Hello Infographics fans, we're back again with another 1 billion dollar challenge.
In case you don't remember from our last video, the premise is simple: you've just been awarded
1 billion dollars in the super-stupendous-mega jackpot, but there's just one catch- you have
to spend every dollar in 24 hours or else you have to give back all the money.
This time though if you fail instead of giving the money to an organization dedicated to
kicking kittens, all the money instead will be donated to an organization dedicated to
blasting baby seals into space... where they'll drift... all alone... for eternity.
With no one to dry their tiny little baby seal tears of loneliness.
So you better not fail!
Think you can outspend us?
Stay tuned and let us know your list in the comments!
1.
Sweet Digs
As always real estate is going to be your best investment, plus you have to spend 1
billion dollars in 24 hours and if you saw our last video you're probably starting to
get the idea that blowing all that dough isn't as easy as it sounds.
Luckily we've got our eyes set on some of the swankiest digs in the whole world- Mukesh
Ambani's Antilia located in Mumbai.
As a 27 story skyscraper that's been built to withstand magnitude 8 earthquakes, Antila
is one of the safest, and most luxurious homes money can buy.
And at a cost of 1 billion dollars, that takes care of our entire budget all in one go!
So that's it for this episode of The Infographics Show, we hope you enjoyed our list and if
you think you can do better, let us know in the comments.
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…ok fine, Antila may be cheating a bit, though we can't help but wonder who really
needs a billion dollar home anyways?
Plus, we're afraid of heights, so we're going to pass on Antila and instead set our eyes
on something a bit more sea level'ish and with a great deal more heritage.
Built in 1929 and designed by an American architect, Villa Leopolda located on the French
Riviera has an estimated value of a whopping 506 million dollars.
But for all that cash you're getting quite a bit of history, as the famous estate was
once owned by King Leopold II of Belgium- presumably where he would go to relax after
mutilating and torturing thousands of Africans in his colonies.
During World War I it was also used as a military hospital, and if you've gotta get checked
in to a hospital anywhere, Villa Leopolda is definitely the place to be.
With a giant swimming pool, 11 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, an extensive garden, a private
beach front, sport courts and a bowling alley, Villa Leopolda is one sweet place to get laid
up with a gunshot wound or two.
The luxurious home would go on to be bought by a Russian billionaire who bid $750 million
dollars on the property, though current estimates place its real value at its current 506 million.
That's 506 million down, 494 million to go!
2.
Art is the essence of life.
The most beautiful home in the world can feel a pretty soulless place without art to liven
it up- after all, what is life without art?
Everything you do and enjoy nowadays is art, from the tv shows and movies you watch, to
the video games you play, and the comic books you read- art is all around us.
But we're not going to fill our luxurious digs on the French Riviera with art for 'normals',
let the peasants enjoy their superhero movies and comic books- we have 1 billion dollars,
we have class now, we have... a painting of a boy holding a pipe.
At 104 million dollars, Picasso's Boy With A Pipe shattered records for an auctioned
painting.
Described as “the finest work in public hands that was for sale”, we have to agree,
I mean just take one look at it (use photo:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/Garçon_à_la_pipe.jpg/300px-Garçon_à_la_pipe.jpg)
It's a boy!
And he's holding a pipe!
106 million is far too little we say, an absolute insult to art as a whole.
A billion wouldn't have been enough- did we mention that he's holding a pipe?!
With our upper crust status firmly secured, we've also knocked out another 106 million
for a total expenditure of 612 million dollars.
That leaves us with 388 million left to go, and we have a pretty good idea for how to
spend that money...
3.
Meesa Not In This Movie Anymore
Upon its release in 1977, Star Wars became an immediate cultural icon, and one of the
greatest film franchises in the world- and then in 1999 we got the eagerly anticipated
prequels and the first new star wars films in decades.
As fans packed into theaters around the nation ticket sales records were set and broken over
the course of a single weekend.
And then we all got to meet Jar-Jar Binks, the single worst character in all cinema past,
present and future.
Unfortunately we can't send a Terminator back in time to kill George Lucas before he wrote
Jar-Jar into the scripts for all three prequels- we know, we checked, remember we have a billion
dollars at our disposal.
We can however pay to completely reshoot the entirety of the Phantom Menace and terminate
Jar-Jar Binks from ever being a part of the prequels.
With a production cost of 115 million dollars, undoing this horrible mistake is well within
our budget- and though in our last episode we said you couldn't give the money to charity,
this piece of charitable contribution to cinema is completely acceptable.
Eliminating Jar-Jar Binks from the Phantom Menace will knock out another 115 million
dollars from our budget, bringing our total expenditures to 727 million and leaving us
with 273 million to go!
4.
Dead Fish
As we've mentioned, art is important, and it's a great way to throw away a ton of money
that could be used, we don't know, for things like helping people?
But while most art does in fact help people by giving them shows to watch or books to
read that gives them a break from their daily lives, art that costs millions or tens of
millions of dollars... umm really helps people get a break?
Well, we're going to invest once more in art, and we have our eyes set on the world famous
art piece, 'Dead Shark'.
At 12 million dollars, Dead Shark is a... well, it's a dead tiger shark in a tank full
of formaldehyde.
We know what you're thinking- you're spending millions for a dead fish, what's the point-
but like, you just don't get it man.
But you know what, we're going to help you get it because we aren't content with a dead
shark a few feet long, we're going to put our prodigious wealth to use to make something
far, far greater.
The average tiger shark weighs 1100 pounds (499 kg), so that means our 12 million dollar
Dead Shark art piece has an approximate cost of $10,909 per pound.
The elephant, largest land mammal in the world, can weigh up to 8,800 pounds (4,000 kg)- we
think you see where we're going with this.
With a cost to create a new art piece at $10,909 per pound of animal stuffed into a glass case
and filled with formaldehyde, we're going to commission a brand new art piece that we'll
cleverly call 'Dead Elephant', for a price tag of $95,999,200- plus of course a 10% commission
to the artist for a total of $106 million dollars.
Some anonymous bidder may have a full-sized tiger shark in their home right now, but we've
got a full grown African bull elephant, perfectly preserved in formaldehyde for visitors to
gawk at for years to come.
Now that's money well spent.
That brings our total expenses to $833 million, with $167 million left to go.
5.
In space no one can hear you harass
Harvey Weinstein had a really bad year in 2018 as he faced several court appearances
over the plethora of sexual assault and sexual harassment allegations against him.
Sadly, Weinstein's behavior is not only habitual, but endemic to the entertainment industry,
with most women both in front or behind the camera having experienced sexual harassment
or outright assault- having one of the highest rates of any industry.
We can't do much about the behavior of all the other predators in Hollywood, but we can
use the rest of the money we have left to make sure Weinstein never asks another young
intern to watch him shower naked again.
Currently NASA spends about $10,000 a pound to get cargo to the international space station.
With Harvey Weinstein's approximate weight being 300 pounds (136 kg), that means that
we can use the rest of our 167 million dollars to put Harvey Weinstein at a medium orbit
around the earth of about 14,139 miles.
That'll be far enough away from earth that he'll be well within the bounds of any restraining
order against him, and will ensure that the Weino never bad-touches ever again.
Once more, charity is technically against the rules, but this is another public service
we're gonna get behind all the way.
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