What Would You Do with Unlimited Funds?

[Andre]

 

[Astronuc]

Yes, but how about after you save the world?

Go walkabout - then find a nice quiet corner of the world and garden, and watch clouds and stars.

 

[turbo]

And, of course, a big enough plot of land (in the Sierra's perhaps...) with a nice small house were I could live in solitude and play in the woods for the foreseeable future.

What? No mountain stream teeming with cut-throats or rainbows? You need to re-calibrate. Fishing is critical to happiness.

 

[chaoseverlasting]

A Gibson Sg, Lp Special, Fender Strat, Tele, Ibanez Jem, a couple of decent acoustics (Martins, Seagulls, etc), an analog effects pedal board, and 4x12 cab Jc120's...

 

[turbo]

Already owned (and sold) most all of them. When I was collecting guitars and amps, I'd buy the best, play them until my tastes or preferences changed, then sell them. Buy them used, refurbish them, and make money doing so. No need to be rich to pull that off. I got all my walking-around money in college by playing in bands on weekends and buying and selling instruments. College students are notoriously lazy and irresponsible with their parents' money and when they get short of cash, they'll dump music gear that they just HAD to have.

Often, I bought a guitar, performed a quick tune-up (set intonation, bridge tension, string-height) and sell it for almost double what I paid for it. Refrets take a bit longer, but are eminently do-able in a dorm room or apartment with minimal equipment.

If you work it right, trading in musical instruments is a way to make money, not blow it. At one time, I had over 20 acoustic guitars at home. When my company got bought out and I was out of work for a bit, I sold off guitars little by little and made money on them all. I had been doing this for years before I met my wife-to-be, so I never got any flak for buying guitar after guitar. They are portable investments.

 

[wolram]

I would buy me a tropical island and a sea plane so any mates could come visit, or a big house on the isle of man.

 

[turbo]

I would buy me a tropical island and a sea plane so any mates could come visit, or a big house on the isle of man.

Then you'd have to buy a Manx Norton for the road-course!

 

[wolram]

Then you'd have to buy a Manx Norton for the road-course!

I would get two so you could come and play. lol.

 

[turbo]

I would get two so you could come and play. lol.

Yay! If you hit the lottery think of me. The thought of once again riding one of those 500 cc thumpers at full chat is quite exciting. (Even if it needs to puke oil all over my right leg.)

 

[nucleargirl]

I'd buy my parents and family everything they wanted. I'd go study something else, medicine maybe, I'd fund my own research lab. I'd learn to fly planes, I'd open a cake shop :9 and of course buy a tropical island, but only a small one, and keep geese! and have mango trees... and a chef!

 

[DanP]

I'd buy my parents and family everything they wanted. I'd go study something else, medicine maybe, I'd fund my own research lab. I'd learn to fly planes, I'd open a cake shop :9 and of course buy a tropical island, but only a small one, and keep geese! and have mango trees... and a chef!

Id buy The One Ring :P In modern translation, a position of high political power and social influence.

 

[loseyourname]

I'd start a philanthropic foundation and a hedge fund but mostly have other people run them and spend most of my time writing and traveling to outdoor adventure locations.

 

[Lancelot59]

Would making a car fly with balloons be a worthwhile investment?

 

[turbo]

Would making a car fly with balloons be a worthwhile investment?

No, but it might be fun.

 

[Lancelot59]

Actually, why not release lots of cowbells into the sky attached to balloons? World's biggest bell concert!

 

[CRGreathouse]

I'd pay off my remaining debt, give a bit to charity, but my life wouldn't change much -- I'd still stay at the same place and work the same job. I'm sure I'd get some flashy things to help attract a mate (I'm currently single), and having accomplished that I'd just live the life. As time would pass I'd grow more comfortable with the money and move toward changing the world for the better. I'd quite my job to spend all my time promoting alternate energy, campaign for a dramatically higher fuel tax, promote literacy and equality (race, gender, etc.). Eventually the power would go to my head and my efforts, though still ostensibly for charitable ends, would be entirely self-serving. After exhausting my goodwill, people would see me for what I had become, and sooner or later I would be assassinated.

At least, that seems the likeliest outcome to me.

 

[Evo]

I'd pay off my remaining debt, give a bit to charity, but my life wouldn't change much -- I'd still stay at the same place and work the same job. I'm sure I'd get some flashy things to help attract a mate (I'm currently single), and having accomplished that I'd just live the life. As time would pass I'd grow more comfortable with the money and move toward changing the world for the better. I'd quite my job to spend all my time promoting alternate energy, campaign for a dramatically higher fuel tax, promote literacy and equality (race, gender, etc.). Eventually the power would go to my head and my efforts, though still ostensibly for charitable ends, would be entirely self-serving. After exhausting my goodwill, people would see me for what I had become, and sooner or later I would be assassinated.

In my effort to not spew all over my keyboard I choked instead.

 

[Lancelot59]

I can see baking a mole of doughnuts and giving them to everyone in the world being a worthwhile effort. Every gets to have a doughnut a day for...a while I guess.

