Current mood:	o_o
Current music:	Dishwalla - Angels and Devils

it's not exactly VR, but it's scary as hell
On another, stranger note, even though I was exploring this site because of C-kun's link, I've been to the site's missile silo tour before. A very, very, very long time ago, when I surfed the web via a 14.4 modem and a 486DX/33. Holy crap.

Despite the tiny, claustrophobic graphics, it's a stunning depiction of what some men put themselves through for the sake of keeping the country (and the world?) safe. And just how much destruction these sites were prepared to endure. We think we have it bad now, with silliness about terrorism and threat levels and Iraqi dictators. But we only worry about it because somewhere, someone managed to keep their head during the fifties, sixties and seventies. I suppose there's something to be said for wanting to keep from regressing back to such a state. But my god. The road to the site looks so innocuous. In a fucking field in Kansas or something. And they were ready to end half the world. Just so the Russians wouldn't have all the fun.

I want to write a story about it. But I don't want to write about a new-millennium Gollum. Mostly because I really hate that character.

Companies actually buy abandoned missile silos, retrofit them and sell them as homes. I so wanted one.

Also from the same site. Again with the "holy crap".