Is this the best decorative lawn ornament money can buy?
February 9th, 2010 by Dan Reitman Posted in CoolImagine your nextdoor neighbours, year in and year out, always outdoing you with their lawn decorating. You install a bird feeder and, not to be outdone, they put up a flock of pink fiberglass flamingos. You counter with a family of fiberglass penguins, and so they install a gaudy, Italian marble fountain. Where does this silly one-upmanship end?
Well, not unlike the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII, if you pay a hefty price up front (in this case, $28 million USD), you can end the war quickly. Also, if you act now, they’ll probably throw in a few skids of freeze-dried ice cream.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/01/space-shuttles-for-sale.html
