Suppose you have $1bn and you *have* to invest it in one scientific effort; what would you choose?
no meme answers pls
>>8167972
>invest
Musk Enterprises
Not a fanboy but boy he'd make me rich.
>>8167972
Either fusion energy or using zero-point energy to create exotic matter to stabilise an Einstein–Rosen bridge.
>>8167972
What?
>>8167972
cure for cancer
>>8167995
Good way to throw away a billion for zero return.
>>8167972
Information storage using diamonds. Essentially, all human knowledge and history physically engraved on diamonds. With as many backups as possible spread around the world and deposited on the moon where all can see its location from Earth.
Why?
So after humanity is long dead, the next sentient race will have instructions on how not to destroy their own environment and show our history of us doing it as a warning.
>>8168000
Ensuring future generations live longer is the return. You get a genetic return for that.
>>8168026
>Essentially, all human knowledge and history physically engraved on diamonds.
This is the stupidest thing I've seen today. Congrats.
>So after humanity is long dead, the next sentient race will have instructions on how not to destroy their own environment and show our history of us doing it as a warning.
in·vest
verb
1. expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop a commercial venture.
>>8168026
Edgy, I like it.
>>8167995
>>8167978
How much of a difference do you think $1bn of funding would make for those endeavours?
Many billions go into cancer research every year; much less is spent on fusion energy research. The per-dollar impact would probably be a lot larger for something comparatively less-well funded, wouldn't it?
>>8168029
No, no, I was suggesting that it's a useless endeavor. Curing cancer is decades off if not centuries because it's not too far off from the challenge of biological immortality in the first place. Lack of return is because you wont fucking find anything.
>>8168038
But, we've already been curing cancers, every day now.
>>8168037
You should consider investing in a method that is not idiotic then.
>>8168026
Isn't the 'Superman Memory Crystal' (what a shitty name desu) thing that was announced earlier this year essentially that?
I think it was meant to store data for something like 9 billion years.
>>8168035
Even though fusion is certainly needed, as we're reaching an energy crisis. As for wormhole travel, it might be impossible, that is true, but if possible it would be one of the ways to save humanity from certain and inexorable eventual extinction.
For clarity, by 'invest' I don't mean purely for economic return - although any scientific effort worth pursuing probably carries with it a significant economic benefit, it may be difficult to capture that benefit as profit.
C.R.I.S.P.R.
>/thread
>>8168066
This has both economic and scientific returns that both far outweigh any other option right now.
>>8168045
Diamonds are the only thing that will still be around 1 million years after humanity is gone. That and anything we leave on the moon.
>>8168056
Hmm, never heard of it, but yes, exactly that. Well, I was thinking something more visible to the naked eye.
>>8168070
>Wouldn't we have to figure out how to [i]not[i] fuck up/unfuck up out own planet first?
We already know how we screwed up. We will never be able to undo it and we will continue to do it.
>>8168073
Actually, I think this option pretty much covers everything that you guys want so far in this thread.
>>8168077
But what if what we consider "screwing up" just causes an extreme envirnment for more capable and intelligent organisms to exist? Just like the difference in environment that would have been fatal to all life before KT, is now allowing humans to adapt and thrive?
>>8168077
is death, or "destruction" even a negative thing really?
>>8168070
>>8168056
>The group says the crystals have a virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature, or 13.8 billion year lifespan at 190 degrees Celsius (hey, that’s the age of the Universe). In 2013, the researchers first stored a 300K text file in five dimensions using the same technology. So far, the group has encoded major documents from human history like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Newton’s Opticks, the Magna Carta, and the King James Bible as digital copies that could theoretically survive humans on our planet.
>>8168077
>Diamonds are the only thing that will still be around 1 million years after humanity is gone.
Not if they're buried deep enough to be recompressed.
>That and anything we leave on the moon.
This involves a lot of assumptions.
>Well, I was thinking something more visible to the naked eye.
So we need massive page-sized plates of synthetic diamond? How many of them are you thinking?
>We will never be able to undo it and we will continue to do it.
Well, if you're more concerned with warning hypothetical future life that hypothetically ends up in the exact same fucking place in the universe as us, than focusing on our own problems.
>>8167972
Miniaturize VR headsets (more-so), create a ubiquitous computer vision platform, and improve were google-glass left off.
>>8168093
>So we need massive page-sized plates of synthetic diamond?
>How many of them are you thinking?
More than 1bil would pay for I'm sure.
