$1 Cup of coffee
$10 Lunch
$1 Hundred A good date
$1 Thousand A good 10/20 hold'em game
$1 Million Start a small business
$1 Billion Start a small country
$1 Trillion Start a small moon colony
$1 Quadrillion Build space trade infrastructure
$1 Pentillion Colonize the asteroid belt
$1 Sextillion Build circumsolar ring
$1 Septillion Build Dyson sphere
$1 Octillion Colonize neighboring stars
$1 Nonillion Begin exploring galaxy
$1 Decillion Colonize stable energy-efficient stars
??? Re-engineer other stars for our use ??? Reorganize galaxy for our use ??? Build circumgalactic ring ??? Begin galactic Dyson Sphere ??? Begin intergalactic exploration . . .
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC