/sci/ - Science & Math

Manhattan Beach Project

Fusion energy

Simulating the human brain.
That's probably the biggest step towards the singularity.

popularizing Science among Youths.
>teaching a boy how to fish , instead of giving a fish.

>>2608742
Rat-torturer detected
Singularity is impossible, deal with it

I'd invest it in energy research.

endocrinology

nanotubes

>>2608750
That's a delicious quote.
"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."

Also, I'd invest in sustainable energy sources. Mainly from the Sun, though large-scale off-shore Wind power would be cool.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8

What the hell is with this guy? I've seen his post pictures of himself with his girlfriend on various boards, trying to convince them that they are jealous of him, and now he seems to have settled down here, asking various silly questions as an excuse to post his images, hoping someone will acknowledge them. This is unbelievably pathetic.

>>2608786
The link's pretty awesome

>>2608792
wat

>>2608750
something akin to this... invest it in something that will increase net intelligence. grant proposals for my billion dollars should include eugenics, genetic engineering, education.... basically we need smarter humans to tackle our hardest problems.

I would invest 1B in studying Rape Culture marxist feminist theory.

Basic research to understand the metabolism.

Seconding fusion energy.

Absolutely no question about it.

Invest in nuclear energy

Fuel the future.

quantum computing

>>2608875

>solar power

ftfy

A.I.

If we have space-based solar power in GEO, we don't really need fusion reactors for anything but remote locations, and far from our sun. Our sun is a absolutely huge fusion reactor putting out all that power for us. Our problem is just utilizing that energy. Not to say that I'm against fusion, however.

Stop aging.

>>2608910
need to save the uranium for the nukes? do you not have any appreciation for safety

>>2608741

Really? Why?

I would invest it in research into artificial gravity / anti gravity. Its 2011 and I still want my anti gravity floating skateboard.

>>2608922

>>2608786
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8


In before faggots that didn't know you could melt rock with sunlight and mirrors.

One billion dollars is nothing.

I'd take a day of the military spending instead.

http://www.worldometers.info/

seriously tho, flying cars - solar powered

Comercial space company thats purpose it to build space only earth-moon spacecraft for humans

>>2609055
Bankrupt within the first year.

>>2608981
Yep, that was a solar institute in France, demonstrating the energy from just two square metres at a focal point.

Outside the plant they have a much larger curved mirror, and also have mirrors laid out across a field which move electronically, according to the sun's direction, directing it towards the mirror.

Here's a video of him doing the same thing on a home-scale, which you could probably make yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B11rxFPK_0

Develop the fastest and cheapest personal supercomputer

not that 10k shit nvidia offers
bring it down to 5k and then we'll talk

>>2609050

>doesn't know how impractical and dangerous flying cars are

zombie research

ENS research

model volcano

Women studies.

>>2608759
Neo-luddite detected.
Singularity IS possible, go fuck yourself.

>>2609330
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Sustainable Fusion Reactors, or superconductors. Both would revolutionize the energy grid.

Energy research would be able to fill a strong future demand. I would put the money into energy research just because I know that a significant breakthrough would give me much more money as a return on my investment. It's kind of like wishing for more wishes when you find a genie.

The science of me getting laid and eating at fancy restaurants.

Neuroscience.

A cure for aging.

After that, everything else is suddenly possible.

$1 billion! I'd use half of it for something legitimate. I'd definitely choose genetics.

The other $500 million I'd embezzle and disappear into South America for the rest of my life.

what qualifies as science... making lazers? Genetically enhancing Squirrels. Mounting lazers on the heads of squirrels and taking over Hong Kong?

How come nobody here has said the space program? If you started an asteroid mining company with that money, you could literally be a trillionare in a matter of years.

Fusion power
The cure for aging is a wild goose chase
Also the implications of it would be disastrous if it did work

>>2609780
an asteroid mining company would run at a loss since there is no cheap method of transporting material to and from earth

General Material Sciences.

It would make a lot of projects viable, Space Elevator, Fusion Reactor, Solar Power, Wind Power etc...

But if asked, Solar Power and Fusion Power.

>>2609494
>lazers
>z

fuck off back to to /b/

>>2609780
Even if the astroid would be made of pure diamond, it wouldn't be profitable.

>>2609838
If we make Space Elevators I'm pretty sure this business is going to boom as soon as we see commercial space elevators.

>>2609780

If that were true then there would be 10 asteroid mining companies right now.

Do you seriously think $1 billion is some unfathomable sum of capital that companies are unable to acquire? Hell, apple was just making news for having like $50 billion in cash (not literal cash, but very liquid assets that are equivalent to cash) and not doing anything with it.

