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Article #7250Re: Moon Dust For Sale
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:31
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:31
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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. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall 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 Lines: 18