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NASA's Own X Prize?
Roger_Explosion writes "NASA has announced that its 2005 budget includes 20 million dollars allocated to what it calls 'Centennial Challenges.' These are described as 'a series of annual prizes for revolutionary, breakthrough accomplishments that advance exploration of the solar system and beyond and other NASA goals.' The article on the X Prize site seems to suggest that this was a collaborative effort between the X-Prize organisation and NASA. You can read the story on the X Prize site."
"Those 20 million should be spent on AIDS/Cancer research"
Monkeys are getting too expensive, lets launch people with AIDS or cancer in experimental vehicles! They are expendable, and renewable!
Furthermore, old people should be studied to determine wich nutrients they contain that might be extracted for our benefit...
You can't take the sky from me...
...post an article about the "X-Prize" right after I read about porn/X-rated movies...