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X Prize Competition Gets New Sponsor, Amended Name
An anonymous reader writes "The X Prize Foundation today announced that entrepreneurs Anousheh Ansari and Amir Ansari have made a multi-million dollar contribution to the X Prize Foundation. As a result, the X Prize Competition is being renamed to the Ansari X Prize Competition." However, the X Prize rules stay the same: "The ANSARI X PRIZE will award $10 million to the first private organization to build and fly a ship that can carry three passengers 100 km (62 miles) into space, return safely to Earth and repeat the launch with the same ship within two weeks. Both flights must be completed by January 1st, 2005."
You mean, they're changing the name of the porn giveaway? Those bastards.
*blank stare*
Ooooohhhh...
The ANSARI X PRIZE will award $10 million to the first private organization to build and fly a ship that can carry three passengers 100 km (62 miles) into space, return safely to Earth and repeat the launch with the same ship within two weeks
:)
What about the passengers? Or they really do care only about the ship
Sponsors get naming rights on just about everything these days, so it's not surprising the X-Prize wasn't immune... next thing you know somebody's going to buy the rights to put ads on baseball bases.
I wonder how test flights would go. Someone tricking their little brother to "step in the SPACESHIP!"
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I notice it doesn't say what kind of passengers - wonder if mice are acceptable?
As someone already pointed out, it says that the ship has to return safely, not the passengers.
It does not specify if the passengers have to be alive or not. If you send up corpses, it is easier to keep them intact than it is to keep live passengers alive.
Mice? Does not say you can't send them instead of humans.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Yes definitely. I'm going to use mine to escape earth when the RIAA cracks down on me and travel to one of those rogue travel outposts they have in the movies... or something.
...the competition is now known as "Pepsi Presents the Ansari X Prize Competition"
(Why, yes, this was an obligatory Simpsons reference, thank you for noticing!)
~Philly
Ok, i think this can be done fairly cheaply I need:- A couple of guys to dig a really big hole. A Really Big flame proof tennis ball to hold the crew. 2 really strong trees (steel poles will suffice) 1 Big rubberband. A guy with good hand eye coordination and a big catchers mitt. Waste
That is exactly what I was thinking. They have no skills, (AFAIK), in this matter, take a competition that seemed of pure intent (unbranded), throw some money at it, and there it is - They are famous for nothing.
You can get your name put on anything for the right price anymore.
I just can't wait for the new Maxwell House Instant Shuttle from NASA.
//i have as many lives as people i know.
Cats might be able to survive the fall to Earth? Heh. I'll do some tests and get back to you.*
*JK! I love my cat. He could probably leap up into space. I'm not going to do any tests.
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
I'm proud to announce the Raehl X Prize. First person to drink a gallon of milk in an hour gets 10 bucks.
paintball
The organizational imperative is to survive and stay viable.
No, that's the reproductive imparitive. The organizational imparative is to pay large retention bouses when you go bankrupt.
paintball
The first to miss gets the Darwin awards.
It's all good.
the new Maxwell House Instant Shuttle
Good to the last drop?
Money for anyone who can once and for all get my X Window configuration files working.
There, now there's another X prize.
"RODDENBERRY JOINS X PRIZE ADVISORY COMMITTEE"
I see where this is heading: Gene's son joins the team so he can get close to the launch site. He climbs some scafolding just as that Alaskan sheriff is about to board the ship (Contact). Instead of blowing everything up, Gene Jr. jumps onto said Sheriff with a big bear hug and ends up on board the ship (ST:IV:TVH). They slingshot around the Sun (ibid) where they go back to October of 1955 (BTTF). They steal Doc's DeLorean, drive into the future at 88 mph to San Francisco's UFP HQ. Since money is no longer an issue, they easily win an antique British phone box off of eBay, make some slight mods, and time/space warp back to 2004 (Dr.W)
Unfortunately, at the end of this spectacular journey, Gene Jr. was mistakenly wearing a red shirt. We all know what happens to the red shirts. :-(
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
First the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize whore themselves out, and now the X-Prize.
In space, no one can hear you stream... Sorry!
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e) Rain delays = Kirsten Dunst runs onfield in that pink shirt = best. ratings. EVAR!
The reuse of ICBM's could enable us to wage global nuclear war in a more environmental friendly and economical way. Oh, wait...