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Why doesn't NASA offer MARS prizes to incentivize our own entrepreneurial upstarts?

~tax leech — 4/10/2004 11:21:15 PM (archived)

Why doesn't NASA offer MARS prizes to incentivize our own entrepreneurial upstarts? Should the Russians get to have all the fun?

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Ruskies on Mars by 2009!? - Buck Galaxy - 4/10/2004 1:52:59 AM
- We will also have our Jihadinaut brothers on Mars by 2009 - Osama bin Laden - 4/11/2004 10:37:54 PM
- They've got a website up - Nathan Koren - 4/10/2004 3:22:40 AM
  - What do the Ruskies have that we don't have? This: - Buck Galaxy - 4/10/2004 3:36:44 AM
    - re: What do the Ruskies have that we don't have? This: - Doug - 4/10/2004 2:22:48 PM
      - And they DON'T have a money sump in the Middle East. Anymore. (n/t) - Bowser - 4/11/2004 3:30:24 AM
        
        They don't have money either. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2004 3:54:35 AM
- re: Where is that bogosity meter?? Ooooh!!! aha! I can't get a reading -- it's all red (n/t) - Success_Machine - 4/10/2004 2:02:41 AM
  - Yes! But the Russians can also be accused of wishful thinking. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 4/12/2004 5:50:44 PM
  - re: Where is that bogosity meter?? Ooooh!!! aha! I can't get a reading -- it's all red - [..../.] - 4/10/2004 6:37:40 AM
    - Why doesn't NASA offer MARS prizes to incentivize our own entrepreneurial upstarts? - ~tax leech - 4/10/2004 11:21:15 PM

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