NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis 136
NASA plans on using $50 million in stimulus funds to seed development of a commercial passenger transportation service to space. Potential space taxi inventors have 45 days to submit their proposals. The proposals will be competitively evaluated and the winners will be announced by the end of September. It is unclear what other Commodore 64 games NASA plans on making a reality, but I hope Arkanoid makes the short list.
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This will come in really handy all those times I have too much to drink and need to get back to my Secret Moon Base.
And maybe once they figure this out they can build a working escalator at the Reagan Metro stop. Or maybe the Space Taxi's can just moonlight moving luggage up to the platform.
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You'll see that money when the engineers who win the contest lay down an Abe Lincoln in front of you at McDonalds.
Your employer will never see the money they spent on you while you were on slashdot either.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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That's right...because 50,000,000 goes so far when splitting it 305,000,000 ways.
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As an added bonus, this all-electrical solution is also environmentally friendly. No potentially hazardous rocket propellants to deal with, and the energy to fire the railgun could be generated during off-peak hours to further reduce costs. I think this solution would be far more economical than using conventional chemical-based rocket propulsion to launch old people into the sun.