Those wily French, never know what they are going to do next... It is well known their dislike for outside influence on their culture. Google sending traffic to AFP might eventually influence what gets shown on the website... Since Google News sends predominantly Americans to their site, maybe they are afraid people might start expecting them to not be so anti-american all the time....
Nah... they just want to get paid...
I think they are trying to go the "you get free publicity" route, sort of like X-Prize. X-Prize entries definitely cost more than the 10 million dollars that they won. But they got a lot of free publicity and now they have a contract with Virgin for commercial service.
Make a viable space tether or microwave power transfer system and we'll make you famous!
I wouldn't spread that bit of knowledge too far! US power companies already don't like the competition from "Green" power on the generation side, they definitely will not like the competion on the transmission side.
On the bright side I look forward to wireless Enron scandals!
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Those wily French, never know what they are going to do next... It is well known their dislike for outside influence on their culture. Google sending traffic to AFP might eventually influence what gets shown on the website... Since Google News sends predominantly Americans to their site, maybe they are afraid people might start expecting them to not be so anti-american all the time.... Nah... they just want to get paid...
I think they are trying to go the "you get free publicity" route, sort of like X-Prize. X-Prize entries definitely cost more than the 10 million dollars that they won. But they got a lot of free publicity and now they have a contract with Virgin for commercial service. Make a viable space tether or microwave power transfer system and we'll make you famous!
I wouldn't spread that bit of knowledge too far! US power companies already don't like the competition from "Green" power on the generation side, they definitely will not like the competion on the transmission side. On the bright side I look forward to wireless Enron scandals!
I'm waiting for the 88's to be re-issued... higher data transfer rates!