Lumifer comments on Estimate the Cost of Immortality

Lumifer 13 Dec 2015 23:30 UTC
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How many gold coins would it take for the Roman Empire to land a man on the moon, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?
- mwengler 15 Dec 2015 16:02 UTC
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  I would estimate approximately
  
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  Is it permissible to write III^^^III ?
  - Lumifer 15 Dec 2015 17:04 UTC
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    At which point the weight of all this gold would probably be sufficient to start a gravitational collapse leading to a black hole.
    
    And since the man and the moon would meet inside the black hole, PROBLEM SOLVED!