Zephyrus Wrote:
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> A trained monkey can do geologic and structural
> engineering analysis on a 100+ year old railroad
> tunnel? Could do legal ownership research and
> traffic flow and impact mitigaction studies?
> Could calculate labor and materials budgets and
> work plans resulting from those analysis numbers?
>
> That's some monkey.
>
> Considering I've spent 14 years working in an
> industry where my clients demand similar studies
> and research for their projects (and believe me,
> those ain't cheap, I'd really like to hire me one
> of them monkeys), I would completely believe that
> such a study would cost this much, if it is what
> the article I read indicates. Heck, as I
> mentioned on another board, I know a company that
> spent $250,000 just studying a color.
>
> When you hire specialists to do their jobs right,
> it is not cheap.

Thanks for bringing your level-headed perspective to this discussion.