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Heinlein Prize Established for Space Achievements 26

Posted by michael from the stranger-in-strange-land dept.
StJefferson writes "The Heinleins' estate has just announced the establishment of a US$500,000 prize to be awarded as often as annually for individual accomplishment in commercial space activities. What a terrific application of the legacy - both financial and intellectual - of the Dean of Science Fiction!"
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  • Perfect 1st Entries... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Strange Ranger ( 454494 ) on Thursday October 02, 2003 @01:30PM (#7115192)
    Commercial Programs for encouraging space travel:

    Free Group Marriage licences for the first one thousand applicants to be married in space.

    A Free Lunch for the 1st person to coin a new term and get others to grok it in space.

    For encouraging colonization:

    Free libertarian handbook for the 1st person to sleep over-night on the surface of the moon.

    Free libertarian handbooks AND Free Lunches for the first 3 or more people to sleep over-night on the moon together.

    And of course, a Clothing Optional Space Station should also win.

    (-"How's it hangin?

    - "Well, sort of up and to the side right now." )

  • Welcome ! (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 02, 2003 @02:18PM (#7115692)
    I, for one welcome our new Martian flat-cat overlords.

  • Re:Friday (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 02, 2003 @03:22PM (#7116455)
    Yeah. I loved "Friday" too. I mean, what other sci-fi novel so perfectly succeeds at making gratuitous sex dull and trite?

  • Or did you mean... (Score:2, Funny)

    by Iron Sun ( 227218 ) on Thursday October 02, 2003 @04:02PM (#7116948)
    Sleep over a lunar night? That's not sleeping, that's hibernating.

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