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What you'd build if you had 100 millions?
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#42Personal crash safety suit for motorcyclists/extreme sports which could absolutely protect against all damage. I have ideas, which could be applied to other applications, anyone have the $100,000,000?
http://www.motoair.com/
"MOTOAIR, motorcycle airbag jacket is the necessary equipments of riders, the AIRBAG SYSTEM is designed to proof shocks ordinary, can protect the human body easily to be injured the fatal spot"
Their site copy reads like a bad video game port script.
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#43I'd try and find a mothballed oil platform, buy it for cheap and renovate it into a luxury hotel with luxury apartments and market it to celebrities as a way to completely avoid the paparazzi and to a wealthy client list. Bars, nightclubs, restaurants and casino's would be there from the start to help clear out people's pockets. It would be self-sustaining with gardens and hydroponics, wind power and eventually wave…
Peter Thiel (Paypal cofounder) has a net worth of 1.3 billion, which is a hell of a lot more than 100 million.
He has already said he believes in the concept and donated money to the 'seasteading institute'.
Obviously either it isn't worth that much to him, or 1.3 billion isn't enough for it to be reliably done.
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#44Robots, lots of big robots :) So what I do now but more so...
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#45An extra-solar planet imager (telescope or satellite) and a nuke powered exploration probe to check things out.
$100 million won't do for that.
Re: What you'd build if you had 100 millions?
#46Personal crash safety suit for motorcyclists/extreme sports which could absolutely protect against all damage. I have ideas, which could be applied to other applications, anyone have the $100,000,000?
http://www.motoair.com/
I've seen it before and wasn't very impressed. Think more like Iron Man.
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#47I would build a gold statue of me
A ~3 ton statue of you.
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#48I would assemble a team to try and replicate several scientific experiments that have came out with inexplicable results. While a large number of those will turn out fraudulent, it is very possible that a few claims were true, but sounded so outlandish that they were considered fake right away.
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#49I'd build a biotech-biogerontology institute for the SENS Foundation and Aubrey de Grey.
I just read his book. Interesting in a Popular Science magazine type way. I mostly enjoyed the fact that de Grey -- a guy who champions vastly extended lifespans -- dresses like a freaking wizard. The photo on the back cover has him sporting a long wizard-like beard with a very colorful, starfish print shirt. I'd almost donate to him just for that.
If you want something that is less popular science (the book was after all written for a popular audience), check out his papers.
Yes, his beard probably gets more ink than anything else. That's sad in a way (don't judge a book by its cover), but it's probably also good in another way, since it makes him pretty unforgettable.
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#50A huge airship — just the first of many. The first would probably be capable of lifting around 400 tons, but subsequent airships could be made larger and more efficient.
Yes, I'm being absolutely serious. I'm part of a group of people trying to get this done currently, and a lot of research has been done.
There have recently been a few companies who have tried and failed at this for various reasons, but we think it definitely can be done and we want to be the ones to do it.
Anyone have $100,000,000?