pashaw.... the military's history of being charged for $435 hammers, $640 toilet seats, and $7,600 coffeemakers by contractors. :) The problem is making up for R&D. Drug companies could spend 10-20 years of a dozen chemists to develop a single product. Now even assuming they could sell a billion doses of that product over its expected lifetime (before being replaced by something else), you have to sell that item at a pretty penny to make up for those labor rates. Thus the problem with the military budgets most people have. The R&D is hefty, to develop something new is rough, and rife with failures before you get successes. How many times did Edison fail before he succeeded with a lightbulb? The military and drug companies both follow what is referred to as convergent redundancy. It's a stupid meaningless buzzword, as most buzzwords, which means that you start off with a base of redundant operations weeding out those without success converging into one success. It's the fastest way to reach an R&D product, but it is expensive. And redundancy breeds expense. :)
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
