<p>Ok, you get into Harvard, but drop out after unlocking the secret to cold fusion. bill gates is now your doorman, what do you do?</p>
<p>After buying about every cool car in existance, i'll transport all of them to my new private island, formerly known as Austrailia and drive them around. I then take my supermodel, but also supersmart and perfect wife on a super cool trip to the moon aboard the new space program shuttle i invested in. I then go to new york and stay in my penthouse sweet at the top of the worlds tallest building (its mine) and just enjoy life. </p>
<p>I'd keep my total savings at aroun a million dollars and just keep on donating to charity. The royalties from patenting the idea would be enomrous, you would have an income equal to the GDP of Germany, it's wayyyy too much money.</p>
<p>I'll have to agree with Tufts... with that much money, 98-99% can go to charity. I won't buy a mansion for a house either, or a parking lot full of expensive cars... the 1-2% I have left will be used for myself and my family/relatives/friends.</p>
<p>Why? If "Bill Gates is your doorman" then that means we'd have what... several hundred billion dollars?</p>
<p>You're right, I wouldn't give 99%. Make it 99.9%. There is no way I could live with myself if I kept even 20% of the money, knowing that people elsewhere in the world were still starving or in need of money that I had no need of.</p>
<p>Good luck trying to find a supersmart, supermodel, perfect wife. I would probably donate about 25% to the poor, 35% on research for the cure to cancer, etc. The rest would be spent on a house in each of my favorite cities (NYC, San Diego, Seattle, Paris, Geneva). The rest (if there was any left, would be for college funds for my future kids, cars, and lots and lots of phones and clothes. </p>
<p>Cold fusion is being able to start a nuclear chain reaction at temperatures well below those required for normal fusion processes. Since fusion requires so much energy in order to start a chain reaction and the yeild are small if not negative in terms of energy, being able to do cold fusion would provide a cheap and alternative source of energy. However, most physicists dismiss the idea of that ever being able to happen as really low, and after half a century some are still trying to discover how to conduct cold fusion. </p>
<p>I doubt it will ever happen, and it wouldn't be done by one person, but more or less by a university or the government.</p>
<p>anyway, w/ all that money, i'd buy Beijing 2008 so the entire olympics had ZERO ads except from the company that i started, and the ads will be millions of dollars a minute type ads</p>
<p>I'd use it to build a kickass research lab right next to MIT (give them a run for their money) for CS and AI. I would invest a lot of it. I would build a water slide down from my room to breakfast... wait nm, the butler will bring it up. I would also give MIT a 10 Billion dollar endowment, plus lots of extra sponsoring cool projects. I'd give billions to India, and NASA. Oh, and I'd buy my brother a football team.</p>
<p>No logisitics, I'd really give 99% of my money to the poor.</p>
<p>We'd still be at counts of 100 billion. Even at that point, what good is spending 20 billion if you know those 20 billion could provide medicine for the next 20 years for Africa?</p>
<p>cheap shot coming... "I then go to new york and stay in my penthouse sweet" ... and then I'd buy a dictionary and learn how to spell 'suite'
i'm sorry i couldn't help it!!!
It was just too easy. :D forgive me.</p>
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cheap shot coming... "I then go to new york and stay in my penthouse sweet" ... and then I'd buy a dictionary and learn how to spell 'suite'
i'm sorry i couldn't help it!!!
It was just too easy. forgive me.
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Haha...
but what if he meant "sweet" as in... a penthouse suite made up entirely of sugar and candy?</p>
<p>Keep it for most of my life, then build and invest in a foundation for re-establishing Rwandan education and R/D so as to make an African competitor with the United States.</p>