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Originally Posted by Less
Quietly amazing! One for, one against but both having 'pretty sure' guesses, no facts, no figures, if only the rest of us could have such certain speculation.
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Thanks Less for the prompt, I was a little busy at the time of posting so I thought I'd do a little research.
According to Mr Robathan, Minster of defence and this document
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sou...vFt8dNhoLAIObg
the cost of running the Ark was 105 million for 4 years so Rindys post quoting 1.2 million a month x 48 = 57.6 million or just under half the running cost of the Ark at full operational capacity, now we know that just parking it in a dock and running it would be less but by how much? I dont think anyone will be able to provide such costings so it will always be a mute point but the point remains valid that it would not be "free".