[mnehring]

DARPA has $1M to spend, plus another $100,000 from NASA itself

Which would probably buy just the toilet paper for a space mission. They are going to have to add a lot of zeros to those numbers to get anything like what is implied here.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Which would probably buy just the toilet paper for a space mission."

Real astronauts use diapers...

[MediaMole]

The $1 million buys a couple guys from DARPA an office and some good “Prop 19” so they can sit around saying, “Dude, we could so build a spaceship that would, like, go all the way to Alpha Centauri.”