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Re: Lego Planet
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 4 May 2001 18:45:35 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:GCto7r.7HL@lugnet.com...
> 25 septillion UKP (what is that in Italian Lira? :-)
Current exchange rate is apparently 1 UKP = 3082 Italian Lira, so it'd be
approximately 80 octillion Lira.
And since 1 UKP = 1,636,200 Turkish Lira, that'd make 40 nontillion Turkish
Lira.
Well, you did ask :-)
It would presumably need to be constructed a long way from Earth (otherwise
the gravitational attraction would cause some seriously nasty tidal
effects).
The Space Shuttle can only carry a payload of 25,000kg, so twenty
quintillion journeys would be necessary. At a cost of something like 15
million UKP per launch, it would cost almost a third of a quintillion UKP,
which is over 10 times the cost of the Lego!
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| Excors <excors@zaynar.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:GCtqsC.F0s@lugnet.com... (...) Oops, small correction: I meant to say "it would cost almost a third of an octillion UKP" (or half a decillion Turkish Lira) :-) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Excors <excors@zaynar.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:GCtqsC.F0s@lugnet.com... (...) Turkish (...) Whats that in US Dollars? Gary Ps. You have a lot of time on your hands don't you? :-) (24 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Note that this cost of 25 septillion UKP (what is that in Italian Lira? :-) )discounts the R&D cost for a practical transmutation device. I read a factoid somewhere that all the petroleum we have so far extracted from the earth would just (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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