How much is $5 million?

[Wilson Heydt]

In regards to the recent flap over the $5 million spent by the state
of Utah on Pons & Fleischmann's Cold Fusion efforts--and whether this
is to be considered a large or a small sum of money . . .

Consider that the _Olympias_ (the reconstruction of an ancient Greek
trireme) cost about $1 million and the man behind the effort--John
Coates--needs about $1.5 million to set up port facilities and build a
"better" version correcting the mistakes in the first one. That $5
million would build at least *3* such ships--even though it wouldn't
even be noticed in the construction of the SSC. I guess it's all
relative . . .

--Hal

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