I’m working on this myself! You would be amazed what you can come up with on a much smaller budget.
If you had a billion dollars: What are some truly bizarre or weird or eccentric things you would do?
Buy a car racing track. Jump start investigative journalism in hundreds of underserved communities across America by hiring eager writers, paying them a living wage, and rewarding them further for good work. Buy a winery and hire recent oenology grads for rotating two year terms to run it. I’d hire experienced consultants to keep an eye on them too. Start a film production company/studio focused on small budget films by minority writers and directors.
Another thing I would do is bring back the IMDB message boards. All the other boards that tried to replace it failed. I’d buy the IMDB site and bring back the message boards.
I’d find politicians I don’t like, and buy the house next to them and just have people annoy them endlessly.
I’d hire people to make new seasons of shows that ended on cliffhangers. I’d create new seasons of shows like the sarah conner chronicles, or last man on earth, which were cancelled on cliffhangers.
I’d start a stand up comedy club, and treat the comedians well. Most get treated like shit by club owners, but I love stand up comedy. I’d run the place in the red so that the comedians made plenty of money, and I’d just hang out with them and talk to them when they stopped by the club to work.
Donate money to those people who are trying to clone the woolly mammoth. If they are successful, set up a hunting lodge. Gunpowder, metal, and plastic will be forbidden. If you want to dine on mammoth steak, like your ancestors did, you have to hunt it with a stone-tipped or bone-tipped spear, like your ancestors did. (And avoid the sabre-toothed cats, like your ancestors did.)
Hire genetic engineers to create an animal that is basically a stomach and a tooth. You feed it, and it makes ivory. Its purpose would be to make ivory so plentiful and so cheap, that elephant poaching would become unprofitable.
When the Cro-Magnon hunted mammoths, it was with pits, and in large groups.
Why not just invest in nano-technology and develop a method of making ivory in a vat without any animal being involved?
Well that would be much less truly weird, bizarre, and mind-blowingly eccentric than the stomach with a tooth! 