# House cots £80 billion per square meter! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478 "2006-10-06T09:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/1 "2006-10-06T09:56:27Z")
[link](http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=20621&in_page_id=2) This guys patience and skill is simply amazing. I particularly liked… > [@](#): > > ‘To paint the house, I took the hair from a dead spider’s legs and made a paintbrush. Then it was a case of being very patient and careful.’ Unfortuately £20000 on something you can’t even admire without a magnifying glass is way out of my range. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/2 "2006-10-06T10:37:42Z")
Piker. Paint it with the hair of a _live_ spider’s legs if you want to do it right. Seriously, that is pretty impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/3 "2006-10-06T13:20:58Z")
Well, that’s just the asking price. There’s probabaly a couple of billion in wiggle room there. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/4 "2006-10-06T13:26:35Z")
What the heck is a full stop? ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/5 "2006-10-06T13:28:51Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] What the heck is a full stop? [/QUOTE] I believe you call them periods in the US. full stop ----\> . ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/6 "2006-10-06T14:54:39Z")
This guy is seriously talented: > **[Willard Wigen - Microscopic Art](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/microscopic-art/)** > > Willard Wigan's amazing micro-sculptures, on the head of a pin, a grain of sand, and in the eye of a needle. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/7 "2006-10-06T15:18:28Z")
How many angels can you invite to the housewarming party? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/8 "2006-10-06T15:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=e-logic] This guy is seriously talented: > **[Willard Wigen - Microscopic Art](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/microscopic-art/)** > > Willard Wigan's amazing micro-sculptures, on the head of a pin, a grain of sand, and in the eye of a needle. [/QUOTE] Dang. I’d worry about the photons from a flashbulb knocking one of his sculptures over. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/9 "2006-10-06T20:28:29Z")
I liked this part: “He said: ‘I spent 15 hours a day for seven weeks sculpting a minute piece of diamond.’” He must have been peeling off a molecule at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/10 "2006-10-06T21:21:10Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] I liked this part: “He said: ‘I spent 15 hours a day for seven weeks sculpting a minute piece of diamond.’” He must have been peeling off a molecule at a time. [/QUOTE] Which begs the question: “How does one sculpt diamond?” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/11 "2006-10-06T21:31:31Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] How many angels can you invite to the housewarming party? [/QUOTE] I’m inviting none at all. They only ever play dance music. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-cots-80-billion-per-square-meter/375478/12 "2006-10-07T03:11:35Z")
[QUOTE=Regallag\_The\_Axe] Which begs the question: “How does one sculpt diamond?” [/QUOTE] Carefully. 😃