Cost to Built a Bionic Man today???
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Six Million Dollar Man
tbirdman-1 — 12 years ago(July 27, 2013 12:31 PM)
I grew up watching the Six Million Dollar Man when it was new and
today am curious to know with inflation factored in from the
seventies along with the current dollar value just what in today's
dollar rate in US millions would be the estimated cost to our
government to actually design and build a working prototype of a
21st century bionic man with two bionic legs, high tech arms and
one bionic eye/ear? I would guesstimate around $75-80 million US or
am I just being slightly off with my estimated figure? Of course
it would need to have a high tech brain as well and take that
into account for the overall cost.
Lawrence Sunny California
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Sitcom_Sally — 10 years ago(February 27, 2016 11:08 AM)
Aside from government overspending I'm wondering if it would be cheaper today due to advances in technology. A prosthetic arm can be made now for just a couple of hundred dollars, while the patient waits, with a 3D printer. I think they'd previously cost around $70,000.
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LorqVonRay1999 — 3 years ago(February 19, 2023 05:27 AM)
Well, it depends on where it is made.
In San Francisco, the cost of a new toilet is around $1.3 million and takes three years to build.
So, a bionic man in San Fran would cost around $596 billion and take roughly 6,000 years to build.
