Re: $N, a test of imagination

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Thu Aug 05 1999 - 09:58:44 MDT

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$1 Cup of coffee
$10 Lunch
$1 Hundred A good date
$1 Thousand A good 10/20 hold'em game
$1 Million Start a small business
$1 Billion Start a small country
$1 Trillion Start a small moon colony
$1 Quadrillion Build space trade infrastructure
$1 Pentillion Colonize the asteroid belt
$1 Sextillion Build circumsolar ring
$1 Septillion Build Dyson sphere
$1 Octillion Colonize neighboring stars
$1 Nonillion Begin exploring galaxy
$1 Decillion Colonize stable energy-efficient stars
??? Re-engineer other stars for our use
??? Reorganize galaxy for our use
??? Build circumgalactic ring
??? Begin galactic Dyson Sphere
??? Begin intergalactic exploration
. . .

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