If money was no object what is your wildest dream? Skydiving? Travel? Have a family? I wanna hear it all! Mine would be a world cruise if money was no object!
Float across the sky in a giant, luxuriously outfitted Zeppelin and travel the world.
I would love to live in as many countries as possible. Obviously this is only doable because I don’t have to work because “money was no object”.
I did used to want a holiday home on the Moon, but it really is wildly expensive and troublesome for merely a week a year so I've decided to settle for a single trip with a suitable girlfriend. I also used to want to buy a country, possibly Namibia just because it ticks a lot of the technical boxes, but I'm too old now: I wouldn't have time to enjoy it.
As for my dream house on Earth, I priced it up in detail recently with the help of AI and it came out to a whisker under £10bn. (That does include a fund to run it but no reserves of any kind.)
That house does require a plane. You could easily buy a suitable one, there are several and not expensive, but it's more fun to have your own. Six souls and and two labradors, excellent soft and short field characteristics, modified elliptical wing and two mildly modernised Merlin engines.
My dream car, it turns out, is entirely feasible on a good lottery win. The trick being that if I did actually win the lottery in a big enough amount for a fantasy project like that to happen, I wouldn't need it any more. Bespoke three-seater spyder, you don't see many of those.
There is a flotilla of boats in my head but the key one is proving troublesome: it has to be a trimaran, but it can't be a trimaran. I have a horrible suspicion we're going to have to invent a new kind of catamaran, but I'm not focussing on it at the moment. The deep-hulled single-hull aquaplaning hydrofoil steam-powered dynarig wingsail catamaran, with spare oars just in case. No, no, just glue that radio knob onto Channel 16, it's the only one we'll need.
I also want to undertake root and branch reform of the global education system but again, I wonder if that moment has passed because it will require years of emotional and physical energy. Some people just don't want world peace and an end to poverty.
The big project now is a space telescope, which came out to around £100bn. An array of 12 (if they all survive which isn't likely) James Webb-sized mirrors in various Sun orbits beyond the Asteroid belt. Each will have small secondary experiments and strong communications capability, which will allow the network to act as a comms hub for subsequent missions. Jupiter will screw up the orbits of course but we can plan for that, and presumably we'll use the Lagrange points. There will be a drum beat of repair and maintenance craft to keep the thing going as long as possible and the different orbits may allow one repair mission to visit more than one telescope. The repair craft can subsequently be used as impactors if desired. Late in their life with the last fuel, and possibly a nudge from a repair craft, each telescope will be pushed out of the ecliptic. They will eventually spiral into the Sun, but it will take years and they will do good work on the way. Early targets - while everything works - will be deep space perpendicular to the ecliptic but later on we'll do a good stint of solar system work including Earth. That's a 50-80 year project anyway so age is no matter, I'm only needed to kick-start it.
All of the above is silly of course. If I really did have a trillion to spend - and that's about the limit of "money no object" because above that you start to run into problems like, "well the money's no object but the global economy is, you've just tried to hire every bricklayer on the planet" - then I'd put it into health research to try and fix at least some of the things that are wrong with me. Then go and live in the house I was brought up in to await the result of the de facto race between the medics and the grim reaper.
Oh, and one year at Christmas, every ambassador in the world will receive a small box of crystallised fruits from a non-existent radio station. Two house points to anybody who knows that joke.
This might sound crazy but my wildest dream is to go through a black hole and see what truly happens
@tezzy11 you can. You just can’t tell the rest of the universe outside the event horizon about any of what you observe.
Well lovely gang:
Because of new puppy and new bf, deleted my short lived but very happy account, err 3 times within the last few weeks..
You do realise that people can read the forum without having an account, so I read every day and laugh, smile, cry and have hope for mankind as you all support each other so very beautifully here in CC 🌎 🗺
This morning 🌄 my mind got blown as seen @CuddleDuncan ' s very detailed and Itemised list 👏🤩
I just looked up the answer to the last bit: what an amazing beautiful thing:
"one year at Christmas, every ambassador in the world will receive a small box of crystallised fruits from a non-existent radio station. "
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The reference is to a famous real-life anecdote from Christmas 1948 involving Sir Oliver Franks, the British Ambassador to the United States.
