if you won next tues $90M lottery...

[starlooker (Duc)]

What would be the top 3 things you would do?

For me:

1. Share a portion with family and friends
2. Put the money in an interest bearing account and retire on the interest
3. Buy a house on the beach

[mozzie (Peter)]

burn my cement mixer and barrows and throw my trowel to the be-jesus

mozzie

[duncan]

A-P-E-R-T-U-R-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RULES,LMAO!
Cheers,
Duncan

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I'd definitely give a portion to each immediate family member.
I'd like to buy another place out here in the country, on a bigger block and with darker skies than what we have now. Set up some dorm type accommodation, put down a few concrete pads and open the place up to the general Astronomy community.
Of course you'd have to give some away too. There is so much worthy research going on that needs funding.

[AlexN]

If I was the sole winner of $90M. I'd give $10m each to my 3 family members, $10M to my favorite charity... Put $40M into a high interest term deposit, and spend $10M... two nice cars.. two properties.. One in brisbane city, one around 400km north west, 20 or so acres up at high altitude, 1x AP 3600 GTO, 1x 20" RCOS, 1x STL-6303, 1x AP 900GTO, 1x FSQ106N, 1x STL-11000.. all associated accessories, in a big double roll off roof observatory.....


Oh wouldn't life be grand


EDIT:
Oh... 3 things...
1 - Share $40M around
2 - Put $30M away for a rainy day
3 - Spend 20m on property and TOYS!!!!!!

[Marclau (Marcel)]

Even $1 Million - Give some to family, by my wife a nice telescope by one for myself and an observatory, invest the rest...........not greedy.......would be extrememly happy with $1M...........

[AlexN]

I'd be extremely happy with $1M... but $90M would be better...

[Nesti (Mark)]

Make a movie.

[leon]

I agree 90 mill is just ridiculous as a first prize, one or two mill would be a good first prize, and then divide the rest with the other divisions.

Leon

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

See the stars from many different places around the planet and perhaps even off the planet!!!!

Take some financial advice!

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Well, I'd be buying a nice home in a dark sky area with large percentage of clear skies...and then I'd be buying the 40" from here:

http://www.observatoryscope.com/ritc...ychretien.html

I don't want much, do I?

Dave

[h0ughy (David)]

definitely buy a property in a nice location, a multitude of different scopes on offer to use, travel to all the good events and go to the eclipse - no matter where it is.

OK OK - actually i would do as i am told by SWMBO

[AdrianF (Adrian)]

First thing I would do is recover from the coronary I would have if I won $90M. Then a big property

Adrian

[Moon (James)]

It's almost enough to log into bintel and order a nice scope for all 6000 ice in space members.

[Jen]

yeah all of the above
But im not greedy just 1mill will do
Pay off my mortgage, go on a huge holiday
Buy myself a few corvettes 1 for each day of the week (my dream car) 1958, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973 models all with a blown 454 engine in them
And lots and lots and lots of astro toys
Oh and i would make sure i was the first aussie chick to fly to Mars
(arhhhhh life could be a dream)


Ok back to work

[stephenb (Stephen)]

1. Tell work where to go
2. Share a small portion with family
3. Buy a big country property and build a nice house
4. Invest the rest and live of the interest.
5. Pay someone to chauffeur me around in a '63 corvette

Oh, and...

6. Buy one of these... http://www.cruxis.com/scope/scope1070.htm

bugger it, I'll have two!

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Originally Posted by glenluceskies

Oh, and...

6. Buy one of these... http://www.cruxis.com/scope/scope1070.htm

bugger it, I'll have two!

The secondary protector is a garbage bin!!

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

1) Hello? Virgin Galactic? 5 tickets on the next flight please....(for me, wife and kids)
2) Buy a Bugatti Veyron
3) Sell the house, buy an island and a BIG boat, house, observatory, put the remainder in the bank (probably a lazy 10-12 mill left)

Cheers

Chris

[ngcles]

Hi Stephen & All,

Originally Posted by glenluceskies

1. Tell work where to go
2. Share a small portion with family
3. Buy a big country property and build a nice house
4. Invest the rest and live of the interest.
5. Pay someone to chauffeur me around in a '63 corvette

Oh, and...

6. Buy one of these... http://www.cruxis.com/scope/scope1070.htm

bugger it, I'll have two!

I like that list -- just a couple of small but necessary modifications ...

(1) Pay someone to tell work where to go (let's say three times a day for the next two years). In that person's spare time I've also got a small list of others to whom they can deliver a similar message along with other sundry pieces of sage advice (say twice a day, 2am and 5am for a couple of years).

(2) Ditto

(3) Buy a big country (omit balance of the phrase)

(4) Invest in the coming new world currency: carbon-credits. You can't loose!!

(5) Pay the chauffer to tow the Ford away and get me a proper car.

(6) Yes. Indeed you do need two of these -- as a binocular telescope. And a "cherry-picker" lift to get me to the eyepieces (no more ladders).




Best,

Les D

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

ps...Liposuction