Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.
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Last week's question: A condo complex created in an old, underground nuclear missile silo in Kansas has sold out of its $2 million, apocalypse-proof housing units. We asked you to come up with the name for the next missile silo home development.
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RESULTS:
THE WINNER: The Intercontinental
Chuck Gaston, Lancaster, PA
SECOND PLACE: Charmageddon
Dan O'Callaghan, Springfield, MN
THIRD PLACE: Little House Under the Prairie
Linda Leeds, Colorado Springs, CO
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The Manhattan Projects
Carl Cayne, Woodmere, NY
Nuclear Winter Park
Rob Wright, Atlanta, GA
Prime Sub-housing
Clayton Schulz, Louisville, KY
Apocalypse Wow!
John Fay, Charlotte, NC
Flash Pointe
Jeffrey Contompasis, Ashburn, VA
Def-Condo 1
David C. Neal, Fanwood, NJ
Bunker Hill
James Lister Smith, Mill Valley, CA
If The World Were Ending, You'd be Home Now
Nickolas Certo, Pittsburgh, PA
Da Bomb Shelter
Simone Butler, San Diego, CA
Silo Nights
Edmund Conti, Raleigh, NC
Nuclear Family Estates
Jim Tripp, Menomonie, WI
Boomtown
Heidi Hanssen, St. Louis Park, MN
Cozy Crypt Hollow
Marilyn Law, New Harbor, MD
Edinburrow
Janine Witte, New Hope, PA
Archie's Bunker
Addison Davis, Warren, MI
Hysteria Lane
Theo Garcia, Honolulu, HI
Hunker Downs
Karen Shepherd, Social Circle, GA
Atoms Family Estates
Tim Scott, Lexington, KY
Habitat for Insanity
Barry Cutler, Palm Desert, CA
The Military Industrial Complex
Brian S. Campbell, Hillsboro, WI
You-Can-See-China-From-Your-Basement Estates
Ivan Kershner, Salem, NC
Sub-Urbia
Manny Kaplan, St. Louis Park, MN
Sunny Side Downs
Douglas Bing, San Luis Obispo, CA
Hole Sweet Hole
The Dyes, Tulsa, OK
4th Little Pig Properties
John Rider, Sammamish, WA
Oppenheimer Gardens
Brian Walter, Orangevale, CA
The Boob Tube
Sheryl Ryckebusch, Lantana, TX
ICBMW Place
Jeanie Jesky, Greensburg, PA
ICBMbassy Suites
Dan Goldberg, Boca Raton, FL
The End of Days Inn
Robert J. Chapman, King of Prussia, PA
Afterparty Acres
Frank Letchworth, Knoxville, TN
New Beginnings
Philip J. Clarke, Denver, CO
The Kansas Underground
Suzanne Molnar, Knoxville, TN
Hidden Valley
Claudia Landolfi, Highland Park, IL
Bomb Springs
Seth Meyer, New York, NY
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