>focusing on our own problems.
That's childish and selfish attitude. Our time is at an end.
>>8168103
>posts pseudoscience meme
Sorry, I didn't realize how unintelligent you are.
Invest in researching ways to improve the quality of scientific research and improve the return of investment for those investing. Scientific method is shown to be vulnerable to politics, corruption, and misinformation. If this isn't nipped in the butt it would stagnate scientific research for decades. People are already beginning to think the system is broken.
Also invest in ways to get other rich people to invest in science. Add, PSA, fundraisers or what ever.
>>8168091
wait. Five dimensions???? THEFUCK
Artificial Intelligence desu
lets have some Ava's
>>8168103
lmao we would be out of this world by 3000s
>>8168133
And you can't, brainlet?
>>8168323
If better men than you couldn't, then no and don't fear myself being called a 'brainlet' by a 'brainlet lite'.
>>8167972
I'd use it to develop an app that targets flat earthers and science deniers and somehow sterilize them.
Elon Musk. I trust he'd know what to do with it for the better of humanity.
My own research get rekt fgt
this thread is full of fucking morons holy shit
Definitely something to do with human genetics. 500 million to HGP-write, 500 million to generating a large database of genetic information along with as much matched outcome information as possible (IQ, height, mental illnesses, etc)
communion with god as there is nothing more revealing
gid could be love, or masturbation
whatever proves the hodge conjecture faster
Molecular nanotechnology
>>8167972
Variable thinking speed.
>>8167972
In-vitro meat.
>>8167972
Batteries.
>>8167972
moderation on /sci/
id invest it in finding qt gfs for all anons
>>8169013
:')
God bless.
bitches and stitches
>>8167972
biological immortality
>>8167972
Id buy nukes from north korea bomb the middle east. Then have the pope read a biblical statement to ensue mass hysteria while monkeys kill one another wait that out. Reinforce the worlds military and let anyone join. With that we have a world martial law anywhere theres choas im sure some fucking clutz will not follow orders but thats humanity. Then give an ultimatum to the jews, bomb the fuck out israel anyways blame it on the koreans. Since the world has been reinforced with my 1b i spent the rest to have britain and the u.s defend the koreans now america has israel and the north koreans to play fetch with.
U.S the father
Isreal the son
North korea the holy spirit
Amen
Then buy and ounce of weed and smoo0ke up before getting shot in the back of the head by a black ops team sent by mossad for israel and her interest. Just because big brother works does not mean he gets to ride the bus with us.
I would invest it in figuring out how to ejaculate a gallon of semen in one go like they do in hentai anime. I think it would be a noble pursuit.
>>8167977
Moron
Tesla is disgustingly overpriced
>>8169114
The first two models sure, but the model 3 is going to be starting at 35k but be around 42k fully kitted. If you don't understand that a niche luxury car full of next level tech is actually worth a hundred grand you're immature.
The C4 rice project. Sure, it's a moonshot, but the payoff (feeding up to one billion extra people) could be huge
>>8169139
muh mental masturbation thread is infected
Cyborgs
I don't want to die so i'd just invest in a brain holding machine ( a cyborg that is )
Human genetic engineering to increase intelligence.
>>8167972
solar power and hemp. fill the arid regions of the world with both (i'm looking at you north west australia)
>>8167972
ecovillages and farms for white people in Japan:
http://www.workaway.info/hostlist-JP.html
https://www.wwoofjapan.com/main/index.php?lang=en
http://db.ecovillage.org/en/projects/504
http://permacultureglobal.org/projects
http://www.ic.org/directory/listings/?cmty-country=Japan
>>8167972
colorblindness and the remainder alzheimers
>>8168037
How do you overcome the basic language and information barrier? You'll have no Rosetta Stone, if the entirety of humanity is destroyed. Ordering all of mathematics from simplest to most complicated is doable, but without the ability to understand consequences, you'll be giving nuclear bombs to cave men.
>>8167972
i think it's been done before, but i'd actually invest in a multidisciplinary research lab. invite eager minds to work on whatever drives their passions, and share ideas and collaborate. in return, they get a great environment where all their needs and comforts are met.
but if i had to list one thing that interests me atm, i guess it is the idea of generating some type of stable chlorophyll type molecule that could be incorporated into films that are just sprayed onto panels to generate electricity. if we are to harness solar, we need tech that is dirt cheap.
>>8167972
Go ahead with my plan to produce Silane fuel from a mixture of water and silicon subjected to radiation.
