re: #57 Mr Pancakes

As a friend of mine who works in the defense industry would reply… it’s not the cost of the toliet seat or screwdriver or whatever, it’s the cost of the R&D to come up with it.

Or it’s because the toilet seat was specially designed for the Space Shuttle which makes it slightly different than a toilet seat you can buy at Home Depot, or because the screws and the screwdrivers and the nuts and bolts were all off spec and had to be specifically machined because they would not fit anything commercially produced.