{"id":50790,"date":"2023-03-12T23:47:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T22:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50790"},"modified":"2023-03-14T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:00:24","slug":"imitating-cirque-du-soleil-inside-an-abandoned-nuclear-missile-silo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/12\/imitating-cirque-du-soleil-inside-an-abandoned-nuclear-missile-silo\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitating 'Cirque du Soleil' inside an abandoned nuclear missile silo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always like to brag about having weird tastes and hobbies (it shows a lot on this blog, doesn't it?), but I often find people who surpass me.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/17\/inside-the-ruins-of-a-colossal-launch-complex-of-titan-i-nuclear-missiles\/\">Inside the ruins of a colossal launch complex of Titan I nuclear missiles<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/30\/visiting-the-last-silo-of-a-titan-ii-nuclear-missile-where-you-can-still-see-this-icbm\/\">Visiting the last silo of a Titan II nuclear missile where you can still see this ICBM<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NuclearBunkerLiving\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuclear Bunker Living<\/a> posted an example of extremely rare hobbyism in a video that shows <strong>tightrope walkers slacklining<\/strong> (a practice similar to tightrope walking, but using a cloth rope instead of a metal cable) <strong>inside an abandoned nuclear missile silo Titan 1<\/strong>, in the United States. To say that the images are spectacular would be an understatement:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EP. 78 - SLACKLINE In An Underground MISSILE SILO\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pAQIGBOSH0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As usual, here are a few screenshots from the video (not suitable for people who suffer from vertigo) as a preview.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52743700389_7d06021552_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/17\/inside-the-ruins-of-a-colossal-launch-complex-of-titan-i-nuclear-missiles\/\">As I already told you here<\/a>,<strong>the HGM-25A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), armed with nuclear warheads, were deployed in 1960 at five launch centers<\/strong> at Larson air bases A.F.B., Wash.; Mountain Home AFB, Idaho; Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota; Beale AFB, Calif.; and Lowry AFB, Colo. The video does not indicate which of these centers we are looking at.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52743864120_604ae3cd76_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Titan 1 missiles quickly became obsolete<\/strong> and were withdrawn from service in early 1965, leaving many of the silos abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52743448731_6c86a97b55_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each of the Titan I launch complexes consisted of three silos<\/strong>, each with its corresponding missiles. Each missile was 22.9 meters tall, so I needed a pretty big silo... Hey guys, are you guys paying attention to my history lesson or the girl?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52743864175_1eaa5bea6c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always like to brag about having weird tastes and hobbies (it shows a lot on this blog, doesn&#8217;t it?), but I often find people who surpass me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16877],"tags":[17052,18732,10431],"class_list":["post-50790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-ruins","tag-icbm-hgm-25a-titan-i","tag-slackline","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}