Yesterday as I was staring at the $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered for Yahoo! I got to thinking, "what else could you buy for that?" Instead of doing a whole bunch of math on the spot, I decided to tell Joe (of
Holy Crap! Facts) and we built a site to answer the question.
How Much Does it Buy? is a currency converter for the rest of us, telling you how much that giant sum will buy you in A380s (
146 instead of Yahoo!), boob jobs (
6,371,428 of the silicone variety), cows (
47,130,930 1,000 pounders), elephants (
2,260,975 without food), gold, iPhones, kidneys on the black market, pork bellies, stars (from the Internation Star Registry), ThighMasters and unleaded gas.
It was really just for fun, but I thought it was worth sharing. I actually am pulling commodity prices dynamically as well, which was kind of a fun problem to figure out.