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I've been playing with Firefox recently. I like it. It is the only other
web browser that is in the same class as Opera. Some of the plug-ins are
innovative. One example is Stumble! that brings up "interesting" pages.
From one Stumble! page:

A Maybach [high-end automobile] seems expensive, but if you look at the
price per pound for various vehicles, it seems less outrageous. Here's a
quick comparison:

* Space Shuttle: Costs $2.1 billion, weighs 170,000 pounds = $12,000 per
pound

* Gold: Approximate 2003 spot price of about $400 per ounce = $6,400 per
pound

[So a Shuttle isn't just worth its weight in gold, it is worth roughly
twice its weight in gold! (Assuming you could buy a Shuttle for $2.1
today...]

* Lear jet 45: Costs approximately $10 million, weighs 15,000 pounds =
$650 per pound

* Maybach: Costs $300,000, weighs 6,100 pounds = $49.10 per pound

* Harley Davidson VSRC motorcycle: costs $18,000, weighs 600 pounds =
$30 per pound

* USS Ronald Reagan (nuclear-powered aircraft carrier): costs $4.3
billion, weighs 90,000 tons = $24 per pound (plus, it comes with a 20-
year supply of fuel already in the reactor)

* Ford Focus: costs $14,000, weighs 2,600 pounds = $3.57 per pound
[Having driven a Ford Focus, I'd happily pay 3000 times as much for a
ride into orbit...]
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

The loss of the American system of checks and balances
is more of a security danger than any terrorist risk.
-- Bruce Schneier

"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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I've been playing with Firefox recently. I like it. It is the only other
web browser that is in the same class as Opera. Some of the plug-ins are
innovative. One example is Stumble! that brings up "interesting" pages.
From one Stumble! page:

A Maybach [high-end automobile] seems expensive, but if you look at the
price per pound for various vehicles, it seems less outrageous. Here's a
quick comparison:

* Space Shuttle: Costs $2.1 billion, weighs 170,000 pounds = $12,000 per
pound

* Gold: Approximate 2003 spot price of about $400 per ounce = $6,400 per
pound

A $100 note costs about $35,000 per pound. Therefore cash is a lot more
valuable than gold

Neil Gerace wrote:

* Space Shuttle: Costs $2.1 billion, weighs 170,000 pounds = $12,000 per
pound

* Gold: Approximate 2003 spot price of about $400 per ounce = $6,400 per
pound



A $100 note costs about $35,000 per pound. Therefore cash is a lot more
valuable than gold



I did some math once...remember when I figured out the cost of a Shuttle
in terms anyone could understand?

Neil Gerace wrote:
The Queen Mary 2?

No, she's cheap by comparison -only $800,000.000- if this makes one
think that we are getting taken to the cleaners be the aerospace
industry when we have them build a Shuttle, you are not the only one.
A Virginia class attack sub costs around the same as a Shuttle orbiter
though- 2 billion each.
Now let's have some fun: Endeavour weighs 172,000 with her motors, or
2,752,000 ounces...or around 2,507,000 Troy ounces... now gold costs
around $400 per Troy ounce these days, so if we take our Shuttle and put
it on Sir Percival's scale with the duck, and start heaping gold on the
other side until it crushes the witch, we will find that the Shuttle's
weight in gold is worth around $1,002,800,000 dollars. So that a Shuttle
orbiter costs around twice its own weight in gold.
Now, a gold 1 Troy ounce coin- such as the .999 pure gold Canadian
Maple Leaf in this case- is 2.8 mm thick; so if we were to stack up the
number of them required to buy an orbiter (2,507,000) we would have a
pile of coins 7,574,000 mm; or 7,574 meters, or (to return to a more
civilized form of cyphering, untainted by the monstrous infamies
inflicted by the French on that cold and barren nation's mathematics.)
24,849 feet in height- or to put it another way- 4.7 miles high...up
where (if you were standing on top of it) you would go unconscious in
around 3-5 minutes due to lack of oxygen.
You don't want to know how high a pile of Sakakawea dollar coins would
be; at 2 mm each, you would need a pile of them 4,000,000,000 mm high to
buy a Shuttle orbiter...in other words, you would be around 2,500 miles
up, far beyond the Shuttle's reach, and enjoying the subtle delights of
the inner Van Allen Belt.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
Neil Gerace wrote:

* Space Shuttle: Costs $2.1 billion, weighs 170,000 pounds =
$12,000 per
pound

* Gold: Approximate 2003 spot price of about $400 per ounce =
$6,400 per
pound



A $100 note costs about $35,000 per pound. Therefore cash is a lot
more
valuable than gold




If you price moon rocks at the cost it took to get them (cue arguments
about how many angels can dance on head of a pin ;-):

842 pounds of moon rocks collected (10,104 troy ounces).

Current cost of Apollo program $ 130 Billion dollars.

That's $12,866,191.61 per troy ounce or $154,394,299.29 per pound.

So at $ 2.1 Billion dollars, each Space Shuttle is worth 13.6 pounds of
moon rocks.


Rusty