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Retired Space Shuttle - Yours for FREE...plus P&P
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I'll take 2 please.
I thought donation meant for Free.
Telephone call from NASA to Smithsonian Museum
NASA: Hi, we'd like to donate this shuttle orbiter to your museum
Museum: Cool, thank you very much.
NASA: If you could just pay the donation fee by Paypal for 42.8 million dollars as soon as possible that would be great.
Museum: errr, how much?
NASA: 42.8 million dollars, that includes delivery, if you can let us have your shipping addess for DHL?
I thought donation meant for Free.
Telephone call from NASA to Smithsonian Museum
NASA: Hi, we'd like to donate this shuttle orbiter to your museum
Museum: Cool, thank you very much.
NASA: If you could just pay the donation fee by Paypal for 42.8 million dollars as soon as possible that would be great.
Museum: errr, how much?
NASA: 42.8 million dollars, that includes delivery, if you can let us have your shipping addess for DHL?
Damn I really wanted it for Christmas too. A space shuttle would be ok for a 4 year old wouldn't it?
I'll be generous and swap an iBook for it.
Meh, I'll be the loser, the iBook has more computing power anyways, but I believe in supporting the noble and thong-stirring work NASA does.
Meh, I'll be the loser, the iBook has more computing power anyways, but I believe in supporting the noble and thong-stirring work NASA does.
Under what circumstances would a museum even begin to recover the $42,000,000 they would "invest" on this?
The Smithsonian Institution, for example, is funded by the government, and was founded to "increase and diffuse knowledge." It doesn't exist to make money.
Careful, this sounds like a scam. Especially if they ask you to send the money by wire transfer!
Just you wait, you'll call up NASA, and they'll tell you they're all currently vacationing in the UK, but if you'll just go ahead and wire the money to the science agency in Nigeria...
I'll take a shuttle seat thank you.
This is bringing me back to my week at Space Camp. That was a fun time.
This is bringing me back to my week at Space Camp. That was a fun time.
Perhaps they should sell it on ebay.
Didn't the russians or someone sell a Buran on eBay? Google won't tell me, but I recall seeing a massive but outdated piece of hardware go on eBay.
They should sell it to the Chinese! maybe we can get a few dollars out of those trillions we are sending their way.
I dunno, you can't just pick up ammonium perchlorate at the local filling station, let alone liquid hydrogen. Maybe lox though, if it's a busy 7/11.
Now that would be cool.Perhaps they should sell it on ebay.
Somehow I knew that Nigeria would enter the equation. LOL.
I think they are standing by for your order now ... while quantities are limited ... get yours now!
Probably included.
Snort!
