NIAC Selects 2005 Phase I Winners

Pooua writes "The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) has selected its 2005 Phase 1 awards winners. Two of my favorite winners from this year are 'Extraction of Antiparticles Concentrated in Planetary Magnetic Fields' and 'A Deep Field Infrared Observatory Near the Lunar Pole.' A brief summary of the awards is available at Spacedaily. The NIAC Website lists links to PDF articles of all their funded studies (past and current). Slashdot covered NAIC awards winners last year."

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Re:Antimatter: the next exploitable resource?

[xMilkmanDanx]

Given that antiprotons are destroyed upon contact with normal protons, the rate of creation is likely to be higher than what we can collect. i.e. new antiprotons will be created faster than we can collect them.

On a completely unrelated note, I worked my first internship under this guy, well under his grad student. Nice guy and smart. The grad student, nice guy but kept trying to cut out the real portion of the answer (which turned out to be why the test wasn't working as well as it was supposed to be). But I digress...