I always wonder what it must be like to be worth $21 billion. I wonder what Paul Allen’s agenda must be like:
8 am: Wake up. Dive into Duck Tales-style pool of coins for refreshing swim.
9 am: Take a refreshing shower, dry off with towel sewn from $100 bills.
10 am: Check email.
10:30 am: Bathroom break, use toilet paper made from $50 bills.
11:00 am: Ponder what museum should start next.
12:00 pm: Lunch, followed by an ice cold ’95 Tattinger.
1:00 pm: Take the Octopus for a spin.
2:00 pm: Ponder taking the submarine out for a week long voyage to the Aleutians, to explore possible site for future space launch/telescope sites.
4:00 pm: Return back to the mainland.
5:00 pm: Think about what sports team/publication to buy next.
7:00 pm: Dinner
10:00 pm: Do Vulcan hand signal before bed. “Live Long, and Prosper.”
“It will be used 24/7 for searching for ET, for looking for extraterrestrial intelligence,” Dr Shostak said of the Allen Telescope Array being built at Hat Creek, 400km northeast of San Francisco.
Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, will also “piggyback” on the instrument, using it to study other “radio objects”.
The multi-million-dollar telescope – funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen – will comprise 350 antennas, each 8m long, spread over 1km, enabling SETI searchers to scan the skies hundreds of times faster than now.
