[rescue] Current collections...

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Wed Apr 7 11:59:50 CDT 2004


On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:32:41AM -0600, Dan Duncan wrote:
> Why, oh Why didn't I buy that missile silo when I had the chance?
> It was somewhere around 120 acres, with a fenced 40-acre "keep"
> in the center with the silo and an airstrip and only 40 miles
> or so east of where I work now.  If it were still available for
> the $200k asking price from 6 years ago, I'd leap on it and have the
> bitchinest data center ever.  Plus you know it already had
> heavy duty electric service and bomb-proof facilities.  I bet
> I could make all sorts of side cash as a colo, disaster
> recovery facility, and secure offsite storage.

That *would* rock ....  I must admit I find the idea tempting myself.
There's a Titan facility for sale someplace in Central Washington, if we
weren't stone broke.  The lister had a little imagination for once --
suggesting using one of the silos as a SCUBA training pool, other things
like that...


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