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Canadian X-Prize Entry Gearing Up

Posted by michael on from the hold-your-breath,-eh dept.

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?"

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  1. Canadian Beer sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nuff said.

    1. Re:Canadian Beer sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What are you trying to do? Start a war?

    2. Re:Canadian Beer sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      and America just plain Sucks! so go fuck yourself

  2. fp? by jay-be-em · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://yourthemannowdog.com

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  3. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post! HAHAHA

  4. Don't forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..to pay your $699 licensing fee you tea-smoking cockbaggers.

  5. Canadian Beer rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Notice: Molson "Canadian" isn't.

  6. damn. spelling error. by jay-be-em · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    correction
    Silly me.

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  7. Re:THANKS SLASHDOT by AndroidCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    2002-11-14 10:42:33 Shooting for the X Prize (articles,space) (rejected)

    So there, pphhhfft!

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  8. Crashes by The_Mystic_For_Real · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From the article:Wildfire's total budget is $5-illion, while the Rutan, its main competitor from California, has a $25-million wallet filled by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. "It's the Canadian team with no money against the American team with unlimited resources," said Ms. Wildman. "But they just did some test flights and had a failed landing and our testing has gone perfectly. We feel like we have the edge."" The thing funded by Bill Gates crashes. What else is new?

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  9. Re:I FUCKING HATE FAGGOTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "fucking hate"... does that mean that you have like, really ANGRY sex with them?

    Just curious

  10. Re:duh. by edrugtrader · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hmmm... 4 comments up same response with a sentance more of obvious explanation = 5, insightful. me = offtopic.

    idiots.

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  11. Re:Carmack by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shit, the mods must be smoking something to give that guy an insightful. Can we meta-mod the mod itself yet? That gets a +1, Funny Mod, easily.

    (hoping to get an insightful mod for nothing just like the parent poster)

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