re: This involved a tax-funded government organization.

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re: This involved a tax-funded government organization.

Tom Brosz — 3/14/2004 4:33:45 AM (archived)

The government came up with the prize: $1 million. The private sector came up with the innovation. All else being equal, that works the best and costs the least. For one thing, no success, no prize.

Try and imagine how much more than $1 million a government program to develop such a vehicle would cost.

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Well, that was a bit of a letdown - Tom Brosz - 3/13/2004 9:40:54 PM
- ahem, as I told you before - E.P. Grondine - 3/15/2004 10:52:18 PM
  - re: ahem, as I told you before - Johannes - 3/17/2004 5:25:22 PM
    - What is it about you net cranks? You guys seem to attract one another. (n/t) - Davin L. - 3/17/2004 11:26:55 PM
      - re: Its a tough job but somebody has to do it. - Johannes - 3/19/2004 5:04:27 PM
  - What you don't seem to understand - Davin L. - 3/16/2004 11:48:14 PM
    - re: What you don't seem to understand - Johannes - 3/17/2004 4:48:44 PM
      - re: What you don't seem to understand - Chris Vancil - 3/19/2004 5:05:22 PM
  - As a logician and a software engineer - Davin L. - 3/16/2004 4:43:33 PM
  - Tell your buddy to prove it in the race (n/t) - alcaray - 3/15/2004 11:45:18 PM
    - Why doesn't he use them in this September's $1 million dollar robotics race? - ~tax leech - 3/16/2004 6:53:28 AM
- Not at all! - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 6:42:30 AM
- DARPA prize leveraged a 50:1 investment, as Burt Rutan suggested it would... - ~tax leech - 3/14/2004 5:28:10 PM
  - Rutan also thinks LittleGreenMen built the pyramids - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 6:52:10 AM
    - That's a popular myth. - Bowser - 3/20/2004 6:33:30 PM
      - re: That's a popular myth. On the other hand........... - Johannes - 3/21/2004 7:24:30 AM
        
        Platypi, or platypuses. - Bowser - 3/21/2004 3:48:49 PM
        
        re: Platypi - Johannes - 3/21/2004 10:44:53 PM
    - re: Rutan also thinks LittleGreenMen built the pyramids - Johannes - 3/16/2004 3:51:45 PM
      - re: Rutan also thinks LittleGreenMen built the pyramids - Davin L. - 3/16/2004 4:45:43 PM
        
        re:LittleGreenMen - Tom Brosz - 3/17/2004 5:15:55 PM
        
        Hey! Tell that to Johannes- I'm not yer huckleberry! (n/t) - Davin L. - 3/17/2004 11:12:04 PM
        
        Sorry--misplaced the post. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/21/2004 12:38:26 AM
        
        re: LittleGreenMen built the pyramids - Johannes - 3/17/2004 7:34:12 AM
        
        re: LittleGreenMen built the pyramids - Davin L. - 3/17/2004 11:24:25 PM
        
        re: You may laugh if you wish but "truth" sometimes turns out to be stranger than "fiction". - Johannes - 3/18/2004 7:48:19 PM
        
        No, the Truth, when you attempt to really understand it, is stranger than fiction- but not stranger than your fiction - Davin L. - 3/19/2004 4:28:52 AM
        
        re: when you attempt to really understand - Johannes - 3/20/2004 1:20:48 AM
- au contraire - phil - 3/14/2004 2:30:56 AM
- Let me guess! This involved a tax-funded government organization. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/13/2004 11:40:50 PM
  - re: This involved a tax-funded government organization. - Tom Brosz - 3/14/2004 4:33:45 AM
    - re: This involved a tax-funded government organization. - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 6:46:31 AM
      - CMU has been working on this technology for 20 years - Larry J - 3/15/2004 2:57:19 PM
        
        re: CMU has been working on this technology for 20 years - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 4:13:50 PM
        
        DARPA's contest has inspired a $1 million dollar PRIVATE robotics racing prize for September '04 - ~tax leech - 3/16/2004 6:51:02 AM

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