2007-07-12 08:34:43 · 11 answers · asked by ... 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
According to this research:
http://www.seta.iastate.edu/landvalue/states.aspx
The average land value of cropland in the continental US is $1540 per acre. It's ugly, but let's assume that nearly worthless desert land and ridiculously valuable city real estate balance out in the end, so that the average value per acre in the world is $1540.
There are an estimated 57 million square miles of dry land on the surface of the earth, which is about 36.48 billion acres.
Multiply the two together and you could buy all of the dry land in the world for the nifty sum of $56.18 trillion.
2007-07-12 08:51:41 · answer #1 · answered by John G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
$1
2007-07-12 15:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by BOOTZ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right at the moment it's irreplaceable.
You sound like you'd be a fan of David Brin's "Uplift Universe" series of books. Look for them at your local public library. In this series, an intelligent species does not own the planet it lives on -- and, after a period of time, must either "lease" it or vacate the premises.
2007-07-12 15:52:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most would agree its priceless. You can put dollar amounts on natural resources but you really can't on a planet that is so complex enough that it can provide these seeminly endless number of resources and in some cases even renew them.
2007-07-12 15:37:53 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it weighs around 6 billion trillion tonnes.So if it was made out of cheddar it would cost about £30,000 billion trillion or $62000000000000000000000000
Would you like a glass of water with those crackers?
2007-07-12 16:26:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could probably buy it for a limited time, from the devil. Who would sell it to you for the ownership of your eternal soul. Though the world is not his to sell.
2007-07-12 15:45:29 · answer #6 · answered by Hi T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the globalist's get their way it would cost us our individual freedoms.
2007-07-12 15:43:37 · answer #7 · answered by mazeman25 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
send your question to richard branson he,s coming close to buying it
2007-07-12 19:22:38 · answer #8 · answered by john s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the money in the world.
2007-07-12 18:07:10 · answer #9 · answered by e-sweeney@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, and a lot more. =)
2007-07-12 18:21:47 · answer #10 · answered by Cinderpelt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