If you were given $350,000 and a year...

[Savonarola]

I'm still on the GE Corporate mailing list, even though I'm now an Alstom employee.  This morning GE announced a program to encourage "Big ideas."  There's a contest where you submit your idea and if yours is chosen as the best you get a years paid leave and $350,000 to develop your idea.  What would you do if you were given a $350,000 and a year to develop one of your ideas?

(As an Alstom employee I'm not eligible for this contest, so I'm not going to steal your idea.)  It can be anything; not necessarily just technology or science.

I would study and write a white paper on thermal and atmospheric ducting at UHF and microwave frequencies in coastal and non-coastal deserts.  The subject gave me innumerable headaches when I was working on a chain of microwave links across the Pilbara in Western Australia .

[DGuller]

That was my first thought as well. 

[Berkut]

I would spend the year prototyping my online strategic wargame.

[celedhring]

Writing the Oscar-worthy movie adaptation of my last CK save.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I would study and write a white paper on thermal and atmospheric ducting at UHF and microwave frequencies in coastal and non-coastal deserts.  The subject gave me innumerable headaches when I was working on a chain of microwave links across the Pilbara in Western Australia .

I would tell them this, then give you $100k to develop it for me. 

Seriously though, I have no new ideas ever and just do was the TV tells me to. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Since it's GE I'd build a Fun Cooker.

[Razgovory]

I would decipher a way to spend 350,000 dollars in much less then a year.

[mongers]

I was thinking about something along these lines for next year. 

[Monoriu]

Study the effects of my employer's impression of me after taking $350,000 a year and not doing anything.

The best ways to invest $350,000.

Or I'll pay someone a tenth of that and hand in whatever he develops. 

[Archy]

Since this is GE.  I would search a way to optimize my customs tariff classification that this is finished before the goods arrive at destination Airport. I would also take care to check before handing over the goods to a subcontractor that this subcontractor bond can take the duties & VZT so not days will be lost after arriving at destination. Does it tell that GE is one of the customers of our forwarding company. I've sometimes the feeling the company is as competent as the government.

[Grey Fox]

My work has that too, budget is 5 millions.

No mention if they raise your salary tho.

[Savonarola]

My work has that too, budget is 5 millions.

No mention if they raise your salary tho.

Were they afraid that if they through in an extra million you'd try to rebuild a person? 



At five million you could do some damage.  I'd build the Batmobile.   

[MadImmortalMan]

I'd give my money over to Sav to work on the microwave thing.

[grumbler]

I'd test Yi's hypothesis that Catholic chicks are far above average when it comes to freakiness in bed.

[garbon]