Ask HN: What is your dream internship?

If you could do anything for 6 months for any company/organization/government agency what would you do? Picture it like a paid work vacation, where it would not impact current work income during the 6 months, but you could not choose to simply do nothing.

SpaceX

I would get a list of unsolved problems, and full access to all the people who might know part of the answer in different fields, and solve as many of them as possible, by connecting things in ways nobody else saw.

I want a lab, someone who knows safety so I don't kill myself, and a budget.

As others have said, I'm not extremely qualified in anything, but I'm willing to learn, and already know a lot of odd things.

I can fix ANYTHING if given a sufficient time and budget.

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A list of specific projects I'd like to work on

build a machine to mine the moon or mars, and replicate itself, or build a bigger version

Evangelize Capability Based Security/Multilevel Secure Systems so we can get back to actually owning our own general purpose computers.

Document the shit out of the libraries for Free Pascal/Lazarus, there should be a working code example for each and every unit, object, function, procedure, property, etc.

Set up, document, and popularize a second separate non-overlapping supply chain for civilization. Document the process, to help make humanity more antifragile.

Build a machine shop from scratch, and figure out how to offer a parts kit with castings that anyone could purchase and build as well.

Put an optical lattice clock at the top and bottom of a mineshaft, and verify relativity below the surface of the earth (as near as I can tell, the experiment hasn't been done yet)

Help find innovative ways to use free energy technologies the government has been hiding for decades.

Develop technology to stop those little drones from harassing our ships at sea.

Build a magnetic core based computer capable of operating on the surface of Venus.

Help transition Bitcoin to proof of stake instead of proof of work.

Writing comedy with and for Dave Chappelle.

This is fun. I was a Tony Kart and Ducati racing team mechanic for a few years and although really taxing on the body, it’s always fun and new. The challenges are tangible and so are the results.

When you start getting into high dollar and highly organized teams, it just feels nice. The shop I was in was kind of a mess. Like a crazy scientist kind of mess. The owner was the Doc Brown of 2 stroke engines and so I was the one keeping the sanity of the place. We worked closely with an Indycar team and when I walked into their shop it was amazing.

Everything is much simpler than expected. The specialized tools for the cars are not that complex, just tailored and simplified for the task. Everyone has everything they need, but only what they need. Sorted, organized, high quality and dependable setups. Lots of light, and cleaner than my fridge.

My shop was high quality but trying different things and tackling many mini projects so it was all over the place, but our engines were damn fast and we had some rule bending tricks to stand out. Both seem very fun.

Many of the pit mechanics at Indy races are there for free. So many people want to work there that why even offer money