 

[DaveC426913]

I wish I could remember what movie this came from:

"Haha, if I won a whole pile of money, I'd take half of it and I'd buy a hundred cases of beer, fifty kilos of pot and an awseome DJ, and throw a giant party for my all friends that would last 3 days.

And the rest of it I'd probably just fritter away..."

 

[lisab]

I can see baking a mole of doughnuts and giving them to everyone in the world being a worthwhile effort. Every gets to have a doughnut a day for...a while I guess.

Lol, a mole of doughnuts...sigh. Gotta love PF.

 

[Lancelot59]

Lol, a mole of doughnuts...sigh. Gotta love PF.

6.02X10^23 spread about let's say...10 billion people gives us 60200000000000 per person, and if everyone ate two per day that would give two doughnuts a day for about 8.246575×10^10 years, or 82465750 millenniums.

 

[CRGreathouse]

6.02X10^23 spread about let's say...10 billion people gives us 60200000000000 per person, and if everyone ate two per day that would give two doughnuts a day for about 8.246575×10^10 years, or 82465750 millenniums.

And how long would it last if the population was 7 billion and grew at 1% annually?

 

[DaveC426913]

And how long would it last if the population was 7 billion and grew at 1% annually?

Eating doughnuts? Not likely...

(Well, they'd grow, but the population might not...)

 

[Lancelot59]

Eating doughnuts? Not likely...

(Well, they'd grow, but the population might not...)

They could be healthy doughnuts.

6.02*10^23 / 2 per day / 365 per year =8.2465753424658 x 10^20

I think...I'll finish solving it properly when I'm not on an iPod.

 

[DaveC426913]

They could be healthy doughnuts.

Healthy doughnuts...

Jumbo Shrimp...
Giant Bonsai...
Too much chocolate...
Those breasts are too large...

 

[Lancelot59]

Healthy doughnuts...

Jumbo Shrimp...
Giant Bonsai...
Too much chocolate...
Those breasts are too large...

This large? (If it's inappropriate I can remove it)
[URL]http://www.jonco48.com/blog/zcup2su.jpg[/URL]

Still haven't gotten around to running that calculation...actually I'm still trying to figure out how to do it.

 

[DaveC426913]

This large? (If it's inappropriate I can remove it)

Astonishingly, I have seen the gazongas that can fill that. They were part of the stage props for Elton John's Las Vegas show I saw last summer. The show pretty much left no stone unturned when it came to brobdingnagio-genitalian props.

 

[Lancelot59]

Astonishingly, I have seen the gazongas that can fill that. They were part of the stage props for Elton John's Las Vegas show I saw last summer. The show pretty much left no stone unturned when it came to brobdingnagio-genitalian props.

That actually sounds like the big butts that are in the music video for "I Like Big Butts".

Anyhow, I can also see building a series of space elevators being useful. You could place one right on a pole, and the station at the top would have some artificial gravity.

 

[DaveC426913]

Anyhow, I can also see building a series of space elevators being useful. You could place one right on a pole, and the station at the top would have some artificial gravity.

Are we still talking about gigantic sex props?

A 36,000km poledancing pole?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

They could be healthy doughnuts.

6.02*10^23 / 2 per day / 365 per year =8.2465753424658 x 10^20

I think...I'll finish solving it properly when I'm not on an iPod.

Don't forget that donut production is like electron flow: With every donut produced, there is a hole that flows in the opposite direction.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Still haven't gotten around to running that calculation...actually I'm still trying to figure out how to do it.

Spoiler

log(6.02e23/7e9/2/365.25*.01+1)/log(1.01)-1 ≈ 2098 years

 

[Lancelot59]

Spoiler

log(6.02e23/7e9/2/365.25*.01+1)/log(1.01)-1 ≈ 2098 years

That's significantly less than a constant 12 billion.

 

[Borek]

Astonishingly, I have seen the gazongas that can fill that. They were part of the stage props for Elton John's Las Vegas show I saw last summer. The show pretty much left no stone unturned when it came to brobdingnagio-genitalian props.

AC/DC's Rosie is about the size.

 

[turbo]

If I had a hammer...

 

[Borek]

This large? (If it's inappropriate I can remove it)
http://www.jonco48.com/blog/zcup2su.jpg

You call it large?

[URL]http://fun.from.hell.pl/2003-04-29/mrs-godzilla-striptease.jpg[/URL]

 

[Lancelot59]

You call it large?

WHAT!? Who made that!?

 

[DaveC426913]

WHAT!? Who made that!?

gwan. It's 'shopped.

 

[Lancelot59]

I guess so...so who wants to make a giant bra?

 

[Char. Limit]

I'd buy you a green dress
But not a real green dress, that's cruel

 

[Lancelot59]

I'd buy you a green dress
But not a real green dress, that's cruel

I don't get it.

 

[Char. Limit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM

This song

 

[lisab]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM

This song

I love that song!