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- From: justin@hp750.ccs.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale
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- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:47:51 GMT
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- banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
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- > I think this is a GREAT idea and that NASA should market MORE space items
- >to help finance its budget. Whats the approx cost per pound of moon rocks
- >anyhow?
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- Well, if NASA lived up to more of its promises, moon rocks would be $1 a
- pound by now. :) Sorry.. Some taxpayers get upset when the most advanced
- nation in existence ruins very expensive orbiting instruments and loses
- space shuttles and their expensive/irreplaceable cargo(s) .. These things
- aren't supposed to happen! <grrr.. flame off>
-
- Go figure.. A two-inch piece of tape with moondust is expected to sell for
- ~$100K, so a pound might go for $2 million or so (at that rate).
-