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SciFoo: $1 billion

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If you had $1 billion to spend on just one project, what would it be? Here's how an astrobiologist, a broadcaster, a skeptic and a Nobel laureate, amongst others, would spend the money.

Filmed at the 2010 Science Foo Camp in California, this is the last of four videos in this series.