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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.)
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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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