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From: donm@omepd (Don McGlauflin)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Food for thought
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Date: 5 Apr 88 21:05:22 GMT
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Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
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Here's some food for thought:

The last time I saw a figure for it, McDonald's restaurants had sold
over 30,000,000,000 hamburgers.

At an average height of 2 inches, the stack would reach the Moon and
back TWICE!

At an average price of $.70, we spent $21,000,000,000 just for the
burgers. That doesn't count the fries (or the Rolaids either :-).

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.

Kind of makes your mouth water, eh?

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

SWAGs: 30,000 burgers to the mile
       250,000 miles to the Moon, each way
       $250,000 for an Apollo shot (1969 dollars)
       $2,500,000,000 for an Orbiter

Ah, I can feel the flames now. Medium rare, please.

Don McGlauflin
Sort-of-associated-with
Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
(503) 696-4256