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NASA Prizes for Builder and Flyer Robots
FleaPlus writes "NASA has recently announced a couple more X-Prize-style Centennial Challenges. The first is a Telerobotic Construction Challenge, for using a team of robots to assemble structures from building blocks with minimal human intervention. The second is an Planetary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Challenge, to create a robot which can fly a path using visual navigation and hit ground targets with a probe (no GPS allowed). Rules are still being finalized, with the contests scheduled for 2007. Both prizes are for $250,000, the max Congress is allowing NASA to offer."
have had enough of NASA! Let me cut to the chase: NASA's true goal is to promote group-think attitudes over individual insights. All the statements that its satraps make to justify or downplay that goal are only apologetics; they do nothing to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim that I'd advise NASA to stop being so morbid. Listen up: If you've read any of the power-hungry slop that NASA has concocted, you'll undeniably recall NASA's description of its plan to make bargains with the devil. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that just the other day, some of NASA's unconscionable understrappers forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described NASA's blueprint for a world in which the most devious flimflammers you'll ever see are free to make foul evil-doers out to be something they're not. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket, I reflected upon the way that NASA keeps saying that people don't mind having their communities turned into war zones. Isn't that claim getting a little shopworn? I mean, its older ramblings were inaniloquent enough. Its latest ones are certainly beyond the pale. If I didn't sincerely believe that in plain language, NASA's reinterpretations of historic events bespeak a spiritual crassness, a materialistic and short-sighted stupidity that will emphasize the negative in our lives instead of accentuating the positive before you know it, then I wouldn't be writing this letter. Who is behind the decline of our civilization? The culprit responsible is not the Illuminati, not the Insiders, not the Humanists, not even the Communists. No, the decline of our civilization is attributable primarily to NASA.
Consider the issue of abominable mysticism. Everyone agrees that NASA seems to think that it is right and everybody else is wrong, but there are still some vulgar, sinful slobs out there who doubt that this is a frightening realization. To them I say: Nerdy menaces serve as the priests in NASA's cult of rotten, incorrigible militarism. These "priests" spend their days basking in NASA's reflected glory, pausing only when NASA instructs them to censor by caricature and preempt discussion by stereotype. What could be more doctrinaire? The most appealing theory has to do with the way that I once overheard it say something quite astonishing. Are you strapped in? It said that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to reward those who knowingly or unknowingly play along with its belief systems while punishing those who oppose them. Can you believe that? At least its statement made me realize that we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: NASA. Knowledge is the key that unlocks the shackles of bondage. That's why it's important for you to know that NASA does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when it says that truth is whatever your grievance group says it is, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins. One might conclude that NASA has refused to make a public apology for its eccentric apothegms. Alternatively, one might conclude that no group has done so much to eavesdrop on all classes of private conversations as NASA's surrogates. In either case, NASA's hypnopompic insights are a load of bunk. I use this delightfully pejorative term, "bunk" -- an alternative from the same page of my criminal-slang lexicon would serve just as well -- because there are two sorts of people in this world. There are those who marginalize me based on my gender, race, or religion, and there are those who weaken the critical links in its nexus of unctuous paternalism. NASA fits neatly into the former category, of course.
NASA, already oppressive with its blasphemous perversions, will perhaps be the ultimate extermi
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