LOL Elle, at the telling those 'friends' who had nothing to do with you in ages to go fuck themselves. +1 for that.
If I was filthy rich, I'd have two homes, one in the city, one way way way out in the country. I'd have the countryside one surrounded by a farm, growing three primary crops, and one portion of the farmland devoted to growing various interesting plants of other sorts, a mixture, as well as another place to plant a second memorial garden for Sovia, may her sweet, talented bee-wings always find room to flap and may her flasks never break, her condensers never become scratched and never a stuck or stiff joint in her glassware be, while her sweet soul rests eternal.
The crops would be -weed, real damn good weed. Poppies, a big field of mixed 'giganteum' and 'persian white' strain Papaver somniferum. And wheat. Possibly a clonal male sterile line, although that would take a bit of research, so I'd go with wheat, or more likely, rye, first. This wheat, I'd infect (deliberately) with the ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea. Or else I'd just grow a huge farm field of grass. Not the type you smoke, I'd already be growing that, but grass grass, the stuff with thin stalks and strap like long thin leaves grass, in particular, Paspalum grass, as this is the host for the ergot Claviceps paspali, the chemistry needed to process it after harvest once one has performed the obligatory strain development and selection, mutation work etc., is much much simpler a task and the extraction liquors less toxic than those from a Claviceps purpurea harvest/culture. It produces paspalic acid rather than the complex mixture of ergopeptide alkaloids in C.purpurea, and paspalic acid can easily be simply isomerized into lysergic acid, rather than losing yield and having to be really, really really careful not to epimerize the lysergic acid irreversibly, as well as risk (reversible) transition of lysergic acid to isolysergic acid.
I'd have great big barns, plenty sheds for storing my supplies, metal construction, so they can be secured,
the barns too, with excellent ventilation equipment, multiple fume-hoods, both small ones, medium sized ones, to one about the size of an articulated truck, maybe two of them of that size.
There'd be entire buildings just for glassware, more buildings just for my chemicals and solvents, big processing units for automated pill-pressing, a metalworking fabrication shop, welding room, room for electronics work, and a general purpose outbuilding for woodwork, stuff for metalworking like the lathe from here, blowtorches, bench/angle grinders, powertools of all kinds, routers, all manner of useful items of that nature.
I'd of course, spend about 500k on new lab glassware, not counting the additional sum spent on buying a GC-MS, an NMR machine (standard 1H proton NMR, an advanced model with a high operating frequency, wide range UV-VIS ultraviolet-visible range spectrophotometer, an infrared spectrophotometer with a very wide range of IR wavelengths that it is sensitive to. And another piece of analytical chemistry equipment I'd give my left nut for, a fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer.
And as for cyclotrons, I'd build one too. Actually, I've wanted to try building a cyclotron (a type of particle accelerator) for a while. I need more space, though, somewhere to put it, and the only room I could free is upstairs, which might well risk the thing falling through the floor and crashing straight through to the ground, both destroying the accelerator, and if it hit somebody, killing them without the least, tinest fraction of a doubt. No maybe about it, they'd be crushed to a thin red paste with a few bone shards in it; because it would be built with some large, very powerful vacuum pumps, a vacuum chamber surrounded by some VERY heavy, very strong electromagnets, if possibly, superconducting magnets, which would make things much more effective at the cost of more weight for the liquid nitrogen dewars and pumps for the coolant lines needed to make the superconducting magnets work, then there is the lead radiation shielding, the beamline, the radiofrequency excitation field generator that actually, in concert with the electromagnetic field, gives the magnetically-confined particle stream in the vacuum chamber the repetitive 'kicks' to speed them up to a fraction of the speed of light before they are sent into a beamline, surrounded by quadrupole strong focusing magnets or octupole magnets, 'compressing' and confining the particle beam into an extremely narrow, thin filament as it is fired into various targets according to the experiments being undertaken at the time, used to irradiate samples with particle beams.
It is a very large, very, very heavy piece of equipment, a cyclotron, if a cyclotron of any significant power is to be built. Although it is possible to build micro-sized ones, a proof of concept scale cyclotron, that would fit on a table top, but at the same time, it wouldn't be of the practical use I desire, for that you need meter-wide vacuum chambers, or bigger, and fuckoff great big powerful radio emitter and magnetic field generators. Having one with say a 2 meter acceleration chamber (significant power levels possible there) would if it fell through the floor onto someone, quite literally squash them flat, and crush them to a paste unrecognizable as ever having been human unless the pulp were subjected to DNA testing. There wouldn't even be dental records to match.
Nothing more than a paste of organs and muscle tissue, reduced to slurry, with bone residue, probably some powdered and some little pieces of splintered bones, but thats about all, aside from the shit in their intestines and piss in their bladder. So a thin, wide splodge of pinkish red slime dotted with bone splinters and dust, intermixed with their shit and piss.
So really something that should go on the ground floor, no?