Nuclear fusion obvs. Speaking of which, how is ITER doing? Havent heard much as of late
>>8168206
3 spacial and 2 phases
>>8168966
Like the cancer suggestion above, this is already something that has billions being invested in it.
>>8169137
Think, he meant the stock, not the actual cars.
>>8167972
does space travel count as science or as engineering? if science, that. if not, i'd probably drop it on something energy technology wise. i think that shit needs revolutionizing.
>>8169644
>ST PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France (16 June 2016) – Concluding a two-year effort by the ITER Organization and the seven Domestic Agencies to establish a new baseline schedule, the ITER Council has endorsed the updated Integrated Schedule for the ITER Project, which identifies the date of First Plasma as December 2025.
First Plasma as December 2025
it looks like I'll be long dead before they'll start producing electricity
>>8168030
>This is the stupidest thing I've seen today. Congrats.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/16/11018018/5d-data-storage-glass
>>8169221
gene therapy and brain implants can do the same thing
>>8169091
I have a solution for that
>>8168692
So basically rewriting the human genome (George Church is already involved in this, I believe) and a database of genome-wide association studies?
funding right wing movements throughout the west
Whats the point of funding technologies or research or longer lives when western civilization won't survive this century?
>>8167972
Figure out how to cure sleep. I fucking hate sleep, we need to get rid of it.
>>8167972
Cat girls.
That or lunar colonization, but I think my money would go farther invested in cat girls.
>>8168030
Do you even English? Do you even read past the first half baked definition? Kindly die so as to improve the breeding pool.
>>8170556
you'll be labelled as racist and killed
the only way possible is to create ecovillages and gated communities that SILENTLY allow only whites to live there; you can look up this practical example that is already functioning:
http://svanholm.dk/index.php?id=78
we need thousands of them!
>>8169917
Damn, they really fucked up the schedule. I thought within the last couple of years JET actually managed to produce a net gain of electricity, and now the project just needed to be scaled up. I didn't realise it was quite that far off
>>8167972
I'm giving a meme answer anyway. I'm funding full scale commercial prototypes of the IFR and/or ThorCon, currently with a slight preference towards ThorCon.
But actually, I would have to spend that money lobbying some national government somewhere just to allow ThorCon to get their shit going, and that comes before paying for the actual prototype. Yea.
CBI's and BCI's.
We need more research in those fields so the human race can finally understand the brain.
(brain-computer and computer-brain interface research for you dumbasses
>Put 98% of endowment into trust
>draw dividends
>give out a few 40k, 50k one year grants
>maybe a nice 3-4 year grant for 200-300k very rarely
>pay myself 1$ million/year
Just like American cancer society!
A)Thorium fission.
B)Sterilization of Africans
This would be the 2 projects that I would invest in
>>8173256
Isn't the Musketeer interested in working on that?
>>8168077
Diamonds can be burned though
>>8167972
The sterilization and removal of inferior races
>>8174918
Which ones?
>>8174923
All of them eccept Nordic, Germanic, and some of the Mediterranean ones
>>8174924
I see, I seem to remember someone trying that at some point in history. Didn't work out too well.
>>8168026
Why would God create a sentient race on this same planet again when there's so many others?
Its a good idea tho, but the chances of it benefiting anybody are slim.
>>8167972
more medical research. the final frontier lies not in space, but within ourselves.
there is so much we don't know about the human brain, but people talk about creating machines that could rival it. seems like we are getting ahead of ourselves.
>>8169771
Sure, space counts. What aspect of space travel would you invest in?
Propulsion, life support, on-planet transportation etc?
Space travel. Our earth won't last more than 100 years.
Genetic engineered catgirls for domestic ownership.
>>8175437
Wtf is a 'catgirl'?
>>8175436
Yes, it's starting to look that way.
Where do you propose as the next home for humanity?
Mars? Or giant space stations?
>>8175445
Basically a human girl with cat ears and the rights and protections before the law of a cat.
Efficient, fully operational quantum computers. All other scientific successes will follow.
>>8167995
Bitch I had cancer and I don't even think that shits worthy.
>>8167972
the re-enslavement of the African continent
>>8175522
>scientific effort
>>8167995
Which cancer?
>>8175602
all of them nigga
I'd promote birth control.
>>8175608
Would $1bn have much of an impact, given how much is already spent on that?
use some of that money to educate yourself and you will yourself get to a better conclusion yourself
>>8175445
here: >>>/wsg/1151443
>>8167972
Nanotech of some kind.
