Sometimes I find myself wondering the strangest things. For example... 
How much is a live dairy cow actually worth? As far as I'm aware, 
there's no easy way of actually answering such obscure questions.



In a similar way, if I wanted somebody to go to an empty field and just 
*build* me a house, what would that cost? Obviously this one varies 
wildly depending on exactly what I want them to build, what 
infrastructure is already in place, etc. But let's take the astronomer's 
perspective: how many digits does the price tag have in it? (Assuming I 
want them to build a normal-sized house that isn't made of sure 
zirconium or anything weird like that.)




installed in my house. Which, when you consider the amount of metal 
involved, to say nothing of the quantity of wood, the carpentry, the 
hand-made, hand-voiced, hand-tuned pipework, and the custom design... In 
short, considering the amount of materials, labour and specialist skills 
involved, six grand seems pretty darn /cheap/!

Obviously we're not talking about an organ to rival Westminster Abbey. 
Actually, something more on the scale of this:

http://tinyurl.com/684mhku

Even so, if you think about what it would even cost just to make a 
/cabinet/ like that...



Potato batteries. OK, how the /hell/ can that possibly work? I mean, 
seriously. Lemon batteries work because lemons are filled with lemon 
juice, one of the most acidic foodstuffs known to Man. But potatoes? 
They hardly contain any liquid at all, and (if taste is anything to go 
by) it's not even /slightly/ acidic. Any yet, apparently it can generate 
an electrical potential. How?!



Are fungi poisonous on purpose, or is it just a side-effect of their 
unusual body chemistry?

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