What Actually Happened:
• The Call: A Washington radio station phoned foreign ambassadors in December 1948 to ask what they wished for most for Christmas.
• The Grand Answers:
The French ambassador gave a lofty wish for world peace, and the Soviet ambassador used the moment to demand freedom from imperialism.
• The British Answer: Sir Oliver Franks replied modestly: "Well, it's very kind of you to ask. I'd quite like a small box of crystallised fruit."
• The Broadcast:
The radio station aired the responses to highlight the stark contrast between grand political posturing and quintessentially British understatement.
Beautiful @CuddleDuncan .
Peaceful fun, and lots of cuddles and chats, and heartfelt smiles to all of you wonderful CC souls community 👏🌄🌎🫂🧸💯✨️🤗
Correct!!
Which reminds me of another British ambassador story, this time Caracas. He was attending an official ball, and being bored out of his skull had a sherry too many. Suddenly he remembered he was supposed to be leading the way, showing the flag and all that, so he turned to the person next to him said, "Beautiful lady in scarlet, will you do me the honour of dancing this waltz with me?"
"I will not," came the reply. "Firstly, this is not a waltz but a polka. Secondly, you are drunk. And thirdly, I am not a beautiful lady in scarlet, I am the Papal Nuncio."
Travel in time to a past life in the 1800s
I’m with VibeSeeker! Yes 🤩! To travel in time to a past life in the 1800s or even earlier! 💋
I’d gather some of the most brilliant minds alive today, particularly those whose work aligns with my interests, and pay them whatever it takes to sit down with me for hours of deep, uninterrupted conversation. Philosophers, psychologists, scientists, historians, finance moguls and anyone who sees the world through a fascinatingly different lens. I’d want to pick their brains, challenge their perspectives, have mine challenged in return(to a certain extent cause holding those conversations would still be terrifying), and ask all the questions I’ve ever been curious about. Editing to add that I’d need unlimited access, so a phone number would be nice as I'd probably come up with 50 more questions once I get to reflect on the previous conversation and so on.
I’m imagining having the luxury of learning directly from people who’ve dedicated their entire lives to understanding things I’m only beginning to explore. No time constraints, no questions off limits on my part, and no worrying about taking up too much of their time. Just my curiosity being satisfied.
A nice house with no mortgage or utility bills or taxes would be nice as well cause these rent prices are sickening 🤣
To feel loved again
A wild dream for me is to just live in luxury somewhere less rural and isolated.
Or maybe own a Capybara farm
Mine is very special. I would create an "attraction medieval park (13-15th)" with waste field around. Goal: Internal is an full self-sufficient park in clothing, nutrition, tools, protection and construction with people where want to do reenactment. So it's an safe place in economics crisis (money don't feed an stomach with no food to buy). External is to show realistically how the life was, competition and more. Fraction: Westeuropean, Northland (viking) and different mercenary.
Right now I just really want to buy the house I rent in, owning my home would feel so stabilizing 💗
I've had many wild dreams, although I'll stick to the realm of reality and go with something a bit outside of my character. I HATE the Winter and I get frigid really easily. I just don't do well with the cold at all which is why I am iffy with the coming season ahead.
However, I've always wanted to see the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) because pictures and videos of it just don't do it justice, I want to experience it, despite my contempt for cold weather. So a dream of that aspect would be to shelter in the most lavish resort I can find in the Yukon area, not too close to any metro area and not too deep in the wilderness. I'll pack my North Face & Superdry jackets suited for the elements as well as sweaters, hoodies and thermal wear and spend a good week out in that open while seeing the Northern Lights in person. That's a bucket list experience that I do hope get the opportunity to catch at least once in my life.
I’d buy SCOTUS, put my sons in positions where they could get rich and cheer taxpayers and grant myself a pardon so I’d be untouchable. Wait. Thats not my dream that was DT’s dream and he made it happen. I would own a ranch with a huge barn where I could throw events and invite the best musicians and DJs to perform for music lovers.
If money were no object, I would own my own country, rule with an iron fist, and reinstate the practice of _ droit du seigneur_
All shall love me and despair!!
Give myself just enough to live comfortably and the rest of it goes to St.Jude's Children's Hospital.
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