Fleet Week
Cost of fuel for three, 1-hour Blue Angel performances with 3 jets: $54,000
Cost of fuel for survey flights that are the preliminary event of Fleet Week: $90,000
Total fuel costs: $144,000
For the price of the fuel alone, we could fund approximately 24 lower-division, semester-length college courses.
But then, why would we do that? Better to ooh and ahh at the Angels, thump our chests, wave our flags, and revel in our false pride.
Blue Angel costs based on data mined from http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18268
College course costs based on information from City College of San Francisco
Cost of fuel for survey flights that are the preliminary event of Fleet Week: $90,000
Total fuel costs: $144,000
For the price of the fuel alone, we could fund approximately 24 lower-division, semester-length college courses.
But then, why would we do that? Better to ooh and ahh at the Angels, thump our chests, wave our flags, and revel in our false pride.
Blue Angel costs based on data mined from http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18268
College course costs based on information from City College of San Francisco
posted by Bird | 2:52 PM
9 Comments:
Oh, hell, gal. It's worse than that.
NASA bragged about throwing a rocket into the bottom of the moon at 6000 MPH this morning.
And it only cost taxpayers $17.7 MILLION.
Just to watch dust fly around?
Are y'kidding me?
ya,
how about that?!?
i mean, you could have thrown
washington into the bottom of the sea
for a lot less than that AND saved money long term
× × × 2 bird
/t.
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It is certainly interesting for me to read the post. Thanks for it. I like such topics and everything connected to them. I would like to read more soon.
yeah... why would we want to educate people to learn that they are oppressed...
poignant post here in light of the protests at Berkley this last week...
Those tuition hikes in Cali are terrible. Glad to see students picking up the Berkley spirit and protesting. Let's bail 'em out!
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Christmas comes but once a year
And perhaps it's just as well.
With food and drink and bonhomie
Our tummy's prone to swell.
But it is a chance to tell our friends
The ones too oft neglected,
That we're glad they're there
A friendship much respected.
Thank you.
May you Christmas be merry and the New Year everything you wish for.
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