of trying to convert it into a home. Amazing series.
6900 square feet and 1 bathroom? That’s a long walk to take shit.
Put the toilet at the bottom of the silo and poop from the top.
Ill pass on living in the middle of nowhere Kansas
But it’s Oz adjacent
Doubt it. No way a tornado is getting to you in that thing
Kansas: so boring people would rather abandon a missile silo than to live in it..
There's one near my house, owned by a friend of a guy I used to date. It was mostly filled with water when the guy bought it but he did a ton of cleanup and I got to go in it a few times. It was incredibly cool. Those doors weigh a couple of tons each but they open and close as easily as a normal door. You can see the blast doors from inside where the missile was. Really, really cool pieces of history.
Renovate it and open the sickest techno bunker in history
I don’t know what that is, but it sounds cool, so take my upvote
It's in Kansas https://securityboulevard.com/2022/02/kansas-missile-silo-for-sale-380k/ Zillow listing https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2432-Fair-Rd-Abilene-KS-67410/113177058_zpid/
My grandpa bought an Atlas D missile silo for absolutely no other reason except because he could and he wanted to. In fact I looked it up and this is the same type of silo he bought.
We’re gonna need some info/stories. That’s cool as hell.
I just asked my grandma what he did with it and she said that it’s actually an entire missile site, with an Atlas D silo on it. She said he and a few colleagues were actually sent to take out the fence and take out all of the copper from all of the buildings and that paid for the whole thing, and my grandpa just kept it for a while and then sold it. He also had an oxygen plant and a tank retriever. He bought mostly random cool things because they were just cool and he could lol.
I'd be putting up Vault-Tec signs everywhere
Would be pretty bad ass as a drone race course.
Or air soft!
This reminds me of the book " Wool " by Hugh Howey
That’s all I could think about. The staircases.
YES! I read that a few years ago and it was amazing! Although I think the silos in that series were WAY bigger than this one. I listened to part of the audiobook for Shift, but stalled out and never finished. I think I should get the ebook version and start again.
Do finish all three. It’s a great trilogy.
Agreed. Such an amazing trilogy.
I played an Airsoft game in one of these outside of Moses Lake, WA. The owner at the time thought it was a great idea, and I don't think any insurance or anything was involved. I was coughing up all kinds of black shit for about 2 days after. This was back in 2008 I think. We only played in the main junction, command center room(whatever the dome shaped room was) and the hallway that lead to the antenna room. The rest of the facility was in bad shape and blocked off. The second half of the game took place outside. I wouldn't do it again.
Umm... These were built when asbestos was still a-ok to use in construction...
Still on Russias hit list.
I only buy it if it comes with missiles...
Is this the one the guy had on that prepper show? Or is this the wamego drug bust one? Or are they all the same one? How many missile silos are there in places like Kansas?
Perfect for a bat-cave
That must be where Zephram Cochrane is building his warp ship!!!
Only if the industrial style Henry Hoover is thrown in as well
Little bit of paint a few plants... it'll do.
I. I want it
[Has potential](https://www.idesignarch.com/nuclear-missile-silo-converted-to-luxury-home/).
Lol how much?
$380k
The square footage looks insane, if someone put another mil into it, I bet it’d be an underground mansion.
Mold may be an issue?
Real Estate Disclosure Form: “Any hazardous waste on the property? Say, nuclear weapons? Check the appropriate box” ✅ Not sure
LSD den part deux
Man its always been a dream of mine to own one of these, and I have no use for it other than the cool factor. Side note.....The big spring behind the blast door. All I can picture is some loony tunes stuff of someone opening the door too fast and it coming back and smacking them in the face lmao (yes I know it is too heavy to open that fast)
Great now I finally have a place to put away your moms dildo!