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Find a way to live a productive life with more dignity despite my physical disability that will lead me to an ever darker future. I was hit riding a bicycle to work, by a political refugee that had the cognitive capabilities of a third grader. Surviving is so much worse than death in the USA. It is a terrible place to live like this; an inhumane and pathetic disgrace of a country.

Eliminate religion

I'd develop a pickup truck that would have only the bare essential features and would be built from the ground up with the intention to make it extremely durable and easy to fix. Instead of a body-on-frame I'd probably go with a stainless steel exoskeleton instead and plastic/fibre glass panels you could just swap out to a new ones if you damage them. Kind of like on side-by-sides. The newer models then would just be ones with certain parts that have been upgraded to a better ones and would be 100% compatible with older models. You wouldn't ever need to buy a new truck again. Ideally there would be both diesel and electric versions - ideally so that you could convert one into another if you so desire.

My list is quite different than the ones currently in the thread.

The boring ones:

Creating a vaccine or other cloaking to make humans invisible to ticks & mosquitoes. A separate project would be to do the same for parasites.

Enacting strict pollution/carbon limits and mandatory circular economy everywhere in the world.

Researching, trialing and Enacting a sustainable post-capitalist system everywhere in the world.

Developing solar energy until covering global energy demands, including a power network that can transport energy from the sunny side and/or orbit everywhere.

The slightly more ambitious:

Establish self-sustainable colonies living on off-earth resources, most probably also situated off-earth.

Create a Dyson swarm with enough energy output for in-system exploration, mining, colonisation, and terraforming.

Perfect matter replicators.

I have some other ideas as well, but those would be a start.

In this economy, retirement.

Space mining.

Free EFI conversion for any carbureted vehicle still on the road.

Giant space laser to destroy military infrastructure and aircrafts. All of them. Bring peace on earth through terror.

Giant floating island to stay in temperate zone, of course everyone would suffer sea sickness and it is question how would we keep everything in place.

I’d start building O’Neill cylinders. Huge cylindrical lot extruded ring stations that simulate gravity for its occupants by rotating.

Becoming a spacefaring species is as good or better than becoming multiplanetary in terms of being able to survive impacts, and we can build these things close to Earth without transfer orbit scheduling constraints.

Obviously we should be pursuing both. But if I had the resources to do this, I’d start building the first human void city.

Making food and housing free.

I would buy the space next to the breakfast/lunch cafe in my neighborhood and make it a supper and drinks place that opened right when they close each day. Bribe whoever it is you have to to get a liquor license, hire a few people, pay really well, have no set menu but a supper service and then a few hours of drinks and small plates, close by midnight. Oh and a big cappuccino machine of course, coffee too.

I know this doesn't sound impossible but it's out of my reach and is what I'd do if we got a big windfall, like more than we need.

Some sort of medicine or ointment or balsam or whatever that halts hair growth. You decide your hair looks good right now at that length, and use this stuff to freeze its growth. It also protects your hair obviously so that it doesn't get weak and fall off.

Another thing I'd like is some sort of bath salt type thing that dissolves in water and painlessly removes all hair. You get in the tub with only your head above water, and then enjoy a smooth body without annoying-ass hair or annoying ass-hair.

Big? Rail gun to launch stuff into orbit.

Small? A proper shed/workshop instead of a corner of the garage. I know it asked impractical, but with how long I've been trying to make space for myself... It feels impossible at this point.

A matching pair of show cars, custom built from the ground up to cruise in and turn heads.

Also, build the modern equivalent of the Model T, the Volkswagen Beetle, something like that. The super practical, oddly attractive, easily repairable, energy sipping cheap-mobile. It would be hard to meet all these goals plus modern safety requirements, but that's where the endless money comes in for R&D.

My 3d printer could use some 220v 3 phase motors for sure.

No reason for it except that i want to know at what speed linear rails start melting.

The obsidian orb

"Uplifting" intelligent species through selective breeding and/or other techniques. Impractical? Yes. Probably not a good idea? You bet. However, I would really like for humanity to have sentient company.

Making an MMO

Make Earth post-scarcity

Except it's not impractical

Enjoy life!

I would finally build the dome home I dreamed of in college. Myself, no contractors.

Planning might push this in other directions like an earth berm home or similar. I might also consider some hybrid designs. Alternative housing is really interesting and uncommon.

Electrifying a 1950s pickup truck. The work would be fun, and the outcome would be superbly useless with almost no range. But I would do it if I had the resources.

Gene edit the particular gnats in my area out of existence

Pin Bowling - A bowling alley that works like a giant pinball machine.

A Dyson sphere

~~Participate in Eurovision~~ I reconsidered after the terrible events of the edition that happened this year. And I had massive plans too. Who wouldn't wanna hear symphonic metal in this thing?

Also, as a Moroccan, representing Morocco would be the last thing I would do, even though they don't compete anymore, but still.

World domination