LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Square Kilometre: Western Australia
built 653 days ago
[A] one-square-kilometre telescope is likely to cost on the order of US$500 million. Unless you work in the financial markets, this seems like a lot of money. One could think of many alternative uses for it. In relative terms... it is less than 1% of the International Space Station that will start construction this year, at an estimated cost of US$58 billion. It is less than a thousandth of the world's expenditure on arms, which is running at about US$860 billion a year. It is even only 5% of the $9.6 billion Australians spend on gambling each year. And the burden would be borne by several countries and spread over at least five years.
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Located in western Uganda, the new concession land section complements and is in proximity to IBI's existing 371-square-kilometre concession in the Ibanda area of Uganda. The new concession brings the Company's total land position in Uganda to a significant 1031 square kilometres. These lands are permitted through IBI's wholly-owned Uganda subsidiary, Canmin Gold Limited.
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Lac de Gras has a 4,000 square kilometre drainage area. Lac de Gras, with Lac du Sauvage to the northeast, form the headwaters of the Coppermine River flowing 520 kilometres from western Lac de Gras to the Arctic Ocean.
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