House Absolute

Gwern Branwen · 01 Dec 2008, 15:30 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:30:23 -0500
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:02 AM, O'Donnell, Tim (BOSI)  wrote:
> I recently got my brother hooked on Wolfe and he made a very interesting
> suggestion that I haven't found in the Archives.
>
> Could House Absolute be Mt Cheyenne the American underground Nuclear Base?
>
> http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/cmc.htm
>
> Not sure if this has been discussed before, if so, apologies!

Besides the issues with being on the wrong continent, I think another
problem is that the site is in the middle of some real mountains and a
mountain range, and the House Absolute is, IIRC, on level or rolling
grounds. I don't think enough millions of years have passed for the
mountains to have been leveled down that far; certainly there's the
question how an underground base could have survived while the very
mountains have not.

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gwern
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