What would you do if you had £300MILLION?

Bangerchick

It wouldn't change me....

toadyfrog

I would sort out family, friends and people who I work/worked with that I liked and think deserve a break.

Then I'd buy a big house with huge grounds and take in unwanted and unloved animals. I'd buy a whole floor in my favourite hotel in spain and turn it into 1 big luxury apartment. I don't think I'd buy any other places just stay in the best hotels.

My main thing would be to hire a team of doubley hard b*stards and get them to sort out rapist, nounces and the scum who mug and beat up the elderly.

Oh and I'd have a lovely brand new car, I don't mind what just as long as its new. :>)

SingleSue

Joeskeppi wrote: »

I can't stand people who answer stuff like this and say "Ooh I'd still have to work, I'd be bored otherwise.. WHAT THE !!!! IS WRONG WITH YOU, get some imagination.

Believe me, you would get bored eventually, especially if you have used your brain for your job. It's just you would have the choice of what you did and for how many hours instead of having to work to survive.

mostlycheerful

£300 million? Cor, that’s a lot.

I’d put most of it into medical research re stem cell therapies and other therapies re cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and various other fatal and debilitating diseases and conditions. Some of it I’d put into longevity research re telomeres and aging and cloned organ generation and transplant and artificial organ creation and implantation.

I’d start a self perpetuating foundation to finance the opening of facilities in every city on the planet to keep “dead” people in ICUs (Intensive Care Units) until they can be reanimated, cured and made young again. Current cryogenic technology adds the extra problem of reversing the vitrification processes whereas if you’re kept oxygenated and fed and looked after in an ICU then you can live forever and possibly also with your memory intact, if you’re lucky.

When you “die” it is in fact only the overall functionality that has failed as most if not all your organs and cells are still alive and functional. “Dead” people can be kept alive pretty much indefinitely the same as coma victims and should not just be destroyed as scrap as happens at present. We should and could and will be saved, sooner or later, it’s coming so let’s spend some of the money to speed it up and make it happen.

Some cloning processes lengthen the telomeres thereby making the offspring younger than the age of the parent cells and when this technique is made available universally in the next few years we’ll all be able to live forever in youth and good health.

The more money that is put into curing illness and developing life extension technologies the faster singularity will occur when all humans and machines converge into one immortal telepathic perfected organism which futurists currently predict to be happening some time in the next 20 to 100 years.

So in fact just £300 million wouldn’t go very far towards this. Got any more? I reckon we need a few trillion or quadrillion to achieve all this in a reasonable time frame and to take care of all the current 6.8 billion people on the planet and the next 50 or 100 billion of our descendants. Hopefully this push will be sufficient to get the following trillions of people fully started in their, hopefully, rich perfected happy fully developed future.

And, of course, the future and immortality’s all very well but there’s still a lot of work to be done just feeding the starving billions currently here and now in the year 2010 and giving them at least fifty pence a day to cure them of the hundreds of curable diseases that they’re currently dying from, unnecessarily, except that the world is still too selfish and unevolved to just share out the riches enough for everyone. There is enough to go around if it was just shared out fairly. But the UN and G20 only have limited political will so the status quo will continue, but not forever, eventually, sooner or later there will be justice and equality on planet earth and all our brothers and sisters and cousins will get a piece of the pie.

So I’d trade half of the money up to billions and trillions as we’re going to need at least that much and probably a whole lot more to sort the whole planet out and get everyone up to a decent standard of living in perpetuity forever.

Ok, I could go on and I’ve got another about 200 pages already written up about all of this as it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, but I’ll stop here, for now.

Cleaver

mostlycheerful wrote: »

£300 million? Cor, that’s a lot.

I’d put most of it into medical research re stem cell therapies and other therapies re cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and various other fatal and debilitating diseases and conditions. Some of it I’d put into longevity research re telomeres and aging and cloned organ generation and transplant and artificial organ creation and implantation.

I’d start a self perpetuating foundation to finance the opening of facilities in every city on the planet to keep “dead” people in ICUs (Intensive Care Units) until they can be reanimated, cured and made young again. Current cryogenic technology adds the extra problem of reversing the vitrification processes whereas if you’re kept oxygenated and fed and looked after in an ICU then you can live forever and possibly also with your memory intact, if you’re lucky.

When you “die” it is in fact only the overall functionality that has failed as most if not all your organs and cells are still alive and functional. “Dead” people can be kept alive pretty much indefinitely the same as coma victims and should not just be destroyed as scrap as happens at present. We should and could and will be saved, sooner or later, it’s coming so let’s spend some of the money to speed it up and make it happen.

Some cloning processes lengthen the telomeres thereby making the offspring younger than the age of the parent cells and when this technique is made available universally in the next few years we’ll all be able to live forever in youth and good health.

The more money that is put into curing illness and developing life extension technologies the faster singularity will occur when all humans and machines converge into one immortal telepathic perfected organism which futurists currently predict to be happening some time in the next 20 to 100 years.

