2007-01-20 12:03:36 · 9 answers · asked by Skeeter 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
To update, cash wise
2007-01-20 12:05:37 · update #1
That information was always classified.
I can estimate it at $7.5 million in 1980 dollars.
At todays rate the price would be in the billions (probably 3 to 6 billion dollars), but because of our improved technology in 1970 dollars the price would be closer to 5 or 4 million dollars.
I know because, I was a fan of both series and I carefully looked at the opening credits to see all the text and technical specifications that were printed across the screen in the shows starting sequence. In that staring sequence the text printed out "Cost:" and then it flashed "Classified."
Since here upgrades were similar to Steve Austin's (the only difference being a ear and a eye) we can make extrapolations. Inflation at the time would have increased the price by around 15% but her hearing implant is based on current "real world" technology; the Cochlear Implant. She had far better than off the shelf technology, but when compared to Steve Austin's bionic eye her technology would have been cheaper. The best bionic eye we have lets a person distinguish between light and dark and see a few pixels, where the Cochlear Implant can restore 25%-40$ of original hearing.
Also the Bionic Woman did not have the internal air tank in her leg (seen only in the books) nor did she have the giger counter that was in Steve Austin's arm. This would drop the price by around 15% (mostly from the change from eye to ear) so I would put the Bionic Woman's cost at less than 7.5 million.
Of course with conversion to "real world' technology their powers would be cut by at least 50% and their cost would be increased by a factor of 10X to 20X.
When the new Bionic Woman series comes out then I seriously doubt they will give the actual construction or maintenance costs of the cyborg. And they probably won’t show the bionic dog (that wasn’t a good idea) or the first prototype; Monti Markem who played a race car driver who had a massive crash and couldn’t responsibly hand the power of full bionics.
NOTE: The character of Steve Austin was based on a "real world" Air Force Test Pilot. He was involved in the test program after the famous John Glen continuing his work with supersonic aircraft. In his case he was trying to fly the "Flying Bathtub" a streamlined ship that was a very early prototype of the design used for the Space Shuttle. He lost control and crashed on landing; the film footage shown in the title credits for The Six-Million Dollar Man are scenes shot from that crash. The pilot did survive and eventually was able to return to the project as a scientist. Of course he was never able to fly an aircraft, much less a jet, again.
2007-01-20 12:26:56 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they just took a couple of ribs from the bionic man & stuck em in the dirt & poof bionic woman
2007-01-20 20:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by monetspicasso 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
100 millions.
2007-01-20 20:07:09 · answer #3 · answered by Falcon Christian Li 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
10 million
Damn Dan S. Needs to get a life.
2007-01-20 20:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by brp_13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back when the show was on TV .. it was 7 million dollars. Good Luck ! :)
2007-01-20 20:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by tysavage2001 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A buck three ninthy eight
2007-01-20 20:06:20 · answer #6 · answered by DaFinger 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Two.
2007-01-20 20:06:48 · answer #7 · answered by D.J 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
alot
2007-01-20 20:06:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
only one. hahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhaheheheawhro0ejahirhiaehhahaehe
2007-01-20 20:05:45 · answer #9 · answered by BullShit Man 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