But it could also be humor

Ben Bernanke on the "company" card

Doubtful, but, at least now I know I could make a lowly $10,000,000,000.00 payment without a problem. The challenge will be to find $10 billion worth of stuff to buy.

> Doubtful, but, at least now I know I could make a lowly $10,000,000,000.00 payment without a problem. The challenge will be to find $10 billion worth of stuff to buy.

Before you search for the $10 billion worth of stuff, be sure and get one of those cards that gives you a percentage back. 😉

Larry P

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http://www.marsshop.com/ 😉

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Comical. But as a moneymaking scheme, probably as good as the pet rock.

Don't buy it unless your lot is staked. Anybody registered to do work on Mars?

And there might be a problem or two with title. Allodial? Is anybody selling title insurance?

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Will the lots be surveyed in the PLSS System or Colonial States?

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They seem to be using lat-lon coordinates.

Since there isn't any MNSS (Martian Navigation Satellite System) or a network of passive MMS (Martian Mars-odetic Survey) monuments, it's going to be pretty hard to survey in those corners.

Also, it's not clear what they do about convergence of the meridians - could be creating some overlap in the deeds.

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Could you imagine what we as a profession could do now as far as accuracy goes on a clean slate like that. The accuracy of measurement could be awesome.

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List of quadrangles of Mars

> Also, it's not clear what they do about convergence of the meridians - could be creating some overlap in the deeds.

Well...as long as the entry man makes a good faith effort to locate the boundaries of his property, and there is harmony in the Martian neighborhood, who are we to call him wrong?

> I just made a credit card payment and noticed that in the amount paid boxes you could enter an amount up to:
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> $99,999,999,999.99
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> Now I'd like to think my credit is good, but that's nuts. Do you suppose there is someone out there that actually could charge $99 BILLION to their credit card?

You all can laugh but when I was involved with writing bank teller terminal software in the 80s, our software would only take 99,999,999.99 for a dollar amount. That was never a problem until GM paid off Ross Perot $640,000,000.00 to shut up and go away.
Turns out he banks at one of our customers so they had to make 7 separate deposits.
Our next version of the software had an outrageous limit and to my knowledge never had a problem.