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Old February 27th 04, 07:14 PM
Hop David
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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?

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Old February 28th 04, 12:44 AM
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"Hop David" wrote in message
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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.

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Old February 28th 04, 02:46 AM
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"Dave Kenworthy" wrote in message
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"Hop David" wrote in message
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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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Old February 28th 04, 05:19 AM
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Dave Kenworthy wrote:
"Hop David" wrote in message
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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.


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Old February 29th 04, 12:42 AM
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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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Old February 29th 04, 01:00 AM
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"Rick DeNatale" wrote in message
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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'...

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Old February 29th 04, 01:20 AM
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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...)

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Old February 29th 04, 09:25 AM
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:00:39 +0000 (UTC), "Dave Kenworthy"
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AFAIK it's the US version of 'Pop Idol'...


....Ah, so we *can* blame those limey *******s for this one after all.

OM

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Old February 29th 04, 04:11 PM
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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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