A. How much money can be stolen from a Brinks armored car? In cash?
   In gold? In diamonds?<p><br>

B. What is the annual income of the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas?<p><br>

C. What fraction of UC Berkeley's energy needs could be supplied by
   solar panels on the roof of every campus building?<p><br>

D. Estimate the mass of rubber liberated from car tires each year
   by cars traveling along the stretch of Highway 80 near
   Berkeley.<p><br>

E. How many airplanes are in the air at any given instant in time?<p><br>

F. Lead poisoning problem of Sterl's (for homework)<p><br>

G. Swissair flight 111 from New York to Geneva crashed
   in Halifax Nova Scotia on 2 Sept 1998, killing all 219 on board.
   As might be expected for a flight with this destination, the lawsuits
   and settlements have already made this the costliest air disaster
   in history ($600,000,000). Did this crash represent a significant
   fluctuation in the number of people in the world who die
   each day? (i.e., would you notice 2 Sept 1998 on a graph of
   daily world deaths?)<p><br>

H. Can you read without a flashlight on Pluto?<p><br>

I. How many helium balloons would you need to tie to your chair to start floating away?<p><br>

J. Water usage.
   (a) How much water (liter/year) is used to grow the food you eat?
   (b) Estimate the mean annual rainfall (inches) over the planet Earth.<p><br>

K. You inhabit a space station that is 100 m on a side. The station is suddenly struck by debris that opens a hole 10 cm in radius.
   Do you have enough time to put on your spacesuit?<p><br>

L. A recent television ad campaigned against having casinos built in the Bay area because it would add an estimated "400,000" cars to major highways every day. Is this a good argument?<p><br>