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National Geographic - Pricing the Priceless (2011)



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Pricing the Priceless
Just how much is the Eiffel Tower worth? Or what about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt? And could you put a cash value on New York's Grand Central Terminal? In this new series, US engineer and television personality Kevin Cook decides to answer these very questions, taking a trio of iconic structures and valuing each in three ways in order to obtain an accurate cash sum. First of all, Cook assesses the scrap value of his chosen structure: how much cash could he raise if he broke up each building and sold off the pieces? Then he utilises his engineering background, looking at the construction of each selected monument, discovering how each was put together and how much the cost of rebuilding would be today. Finally, he examines the profit and cost margins of each building as if he were a Wall Street trader purchasing a company.
Part 1: The Great Pyramid
In the opening episode, Cook's focus is on Egypt. Just outside the capital, Cairo lies the Great Pyramid of Giza, built to house the body of the Pharoah Khufu and comprising 5.75 million tonnes of limestone. The Great Pyramid has been the subject of historical and archaeological research for centuries, but now Cook will attempt to tell us what it might be worth, in terms of scrap, rebuilding costs and its value as a business. He also ponders how much it might cost to ship it back to his home in the States...

Technical Specs
Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
Video Bitrate: 2043 kbps
Video Resolution: 720 x 416
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.731 (16.9)
Frames per Second: 25
Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime per Part: 45mins
Number of Parts: 3
Part Size: 701 MB
Ripped by: Harry65
Source: DVB-rip