--- Patrick Rigney <patrick_at_evocative.com> wrote:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3611062497&cate
> > gory=40129
>
> Yeah, and it seems a good bit, if not all, of the electronics were
> long-removed. So it's an expensive polished sphere.
I'm sure I could outfit a nice machine shop and hire some Russians
to *make* me a replica for a lot less than the current bid price. :-)
> Oh well, my wife would succumb to spontaneous combustion if UPS dropped
> Sputnik on the porch, anyway. Patrick :-)
If I had $25K to blow and I dropped it on _that_ instead of something
interesting, like an Antarctic Total Eclipse Cruise (23-Nov-2003),
I'd be in similar straits.
-ethan
Received on Wed Jun 04 2003 - 15:53:00 BST