Dunno. That seems to have left out the cost of super-high-tech heat resistant materials, the cost of transportation and installation, not to mention 93 million miles (150 million km) of supercooled wire.
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For best performance, install on surface of the sun per option B, using cryogenic superconducting wiring.
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Just move to Venus. Iām sure there will be a cloud city there soon.
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I feel like this one could also belong in Celebrating Art, Literature, and Power of Imagination:
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Iām looking for a cartoon that I may have seen here. It is a guy who posts an āif evolution is true why are there still monkeys?ā type argument, and immediately astonished scientists show up at his door and whisk him away for a Nobel Prize.
EDIT: typo
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If you find it, post it here. That would be a great one! (And I donāt recall seeing it here.)
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July is one of my favorite months for that reason ā lightning bugs and lightning storms. 
I remember when the original Star Wars came out and the CGI were the big deal and impressive, we left the theater and drove home towards a big thunderstorm and the lighting was fantastic. In comparison Star Warsā special effects were nothing!
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I know a family of Hortons. 
Who?
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I used to end road trips by declaring, āWell, as the Whos said to Hortonā¦ā
A friend wanted to start a band called āHorton and the Whosā, but he said he couldnāt find a microphone small enough . . . .
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I donāt remember. āThatās all she wroteā?
My favorite was Fox in Socks, at least to read to my kids. I donāt remember what mine was when I was a child. Looking at his bibliography and the dates, it very well could have been Horton Hears a Who.
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Na, Fox in Socks doesnāt hold a candle to Green Eggs and Ham as far as our family is concerned. 
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Iām pretty solid on One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. The one with the little star gets me every time.
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Ah yes - āThe Star-Bellied Sneechesā
I think the classic āCat in the Hatā may have been one of my gotos. Along with Bartholemew Cubbins and the 500 hats. The Butter Battle is also quite the preachy classic.
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Thatās so neat! Looking at the N American one, it appears they did have low level malaria in the South then, too (excluding the Appalachians).
@glipsnort has worked (may still be working) with malaria. Itās an awful disease. Right about now in West Africa is a peak season, as I recall.
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Oh yes, the US had malaria. Eliminating it took a major Federal campaign and keeping it eliminated requires ongoing work ā in the last year, weāve had local transmission in Florida and Texas. (And yes, Iām still working on malaria, mostly in Senegal. That is, the malaria is in Senegal ā Iām in Massachusetts.)
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Love this! What a neat little piece of history.
Personally, I prefer Andy the Mosquito, not only is he vegan, but he also has cool facial hair.*
*technically it is akin to nose hair, but weāll let that slide.
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Oh no ā¦ here comes the patriarchy again.
Highest awards to Liam, though - very few could find any transition from Malaria back to humor - but you managed to land on the one picture that could pull it off. Nose hair indeed!
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