So if this is to be believed, then with a current world population of 6,697,254,041 (*75,000)

It would cost 502,294,053,075,000 per year

so 500 Trillion dollars a year for EVERYone to be happy.

Current world gdp is 61 Trillion.

My Utopian dream bubble has been popped.

hey all you engineers. yeah I know you're reading this. yeah I have no idea what the acronym could be but what it does is simple... what sort of energy, processing, and weight requirements are needed to build a little ball of a robot. to detach, fly by, and return, any tool sized object an astronaut may let go of. this shouldn't be that hard. a lot of you guys are smarter than me. I'm sure you can spend a little time writing the equations up here. lets get something going. and if anyone actually gets off their ass and makes something happen, we might even get paid.

sheesh. Leave it to some NSA hacker geek at DARPA to use the handle [redacted].

I mean come on, be original for once.

:P