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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. I still can't comprehend it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ever since 2nd November I haven't been able to sleep or eat properly. My mind is tortured by desperate questions: How could it all end like this? How is it possible that the heart of America has become a big gaping red wound? Why did 50 million people vote for christian puritanism at home and a policy of arrogant bloodshed abroad?

    I fear for our country. The war on terror is not working for us - it's working against us by creating millions and millions new Osama bin Ladens that will haunt us in decades to come.

    I fear for my friends. I have homosexual, muslim, atheist and liberal friends and it's becoming ever clearer that such people will not be tolerated in the new, brave Bushland.

    I fear for my family. I fear that my doing volunteer work for women's rights and homosexual groups is going to make them targets for harrassment or worse.

    I fear for myself. I already fear to express my political opinions in public and whenever I gather enough courage to speak, I get shouted down for being "unpatriotic" and told to "Move to France". What's next? Stoning or trip to a re-education camp?

  2. something funny going on early Sunday morning ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, what happened to the story you guys were gonna do about Google Image Search filtering out all pictures of Abu Ghraib and Lynndie England?

    Try doing an image search for her, or Abu Ghraib, and see what y'all get back. Now try doing it with Lycos or Altavista or Yahoo. I've got a paid account and saw this story on the main page, just minutes from going live, and now someone yanked it.

  3. Re:something funny going on early Sunday morning . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hey, what happened to the story you guys were gonna do about Google Image Search filtering out all pictures of Abu Ghraib and Lynndie England?

    Slashdot probably got a call about how important issues national security and standing by the President are.

  4. Next Task: Safeguard America's Technologies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The key here is to ban foreigners from these projects. If the company employs any H-1B workers from China or India, then it will not receive the prize even though the company might otherwise qualify for it. The leakage of technology to, especially, China is dangerous. The Chinese space program is an integral part of its military department whereas, in the USA, NASA is strictly a civilian operation.

    We have an interest in ensuring that the critical and best technologies remain in the West: Canada, USA, Japan, Germany, etc.