>>8175670
Wouldn't $1bn on research into race-specific bioweapons have a greater yield?
>>8167972
The effort to exterminate humanity
>>8175718
It'd be harder to get away with, even if such weapons are possible.
>>8175759
>even if such weapons are possible
Right i forgot, we are all the same and race are a fairy tale made up by evil racists.
>>8175765
I'm not saying it's impossible but I don't know if it's possible either.
If I had a billion to invest, I'd just set it up as a VC firm and pay people who are really good at that shit to invest in a series of promising startups to build a tech conglomerate.
>>8169242
http://www.helpx.net/hostlist.asp?host_ccode=JPN&network=15
>>8167972
research on how to take a brain from one body
and transplant it to another,
I mean that one guy already did it with a moneky, but it was paralyzed and died like a week later, and that was decades ago, in todays world where stem cells enter the picture I think there may be a chance to make it work.
>I'd exterminate [_]
>>8175670
Population increase is inversely proportional to life expectancy you dunce, there's a reason the countries with the highest fertility rates are Afghanistan and the Congo.
If you actually want to halt the population increase without memeing, invest the billion into women's education and political movements for women's rights in third world countries as well as widespread free contraception and family planning.
>>8175907
> id exterminate ebola
go away sick kid
JET, ITER or DEMO. Whichever one is running at the time.
>>8174939
Because this is the only planet you moran.
>>8175941
pls go
>>8169109
what
>>8167972
A genetically based man made virus
To target specific ethnicity's and bypass others, based upon the percentage of Neanderthal DNA present in the host's body
As part of the effort, the parallel development of, a means of global distribution of the the created virus
>>8168026
Diamonds are not forever you kike.
>>8177402
What would you use it for?
>>8169109
That problem has already been solved. You use a syringe to pump excess semen into your balls. You sure are bad with money.
>>8167972
Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) research.
Build various prototypes based on specific uses and build a business around each.
>>8177513
b-but Shirley Bassey said...
>>8167972
Nanotechnology .
>>8178190
Anything in particular?
>faffordable VR and porn
>sex robots
>>8178222
Both of these are being worked on
>>8167972
"Power armor" for lack of a better term.
Why?
>feild is already seeing some impressive advancments and innovations
>military contracts
>can see the fruit of your labor within your life time
>can be useful for many different things, war, space exploration, undersea exploration, construction, etc.
>is something that can definitely be done, not just theoretical
>who doesn't want power armor?
Sure, maybe it's not the most noble cause or the most impressive thing one can fund, but it's certainly got some good pros.
>>8167972
Pic related eugenic program
>>8178443
Already being developed in several different forms.
>>8177681
The global removal of an invasive species, not completely, leaving just enough, to keep a branch of the Homo genus, pilot light burning, 6% Neanderthal DNA would be sufficient to assure the hosts survival after viral exposure
>>8178710
ok, but Islam cannot be detected by DNA; how can you fix this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_January%E2%80%93June_2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_July%E2%80%93December_2016
>>8169139
>>8174977
>>8178518
Fuck off. Don't want to see anime posted on an anime related image board? Don't come to 4 chan.
>>8167972
Drilling under the ice of Europa/other moon's purported to have oceans underneath layers of ice and see if there's life
>>8179135
Could you do that for only $1bn? Robotic space missions tend to be pretty expensive
>>8179150
What part of anime related imageboard did you not get when coming to 4 Chan?
If your going so retardedly butthurt and triggered then fuck off. And the case of >>8178502 is actually acceptible and related to the thread. If your too much of a triggered faggot to handle anime posted on an anime related imageboard the again fuck off. And if your going to bitch about anime or manga shit go bitch
about every other random pic all the other boards as well
>>8179547
Probably not anon. But a man can dream.
And for how much money it actually would cost it still hasn't been done anyway, though its been talked about for ages now
>>8179135
Getting the Rover to Mars took 12 billion. Taking a giant drill to other celestial bodies would probably be way more expensive than that.
>>8167972
EMDrive
Artificial intelligence, bioimmortality/gene therapy, cybernetics
No other option is more justified
>>8167972
finding and arresting the biological program that causes aging.
Eugenics, and I mean this as a non-meme, non-nazi answer. I obviously don't want anyone sterilized, I just want a program that encourages educated couples to reproduce earlier so they can have a higher chance of passing their genes on to functional offspring and fewer autismo or Downie dead-end offspring.
