On putting the SHIP into cost of ownership ...

[twelve_not_fourteen]

"Heroic smuggler Han Solo may look like a dishevelled rogue in the Star Wars films, but he would have to be a multi-millionaire to keep his ship, the Millennium Falcon, flying. The deceptively shabby spaceship, which is apparently capable of travelling faster than light speed, would cost £2,044,000 ($3,064,415) a year in repairs, according to engineers. They say it would require more than £350,000 in Labour costs alone - and the calculation did not even take insurance into account."

And yet, there are still people who wonder why I steal to get by.


Resource: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3350891/Is-Han-Solo-multi-millionaire-Engineers-estimate-Millennium-Falcon-ship-cost-2-million-year-run.html#ixzz415tFf4lG

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[twelve_not_fourteen]

It always seemed to me like it was pretty obvious that keeping up the Falcon would be incredibly expensive. In my head, if he wasn't flying it somewhere, he was pretty well sinking nearly all of his money into working on it.

I think I was more amused at the idea that some guy, who will forget more about engineering than I'll ever know, took the time to try to quantify the cost of ownership and that some lady tried to write this up like it was news.

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[brave_heart_verity]

Well, it's like the book says, the geek shall inherit the Earth. These people want to still have jobs when that happens.

I've always wondered why, when they make those lists of richest superheroes, they don't account for the insane costs of being a tech-based superhero. Because there's really no fucking way Bruce Wayne has any money left since none of his Batman research gets used to make something commercial.

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[twelve_not_fourteen]

Yesh, yeah. Batman somehow funds not just himself, but like 5 other characters in the comics too, right? The guy must be printing his own money in the batcave when he's not fighting crime.

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[brave_heart_verity]

And in the old Justice League cartoon, he also paid for a space station and all that stuff. As line items in the Wayne Enterprises budget.

I'm pretty sure someone would notice that.