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Heinlein Prize Established for Space Achievements

StJefferson writes "The Heinleins' estate has just announced the establishment of a US$500,000 prize to be awarded as often as annually for individual accomplishment in commercial space activities. What a terrific application of the legacy - both financial and intellectual - of the Dean of Science Fiction!"

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  1. Perfect 1st Entries... by Strange+Ranger · · Score: 4, Funny
    Commercial Programs for encouraging space travel:

    Free Group Marriage licences for the first one thousand applicants to be married in space.

    A Free Lunch for the 1st person to coin a new term and get others to grok it in space.

    For encouraging colonization:

    Free libertarian handbook for the 1st person to sleep over-night on the surface of the moon.

    Free libertarian handbooks AND Free Lunches for the first 3 or more people to sleep over-night on the moon together.

    And of course, a Clothing Optional Space Station should also win.

    (-"How's it hangin?
    - "Well, sort of up and to the side right now." )
    --

    Operator, give me the number for 911!
  2. Welcome ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I, for one welcome our new Martian flat-cat overlords.

  3. Re:Friday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah. I loved "Friday" too. I mean, what other sci-fi novel so perfectly succeeds at making gratuitous sex dull and trite?

  4. Or did you mean... by Iron+Sun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sleep over a lunar night? That's not sleeping, that's hibernating.