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Is this the best decorative lawn ornament money can buy?

Imagine 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