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Subject: 
Re: Lego Planet
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 4 May 2001 18:48:22 GMT
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Excors <excors@zaynar.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:GCtqsC.F0s@lugnet.com...
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!

Oops, small correction: I meant to say "it would cost almost a third of an
octillion UKP" (or half a decillion Turkish Lira) :-)



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  Re: Lego Planet
 
Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GCto7r.7HL@lugnet.com... (...) 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, (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)

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