Rutan's RASCAL

Scott Lowther :


John Thingstad wrote:

7. The contestant must be domiciled in the United States of
America.

8. The contestant must have its principal place of business in the
United States of America.


Being Norwegian I frown at these rules.


There are two obvious options:
1: Stop being Norwegian and start being American
2: Start your own prize.


(I can just see the headlines '"Allah's wrath" get's the X-price')


That might actually not be a bad way to go. Entice the best and
brightest of the Iranian rocketry field, get them up and running, get
them to develop a vehicle, they win the prize, and when they step up to
collect the winnings, you shoot them.

Hmmm...

Now that is one of your most stupid statements you ever made. Do you think
that a bunch of Iranians who are not brained washed enought by the mullahs
that they can build a working x-prize class craft will come all the way to
America, collect $10 million in US funds would be so stupid as to go back to
Iran??? Ofcourse not! The number of relatives along begging for a loans is
mind numbing. Then you have to fend of legal charities like The Red Cresent
and the local mullahs. Worse the next people banging on your front doors are
the people you don't want around like "Bombs for Peace", "Sucides for Allah".

No, any Iranians smart enough to win a X-prize will use the money to move
onto a small yacht, or maybe a beach house on the west coast. Ofcourse for
religous reason they may not want to live in America 'The Great Satan' but
who can blame them when the beaches in South America are topless.

Life is good if your are Iranian, smart and rich (Rich comes first really) if
you get my point.

Earl Colby Pottinger

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Scott Lowther :

That might actually not be a bad way to go. Entice the best and
brightest of the Iranian rocketry field, get them up and running, get
them to develop a vehicle, they win the prize, and when they step up to
collect the winnings, you shoot them.

Or magically forget who their boss was, and without regard to the policy of
racial oppression they so wholeheartedly supported just a few months before,
give em all jobs. Like von Braun.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:36:20 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote:

Life is good if your are Iranian, smart and rich...

....Which usually means that you and your brother got the **** out of
Iran just before the Shah got ousted, and managed to get out with at
least one briefcase full of bullion.

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:58:39 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:36:20 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote:

Life is good if your are Iranian, smart and rich...

...Which usually means that you and your brother got the **** out of
Iran just before the Shah got ousted, and managed to get out with at
least one briefcase full of bullion.

I'm not sure the average person could pick up a briefcase full of
bullion. Gold is heavy, which is part of the reason paper money is so
popular.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

In article ,
Mary Shafer writes:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:58:39 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:36:20 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote:

Life is good if your are Iranian, smart and rich...

...Which usually means that you and your brother got the **** out of
Iran just before the Shah got ousted, and managed to get out with at
least one briefcase full of bullion.

I'm not sure the average person could pick up a briefcase full of
bullion. Gold is heavy, which is part of the reason paper money is so
popular.

Not bullion - Saffron. It's available by the kilo over there, pretty
much dirt cheap. Once you get across the order, you sell it at a
markup that puts Heroin production to shame. (Go price saffron at the
spice aisle in the supermarket). It's not very dense, though, so
getting a goodly mass out is difficult. But - the Iranian borders are
long, adn rugged, and the locals have been travelling that way for
millenia - as long as you pick the right guy.

Saffron - it's not just for Donovan anymore.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
...

Not bullion - Saffron. It's available by the kilo over there, pretty
much dirt cheap. Once you get across the order, you sell it at a
markup that puts Heroin production to shame. (Go price saffron at the
spice aisle in the supermarket). It's not very dense, though, so
getting a goodly mass out is difficult. But - the Iranian borders are
long, adn rugged, and the locals have been travelling that way for
millenia - as long as you pick the right guy.

Saffron - it's not just for Donovan anymore.

And fortunately very little goes a LONG way.



--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:08:34 -0500, l (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

In article ,
Mary Shafer writes:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:58:39 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:36:20 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
wrote:

Life is good if your are Iranian, smart and rich...

...Which usually means that you and your brother got the **** out of
Iran just before the Shah got ousted, and managed to get out with at
least one briefcase full of bullion.

I'm not sure the average person could pick up a briefcase full of
bullion. Gold is heavy, which is part of the reason paper money is so
popular.

Not bullion - Saffron. It's available by the kilo over there, pretty
much dirt cheap. Once you get across the order, you sell it at a
markup that puts Heroin production to shame. (Go price saffron at the
spice aisle in the supermarket). It's not very dense, though, so
getting a goodly mass out is difficult. But - the Iranian borders are
long, adn rugged, and the locals have been travelling that way for
millenia - as long as you pick the right guy.

Saffron - it's not just for Donovan anymore.

Aren't you and Pat glad to have me around, feeding you straight lines?

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:21:28 -0800, Mary Shafer
wrote:

Saffron - it's not just for Donovan anymore.

Aren't you and Pat glad to have me around, feeding you straight lines?

....Straight lines of *what*, Mary?

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:47:29 -0600, OM wrote:

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:21:28 -0800, Mary Shafer
wrote:

Saffron - it's not just for Donovan anymore.

Aren't you and Pat glad to have me around, feeding you straight lines?

...Straight lines of *what*, Mary?

Lines of Saffron, of course.

(Litlle did s.s.h folks realize that the person they knew as "Mary" was
known by quite a different name to the FBI group tasked to track her down.
To the agents assigned to her case she was the elusive smuggling kingpin
"Mellow Yellow"...)

OM

--
Chuck Stewart
"Anime-style catgirls: Threat? Menace? Or just studying algebra?"

Mary Shafer wrote:

Saffron - it's not just for Donovan anymore.



Aren't you and Pat glad to have me around, feeding you straight lines?


And spicy ones at that! :-)

Pat