Dec05
Armadillo Award Ceremony
on December 5, 2008 at 8:00 amClark Lindsey live blogged it from NASA TV. It sounds like Mike Griffin said some good things about commercial space and the suborbital folks. But talk is cheap, and in any event, all indications are that he’s a short timer now. I hope that his successor says (and actually implements) the same things.
[Mike Griffin is] Not a supporter of multi-billion dollar prizes for big efforts like a human landing on the Moon as some members of the “chattering classes” have suggested.
I can’t help but think how short sighted this is, especially when the billions of dollars can be offered at NO COST.
Set a value of $100 an acre. Give title to 10,000 acres plots to anyone that can keep live human squatters on it continuously for a month. That’s one billion dollars per squatter.
Watch the land rush begin.
You might want to count your zeros Ken.
Ignoring the math problems, I think we’ve had a pretty good recent demonstration of what happens when a government tries to arbitrarily “set values” to things…
what’s 3 zero’s among friends. Math aside, the real estate is worth something and theirs a lot of it. All it would take is for the government to say we will recognize claims as they did with the Sooners.
there is… infinite error loop in progress…
All it would take is for the government to say we will recognize claims as they did with the Sooners.
The government did more than recognize claims. It also sent the the US Army and marshalls to protect them.
As long as the US government has a “no weapons in space” policy, US recognition of claims will have all the force and power of a UN resolution.