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The conservatives clobbered Jerry Brown for suggesting California-funded space endevors

alcaray — 1/13/2004 6:31:45 PM (archived)

One of the things that got him the nick-name Governor moonbeam.

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Space poll contradicts itself at every turn - CarolinaDave - 1/13/2004 12:45:50 AM
- re: Space poll contradicts itself at every turn - dtb - 1/13/2004 2:23:01 AM
  - Dangle prizes, though, and every state will produce chasers... - SpaceProjects.com - 1/13/2004 2:32:09 AM
    - The conservatives clobbered Jerry Brown for suggesting California-funded space endevors - alcaray - 1/13/2004 6:31:45 PM
    - re: Dangle prizes, though, and every state will produce chasers... - DWC - 1/13/2004 6:15:38 AM
      - Hasn't Paul Allen spent MUCH more than the $10 million X Prize on Scaled Composites? - SpaceProjects.com - 1/13/2004 6:22:39 AM
    - re: prizes won't even necessarily be popular - dtb - 1/13/2004 3:06:57 AM
      - Prizes yield results (not the X33 kind, either); market incentives can be tacked on, too. - SpaceProjects.com - 1/13/2004 5:57:45 AM
      - re: prizes - Tom Brosz - 1/13/2004 5:08:28 AM
        
        re: prizes - dtb - 1/13/2004 6:38:58 AM
        
        Neither DARPA's nor the FBI's grand prizes funnel pork to politically significant districts... - SpaceProjects.com - 1/13/2004 3:36:45 PM
        
        re: prizes and politics - Tom Brosz - 1/13/2004 2:49:25 PM
    - re: sure, there are multi-billionare gamblers on every street corner! - dtb - 1/13/2004 2:45:20 AM
      - Burt Rutan says prizes attract up to 40 times their amount in private investment pursuing them. - SpaceProjects.com - 1/13/2004 6:02:14 AM

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