>>2609832
Yeah, it's "lazor." What a fucking moron, eh?

in terms of big projects 1 billion isn't enough for fusion, ITER will cost more that 18 billion
it's not enough for any sort of space program spacex burned through alot more than that and only has two flights to show for it and they're the most efficient space flight company yet

ass an astronomer i get pissed every time i here about hubble and building a replacement, the damn thing cost somewhere in the range of 20 billion over its life-cycle and its surpassed with adaptive optics
the largest optical telescope (not counting the LBT) in the world only cost 110 million
you could build all the next generation telescopes several times for the cost of hubble
so id spend my money on some great projects which would appreciate the money be that expensive:
new huge optical telescope (OWL sized)
square kilometer array
laser interferometer space antenna (LISA)

in terms of big projects 1 billion isn't enough for fusion, ITER will cost more that 18 billion
it's not enough for any sort of space program spacex burned through alot more than that and only has two flights to show for it and they're the most efficient space flight company yet

as an astronomer i get pissed every time i here about hubble and building a replacement, the damn thing cost somewhere in the range of 20 billion over its life-cycle and its surpassed with adaptive optics
the largest optical telescope (not counting the LBT) in the world only cost 110 million
you could build all the next generation telescopes several times for the cost of hubble
so id spend my money on some great projects which would appreciate the money be that expensive:
new huge optical telescope (OWL sized)
square kilometer array
laser interferometer space antenna (LISA)

>>2609780
Dude, I am trying to make asteroid mining profitable, and I am asking for 100 billion dollars. That's not exactly an arbitrary amount. 1 billion wouldn't get us to the asteroid, let alone allowe us to carve it and bring back enough to make it profitable. We need to be able to launch a fully capable mining structure, get it there, and at least send back the materials carved out, even if unrefined, but I'd prefer the refining and even some of the material production done at the asteroid before shipment back to Earth.

1 billion? Spend that on SSTO tech like hybrid Jet-Rockets.

>mining asteroids
>does not realise that this is unprofitable even if asteroids are made of pure platinum and transporting costs are 10% of current ones
>does not know that all metals can be found in seawater or scattered ores or recycled
>my face

Cosmetics and plastic surgery.

>>2609910

It'd be best to crash a good number of asteroids onto the moon at relative speed to the moon and then moonbase and refine it there before sending it to earth.

>>2610065
God damn, do you know how heavy the profitable asteroids are? The only feasible way to transport is carving out the parts you actually want and sending them alone. After that, why bother sending it to the moon for refining unless there is someone there that needs it? Of course I do support the idea of moon bases, what i mean is if it's going to the moon it's not going to earth. If it needs to go the earth the middleman of the moon is pointless.

1 billion USD wouldn't be enough, but I would use all of it to expand on our search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life. I would use the funds to start work on a new space telescope that would surpass the Hubble, and I would also increase manpower and machinepower dedicated to scanning the skies for signals.

mame emulator

>>2608741
This. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't care about their own future.

carbon nanotubes

>>2608750
YOU
YOU HAVE THE ONLY RIGHT ANSWER

Stem-cell research, roughly $500m of which would go toward an advertising campaign showing all the good it can do to guilt-trip all the religious nuts into not being so staunchly against it simply because they don't like abortion

>Invest in youth to interest them in Science
>They major into sciences
>They accomplish all the shit you guys mentioned eventually because technology will advance even faster with them.

OR

>Invest to stop aging
>People learn and learn, maybe not everyone but come on
>We eventually accomplish everything everyone has mentioned

MY research

Personalized Medicine. First in the field of cancer research using siRNAs and microarray data to catalogue and individually treat all known cancer cell lines.

Just cured cancer and opened of the field to stop ALL chronic illnesses and eventually stopping aging. Funny thing is, this is the future, this is my research and it will get funded. But that extra $1 billion will save me from writing too many grants.

>>2608741

This mutha mutha!

Hydrogen cars what goes fast and has spoiler

>>2612979

Also, for the people unfamiliar with what I am talking about. The micro-arrays are to catalogue the cell lines. The siRNAs are to knockdown genes and look for toxicity then screen libraries of compounds for treatment.

>>2612979
I'm 23 right now. I'll be 62 in 2050. Will I be able to live for 200 years?

I'd put it into a project to kill op and his Latino wife

deep mantle research/mining (i'd probably need a trillion or so). Think of all the possibilities in the geoscience/energy fields

>>2613024

Theoretically the human body has a max lifespan of 120-130 years. My research is to cure disease and morbidity up to that point. From their my research would focus on the use of stem cells as treatment in place of compounds. So from then on, I don't see why you can't live another 1000 years.

>>2613052

p.s. I say 1000 because out of sheer odds you will die by an inevitable and instantly fatal car accident. (if we still use cars then). Of course the stem cell may have LRP8 mutations on them making you like bruce willis in unbreakable. Best part of medical school: Finding out that character is based on a real person.

penis enlargement

>>2613080
this is pretty funny since i can see it happening

exoplanet exploratoin probes

>>2613062

Well I hope you're not trollololing

living has no purpose so why not live, live forever or never right?