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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.183139.3779@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: U.S. Government funding
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec30.230213.4226@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1iaeeuINN7kq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan5.162900.14264@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan5.211231.5031@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:31:39 GMT
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- In <1993Jan5.211231.5031@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> tes@gothamcity.uucp (Thomas E. Smith [LORAL]) writes:
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- >I'm just guessing on my figures, but wasn't 500 lbs of moon rock and dust
- >brought back from the moon? And didn't the entire Moon program cost around
- >$67 billion? I think that puts the moon dust/rocks at about $134,000,000 a
- >pound! But as Ken says, it ain't fer sale by Nasa.
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- Of course, the preceding reasoning assumes that the sole function of
- the entire Moon program was to produce those rocks as a product. I
- think there was just a BIT more to it than that. Using the same
- logic, one could say that we paid $67 billion to develop Tang.
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