Alright, so the war in Iraq has cost us somewhere between $523 billion and $3 trillion. In the linked article, this Charlie fella suggests we could have colonized Mars or built a rather nice city. Pish. You know what’d be a really fun way to spend that kinda cash?
-You could buy 26-odd billion pillows. That’s like, four pillows for everyone on earth. Did I just hear pillow fight?!
-Based on a cost of $25,000 each, you could (if only about 19.95 million more existed) buy everyone in New York a DeLorean, and it’d suddenly be the center of cool for the universe.
-You could probably bribe Cher to never appear in public again.
-That’s enough for 158 billion cubic feet of packing peanuts (biodegradable, too!). With that, we could cover Washington, DC in 92 feet of packing peanuts. Staticky cats would be hilarious.
-Charlie says we could send 510 people to Mars. Based on the average American male’s weight of 190 pounts, we could instead send (based on an average of 10 pounds) 9690 cats. Why? Because I like Steve Martin. Note: this number is not counting the amount of string we’d need to send.
Anyways, that’s what I would do with $523,000,000,000.
