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PAX Silo
emlprime
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Honestly, how many users/readers of Penny Arcade are there? $1.5 million for a missile silo? I don't see how we can afford NOT to purchase this silo as a community and hold it in common both to hold safe Mike and Jerry (and families of course) against the threat of nuclear war and also to host PAX in a facility described as
Just imagine the echoes.
If even 30,000 of us were willing to contribute $50 ( I know I would) we could buy it outright. We could use one of the buildings to house ChildsPlay donations.
Below ground is a huge complex consisting of 16 buildings and thousands of feet of connecting tunnels.
Just imagine the echoes.
If even 30,000 of us were willing to contribute $50 ( I know I would) we could buy it outright. We could use one of the buildings to house ChildsPlay donations.
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these missle silos have been TRASHED. Vandalized to the extreme. The repair costs alone would be huge, and then there is upkeep and utilities.
underground.
it would have to be named more like Hades or somesuch hell-related persona, but it would still be epic.
I'm thinking it would cost around another 1.5 mil to knock down the trashed silo's and refurbish.
So around 3 mil between 30,000 people, it's 50 bucks each.
Welsh math!
what?!
1500000/30000 is 50!
The actual hallways and outrooms are all preserved aren't they?
The cost of knocking down the actual silo's can't be much can it?
You work in defence, what would the construction costs be here then?
I have no idea about construction costs, really. If a defense contractor is doing it, estimate about ten times the cost and twenty times the timeframe of what it really takes.
So it would be perfect for the average PAXer.
Hmm, this post makes me feel... ominous
That was kind of the point I was trying to make, although I liked how you put it better.
I take solace in the fact that, though my muscles may be barely pubescent, at least I'm not batshit insane.
you're looking at at least 7 mil just to get the thing habitable.
Maybe not right this instant but I wouldn't put it past you to have another episode.
t OP: Listen, if you can find 30,000 people on this board who are willing to give you $50 go right ahead. The sad thing is, while there may be 30,000 registered users there certainly aren't 30,000 posters.
I don't know why... but I think I love this quote tree.
edit: but seriously Daric. The OP has a kind of hypothetical feel to it, and i'm guessing that the idea is to figure out what the costs would be and how realistic it is. Calling out the OP's post history and ragging on him a little isn't exactly necessary.
On the other hand, I dislike you regardless of your mood.
Hey if you fuckers want to feud, go do it in PMs or something.
And don't fuck with new members, Daric. If you think that a post is out of order, then report it.
Not that I have anything against nerds. It's just that it's quite unlikely such a society would florish, much less survive. Hell, if H/A is any indication, nobody would ever ask people they like out. They would just make threads asking how. By the time someone figured out the magic formula for making people you like fall in love with you, it would be too late; we would be too old to have any babies, and our society would collapse.
Besides, combine this with overall lack of personal hygiene and social skills, and I doubt it would be the utopia people believe it would be. More like a dystopia maybe.
im gonna stick with 7-10 million for a complete purchase and refurb.
They're both wrong, the hats were going to be blue.
(I pray that was a Red Dwarf reference.)
I just want more pictures/videos damnit!
Uh... no, no it wouldn't.
"Honey, what are we doing today?"
"Let's go to the beach... oh wait, we don't have a beach here."
"Wanna sit under a tree and read or something?"
"We don't have trees either!"
"Maybe we can play golf, or volleyball..."
"Nope."
"What are we gonna do then? I thought we were on vacation!"
"Well, we can go to the control center and... do stuff... you know. Play around with the controls."
Ive been on a 4 million and an 8.5 million project as a Project Engineer/Assistant Project manager, and my former company just did the remodel at Dolphin Stadium. I'm going with just ballpark of 4.5 million to refurbish and rebuild Electric/Plumbing/HVAC on something that size.....of course, Florida is an inflated market so it could be less or more depending on the local availability of contractors and their demand. 7 million would easily make this an Olympus....but if you wanted PAX there, you are talikg a MUCH bigger investment. Plumbing and HVAC alone for that many people would take a complete redesign/build of the structure. I mean, even when it was brand spanking new it had 100 people in it, tops.
What gaming company wouldn't want to advertise in the underground sanctum/mecca of all gamers?
I'm surprised the post actually got this much response, but I love the idea.
One thing I think responders are failing to consider is that because this place wouldn't be a private residence (assuming the real estate agency isn't selling a non-habitable piece of real estate), the cost isn't one way. We wouldn't be sinking 1.5-3 mil in a one way venture. We'd be a co-op reaping the benefits of having the most awesome mecca for geeks imaginable. We could host every Con there you can imagine. Obviously PAX gets a discount.
Considering the crowd we hope to draw, I'd almost *hope* that there was some level of radiation. We could charge extra for a 5 minute pass to the "green room" where pre-pubescent males go to absorb their favorite arbitrary property from something they're holding. They could take in a bucket of sand, a spider, a bullet. I suspect certain posters might show up with a 10" ceramic wang, but who am i to judge.
Obviously if we did it, it would be beyond the scope of this forum. Though if we put up a website for pedges, it would get hit by PA, PVPOnline, SlashDot and Digg, so the audience would be bigger than 30K.
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and I'm only saying if
then all our base would belong
TO US!
I was waiting till an actual civil engineer posted! (Getting my diploma in '09)
The other thing to consider here is that if buying a missile silo and remodeling it was nearly as profitable a venture as you guys make it sound, someone would have done it already. Someone like MGM Mirage, who are building CityCenter in Las Vegas, whose construction "trailer" building, which will be torn down after the first construction phase, costs $40 million. It has a goddamned executive limo entrance.
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