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2. I'm sorry but it's not a multi-million dollar sub. it's just a bunch of metal, plastic,
Sun Sep 8, 2024, 12:43 PM
Sep 2024

electronics, and other stuff. Unless the brains of all the scientists, engineers and technicians are stored in it along with the only copy of all the plans and drawings, then another one can be made much cheaper. Most of the costs are probably salaries. It costs zillions to design and build the first of anything but the rest are far cheaper or we wouldn't have any new things that once were one of a kind like MRI machines.

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