If you actually cared…
(via xkcd: Charity)
Jan
Secrets of the 99%
I am the 99%
So are you.
Our generation is drowning.
We were told education would save us; we were lied to.
I was told education would make all the difference, no matter what the degree - I was lied to.
We are the 99%. Some of us are further away from the disaster than others, that’s all.
Rysvard Gold, a self-described Web designer and “outlandish thinker,” came to this daunting figure by calculating the amount of raw material that it would take to build a moon-sized space station, and multiplying it by the cost of getting this material into space. Gold concedes he doesn’t even consider not-insignificant costs such as labor and trekking the steel around once it is blasted into the great beyond.
Unfortunately, $15 septillion is about a trillion times the current value of the entire Earth, so our lobbying effort to have a Death Star included in the U.S. stimulus package may be in vain.(source)