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N-Prize Founder Paul Dear Talks Prizes For Nanosat Race
Rob Goldsmith writes to point out this interview with Dr. Paul Dear, founder of the N-Prize, and explains: "For those of you who haven yet heard of the N-Prize, the N-Prize is a £9,999.99 (sterling) cash prize which can be claimed by any individual, or group, who are able to prove that they have put into orbit a small satellite. The satellite must weigh between 9.99 and 19.99 grams, and must orbit the Earth at least 9 times. This project must be done within a budget of £999.99 (sterling)."
This guy just have a fetish for the number 9 or something?
At least it's a new one, can't find a term for it anywhere.
or a 65,000mph cannonball
cant wait to see someone hit a satellite with it, if only to see the reaction on the Scientists faces
£999.99 could probably buy enough menthos and coke to launch the projectile.
Drug Dealers
It's pound sterling, but I guess that £ only stands for pound so they felt it necessary to say sterling too. Whatever, I'm from Georgia and played in the mud as a child, so I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be trying to answer this.
Hmm, with a budget of ~$2000, I just need $1000 worth of rubber tubing and two mountains. Anybody want to design the satellite?
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
But only pot dealers. Cocaine and heroin come in metric... or so i've heard.
That's cuz metric is a plot by the Government, man. You know in England when they switched to metric in bars they went from getting a pints to half litres and the price went up, man. Half litre is like way less than a pint, man. The bars sell you less beer and the price goes UP. Bar makes more money and the government stops people drinking.
Mind you, people should stop drinking. That shit makes you paranoid. You're better off sticking with dope.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
*Prices* look like 9,999.99 so they appear small.
*Prizes* should look like 10,000.00 so they appear big.
You forgot to convert the '9 times' to American:
must orbit the Earth at least 9 totally freakin awesome times
Of course, as we watch the US dollar continue to lose value, we can take advantage of an increasing budget limit for the same here in the states.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Nah! Make a tiny tin foil 'hedron' that has retro reflector shaped dimples, that when spinning, spell out something in Morse Code, and let NORAD's antennae confirm its presence.
Maybe it could say:
Frist P0st!
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(length)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Simpson
I used to come in hand often during history class, my teacher was oh so yummy.