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This month, we have launched Mars Prize. What is Mars Prize? Mars Prize is similar to X-Prize except one thing. The Prize is to go to Mars.
For more information go to www.marsprize.org for more info.
Kevin Davis
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That sounds quite cool. I wonder if the Mars Society will go for this...
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That's neat and all, but did I read that right? 300 thousand dollars? That could maybe buy a bolt. If you bargain shop you could get the nut to go with it. Chump Change.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't lindbergh's plane cost less than the prize he won. Everybody that overspent failed. It's an obvious lesson from history. If a profit won't be made from the prize then the true innovators won't come out and play.
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For the time being I can't see a prize inducing anyone to try for Mars. There's still too much expensive R&D on life support, human health, etc. to be done concerning manned Mars flights. Also, unlike the X-Prize competition where competitors who lose can still make money on their rockets by selling rides to tourists, I see no way that a team that loses the Mars bid could hope to regain the vast amounts of money they would lose. I don't think you'll find very many ultra-rich tourists willing to take a year or more out of their lives for a flight to Mars. I could be wrong of course, but I just don't see a Mars prize being an effective route to go right now, perhaps in the future though.
To achieve the impossible you must attempt the absurd
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Phobos, read down in the "Bounty for Mars..." thread, where land benefits are discussed.
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I would like to offer a 10 billion dollar prize to the first private successful expedition that lands on Mars. :;):
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Great dicktice,
Show me the money and I'll go.
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Oh, no you don't...Lindbergh didn't get the prize money until after he flew the Atlantic! How do I know you won't just take the money only as far the Moon to spend it?
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I said show me the money. Don't give it to me. Just prove that you have it.
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It's all invested, so you can't see it.
Besides...mind your own business!
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