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X-prize Award paid

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the faster-than-most-ebay-bidders dept.

daveywest writes "According to the AP, "SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan accepted the Ansari X Prize money, along with a 150-pound trophy, as a chase plane flew over the ceremony in a field adjacent to the St. Louis Science Center.""

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  1. Next task by pete_norm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make the thing fly with the trophy in it...

    1. Re:Next task by metlin · · Score: 2, Funny


      Dude!! There are _way_ better uses for the money.

      Two chicks, same time, baby ;)

  2. hey, nice check! by muntumbomoklik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was it one of those big checks? I always wondered how you're supposed to get them in the tiny deposit envelopes.

    1. Re:hey, nice check! by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

      I heard it was paid in cash using several money sacks, each marked with a big green '$' sign.

    2. Re:hey, nice check! by DeathByDuke · · Score: 1, Funny

      you fold it about 1024 times. Then it should fit in the envelope. Wouldn't want to be the clerk opening it though...

  3. The next big prize by pchan- · · Score: 5, Funny

    After the Ansari X-Prize, the next big prize to watch is the Ralph Kramden Prize.

    One of these days, Alice... to the moon!

  4. We need a monument by CodeWanker · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the kind of thing all us hard-core geeks who grew up reading the Real Heinlein (from the '40s and 50s, before he got too preachy to tell a story) have dreamed of. A lot of really good geeks have died wanting to see this day.

    Maybe a Mainframe Terminal of the Unknown Geek can be built for them. Instead of an eternal flame it could have an eternal Estes engine on it.

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  5. I'm sure we'll get an update... by sczimme · · Score: 2, Funny


    I'm sure we here on /. will get an update when Rutan goes to the bank on Monday to deposit the check, and a follow-up news flash when he balances his checkbook later in the week. :-)

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    1. Re:I'm sure we'll get an update... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yup, hopefully complete with photos of him typing in his PIN from the ATM spycam.

  6. Zefram Cochrane by dapyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Burt Rutan looks a bit like Zefram Cochrane, doesn't he? :-)

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  7. $10M by chachob · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...should be enough cover his gas costs.
    ;)

  8. Made a small fortune by murderlegendre · · Score: 3, Funny

    spending $25 million to make $10 million

    Q: Know how to make a small fortune in space travel?

    A: Start with a large one.. ;-)

    In all seriousness, nice going folks. You won that fair & square; hats off!

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  9. Re:John Carmack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, he's optimized the number of pieces at reentry to O(N^2) pieces, where N is the number of pieces that were launched.