Missile Silo Fixer-Upper Now Swanky Bachelor Pad
Awesome article from Wired. Bruce Townsley purchased an abandoned nuclear missile silo in Texas and turned it into his home.
Townsley’s living space is about 1,100 square feet and completely round. The room is essentially a concrete bubble suspended from the large column in its center.
When the site was an active missile base, this room “floated” on massive springs. This let the room move both up and down and side to side, which would absorb a bomb blast in the event that the Russians managed to get a shot off. Now Townsley has replaced some of the springs with poles so the room can only sway side to side.
Townsley wouldn’t trust his house with a nuclear blast these days, but it does just fine in strong Texas thunderstorms.
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