What would you do with $100 billion?

[adairusmc]

Donate a quarter of it to the NRA, a quarter to SCI (Safari Club International), and another quarter to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. The rest of it would be for me.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Use it to buy/bribe/threaten whomever it took to give NASA the kick in the ass to get manned exploration moving again.

Screw NASA... I'd start my own aerospace company and build my OWN damn spaceships!

I'd make sure that "UltimateBob One" would be first to Mars! Take THAT, China!

 

[IL2SturmovikPilot]

Use that money to build my own war machine,hire mercenaries and then use said war machine to become the supreme leader of Earth.

 

[KingGheedora]

The very first thing I would do is buy an airplane and a large conveyor belt.

I would quit my job in exactly the same fashion that Bond does in Casino Royale -- on a boat in the Mediterranean with a Bond caliber girl, same email he used too.

Buy the two old companies I've worked at (not my current one), fire everyone I didn't like, or who was incompetent, hire better people in their places, then either sell them off or let them be.

I would gather up a team of specialists of all branches of science (plus a couple other non-science members); an astronomer, a mathematician, a zoologist, a plant specialist, marine biologist, zoologist, historian, and an anthropologist, a wildlife survival specialist, and a writer. With this team assembled I would fund an HD show to be aired on PBS HD, that would be a documentary of our travel across the world, every continent, all major cities, historical sites, and ecologically interesting places on the planet. Each member would get chances to share their knowledge, and have freedom to decide the places we visit and the themes for each episode. The show might last several seasons and the team could rotate as their schedules allowed. I would tag along most of the time as well.

Find a hot girlfriend, take her with me everywhere. I would vacation a lot, but I'd need something to keep me busy so I might go back and get an advanced degree in math, physics, or perhaps multiple. Also one in some kind of visual art, probably architecture. I would buy properties in Greece, France, England, Brazil, Japan and the United States. Homes would all be top notch, with nice audio systems and home theater setups, and all right on the beach, or in sight of. I might also start a hardware site. I could code it all myself, and write custom load tests for enterprise class hardware (high end networking equipment, NAS, SAS, load balancers, CPU & storage tests for high end database and web app setups, etc). I always liked doing performance tests, both for code and hardware so I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy that.

I would try to set up a fund that would pay anyone who votes for president $10 for the next 5 US Presidential elections.

Lifetime courtside Laker tickets. A few luxury cars, a private jet. Go halvies on the Nets with Jay-z.

 

[ed21x]

I would pour all the money into some huge biomedical engineering project to develope a giant octopus with tentacles hundreds of feet long, and neurological implants so I can control it with a remote. Maybe a few hundred of them ready before I begin my conquest of Europe.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

I wouldnt even call. Id just stop going.

 

[Locut0s]

Give 90 billion or so away to charities and other good causes. Live like a king on the rest.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

I wouldnt even call. Id just stop going.

I'd call for the simple of pleasure of telling them I'm dead.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

I wouldnt even call. Id just stop going.

I'd call for the simple of pleasure of telling them I'm dead.

I would continue to go to work for a while, just so I could see how much crap they would take before they fired me.

 

[bigrash]

did thread got big fast. some funny answers too

 

[sdifox]

Thought about it a little more, maybe buy dental coverage for people whom can't afford it in Canada.

 

[FDF12389]

Originally posted by: adairusmc

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

I wouldnt even call. Id just stop going.

I'd call for the simple of pleasure of telling them I'm dead.

I would continue to go to work for a while, just so I could see how much crap they would take before they fired me.

And i could do alot at work with a 100B.

:evil:

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

what? miss out on all the fun ways you can say "No, Bite Me" to your boss?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

what? miss out on all the fun ways you can say "No, Bite Me" to your boss?

Better yet buy the company and replace the boss with a trained chimp. See if things run better that way.

 

[SpunkyJones]

I would arrange (pay/bribe) for Rick Astley to sing the national anthem at the Superbowl and have him break into "Never Gonna Give You Up".

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

what? miss out on all the fun ways you can say "No, Bite Me" to your boss?

Better yet buy the company and replace the boss with a trained chimp. See if things run better that way.

Nah it didn't work well for our country.

 

[maddogchen]

i'd put...
15 billion in a US total market Index.
15 billion in world market index.
30 billion in bond market index,
30 billion in TIPs index,
10 billion in high interest savings account and live off the interest of my savings account.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Fill my car up with gas.

:laugh:

I'd call in dead to work.

what? miss out on all the fun ways you can say "No, Bite Me" to your boss?

Better yet buy the company and replace the boss with a trained chimp. See if things run better that way.

or just have your boss report to the chimp?

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
I would arrange (pay/bribe) for Rick Astley to sing the national anthem at the Superbowl and have him break into "Never Gonna Give You Up".

lol, for extra point have the blimp show "You've been rickrolled"

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: ed21x
I would pour all the money into some huge biomedical engineering project to develope a giant octopus with tentacles hundreds of feet long, and neurological implants so I can control it with a remote. Maybe a few hundred of them ready before I begin my conquest of Europe.

So your big dream is to break into tentacle sex scene?

 

[mrizvi66]

Buy an NFL Team...

 

[IceBergSLiM]

I would over throw goverments and start wars.

edit: not sure i'd want all that money. I' probably end up giving most of it away, faking my death and disappearing with the rest.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: jjones
Use it to leverage a one trillion dollar loan and then spend it all on hookers and booze.

A trillion dollars is 200,000,000 $5,000 a night hookers. That's 20 hookers a day for over 27,000 years. An ambitious plan, but I don't think it's workable.

Give me $100,000,000,000.00 and I'll prove it.

 

[Aikouka]

Build a nice, spacious (but not overly large) techy/modern home (not Disney Home of the Future-esque... just having modern computer conveniences). Buy a couple cars that I consider fun. Buy stuff to move them with (because no one drives their race cars to the track... that's silly ). Buy a race track (a good one). Have fun on weekends . All in all, could probably be done with less than a billion. Heck, I'd be more than happy with the first three (even without the stuff to move them in). Decent house with a Nissan GT-R and I'd be in heaven!