Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Join the NASA design challenge: win 15,000 dollars Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:06:34 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 05:06:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bca4e006ac190288667d75377eeb4c16"; logging-data="3223220"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Atx+yJfTyE4HycjcfZV1+QgQ4PpMPfZE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:H1KtX8u5gmu/hSEGqGaIg3saFm0= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 240923-4, 23/9/2024), Outbound message Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3235 On 24/09/2024 7:25 am, john larkin wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:18:11 GMT, Jan Panteltje > 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