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It was a surprisingly thin envelope that dropped onto your doormat, headed: RAE unlimited approval. You open it up and find out, that's right, you've been given a license to conduct any research you want, invent anything you want. The budget? The entire contents of the Bank of England. Hmm...before the recession, or many years after.
So what kind of research study would you dearly like to conduct. What would you just love to invent? Although it would be nice if your research was for the benefit of mankind, it could just be for personal interest. Your suggestion can be as complicated or as simple as you want. I'll start.

After watching Carrie and realising the great potential that having kinetic powers can bring, I would like to begin intensive research into the best means of developing one's own potential kinetic powers. Upon identifying, developing and refining my own kinetic powers, I would then ensure that much mirth and tomfoolery ensues. Firstly, I would use my powers to fool all the best scientists in the world into thinking I had developed a perpetual motion machine. Secondly, I would then embarrass Uri Gella live on air by sitting in the audience as he bends a spoon live in front of everyone but exerting an equal and opposite reaction to his (using my own mind powers) so that the spoon does nothing at all. Thirdly, I would get even with Derek Acorah for having fake spook shows by using my powers to turn the lights on in his haunted houses, thus ruining the atmosphere of the show. Once I had tired of my powers, I would then use them to fight crime, become a local hero and hopefully star in adverts for ASDA. So yes, it's entirely achievable with the right budget.

Great thread, thanks for this Wal, I have been reduced to watching a quasi dosumentary film about the effect of the web on our lives - I have sucked all the juice out of the come dine with me re-runs and can't figure out how to get America's next top model on the internet. And I missed survivors tonight! Went to see the lovely bones. Oh dear, this docu is saying that there's some bloke wearing an anorak, sitting in a white van with headphones on monitoring and recording everything I write on the web, paranoid or what.

OK, so! My research, unlimited. I would like some research done into the spirit and the soul, how we are all connected and the power we have through that. A completely vague aim, and I'm not at all equipped to do it.

Fr personal satisfaction, I'd go full time with what I am doing now. I'd love to make a film, but don't think I'm ready for that yet; I actually like struggling for things in some weird, perverse way. I think that only when my struggle is won will I be truely ready for the thing I want, like a butterfly struggling to get out of its cocoon - and my film will be worthwhile. But that could just be because I have to think that way!

Yeah, so, I'd give myself a £60,000 a year stipend and buy a really beautiful flat with a garden, and I'd shop in Jaeger, at least twice a year.