I am singularily unusual in this regard, but here goes:
I would like to safely grab onto a 500,000 volt transmission line, while it is carrying full rated power (I missed my chance to do it in the early 1990's, at an engineering conference [poor student, no money to go]).
I would like to drop a metal chain across the bus bars of a large three phase generator. It is the only way to test the overcurrent protection of the generator, and it is a standard acceptance test. I was told by my power systems professor that the bus bars (long aluminum pipes) have so much current going along them that they twist about like snakes stapled to poles, from the electromagnetic forces.
Take part in a whole season's worth of Junkyard War challenges.
Finally, get paid to do any of the above on a regular basis.
Oh yeah, write a novel or draw a manga. David Weber has made alot of money translating battles between sailing vessels of the napoleonic period to space battles (the Honor Harrington series). I would love to do the same for the period of steel warships, before Dreadnought (I just want to have stokers in a space battle).
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