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A G-Prize? An H-Prize?
Rand Simberg started a thread in sci.space.policy
"Working Hand In Glove" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111821,00.html He points out that gloves of pressurized space suits are very cumbersome, making orbital assembly difficult. He proposes something along the lines of the X-Prize, a prize to the first to make better gloves for pressurized suits. (Some are calling this a G-Prize) I think this is a great idea. Better robotic hands would also facilitate orbital assembly and have many other uses in space exploration and earthly industry. An H-Prize for a better robotic hand would reap great benefits. A possible format for the G-Prize or X-Prize: Have a series of tasks in a vacuum that the contestants would try to accomplish in a certain time limit. The first task eliminates a good fraction of the contestants as in _American Idol_. Each step of the contest could be televised. It could be an entertaining show. Any one have an idea what entities might sponsor these prizes and/or produce a show? -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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"Hop David" wrote in message ... snip A possible format for the G-Prize or X-Prize: Have a series of tasks in a vacuum that the contestants would try to accomplish in a certain time limit. The first task eliminates a good fraction of the contestants as in _American Idol_. Each step of the contest could be televised. It could be an entertaining show. Having the first round of _American Idol_ (or its UK equivalents) conducted in a vacuum would be a wonderful idea, and would eliminate a nice number of contestants. -- Dave Kenworthy ----------------------------- Changes aren't permanent - but change is! |
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"Dave Kenworthy" wrote in message ... "Hop David" wrote in message ... snip A possible format for the G-Prize or X-Prize: Have a series of tasks in a vacuum that the contestants would try to accomplish in a certain time limit. The first task eliminates a good fraction of the contestants as in _American Idol_. Each step of the contest could be televised. It could be an entertaining show. Having the first round of _American Idol_ (or its UK equivalents) conducted in a vacuum would be a wonderful idea, and would eliminate a nice number of contestants. "That's a very very good idea!" -- Dr Hook, _Cover of the Rolling Stone_ We could call it "Non-Survivor". |
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Dave Kenworthy wrote: "Hop David" wrote in message ... snip A possible format for the G-Prize or X-Prize: Have a series of tasks in a vacuum that the contestants would try to accomplish in a certain time limit. The first task eliminates a good fraction of the contestants as in _American Idol_. Each step of the contest could be televised. It could be an entertaining show. Having the first round of _American Idol_ (or its UK equivalents) conducted in a vacuum would be a wonderful idea, and would eliminate a nice number of contestants. Well yes, I agree. I asked my daughter her opinion of an H-prize show. She informed me that what _I_ thought was entertaining was unlikely to have mass appeal. She did note that there are some nerdy reality shows on TLC that seem to be making money. -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:44:14 +0000, Dave Kenworthy wrote:
Having the first round of _American Idol_ (or its UK equivalents) conducted in a vacuum would be a wonderful idea, and would eliminate a nice number of contestants. Two points 1) Isn't American Idol another rip-off of a British Show rather than the other way around? 2) The early rounds of American Idol are a hoot. And this year, they produced a star in the form of "She bangs!" Hung. |
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"Rick DeNatale" wrote in message news On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:44:14 +0000, Dave Kenworthy wrote: 1) Isn't American Idol another rip-off of a British Show rather than the other way around? AFAIK it's the US version of 'Pop Idol'... -- Dave Kenworthy ----------------------------- Changes aren't permanent - but change is! |
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In article , Rick DeNatale wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:44:14 +0000, Dave Kenworthy wrote: Having the first round of _American Idol_ (or its UK equivalents) conducted in a vacuum would be a wonderful idea, and would eliminate a nice number of contestants. Two points 1) Isn't American Idol another rip-off of a British Show rather than the other way around? Look, we're sorry. We'll try and make amends. Honest. 2) The early rounds of American Idol are a hoot. And this year, they produced a star in the form of "She bangs!" Hung. I was unable to take these things seriously. Then this happened: http://www.dsu.org.uk/freshers/ball/drspod.php The realisation that many intelligent people, accepted to a prestigious and respected university, were getting excited at the prospect of seeing someone who'd made an idiot of himself on television perform... well, it was scary... (I did like his theory that someone with a PhD winning it would be interesting, though...) -- -Andrew Gray |
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:00:39 +0000 (UTC), "Dave Kenworthy"
wrote: AFAIK it's the US version of 'Pop Idol'... ....Ah, so we *can* blame those limey *******s for this one after all. 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 |
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message ... On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:00:39 +0000 (UTC), "Dave Kenworthy" wrote: AFAIK it's the US version of 'Pop Idol'... ...Ah, so we *can* blame those limey *******s for this one after all. It's just a karaoke comp, didn't you have them in bars all over America already? |
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