Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic showThe  six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today?

Last May, CNN Money estimated that due to inflation, that $6 million surgery would cost slightly over $26 million. But obviously the surgery in the original TV show wasn’t quite medically accurate, and creating those bionic parts from scratch would actually cost somewhere between $50 and 100 million today—although after one successful prototype is completed, it could cost far less.

However, CNN Money posted this article in May 2008, before the world economy exploded. My learned estimate for how much the Six Million Dollar Man’s surgery would cost today? Twelve bucks, and a hoagie. [CNN]

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