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These guys [1] did a series of videos on a similar one. They answer a lot of questions about what it takes, but the upshot is... probably not worth the trouble
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 5y ago
These guys [1] did a series of videos on a similar one. They answer a lot of questions about what it takes, but the upshot is... probably not worth the trouble for 99% of folks.
[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-KKIb8rvtMQnKZOfxShrcAH5_wE82WtA https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-KKIb8rvtMQnKZOfxShrcAH5...
- Aloha 5y agoThe one featured in Zillow ad wouldn't require this much work. It's basically dry, though god only knows what the bottom of the silo itself looks like.
- dcdc123 5y agoThey don’t have any pics inside the main silo, just in the upper control room and the entry to the silo. It could be full of water.
- kuroguro 5y agoFree swimming pool included!
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoNo, No. Algae-farm for fuel and food. Yummie!
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoWelcome to the Kombucha Pit!
- Neil44 5y agoI understand they're usually filled with rubble or concrete as part of decomissioning. Entrances to the office bit are usuall bulldozed.
- angstrom 5y agoUpshot: Probably still has 2 nukes pointed at it. Better to have a front row seat than be a “survivor”.
- greesil 5y agoThat should be in the listing. Pros: immediate painless surprise death in case of nuclear war. Cons: damp, bit of a fixer upper.
- imglorp 5y agoIf not a direct hit, more likely an extended entombment after the entrance stairwell collapses and blocks the blast door. Maybe that's the second reason missileers carried sidearms.
- Aloha 5y agoRussia knows the sites were decommissioned, so it wouldn't waste a missile on it.
- Iolaum 5y agoEven if some people know, are we sure if it was disseminated across all Classified channels up and down and then the people in charge of the lists updated them? :p
- crawl_soever 5y agoIt also means they could be the one who purchases it!
- jonathankoren 5y agoDoubt it. Decommissioning silos is transparent as part of treaty verifications. I imagine getting it operational again would take years of very obvious work.
- kortilla 5y agoWhy would Russia or whoever waste two nukes on a silo purported to be nuke proof in the middle of nowhere?
- julian_sark 5y agoOne might be tempted to think "oh, it's concrete, I'll hose it down". But after recently reading up on it a bit, some of the missiles had extremely harmful propellants, and if that leaked (which chances are it did), that'd basically be a hazmat site.
- tyingq 5y agoIt reads like Atlas missiles used kerosene and liquid oxygen. Nothing like hydrazine, etc.
- rhombocombus 5y agoThe APU on atlas missiles used ethylene oxide to fuel the turbine, you don't need hydrazine to get toxic aerospace chemical exposure. I would also bet all the money in my pocket those structures are chock full of asbestos and lead.
- larrywright 5y agoSomebody on Twitter mentioned that there is likely a lot of asbestos, and other environmental issues that the buyer would be responsible for remediating. I don’t know enough to know if that’s correct or not but it seems reasonable.