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Rocketeers…Start Your Engines! X Prize Cup Planned
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| 07/17/03
| Leonard David
Posted on 07/17/2003 5:16:05 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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I wonder if we can start a betting pool of some sort.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:16:54 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
The race is not always to the swift, nor the struggle always to the strong, nor the first aeronautical laurels always to the Rutan op at Scaled Composites...
But that's the way to bet :o)
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:18:42 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:18:54 PM PDT
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To: KevinDavis
Highest altitude reached; time-to-climb; time between reflight; total number of people carried – are all among the types of competitive records that rocketeers would start their engines over, trying to win cash awards. This is OMG crazy. They'll have an accident, the lawyers and regulators will show up, and that will be the end of it all. Bet on that.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:20:43 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
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To: KevinDavis
This is excellent, the X-Prize won't stop with the first sub-orbital flight. They will continue to provide prizes that will push the envelope. They could even be offering a Lunar X-Prize in another 10-20 years.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:21:56 PM PDT
by
Brett66
To: KevinDavis
We are in discussions with 15 spaceports in the US today. OK. I wonder if this $10 Million prize of theirs is backed by a bank letter of credit.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:23:53 PM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
To: RightWhale
This is OMG crazy. Faint heart ne're won fair lady.
This is about adults that are alive and free to take risks.
/john
To: RightWhale
This is OMG crazy. They'll have an accident, the lawyers and regulators will show up, and that will be the end of it all. Bet on that. Hasn't stopped NASCAR
Televise the whole thing. They'll make a mint.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:28:38 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer looking for next gig)
To: SauronOfMordor
Hey, wait...
X-Prize meets NASCAR.
"And trading metal in Low-Earth Orbit are Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt, Jr!"
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:29:36 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
To: JRandomFreeper
There is zero flight testing going on except for Rutan. Some of the participants may have considerable rocketry background, but I wouldn't want to be in the same county when some of the others ignite their spark gaps. No way a rocket fair like that should be happening, it's not at all like the rocket assoc fairs.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:30:43 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
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To: Brett66
After a few years of this competition, the logical next step will be the first sub-orbital trans-Atlantic flight
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:32:10 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer looking for next gig)
To: SauronOfMordor
They'll make a mint Maybe. Once. Best they make a static display and no fuel within a mile.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:32:32 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: RightWhale
Duct Tape !! We'll need lots of Duct Tape !!!!
Stay Safe RW !!
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:35:50 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
To: Brett66
I'm real excited about the X-Prize. I'm more excited about the Mars Prize. However who ever wins, space will no longer be just for the few, but for those who wants to go.
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posted on
07/17/2003 5:36:14 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: RightWhale
I thought the British team had done a drop test of their capsule. And were moving forward on other tests.
As long as the flight path is not over inhabited land, I say let them go for it.
As I recall, there were a lot of the early air-mail planes that crashed and caused deaths. Real men keep on going.
/john
To: RightWhale
This is OMG crazy. They'll have an accident, the lawyers and regulators will show up, and that will be the end of it all. Bet on that.
You're probably right. God forbid private enterprise and initiative be given the opportunity to show up NASA. That just wouldn't do...
To: KevinDavis
Can I get the money if I strap myself on a ton of TNT and blast myself into suborbit?
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posted on
07/17/2003 6:06:28 PM PDT
by
Monty22
To: KevinDavis
Rutan will win this hands down. Anyone care to wager?
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posted on
07/17/2003 6:21:45 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
(It's a literary fact that the number of words wriiten will grow exponentially to fill the space avai)
To: Monty22
To win the prize you have to turn your craft around in two weeks and do it all over again. Your plan sounds like the second flight might pose some problems. ;^)
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posted on
07/17/2003 6:24:45 PM PDT
by
Arkie2
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