A very large truck of cigarettes, enough to last my family for the rest of our lives. Then scream "I'm rich biatch!" and honk my truck's horn a couple times.
Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#82World's biggest gravity bong; it'd take the place of Ohio.
I can't imagine the logistics of such a thing, but it's intriguing enough that I'd visit home to try it!
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#83Remember, 700B pays for around 400 space shuttles. Just to give a sense of scale.
Yeah I'd have to race them then.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#84I would create a commercially viable, extremely useful version (versus just plastic doodads) of the self-replicating fabricator ( http://reprap.org ), design a decent computer & solar cell that could be easily manufactured by this fabricator and is easy to make into a cluster system (and have semi decent performance). And create some fabrication programs that can manufacture buildings, farming equipment and other such essentials.
Then I would fund a bunch of funding into cures for third world evils like malaria and such.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#85Microsoft just bought back stock with its cash. How about a down-payment on our national debt?
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#86Remember, 700B pays for around 400 space shuttles. Just to give a sense of scale.
400 space shuttles would be awesome :)
I can see it now, synchronized space shuttles in the space olympics (http://www.hulu.com/watch/34464/saturday-night-live-digital-...)
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#87It's fun to read these, but I feel compelled to point out that the 700 Billion is not going to be spent, but rather it's the amount the US is on the hook for.
The last time the US did this they not only got all the money back, they even made a small profit.
To join along: if I had the money I'd spend all of it on as many nuclear reactors, to generate electricity, as I could. I'd standardize the design to keep the costs as low as possible.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#88Hire 70 trillion people to draw me a $700 billion bill.
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Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#89Two chicks at the same time. Seriously, I have no idea what I'd do with that amount of money. If I was completely selfish maybe I'd buy an island somewhere. I sure as hell wouldn't use it to bail out a bunch of failed businesses whose executives have been giving themselves multi-million dollar bonuses.
hehe
I would invest it. I would buy most of wall street and wait for it to bounce back. Turn that 700b to 10 trillion.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
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