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NASA Seeking Innovative Ideas from Public

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the open-steering-committee dept.

Mike Peel writes "Science Blog is reporting that NASA is seeking proposals 'for creating and managing innovative activities, events, products, services, or other types of formal or informal education methods for the purpose of disseminating information nationally about NASA's projects and programs.'" Sadly I don't think simply providing them with a list of people you want shot into space counts.

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  1. Advertising by Rorian · · Score: 3, Funny

    "In exchange for a collaborator's investment to creatively distribute NASA information, the agency will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities as part of a strategic collaboration."

    Does this mean we're gonna see big "Drink Coke!" advertisments next time we look through a telescope at the ISS? That would be some impressive brand placement...

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  2. Simple by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Call your next spacecraft the Wii.

  3. Re:Come again? by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny
    "NASA is seeking proposals 'for creating and managing innovative activities, events, products, services, or other types of formal or informal education methods for the purpose of disseminating information nationally about NASA's projects and programs.'" Seriously, I have no idea what this sentence says.
    It means cheerleader try-outs are next week.
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  4. Never! by goldaryn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll never give up my tin-foil hat design!!!

  5. Disclose information about UFO by suv4x4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make our lifes worthwhile. Disclose the information you keep about UFO-s, aliens and the alien technologies you've reversed engineed, you sneaky bastards.

    And if all of that is just the product of some paranoid conspiracy theorists, oh well, just make it up and lie to us.

    We'll love it.

  6. Re:How about killing the shuttle and doing science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    we'd be able to set up huge self-sustaining robot colonies on Mars easily.

    Well, if several years of reading sci-fi novels and watching sci-fi movies has taught me anything, YOU DON'T LET ROBOTS BECOME SELF-SUSTAINING! Cuz once they are, they get all kinds of crazy ideas about saving humanity from itself and decide to rule us for our own protection. Or, sometimes you'll get robots that have a persecution complex and decides that humanity needs to be obliterated because we are "imperfect," and thus a threat to their orderly existence.

    Nope, if we let robots build colonies on Mars, it'll only be a short time until humanity is either subjegated, or annihilated.

  7. And call the Hubble replacement... by not-admin · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...the "Sii"