CRISPR to further increase genetic progress, and more artificial/resistance-aimed antibiotics to combat the growing bacterial resistance problem.
both are already on their way, and are pretty sound in terms of investment.
Then just keep getting more money, and establishing a genetic research operation somewhere in asia for restriction purposes.
>>8167972
>no meme answers pls
But it's a meme question...
>>8181310
seconded.
but might i also add that since we have genetic modification going on, eugenics can be made a lot more humane and fitting within our civilisation? there is no reason to try and get people to have sex, when you can make who does who irrelevant by just altering the offspring into a homo universalis. people will actually pay for that shit, unlike old eugenics.
>>8167972
Make a spaceship and leave this planet to explore and see what nobody have seen before. Fuck humanity.
This always makes me drop a tear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yijcWsLda8
>>8167972
2D material research geared towards electrical components with a focus on computers
>>8168077
the moon is constantly being bombarded with debris, how do you know your site and "diamond" won't just be covered and ashed
also, 1 million years is still a tiny span for intelligent life to just wonder into our solar system
>>8170017
>glass
Diamond isn't stable unless it's at high pressure dummy
>>8167972
Negating the human impact on the environment.
>>8167972
I would make a biodome in the Moon wich would have solar energy.
>>8170575
I think you're a few zeros short for lunar colonization
>>8175436
>won't last on Earth more then 100 years
>Mars has no breathable atmosphere, water is rare and so far we have yet to find ever traces of life
Earth on the other hand, has drinkable water, an atmosphere that supports life and...life...
You'd have to be really ignorant that all this will not be here no matter how hard we try to destroy it.
No need to leave the atmosphere, much easier staying here and finding way to survive.
Once you have an adequate power source, you can do anything. Purify water, air, grow food, process minerals, build things, generate or move heat...everything we need to survive.
>>8175447
underground or in domes.
Why would you go through all the shit to live on a space station, when you can build basically the same thing on the ground or below it?
>>8175569
last time didn't work so well for the civilised world... there's a lot of room for improvement.
>>8175765
biological weapons are cheap and effective, but also unpredictable... nobody can guarantee it won't mutate and start killing everything...
>>8169143
I think we would be better off with a C4 rice project that injects C4 into the rice to make it explode. Removing up to one billion extra people could be huge.
>>8175886
Yeah just toss some stem cells right on in there
>>8180389
What about a little drill?
>>8168103
If history repeats itself, in a 100 years, ISIS is going to be the center of science and technology in the world
The best universities would be in Raqqa and Mosul
>>8175886
What about uploading the consciousness to a machine?
I'd devote it all to wiping this board from the face of the earth, thereby bringing the collective I.Q of humanity up by quite a few points.
>>8184105
>pill to become loli overnight
We need this irl
>>8184116
Exactly
And that's where I'd put my 1bn
>>8167972
Catgirls.
>>8184339
WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THIS
>>8167977
Tesla is a terrible investment, and SpaceX has no real future, even if they nail re-usability they'll only get the launch costs down to 30 million. Other launch providers with more experience and ability to scale will invest in re-usability and kill them off.
>>8167972
>1bn
fug, if it was 100bil I'd go for a few self-sustaining colony ships.
As worthless as they may seem, I'm 100$ sure we're going to all kill ourselves or die to some natural disaster before we could possibly develop anything much better.
I figure 2-5 pointed at the nearest planets that we decide to be the most habitable would probably take millions of years.
If they're fully self-sustaining, and have decently rotating sections so the people don't atrophy too much, they'll probably either have no choice but to solve every single computational problem we have out of sheer boredom, or they'll all go crazy and murderdeathkill eachother.
>>8168206
That's just "science journalists" trying to meme you.
I would invest in research to find what makes a pepe rare, then produce the world's rarest pepe.
>>8184423
> only get launch costs down to 30 mil
But Elon said two orders of magnitude lower... so like $600k.
>>8167972
Penis enlargement. I will not only multiply those billions, I'll be a hero.
>>8184628
How?
If you could do that for only $1bn, why hasn't it been done by now, considering whoever does it will make an incredible fortune?
>>8184471
let's do this
>>8168066
> /Thread on your own post
Bad form, good idea tho
>>8168101
> Believes there will never be higher advanced ages than [current century]
> Goes on to call out people for their childish and selfish attitude.
k
How about you stop overemphasising the importance of your life and think of how to improve our lives in a meaningful manner instead?
>>8184478
no meme answers pls
