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Canadian X-Prize Entry Gearing Up
lommer writes "The Globe and Mail has a piece up about the Canadian Da Vinci team which is making a bid for the X-prize. The team has finalized a launch location (Kindersley, Saskatchewan) and will announce a launch date this month. Meanwhile, Burt Rutan and Co. over at Scaled Composites appear to be back on track with a succesful test flight on March 11 after their December crash. One has to wonder, with launch dates being set, will some projects step up and attempt a flight without being fully ready for it?"
I've got to give them credit for creative funding!
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Carmack should just strap someone into his space ship, and plow em into the side of a mountain or explode them off the pad or whatever.
End this spaceman nonsense once and for all, and get back to work finishing Doom 3.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
with launch dates being set, will some projects step up and attempt a flight without being fully ready for it?
Only once.....
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
1992-12-17 08:31:47 Canadians to shoot for X Prize in ten years (articles,space,nostradamus) (rejected)
The answer is simple, really. They don't want to hit anything! *duck*
We've got full tanks of kerosine and Lox, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing spacesuits built by the lowest bidder. .... hit it! ....
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Although devoid of oceans, Saskatchewan is fortunately also devoid of populated areas too.
E.
1566-7-02 01:32:00 The north bird does not beat the karmic force (quatrain,space,nostradamus) (rejected)
What is it? Read a few links to inform yourself. What I really want to know is why this conspiracy keeps continuing. You know the one I'm talking about. Canada. Canada doesn't really exist. Want proof? Let me show you.
A few questions about Canada:
But I can see Canada! It's on our maps!
Ah, yes. You have been brainwashed by the governments of the world with their lies. Without the help of so called "map experts", would you really know what you were looking at? It could be Alaska for all you know. It could have been imposed on a gullible world at many times in history. From the beginning of the so-called "New World", people have been convinced that Canada exists.
Don't all of these experts agree that Canada exists?
Yes, they do, but should one be suspicious of such overwhelming agreement? Obviously they are trying to hide something. Would an individual student that talks of such a topic in a school be awarded a degree for talking such "nonsense"? No, he/she would be ostracized by classmates. And so, the groupthink makes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Who would ever want to perpetrate such a hoax?
It's hard to say how many have played a part in this conspiracy over time, but the primary players are easy to spot. The US government, of course, has played its own role in the hoax. They even invaded "Canada" at one point in their history to build nationalistic pride, even though the US "lost" that war. Imagine how easy it was to start the hoax back then, with no TV or radio, only newspaper articles that were hopelessly out of date! People all over the world simply assume that Canada exists now, and that is something that governments, both official and secret, can hold over the people.
And so, now that you know, can anyone come forth with proof that Canada exists?
(This post was based loosely on this website.)
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What do you say, Canada?
And so, now that you know, can anyone come forth with proof that Canada exists?
Hi.
(From Vancouver, British Columbia)
Quote: One has to wonder, with launch dates being set, will some projects step up and attempt a flight without being fully ready for it?
Apparently only those run by NASA.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
These Canadians should give up. We all know that the X-prize will be won by a team on an upcoming edition of Junkyard Wars/Scrapheap Challenge. Ratings are down ever since they changed hosts, and all the "We want Cathy back!" letters have gone unanswered. Clearly they must have a huge competition and/or have the current host flash her tits.