Slashdot Mirror
NASA Hoping To Create Super X-Prizes
Rei writes "NASA is attempting to use a strategy of handing out contracts as prizes, akin to the Ansari X-Prize, instead of the contractor-preferred method of bidding and having payment before work is completed. They are hoping to have prizes worth as much as one billion dollars. The only hitch? Congress won't let them."
Head of NASA: Mr. Senator, in light of the recent (airquotes) "X-Prize" I'd like for NASA to receive funding to sponsor contract prizes of its own, in amounts up to..... (pinky to corner of mouth) ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
NASA needs to create a $10 million X-Prize going to the congressman that can secure them the most funding.
They are hoping to have prizes worth as much as one billion dollars. The only hitch? Congress won't let them.
I'm hoping to blow a billion dollars on stuff too. The only hitch? My bank manager won't let me.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Is there, like, a trillion-dollar prize for building the first Dyson sphere?
Ahh Congress-Shmongress. All they gotta do is order a toilet for $50 and then start claiming a few cost overruns here and there. That should do the trick!
My Favourite Meme
What, me personally ? I would prefer the aircraft carrier battle group :).
Carrier battle group all the way. NASA can't even convert between metric and imperial.
... the opposite of progress is congress.