NASA Wants Your Ambitious High-Tech Contest Ideas 128
In an effort to create future Centennial Challenges, NASA is asking the general public to come up with (and submit) ambitious contest ideas. For the next six weeks, the Innovative Partnerships Program will be accepting ideas for new contests, with all submissions becoming public domain information. "According to NASA, any idea can be proposed for a prize competition that addresses challenges related to the mission of NASA in aeronautics, exploration, science, or space operations. Crosscutting topics or those that also address related national or global needs are especially valuable. The challenges must require basic and applied research, technology development or prototype demonstrations."
Contest contest (Score:5, Funny)
So NASA is holding a contest to see who can come up with the best contest?
the recursion is hurting my brain...
Give Nasa your ideas (Score:3, Funny)
Yo dawg... (Score:5, Funny)
Baby steps (Score:5, Funny)
Invention of the Future contest... (Score:2, Funny)
...First prize: a mountain bike made of diamonds.
I already made an invention for the future, I made that reverse microwave!
I need to put freon in it to make it work. It makes ice so fast and makes beer icy cold and pizza too hot makes it a little colder so you don't burn the roof of your mouth.
Also, as practical inventions go, there's the garbage juicer. How it works is quite incredible. All you do is take garbage out of any old garbage bag, and when the lights go on you're ready to go.
The first tap is kerosene. You can use kerosene to burn your sweet mama's panties off.
The second is root beer. Great for Friday night pizza parties.
Last but not least grapefruit juice.
Re:Yo dawg... (Score:5, Funny)
Yo dawg, Imma let you finish, but Apollo had the best mission of all time.
Re:Science Fiction (Score:2, Funny)
A Dyson Sphere contest!
"if you can't beat'em, join'em" (Score:2, Funny)
How about a contest to make NASA part of the public eye again? Oh I don't know, "America's Next Top Astronaut".
If anything, it would get people involved again, and the ratings and advertising revenue might supplement NASA's ever declining budget.
(I'm advocating a "if you can't beat'em, join'em" approach. It probably won't work, but as someone who spent only five minutes thinking about it, I really don't know)
Good Luck (You will need it - yes you NASA)
Re:Contest contest (Score:4, Funny)
[So NASA is holding a contest to see who can come up with the best contest?]
the recursion is hurting my brain...
That's not recursion, it's meta! [...]
Exactly.
Now, somebody should propose to them that they should hold a contest to see who can come up with the best contest.
Re:Contest contest (Score:4, Funny)
They don't list any prizes, so later they're going to need a NASA Prize Challenge Challenge Prize Challenge.