Budget Satellite 213
codejunkie writes: "Check out this story from the Baltimore Sun. Apparently
the middies were laughed at when they proposed a budget satellite for 50K. Boeing said it couldn't be done and gave them 250K. Well now they can build five more because the smart minds on the bay have built one."
Woo hoo (Score:2, Funny)
Don't you wish people would give you 5 times the amount you asked for when doing projects like this?
Feet away... (Score:3, Funny)
We remember the last space venture battling metric versus auxiliary measurement systems.
(I'm sorry NASA. You guys do wonderful things. I just couldn't resist.)
jrbd
They should call it (Score:3, Funny)
middies? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:lol (Score:1, Funny)
Hello Patrick!
Re:$50,000 is too much (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, the gentleman in uniform, 50.000 it is!
Come on, folks, you can go lower than that! Do I hear 10.000? Anybody dare to bid 5.000? Ah, thank you! 5.000 it is, for the schoolboy in the back row.
Well, folks, this is getting interesting. Who has the guts to do it for 500? Come on, Three times they hava managed to cut the price by a factor of 10, can you do the fourth time? What, no bids?
I hate to say, but 5000 is the best bid so far. Going once!
And the key to cutting the cost would be .. (Score:2, Funny)
Duct tape = the Force (Score:2, Funny)
Fixes bloody well everything!