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Space Elevator Prizes Proposed

Posted by michael on from the up-up-and-away dept.

colonist writes "Space elevator proponents are planning competitions for space elevator technologies, similar to the Ansari X Prize. Elevator:2010 will organize annual competitions for climbers, ribbons and power-beaming systems. In other space elevator news, researcher Bradley C. Edwards recently left the Institute for Scientific Research to work at two companies on materials and technology. Also, the space elevator has caught the interest of Google's founders: 'At a space camp in Alabama last year, Brin talked about creating a space elevator to transport cargo up a special tether attached to earth. Also last year, Brin joined Page in proclaiming they should found a nanotech lab at Google.'"

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  1. Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please try to keep posts on topic.

  2. Michael on teh spoke by Uber+Banker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    24 hours solid posting! Excellent, Michael you are my hero!!!

    The regularity of interval between posts and other ;site features' (I am a registered 'troll') shows slashdot.org is truely a site created by the readers and used by the readers, a true meriotcricy and not at all subject to groupthink of the OS community.

    Could /.'s scripts be termed an intelligent life form? They certainly appear near-Turing complete. If someone adds a line of code stating 'I am Perl, I exist'... then they become self conscious life (memes certainly demonstrate 'life') and any deletion is surely a breach of Article 1 of the Startrek bill of rights.

  3. Re:Ceren wins beautiful geek chick prize... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Go on, support her. After all she is a registered user of this fine forum.

    Newsflash: I see others agree, we have already smoked a few of the above links. Uh, and weren't those links on a BSD machine? *cough*.

  4. Re:Ceren wins beautiful geek chick prize... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    >...gay looking goat!

    Actually, RMS and his involvement with Doctress Neutopia is well known and a proof he cannot be gay.

    Anyway, Ceren is rather nice, wonder what it would take to make her model Tux in latex...?