Earth Station for sale - "The ultimate man cave" (dish, satellite)

[swagger]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/us...lion.html?_r=1

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes the ultimate gift for the Dr. Strangelove in your life: the 21,000-square-foot Jamesburg Earth Station, a satellite relay base from the 1960s that was built to survive a nuclear attack.
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a tech-lover’s paradise on 161 acres equipped with a 97-foot satellite dish.
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“It’s the ultimate man cave,” said Jeffrey W. Bullis, a Silicon Valley electronics mogul, who bought the property in 2004 for $2 million from AT&T and is now selling it, complete with the hand-carved Tiki gods from Vanuatu that he placed at the entrance as a homey touch.

Pretty crazy. There were plans to convert it to a home, and some of it has apparently already been done.

So if you're in the market for a large home that needs some remodeling, and you have some money to burn, you're in luck!

[plwhit]

Darn my wife just cleaned out all the spare change in the couch, I would have liked it....

[GTOlover]

Mr. Johnson said “it’s a very stable building,” with a five-foot reinforced-concrete roof and double layers of reinforced steel. “We envisioned a flow between interior and exterior,” he added, including the use of folding glass panels that would lead to an outdoor dining area overlooking chardonnay grape vineyards.

they sure don't build them like they used too