werecow Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 NASA has launched a new competition to help develop new techonologies toward cheaper methods of leaving earth...the link?? http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Mar/gee20050325029744.htm additional links for further info http://www.elevator2010.org/site/competitionTether2005.html http://www.elevator2010.org/site/competitionClimber2005.html any thoughts...ideas...can we win using an old PII 400???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werecow Posted March 30, 2005 Author Share Posted March 30, 2005 no takers???? geeze i figgered this bunch would jump on this opportunity to show those eggheads how a bunch of trekkers could show em up!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyper Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Until someone comes up with matter-energy conversion transportation.... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonHelton Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 It would take thousands of dollars to enter that contest, I bet...... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheldrake1 Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 I would agree there. It would take big bucks for the contest. It took Virgin & Apple $20,000,000.00 to take the $10,000,000.00 prize for the X contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werecow Posted April 5, 2005 Author Share Posted April 5, 2005 yeah but i bet they got a biiiiiig tax write off for it too.....imagine how many years you could use a 2o mil tax write off.......besides i got a head start on the cable all i need is the propulsion system... i got a 55 gal. barrel of carbontube nanites growing in my back yard hungry lilttle buggers they are...eat 5o or 6o lbs of coal a day..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vystral Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 That's a good idea. It leaves Universities and individual investors with good ideas who would otherwise be ignored by the government a chance to prove their worth. Some really good ideas just might come out of this...just watch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mic Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 I would agree there. It would take big bucks for the contest. It took Virgin & Apple $20,000,000.00 to take the $10,000,000.00 prize for the X contest. I just think it was all stunt by X prize ppl it was never meant for small ppl to get it, just hate ppl; like that, they should have had 50 million US$ prize and than say if you do it we'll give you all this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremeskiing Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 When is this due by? Anyone here an engineer? A good engineer who has a degree in engineering and wants to make a few bucks? I've been contemplating a concept for photovoltic transmission of electical power in buildings/houses. Basically a house with no wires in the walls (my fathers an electirican, my great uncle was an electrician, my great-great uncle was an electrician and sometimes I work for them or their union, being lazy, i've always wanted a way to avoid having to pull cables other then hiding in the bathroom) I can see no reason that my concepts wouldn't work in the competition, with perhaps a very high percentage of energy conversion. The variable would be the rover itself. Like I'm going to tell you all the details? Ha, it's my ticket to early retirement in Aspen. So who wants to share it with me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mic Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 When is this due by? Anyone here an engineer? A good engineer who has a degree in engineering and wants to make a few bucks? I've been contemplating a concept for photovoltic transmission of electical power in buildings/houses. Basically a house with no wires in the walls (my fathers an electirican, my great uncle was an electrician, my great-great uncle was an electrician and sometimes I work for them or their union, being lazy, i've always wanted a way to avoid having to pull cables other then hiding in the bathroom) I can see no reason that my concepts wouldn't work in the competition, with perhaps a very high percentage of energy conversion. The variable would be the rover itself. Like I'm going to tell you all the details? Ha, it's my ticket to early retirement in Aspen. So who wants to share it with me? photovolitc you say :cyclops: :cyclops: :cyclops: :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werecow Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 now see!!! i thought that there was enuff peeple here with smarts that could figger it out!!!! we gots geenuieses on our teem!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piepie Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 I think they should dig up a Zohar modifier. That oughta do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor999 Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Just need a couple of vital components to enter my hyper drive version 1.0 to enter for the contest. Anyone got a couple of fusion cell and plasma converter to spare? No? How about flux capacitors? :p :p :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werecow Posted May 9, 2005 Author Share Posted May 9, 2005 Just need a couple of vital components to enter my hyper drive version 1.0 to enter for the contest. Anyone got a couple of fusion cell and plasma converter to spare? No? How about flux capacitors? :p :p :p how about a good supply of fissionable blasting materials..... j/k a quote for a robot story i read b4 the effbeeeye kicks my door in....uh oh.....i gotta go now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dthdlr1488 Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 When is this due by? Anyone here an engineer? A good engineer who has a degree in engineering and wants to make a few bucks? I've a degree in chemical engineering. Any EEs here, we could team up! Hey Im a year away from getting a degree in chemE! I was thinking of someday expoanding on gerALD Bulls ideas on alternative ways of getting to space. I always was fascinated with large cannons such as the nazis pulse chamber gun that was supposed to shell london. thats the way to space accelerate on the ground! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martog Posted June 6, 2005 Share Posted June 6, 2005 somehow create a massive magnetic slingshot. no really, i wish i knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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