Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?
Tough question. I've got lots of ideas about what I'd do with limitless funding within my own area, but until the question came through, I hadn't thought too much about alternative careers.
I guess my answer depends on "outside of your own discipline" means. If it means that the shift has to be to an entirely different discipline, I'd have to go with astronomy, and look at the geological history of other planets. If I can get away with defining "discipline" more narrowly, I'd go from evolutionary biology to ecosystem-scale ecology. With limitless funds, there's a lot that could be done there.
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Allowed to include engineering, though, i'd design and build a means to colonize another star system. Again, time and money are not obstacles.
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