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I do not want to get in to a discussion regards the advantages disadvantages of a nuclear deterrent, but I was wondering what people would spend £100Bn on?
With the recent collapse of key industries up north due to foreign backers, the building of a nuclear power station going to the Chinese... it is time to reinvest money in to flailing industries? to opt for British engineers to design and build our infrastructure? or do we just say that is part of a capitalist system and let these companies collapse, and jobs go abroad?
Hookers and booze. And a sausage roll.
New Orange Five with Enve wheels, and hookers, coke and booze obvs
[quote=CaptainFlashheart ]Hookers and booze. And a sausage roll.
dont forget the supercar.
tidal lagoons, modular reactors, a rail network that's approximately fit for purpose, and cycle infrastructure.
A massive gold statue of myself.
a REALLY FAST T5 !!!
ok sensible - some of it retained by the defence for conventional weapons, the rest should be invested in renewable energies and Rail transport for the non-london services that are desparate for it ( that utilises the renewable capability )
I'd take every member of my family to [url= https://www.bettys.co.uk/tea-rooms/locations ]Bettys[/url]
I'd be investing in a space laser program to shoot down nuclear missiles fired at us.
Then if there is any spare i'm sure some tea and medals could be purchased to celebrate when it worked.
I'd buy up loads of land and then I could allow people to ride bikes anywhere on it.
Then when a local NIMBY tells me I can't ride there, I can have them ejected from MY land.
Although, the sausage roll sounds good.....
I'd buy STW and lord it over the forum running amok with the ban hammer.
Probably invest the other £99,999,999,999,500.00 in an Audi and buy to let properties 🙂
ahwiles and myself disagree on the best bearings to run a bike wheel on, but other than that, I like the cut of his jib.tidal lagoons, modular reactors, a rail network that's approximately fit for purpose, and cycle infrastructure.
(edit - I came on here expecting that you'd had a spectacularly generous CRC voucher for your birthday OP) 😀
I'd give to a donkey sanctuary
I'd be investing in a space laser program to shoot down nuclear missiles fired at us.
If the aim of disarmament is stability and there being less big weapons kicking around, I'm not sure a massive, probably illegal, one-sided space based weapons system is the way to go....
I should have expected this response....
An arse-kicking machine, built for politicians who are rubbish on purpose.
I'd like to see Cameron and IDS have first go.
I'd kill all these YouTube/Instagram/Vine "internet sensations" with a big hammer - then use the money to get a reduced sentence
Dapper Laughs? Whack
Mr Cian Twomney? Whack
Zoella? Whack
I'd use it to weather the storm after I re-regulated the banking industry in the UK - wean us off relying on the rest of the world using a few thousand people in London to look after their money, which would devalue the £ from it's lofty heights and allow for a more balanced, less London-centric economy.
I wouldn't stop at sausage rolls. Pork pies.... steak bakes... cheese and onion pasties..... [b]PASTRY BASED PRODUCTS FOR EVERYONE!!!!!![/b]
I can't believe you're talking about buying one sausage roll when you have £100 Bn to spend! What a limited outlook some of you have.
Assuming 80p per Greggs sausage roll and 7.1 Bn people in the world, I would use the money to end world hunger by buying every person alive 17.6 sausage rolls.
I would then spend my Nobel prize money on coke and hookers 8)
A few things spring to mind.
A time machine to take people back in time and show them how shite the rail system was under British Rail.
Gin.
A proper CX bike for everyone to show them how crap they are as commuter bikes.
Port.
A grammar school, in a nice area, obviously.
A few crates of Sadlers Mud City Stout.
Privatise Jeremey Corbyn
A good bottle of red, a Nuit St George I think.
Scotland.
Invade Scotsland.
A time machine won't be able to travel back to a time before it was invented. Radio 4 science fact.A time machine to take people back in time and show them how shite the rail system was under British Rail.
Leaves more money for port beer and wine, so win anyhow.
I'd book a half-term holiday.
Why can the time machine not go back?
100,000,000 cannondale trigger 4's
er, cancel cuts to tax credits?
100,000,000 cannondale trigger 4's
Don't forget to factor in 200,000,000 new tires and the WTB Wolverines will kill you before you even get them out of the box*. Apparently.
