how much would it cost to build rapture?

[LWS666]

so i saw this
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/89214-The-Death-Star-Costs-15-6-Septillion
and wondered if anyone has any idea how much it would cost to build a city like rapture?

 

[Axolotl]

A man builds, only a parasite counts the cost.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Quick research shows a nuclear sub costs about 2.5 billion USD. That is the nearest equivalent I can think.

Wikipedia says that downtown Dubai cost 20 billion USD which is a similar scale and type of project Rapture only on land.

The land equivalent of a nuclear sub might be a missile silo which again, the internet says, costs 3 million USD to make. Cost of constructing a self contained underwater environment is therefore 1000 times more expensive.

My estimate for the cost to construct something like Rapture would be 20 trillion USD.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Billions upon billions, and it would be completely unpractical.... probably impossible.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

Bioshock. In Space!

You should copyright that. Fast.

 

[Asimov]

it couldn't be built. At the bottom of the ocean the pressure would be so high that no material known to man could withstand it at that large of a scale. A sub is one thing, a city is another.

 

[Infinatex]

...i'll just put it on credit. What I need to raise my limit??? Probably need a bigger letter box to fit the bill when it comes.

 

[LWS666]

Quick research shows a nuclear sub costs about 2.5 billion USD. That is the nearest equivalent I can think.

was the billion a typo or do they really cost that much?

also,

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

the reason i wouldn't do that is because it costs $95 million per ton to ship stuff to space. too expencive.

 

[JRCB]

Somewhere between a shitload and a fuckton.

Actually, though, I imagine several billion or trillion dollars.

 

[Sir Kemper]

Over nine thousand!

Alright, you may all go now.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

Bioshock. In Space!

You should copyright that. Fast.

I think someone might have beaten you to it with System Shock

 

[Joe Deadman]

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

Bioshock. In Space!

You should copyright that. Fast.

Sooooo system shock? (if that was the joke then I am sooo sorry D. Probably a lot. Like enough money to fill the grand canyon. I would just spend that on a space elevator quite frankly.

 

[Macgyvercas]

A man builds, only a parasite counts the cost.

Nice. Very Andrew Ryan-esque.

I won't give a number, but I will say it would more than I could ever hope to make in my lifetime.

 

[dududf]

My guess is around 100 trillion.

Also include worker fees private advertising (don't ask me), building of it, buying top of the line technology, researching new tech...then covering it all up and keeping it a secret...

It'd cost a fuck ton.

100 trillion seems right.

 

[khululy]

I wonder how they got the glass to withstand the water pressure...

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Infinite monies +1

Meaning, we could never afford even if we had an unlimited supply of money!

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

Bioshock. In Space!

You should copyright that. Fast.

I think someone might have beaten you to it with System Shock

Yeah. I just wanted to see how many people would burst my bubble. Poor bubble.

 

[Jaranja]

I couldn't tell you.
I think the money would be better spent building a city on the moon though.

Bioshock. In Space!

You should copyright that. Fast.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! That was absolutely brilliant! I love you for that.

About 50 trillion, I'd say.