This thread is spawned from the Antimatter thread.
It seems worthy of its own thread (independent from discussions on Antimatter), so here goes ..
My post from the antimatter thread …
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Originally Posted by CraigS
Here ya go .. for all you dreamers out there … looks like you may have missed the cutoff date (July 8th) .. but 150 entries seem to have made it ! …
Pentagon dreams of Star Trek interstellar travel
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DARPA, the Pentagon's research agency that helped foster the Internet, wants someone to dream up a way to send people to a star.
The winner will get half a million dollars for the idea. This month 150 competitors answered the federal government's initial call for private sector cosmic ideas. Officials say some big names are among those interested. The plan is to make interstellar travel possible in about a century.
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Website here.
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The Carl's comments:
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Originally Posted by renormalised
There's nothing to be a "dream" about this. If DARPA and the Pentagon put something like this out, they're serious bout it. A lot of people think this is some sort of pipe dream, but how many would actually know anything about it to even comment, let alone know what has actually gone on with regards to this.
That Steve Ellis guy from "Tax Payers for Common Sense"...that name is a bit of an oxymoron. You only have to look at the state of the world to know that very few living in it actually have any common sense and most tax payers couldn't care where their money is spent...they show no real interest in it anyway, apart from being taxed in the first place!!.
In any case, most of the members of organisations such as these seem to show no capacity for understanding these subjects and many have no imagination or drive to look beyond their own little concerns.
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