Arts Titan Missile Base for Sale
posted by October 11 at 10:46 AM
onSeattle artist Tar Art Rat (currently based in Berlin) today posted an item on his blog about the eBay sale of a decommissioned 1950s underground missile base near Moses Lake. The base includes 16 subterranean buildings. Tar Art Rat suggests artists should buy it (price tag: $1.5 million) and turn it into “an underground art city/world and fallout shelter.”
Sounds seriously dreamy.
UPDATE: Sam M. in the comments points toward Penny Arcade’s great comic sendup/obsessive rant about the missile base’s possibilities here.
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Whatever. This space has been available for a decade. Having been there, I can honestly say it'll take at least $10 million or more for full renovations, sump pumps, and everything else. Funny how "OMG, IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT FOR X" always shoots out of the mouths of people who are nowhere near the thing, have no concept of the reality of the thing, and also aren't going to be available at all. It's like saying, "You know what would be awesome? Someone should build a car that runs on water. Not me, I have models in France to attempt to sleep with." Put up or shut up.
OH MY GOD I want it!
I've got 18 dollars burning a hole in my pocket.
The owner posts no pictures of the interior of the structure, so I'm guessing it's vandalized and scrapped beyond any usable means. There are people who live in silos that are actually decent, but my guess is that this one is a shit-hole beyond repair.
How about we lock the creators of "Lost" in there until they figure out a fucking story arc?
These bases are scattered throughout New Mexico. When I was a teenager, we used to go hang out in them, get high, and nearly die.
Seriously, all I need is $50 million for renovations and a fluffy white cat with a diamond collar.
ahh, the american chateau.
there are actually quite a few of these bases for sale. this particular base popped up on a Gizmodo a while back. a commentor there lead me to the site below.
http://www.missilebases.com/
The hometown boys behind Penny Arcade sent this one up yesterday in their usual fashion--which is to say, brilliantly nerdy:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/10
Hey, Zefram Cochrane is going to need one of these badly in about 50 years, so why not buy now and make a contribution to history?
but, it's in moses-fucking-lake! blech.
2 words: LSD Factory
Nickels and Paul Allen should team up to build a street car and some "transit-oriented development"
Isn't Tom Cruise building one of these?
Does anyone know the exact coordinates of this? I'm curious to look it up on Google Earth
found it: 47.1865, -118.82
And, some cool pics of a similar site:
http://triggur.org/silo/shaft.html
This post got me thinking about Hanford artist James Acord. What ever became of him and his ambitious post-Cold War project to turn radioactive waste into colossal heroic statuary? There's a feature story for you, Jen!
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