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Diamandis Predicts X-Prize Winner Within One Year
drix writes "Things are moving along for the X-Prize. The FAA is currently in the process of approving a launch site for competitors, several of which are set to launch "within the next few months." Perhaps most exciting, Peter Diamandis says he expects a winner within one year."
Or do they have to come down as well?
and send Darl McBride up? We could make a community effort out of this.
How much for him to be the first to get blowed up real good in a private spacecraft?
Yeah, I'm jealous of vapid pretty boys who get everything they want from a befuddled society. Deal with it.
--- Ban humanity.
But, but, but BIG BUSINESS is EVIL!!! Any corporate conglomerate that digs its meat-hooks into space will surely do so on the backs of the people, and manage to destroy the interstellar environment in the process! And just like they exploit aliens here on earth, what's stopping them from enslaving aliens from other worlds?
Don't you tell me there's something that the Geek Collective can't do with idealism and free (beer AND speech!) software alone! I refuse to believe it! That's blasphemy, and such heresy should be moderated accordingly!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Don't forget the age-old adage about space travel :
"To make a small fortune in the space business, start with a large one."
make world, not war
No, really! Check out the following link: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/30/china.wan hu/index.html From the sounds of it, the explosion certainly sent him onto outer space, and he (most likely) flamed down in the outback... ...can the X-Prize be awarded post-humously? ;)
No. He didn't do it again within a fortnight...
"Information wants to be paid"