So in fact just £300 million wouldn’t go very far towards this. Got any more? I reckon we need a few trillion or quadrillion to achieve all this in a reasonable time frame and to take care of all the current 6.8 billion people on the planet and the next 50 or 100 billion of our descendants. Hopefully this push will be sufficient to get the following trillions of people fully started in their, hopefully, rich perfected happy fully developed future.

And, of course, the future and immortality’s all very well but there’s still a lot of work to be done just feeding the starving billions currently here and now in the year 2010 and giving them at least fifty pence a day to cure them of the hundreds of curable diseases that they’re currently dying from, unnecessarily, except that the world is still too selfish and unevolved to just share out the riches enough for everyone. There is enough to go around if it was just shared out fairly. But the UN and G20 only have limited political will so the status quo will continue, but not forever, eventually, sooner or later there will be justice and equality on planet earth and all our brothers and sisters and cousins will get a piece of the pie.

So I’d trade half of the money up to billions and trillions as we’re going to need at least that much and probably a whole lot more to sort the whole planet out and get everyone up to a decent standard of living in perpetuity forever.

Ok, I could go on and I’ve got another about 200 pages already written up about all of this as it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, but I’ll stop here, for now.

Why don't you get yourself a quad bike too? They look like fun.

Sibley

How come I'm the only one on here who wouldn't waste the money?

ILW

mostlycheerful wrote: »

£300 million? Cor, that’s a lot.

I’d put most of it into medical research re stem cell therapies and other therapies re cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and various other fatal and debilitating diseases and conditions. Some of it I’d put into longevity research re telomeres and aging and cloned organ generation and transplant and artificial organ creation and implantation.

I’d start a self perpetuating foundation to finance the opening of facilities in every city on the planet to keep “dead” people in ICUs (Intensive Care Units) until they can be reanimated, cured and made young again. Current cryogenic technology adds the extra problem of reversing the vitrification processes whereas if you’re kept oxygenated and fed and looked after in an ICU then you can live forever and possibly also with your memory intact, if you’re lucky.

When you “die” it is in fact only the overall functionality that has failed as most if not all your organs and cells are still alive and functional. “Dead” people can be kept alive pretty much indefinitely the same as coma victims and should not just be destroyed as scrap as happens at present. We should and could and will be saved, sooner or later, it’s coming so let’s spend some of the money to speed it up and make it happen.

Some cloning processes lengthen the telomeres thereby making the offspring younger than the age of the parent cells and when this technique is made available universally in the next few years we’ll all be able to live forever in youth and good health.

The more money that is put into curing illness and developing life extension technologies the faster singularity will occur when all humans and machines converge into one immortal telepathic perfected organism which futurists currently predict to be happening some time in the next 20 to 100 years.

So in fact just £300 million wouldn’t go very far towards this. Got any more? I reckon we need a few trillion or quadrillion to achieve all this in a reasonable time frame and to take care of all the current 6.8 billion people on the planet and the next 50 or 100 billion of our descendants. Hopefully this push will be sufficient to get the following trillions of people fully started in their, hopefully, rich perfected happy fully developed future.

And, of course, the future and immortality’s all very well but there’s still a lot of work to be done just feeding the starving billions currently here and now in the year 2010 and giving them at least fifty pence a day to cure them of the hundreds of curable diseases that they’re currently dying from, unnecessarily, except that the world is still too selfish and unevolved to just share out the riches enough for everyone. There is enough to go around if it was just shared out fairly. But the UN and G20 only have limited political will so the status quo will continue, but not forever, eventually, sooner or later there will be justice and equality on planet earth and all our brothers and sisters and cousins will get a piece of the pie.

So I’d trade half of the money up to billions and trillions as we’re going to need at least that much and probably a whole lot more to sort the whole planet out and get everyone up to a decent standard of living in perpetuity forever.

Ok, I could go on and I’ve got another about 200 pages already written up about all of this as it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, but I’ll stop here, for now.

It may get a bit crowded if we all live forever.

Cleaver

ILW wrote: »

It may get a bit crowded if we all live forever.

If I reached the end of my days on this earth with sense of peace and finality I'd be a bit p*ssed off to then be 'woken up' by someone a few years later with "Surprise, you're back!".

chucknorris

Joeskeppi wrote: »

I can't stand people who answer stuff like this and say "Ooh I'd still have to work, I'd be bored otherwise.. WHAT THE !!!! IS WRONG WITH YOU, get some imagination.

I'd still have to work, I'd be bored otherwise........But really the first thing that springs to mind would be to start an animal rescue centre, which would take up so much of my time that I wouldn't have the time to work anyway. Or alternatively give a very large donation to the Last Chance animal rescue who I do occasional voluntary work for:

http://www.lastchanceanimalrescue.co.uk/

Lotus-eater

I'd work too, open up my dream bookshop and wouldn't be bothered if it made a profit or not. Being rude to customers I didn't like, would be a bonus.
Think Black Books, crossed with a Fantasy book shop.