What will $1.5 million buy you in San Francisco? A nice two bedroom place in a good neighborhood. Maybe three's a view.
In central Washington? $1.5 million can get you a lot of square footage. Most of it, however, is underground. But you can trick out some sweet "James Bond Villian lair" sort of interior design.
Place you bid on eBay. That $1.5 MM you have laying around can buy you a Titan 1 nuclear missile Base. Price includes:
• 57 acres terrain one and a half hours west of Spokane, 10 minutes from Interstate 90
• 16 underground buildings including:
. • Three 160' Tall Missile Silo
. • Three (4 story) Equipment Terminal buildings
. • Two Antenna Silos
. • 100' Diameter Control Dome
. • 125' Diameter Power Dome
Actually, I think this is very cool. But it would cost way more than $1.5 MM to trick it out right. And holodecks cost a freakin' fortune these days.
Pics are on the Gizmodo site. I don't know if they left the equipment behind or not. here's a photo of the computers from the original installation.
You realize that the capacity of those bazillion cubic feet of computers used at this base is now smaller than a postage stamp. Add a one or two gigabyte SD card and you can double the storage.
What to do with all that space? I dunno, maybe turn the silos into seriously wicked climbing walls.
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