Wow, I Gave the world a Trillion USD$$

OK, so some lighter more fun stuff to think about. (excerpt from an email to my son)

I did some thinking and figured out that my invention of the International Space Station with some 15 countries involved has produced about a $1 TRILLION USD income for the planet.

Yes that is right, $1 TRILLION US dollars, planet wide in 34 years. True I got nothing out of the deal except I am now pushing the bragging rights, very common for me to put in LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, Quora, Twitter comments... but think of it this way, that space station up there is about $50 Billion in parts.

There has been 3 to 7 astronauts in there living for some 25 years, it costs about $50 million to put a rocket up in space, that is not the payload or the rocket itself, just the launch costs, i.e. fuel, launch pad setup and personnel around the planet on duty. There is a rocket or shuttle going up every 3 to 4 months, so bare minimum of $150 Million per year, $3,750 MILLION in shipping costs.

Then add the cost of making equipment, supplies, factories, maintaining of bases, the making of parts i.e. the Canadian robot arm cost $25 million just to build it, how much to design and freight it up, how much in research... yeah, it adds up pretty damn fast!

So think of that, you got a dad that make the world a Trillion dollars richer and not a single FUCKING GUN was used to get that income created! TOTALLY IN PEACE!

I still have the only project humans have worked on for 34 years with many countries working together and again NOT A FREAKING WAR!

SpaceX & Virgin Galactic and several other companies are in business because of my invention or inspired by it...

I did not steal anything instead I let the government steal it from me.

In 1983 I knew that government would not buy or take it. but the greedy would STEAL IT so I wrote and designed the letter to steal & 4 months later it was a done deal with 7 countries signed on to make the International Space Station.

Pretty cool thought to think about, you have a totally ethical superpower rich in the heart & moral dad...

I am pretty sure that no one else on the planet can claim such a gift to the planet... Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Edison, Ford, even Da Vinci they all took profit on their works, I gave to the ISS to the planet to save it... may not work but at least I tried.

I have never made any money off the invention, no one has even paid me for my story.

So the altruistic level of doing something for the good the human race, not even a single country or a single religion but the world as a whole, does put an interesting spin on the overall whole story...

Be proud Ben, you one hell of a nutcase Dad, but a nutcase in the right direction, logical & Sane... instead of greedy and arrogant!