Billion dollar ideas

[Michael]

other ideas.

* Trisecting an angle
* Inventing frictionless gears
* Inventing a cheap and fast way to take salt out of water
* Inventing non-toxic candles where the flames burn different colours, ie.
a red candle burns with a red flame etc.

Anyone have any others?

[fAtnhapy]

A bottomless bag of cheetos?
High def Brittney Spears sunglasses.....you put 'em on and your wife looks like Brittney Spears but in High def!
Viagra popcycles for when you're not wearing your Brittney Spears sunglasses.
High def Viagra popcycles for when you are wearing your Brittney Spears sunglasses.
Viagra for your heart and lungs.
Heck what's the use, hard to beat the colored candle thingy!
fAt

[ken_behrendt]

Michael suggested:

Inventing a cheap and fast way to take salt out of water

How about a cheap and fast way to extract gold from sea water? A cubic mile of sea water contains several tons of gold!

Inventing non-toxic candles where the flames burn different colours, ie.
a red candle burns with a red flame etc.

I think that one has been done already...


fAt suggested:

A bottomless bag of cheetos?

and

High def Viagra popcycles for when you are wearing your Brittney Spears sunglasses.

How about cheetos salted with Viagra?



Let's see...what would my own billion dollar ideas be?

How about:

A comfortable and roomy car that only weighs 100 lbs and gets 200 miles to the gallon?

3D television?

Robot pets that do not eat, get sick, or need a litter box?

Junk food that's actually healthy to eat?

Oh, yeah...how about a working gravity wheel?



ken

[fAtnhapy]

"How about cheetos salted with Viagra?"

Well....that would be silly.
fAt

[ken_behrendt]

Not necessarily.

One of the problems with the various anti-ED drugs is that they can take up to an hour and a half to take effect (they also have other problems such as causing a sudden fatal heartattack!). I think I read that the drug companies are experiementing with viagra laced chewing gum that produces the effect in only a few minutes. There is supposedly also a topical cream in development that, upon application, also works in minutes.

However, I always believe in keeping things as natural a possible. If one eats the right diet and exercises moderately, then his blood vessels will not be clogged with the plaques that cause ED. According to the latest issue of the Merck Manual I checked into, ED is not considered a normal part of aging...rather, it is a sign of serious cardiovascular problems that need to be seriously addressed as soon as possible. Viagra can compensate for some of the symptoms associated with a damaged circulatory system, but it does nothing to correct them.


ken

[fAtnhapy]

So let me be sure I understand this. You solution to the clogged arteries ED thingy is to put the viagra on a cheeto? Not worth a billion Ken.
fAt

[ken_behrendt]

Actually, the cheeto with the viagra should only be considered for occasional use by someone whose arteries are clear. For those with clogged arteries, the viagra should only be taken on a whole wheat / whole grain cracker.

ken

[fAtnhapy]

Ok, I'll make a note of that....but you already stated that if the arteries are clear you wouldn't need the viagra...so the cheeto eaters are our potential customers. The wheat thins while a brilliant idea targets a populas with no need for the product. It's a bit of a conundrum isn't it. Sort of a vicious circle. HEY!!! You finally made a wheel!
fAt

[Michael]

The candle one hasn't been done yet Ken. There's a company, I believe in England, that's willing to offer a lot of money to the person that can come up with it.

[fAtnhapy]

A product destined to be extremely popular among women married to cheeto eating ED victims to be sure. No matter what color they burn.
fAt

[AgingYoung]

* Trisecting an angle

I thought I read somewhere that the construction of the trisection of an angle had been accomplished. Although it isn't a construction (compass, straight edge) in the strictest sense it accomplishes it with making a mark on your straight edge. I tried like crazy to be the first one to do that back in my geometry days.

Gene

[Michael]

Gene, I meant with just a straightedge and a compass. Sorry. Actually there are many methods that you can use outside of just those two items.

[AgingYoung]

Michael,
I knew you meant a 'construction'. There aren't too many ways to do it without making a mark that you can find with the straight edge and compass. You could use trig tables, etc.

When I was attempting it I'd show it to my geometry teacher, Miss Armstrong. She was a very tall and lanky woman about 70 years old. She'd show me where I was wrong and ask, 'am I right?' I never caught her when she wasn't right.

Gene

ps edit: The way it can be done with the straight edge and a compass is to 'construct' a ruler in the process. It's not a pure construction but is closer than using a factory ruler and trig tables. Without making a mark on your straight edge I'm pretty sure that the construction of the trisection of an angle is impossible.

[jim_mich]

How about a cheap and fast way to extract gold from sea water? A cubic mile of sea water contains several tons of gold!

Ken, your wrong. According to my 1982 edition of Handbook of Chemistry and Physics there is between 0.000004 and 0.000008 parts per million of gold in seawater. That works out to about 37 to 73 pounds of gold. which is about 525 to 1064 troy ounces which at todays price of $565 an ounce troy is about us$300,000 to us$600,000. Just pumping one cubic mile of water through any proposed gold extracting machine would eat up a lot of any profit.

[rlortie]

As I have mentioned before, back in the early 1980's when gold was up to and exceeding $800.00 per troy ounce. The recovery profit margin was .7 per troy ounce for every ton of ore mined. If you could not get .7 of an ounce out of one ton of burden you were going broke.

With lower gold prices plus inflation I would say that % has increased drasticaly.

Ralph