Space Shuttle Red Tag Sale

You know, what's sad is when I half write a really decent post, then become unable to wrap it up at the end and so leave it as a draft in my account and dont publish it. Then NASA goes and does something hilarious that directly references the unfinished post! Here, NASA reports that not only have they lowered the price tag on the soon-to-be-retired shuttles to a mere 29 million bucks, but the shuttle main engines are FREE!!!
Here's what I wrote back in September of 2008:

Of course, owning a shuttle would be splendid, you could have it permanently strapped to the top of your personal 747 and whenever you landed at some airport people would go nuts.
But what would be even more splendid would be to own a shuttle main engine. At a lovely 400,000 lbs of thrust, one of these bad boys would put a small vehicle (about the size of a Honda del Sol) into space quite easily. Honestly, the uses for such an engine are numerous and fantastic, the least of which would be to strap it to an asteroid and use the asteroid as a nuclear deterrent to foreign nations; don't nuke us or we will annihilate your continent. However, I doubt the the shuttle main engines will ever be for sale, they are undoubtedly going to museums across the globe.

How wrong I was! Not only are they for sale, but they are so unwanted by anyone that you can literally have one for free, all you have to do is drive to Florida and pick it up! TAE's mouth waters at the idea...