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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.150425.25001@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: U.S. Government funding
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- 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> <1993Jan6.183139.3779@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:04:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.183139.3779@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In <1993Jan5.211231.5031@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> tes@gothamcity.uucp (Thomas E. Smith [LORAL]) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- For $67 billion, I would have thought they could have also freeze dried the
- vodka :-). (Has anyone tried the freeze dried beer from Japan. It tastes like
- hell until you are about four days out on the trail.)
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