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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Join the NASA design challenge: win 15,000 dollars
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:06:34 +1000
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On 24/09/2024 7:25 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:18:11 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> Find Me on the Moon: NASA Lunar Navigation Challenge:
>> https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/find-me-on-the-moon-nasa-lunar-navigation-challenge/
>>
>> For Challenge 1, NASA is seeking an orienteering aid that will help the astronauts navigate on traverses away from the lunar lander and return back.
>> While there were similar devices available to the Apollo astronauts, NASA is looking for new and unique solutions.
>> If your solution is one of the best, you could be eligible for a share of the $15,000 prize purse.
>>
>> For Challenge 2, NASA is looking for assistance in getting to and mapping the bottom of Shackleton Crater.
>> The design must work in the extreme conditions of the lunar south pole and Shackleton Crater, map the crater,
>> characterize and quantify what is in the crater, and send the data back to be used for future missions.
>> If you can solve this challenge by describing your design concept in detail, you could be eligible for a share of the $30,000 prize purse.
>>
>> ....
>> seems to be a good chance to get your product named in the media John L?
>> anybody else?
>>
>>
>> You got to November 25 2024
> 
> 
> "could be eligible for a share of the $15,000 prize purse"  is really
> tacky. NASA is really in the entertainment business, at great expense
> in dollars and lives.

All academic research is entertainment business - citation rates are 
just audience numbers.

What John Larkin doesn't appreciate is that the research is worth doing, 
and an unpredictable part of it has practical applications - some of 
them very profitable.

NASA is very much blue skies research, but it they ever divert an 
asteroid before it makes us extinct, it will have paid off, big-time.

The dinosaurs didn't bother, and John Larkin wouldn't either.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney