----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: The Space Station
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yanni Cooper) wrote:
> >Dan Minette wrote:
> > > But what company will shell out the cost for the PR value. What would
> >the
> > > cost be, 100 billion? That's a big investment in PR to make back.
> >
> >I dunno... companies regularly spend amounts approaching 10
> >billion on advertising during the superbowl right?
>
> I just looked up the numbers and obtained 150 million for the day's
revenue
> in '99. That's almost 2 orders of magnitude lower than 10 billion. I
> realize that 2000 set a record, but I think it wasn't over 200 million for
> the entire day for Fox. So, 100 billion would be 500 times as much.
>
> I cannot imagine each day of a Mars trip grabbing the people's attention
> like one day of the super bowl.
>
<Voiceover>
Mars Day One, brought to you by:
General Motors, makers of the Ares SUV......it sucks hydrogen...its a gas!!!
Microsoft, what planet are you on today?
Genetec, what do you want from life?
and
Tang, breakfast drink of the astronauts for 50 years!
xponent
rob
<G>
