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Article #4107Re: Food for thought
From: Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1988 02:00
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1988 02:00
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In article <3355@omepd> donm@omepd (Don McGlauflin) writes: >The last time I saw a figure for it, McDonald's restaurants had sold >over 30,000,000,000 hamburgers. >If we had spent the same amount of money on space hardware, we could >have bought 24 more Apollo Moon shots, PLUS 6 more Shuttle Orbiters. Why not just meet (meat?) this halfway: Build a MacDonald's in orbit. They built one in Paris (which is paricularly brave not only in light of the value the French place on good food, but because the term "Big Mac" has very nasty connotations in French). A McD in orbit would at the same keep the burger numbers climbing (literally!), and advance space hardware. But, more importantly, think of the comercials... The mind just reels with possibilities... Karl ['(]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!kwa1_ltd From: kwa1_ltd@ur-tut (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Food for thought Message-ID: <1784@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: 13 Apr 88 02:00:59 GMT References: <3355@omepd> Reply-To: kwa1_ltd@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.) Distribution: na Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 17