yeah I ' m sure for the average person there are many countries that they would ' ve never heard of . I am well educated and know my geography quite well . Svalbard is totally new and I have talked to many people about it who also agree . <| sep |> I believe a better estimate is to not ignore information that ' s right in your face just because you know mathematical models . You know what 19 K can buy , you know what 19 Mil can buy , why do you ignore this in favor of relative measurements ? The absolute values are absolutely relevant in this case . I ' ll give you an analogyGoing from taking a slap in the face to taking a hammer to the face is not roughly the same as going from a hammer to the face to a sledgehammer to the face . Sure , the relative increase in impact energy might be similar but in the second case you ' re probably already going to die with the hammer anyway , so it doesn ' t make much of a difference which one you go for , hammer or sledgehammer . In this case the absolute value of the impact energy is more important that the relative jump in energy between each possibility .