Comments on: Good News for Centennial Challenges? http://selenianboondocks.com/2009/12/good-news-for-centennial-challengess/ Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:26:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: john hare http://selenianboondocks.com/2009/12/good-news-for-centennial-challengess/comment-page-1/#comment-6665 john hare Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:42:19 +0000 http://selenianboondocks.com/?p=1333#comment-6665 Jon, No, I didn't post any suggestions there. I was just joking about the crazy idea comment. New ideas should be guilty until proven innocent. I just wish there was a good way to get that point across to the sincere. John Jon,

No, I didn’t post any suggestions there. I was just joking about the crazy idea comment. New ideas should be guilty until proven innocent. I just wish there was a good way to get that point across to the sincere.

John

]]> By: Jonathan Goff http://selenianboondocks.com/2009/12/good-news-for-centennial-challengess/comment-page-1/#comment-6660 Jonathan Goff Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:36:22 +0000 http://selenianboondocks.com/?p=1333#comment-6660 John, I just mean like when someone solicits questions, and someone asks a 5 minute long statement without a single question in it. Just something that's always annoyed me. As you put it once, the one thing that makes the biggest difference between us and cranks like Gaetano or Elf-head is that we actually are capable of skepticism about our own ideas. :-) ~Jon That nuclear lightbulb SSTO prize wasn't your idea was it? ;-) John,
I just mean like when someone solicits questions, and someone asks a 5 minute long statement without a single question in it. Just something that’s always annoyed me. As you put it once, the one thing that makes the biggest difference between us and cranks like Gaetano or Elf-head is that we actually are capable of skepticism about our own ideas. :-)

~Jon

That nuclear lightbulb SSTO prize wasn’t your idea was it? ;-)

]]> By: john hare http://selenianboondocks.com/2009/12/good-news-for-centennial-challengess/comment-page-1/#comment-6659 john hare Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:11:16 +0000 http://selenianboondocks.com/?p=1333#comment-6659 <i> I particularly liked the “try out my crackpot idea” prizes that weren’t actually prizes at all but were just cranks demonstrating why they haven’t had much success in convincing people of the merits of their ideas. <i> Ouch, if I had any feelings, they would be hurt. :-) I particularly liked the “try out my crackpot idea” prizes that weren’t actually prizes at all but were just cranks demonstrating why they haven’t had much success in convincing people of the merits of their ideas.

Ouch, if I had any feelings, they would be hurt. :-)

]]> By: A_M_Swallow http://selenianboondocks.com/2009/12/good-news-for-centennial-challengess/comment-page-1/#comment-6656 A_M_Swallow Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:13:30 +0000 http://selenianboondocks.com/?p=1333#comment-6656 One of the prizes could be to launch the prototype equipment on a NASA provided rocket. A tiny team may be able to assemble say a 1000 kg demo propellant depot in his back garden but not afford the $10 million needed to launch it on a Falcon 1e. Ten tonne payload Falcon 9 and twenty metric ton Atlas V cost even more. One of the prizes could be to launch the prototype equipment on a NASA provided rocket. A tiny team may be able to assemble say a 1000 kg demo propellant depot in his back garden but not afford the $10 million needed to launch it on a Falcon 1e. Ten tonne payload Falcon 9 and twenty metric ton Atlas V cost even more.

]]> By: Jonathan Goff http://selenianboondocks.com/2009/12/good-news-for-centennial-challengess/comment-page-1/#comment-6655 Jonathan Goff Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:57:26 +0000 http://selenianboondocks.com/?p=1333#comment-6655 No, though they have a list of suggestions they got over on their webpage: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ipp/innovation_incubator/centennial_challenges/future/ideas.html Several of them were really good (lining up pretty well with my old list of key spacefaring technologies), but some of them were pretty wacked out. I particularly liked the "try out my crackpot idea" prizes that weren't actually prizes at all but were just cranks demonstrating why they haven't had much success in convincing people of the merits of their ideas. :-) Nuclear Lightbulb SSTO Prize! Woot! ;-) ~Jon No, though they have a list of suggestions they got over on their webpage:

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ipp/innovation_incubator/centennial_challenges/future/ideas.html

Several of them were really good (lining up pretty well with my old list of key spacefaring technologies), but some of them were pretty wacked out. I particularly liked the “try out my crackpot idea” prizes that weren’t actually prizes at all but were just cranks demonstrating why they haven’t had much success in convincing people of the merits of their ideas. :-)

Nuclear Lightbulb SSTO Prize! Woot! ;-)
~Jon

]]> By: john hare http://selenianboondocks.com/2009/12/good-news-for-centennial-challengess/comment-page-1/#comment-6654 john hare Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:50:14 +0000 http://selenianboondocks.com/?p=1333#comment-6654 Is there any clue as to the nature of the next set of challenges? Is there any clue as to the nature of the next set of challenges?

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