REM@IMSSS (Robert Elton Maas, this host known locally only) (02/01/86)
This past week the California lottery earned 1 billion dollars. That's half the replacement cost of the Challanger. California could divert two weeks of lottery money to buy California's own personal shuttle orbiter. (California would get a lot of that money back in jobs at Lockheed et al contractors that build the shuttle.) What say we propose that?
desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins) (02/01/86)
In article <8602010203.AA01808@s1-b.arpa> REM%IMSSS@SU-SCORE.ARPA writes: >This past week the California lottery earned 1 billion dollars. >That's half the replacement cost of the Challanger. >California could divert two weeks of lottery money to buy California's >own personal shuttle orbiter. (California would get a lot of that >money back in jobs at Lockheed et al contractors that build the shuttle.) >What say we propose that? > > I hate to speak up when I don't have proof, but this number is just too absurd to be right. I think the budget of the state of California is about $4E10; according to this posting lottery revenues exceed the entire state budget. Another way of looking at it is as 25 $1 lottery tickets per resident per week! Please think about what you're saying before you post something that is clearly off by orders of magnitude... -- David desJardins
chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/01/86)
> In article <8602010203.AA01808@s1-b.arpa> REM%IMSSS@SU-SCORE.ARPA writes: > >This past week the California lottery earned 1 billion dollars. > > I hate to speak up when I don't have proof, but this number is just too > absurd to be right. It isn't right. California is taking in about $9,000,000 a day on the lottery, and just passwd the $1 billion mark since the start. After prizes and expenses, only about 34% of that is left. -- :From catacombs of Castle Tarot: Chuq Von Rospach sun!chuq@decwrl.DEC.COM {hplabs,ihnp4,nsc,pyramid}!sun!chuq FidoNet: 125/84 My uncle told me all of this. It must be true, because I know my uncle, and he is as honest as me.
space@ucbvax.UUCP (02/02/86)
not to argue your point, but the giga-bucks have been earned since the lottery began, last Oct 3rd, not in one week. jim
space@ucbvax.UUCP (02/03/86)
I believe the $1 billion was for the entire lottery collections up to this point. Mark Thorson (...!cae780!weitek!mmm)
brahms@spp3.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms) (02/04/86)
In article <11643@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP (David desJardins) writes: >In article <8602010203.AA01808@s1-b.arpa> REM%IMSSS@SU-SCORE.ARPA writes: >>This past week the California lottery earned 1 billion dollars. >>That's half the replacement cost of the Challanger. >>California could divert two weeks of lottery money to buy California's Wrong! The 1B figure is for all California lottery sales from inception of the first lottery to the current date. -- Brad Brahms usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms arpa: Brahms@usc-eclc