>>12436109Invest at least 100 million of it in a mock up of the Starship Enterprise, from Star Trek.
Announce plan to "boldly go where no man has been before, blah blah blah.."
Sell positions on the ship to all comers. Captain's position would be a cool 100 million, just to recoup cost, senior officers would be 50 million each, junior ranks 10 million, and all others 1 million. Probably looking at multiplying initial investment by a factor of 10 in pure profit..
Plow profits back into research and development for actual space related science.
Then launch spaceship, which is really just a converted Boeing 747. Land it on deserted island and perform weird and highly unethical biological experiments on the now sedated crew. Feed any evidence to the sharks.
Use archival footage and CGI to send messages back to family and friends of crew telling them all is well. Make it look really exciting and spacey and shit.
Make a new Starship, Enterprise II. Repeat continuously.
Think of all the breakthroughs in biological science and psychology! All the while generating new funding for collecting yet more boring exo-planet rock data, gathering additional evidence that we are alone in the Universe, and building more telescopes that yield even more forms of dark matter. At the same time purging this planet of rich fucks with more money than sense. Admit it. I am a genius.