I'd buy helvellyn and turn it into an uplift mtb centre. Build a quality but cheap hotel at the top with a good bar, a hot swimming pool and a large jacuzzi overlooking the fantastic lake district scenery. In fact not just mtbs but all extreme sports that require height so you could zip line to the bottom, hang glide, parachute or wing suit down, there'd be a toboggan run too. All stw members would get cheap exclusive entry. I'd run charity days for under privileged people to come experience extreme sports for nought.
*They won't.
Will £100B buy one of [url= http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/ODIN_Space_Station ]these[/url]?
Assuming 80p per Greggs sausage roll and 7.1 Bn people in the world, I would use the money to end world hunger by buying every person alive 17.6 sausage rolls.
Making a very rash(er) assumption that there might be pork in a Greggs sausage roll, there are a fair few folk that don't dig on swine. 1.57 billion muslims, 14 million jews, 400 million vegetarians and a few fussy eaters. That's a few more for the rest of us. Add a bit of a bulk discount - we must have 25 each surely.
Are there enough pigs in the world - be afraid piggies, be very afraid.
A time machine to take people back in time and show them how shite the rail system was under British Rail.
I remember vividly how rubbish BR was.
However, back in 1994 we weren't paying anything near as much for a season ticket as we are now, so I'm all for renationalising the railways, plus shooting any politician who voted in favour of privatisation back in the 90s.
However, back in 1994 we weren't paying anything near as much for a season ticket as we are now
Don't you worry, I'm sure BR could deliver both extortionate fairs AND 80's reliability if it was renationalised. Winning.
#sausagerollenomics
I'd buy an Evil uprising with fox suspension, Hope brakes and ENVE wheels. I could afford to buy a new one every day for the rest of my life 😀
Would evil run out of frames though?
Hookers, Coke, a rubber chicken, a supercar, a fridge freezer, a box of cornflakes, a set of pans complete with lids, a BBQ, a jigsaw, a range of bed linen, two tickets for a weekend away in Doncaster, a cuddly toy.....
Awe, didn't he do well!!
*claps loudly
I would buy Anglesey, turn it into Monkeysfeetland. A place where folk can only vote UKip, drive Audi's and the only shop would be Greggs.
Staffed by Binners. 😀
Change my name to Tony Soprano and start a crew in my local village.
Making a very rash(er) assumption that there might be pork in a Greggs sausage roll, there are a fair few folk that don't dig on swine. 1.57 billion muslims, 14 million jews, 400 million vegetarians and a few fussy eaters.
those who are pig-averse may have one of those cheese-based things
I admit some vegans may starve but I'm not convinced they'll be a great loss to the world 😈
Will £100B buy one of these?
Actually yes it will!
I Googled "How much does the ISS cost" and it said 150 billion USD
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Er, can't remember sorry, but there was a more sciencey reason than just 'because if it could, someone would have already come back and we'd know about it'.tthew - MemberA time machine won't be able to travel back to a time before it was invented. Radio 4 science fact.
dirtyrider - Member
Why can the time machine not go back?
Also, a time machine will have to travel in space and not just time. Wormholes or something. (I am not Brian Cox)
Nuclear fusion. Would solve an awful lot of problems.
now now, let's keep things realistic and achievable...I'd book a half-term holiday
tthew - Membertthew - Member
A time machine won't be able to travel back to a time before it was invented. Radio 4 science fact.
dirtyrider - Member
Why can the time machine not go back?
Er, can't remember sorry, but there was a more sciencey reason than just 'because if it could, someone would have already come back and we'd know about it'.Also, a time machine will have to travel in space and not just time. Wormholes or something. (I am not Brian Cox)
Time travel is only theoretically possible by traveling at near the speed of light away from earth and then returning - you're not really time traveling, but because of special relativity you're experiencing time more slowly than the people you leave behind if you could get up to 99.5% you would experience time 10 times slower than on earth - go for 5 years and you would return to earth 50 years later, it's not possible with the knowledge we have no to go back in time, even theoretically because the past is gone, it no longer exists so you can't travel there.
You need to leave earth and return because we're moving all the time, the earth is rotating on it's on axis, it's also traveling around the Sun and out solar system is moving through our galaxy and our galaxy is probably moving too - so if you stepped into your time machine and went back or forward even a very short time you could come back in the middle of something solid on the surface, or more likely under the surface or in space. It's also more practical to travel at 300kms per second in space, there's more room.
£100bn wouldn't be enough to do it - the Apollo Programme cost about that (inflation corrected)