# NASA Announces Centennial Challenges
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 11, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570 "2004-05-11T03:56:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570/1 "2004-05-11T03:56:13Z")
Apparently, NASA has decided to follow in the footsteps of the [X Prize](http://www.xprize.org/) and the [DARPA Grand Challenge](http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/) and award prize money for those folks who[
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> develop technologies vital to NASA’s exploration initiative. For example, a better astronaut glove might earn its developers $1 million, while the first team to put a privately funded lander on the moon could win $20 million.
]([http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4907485/](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4907485/))Should be interesting to say the least.
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570/2 "2004-05-11T04:06:53Z")
Your quoted portion is freakin’ magic- if you mouse over, you can see the URL at the bottom of the screen, but you can’t click on the link!
Hmm… should contribute to thread, not just comment on how severe my ADD is…
Say, do you think I’d win if I suggested they bring a bunch of monkeys to the moon, and had a really big game of monkey moon tag?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570/3 "2004-05-11T04:10:55Z")
Huh? If I click the quoted portion the link pops up in a new window. Didja try it?
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570/4 "2004-05-11T04:14:55Z")
> [@Jimmy Chitwood](#):
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> Say, do you think I’d win if I suggested they bring a bunch of monkeys to the moon, and had a really big game of monkey moon tag?
That’s just silly, as we all know monkies dont’ play moon tag, they play Monkey Foot Ball.
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570/5 "2004-05-11T15:56:45Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Huh? If I click the quoted portion the link pops up in a new window. Didja try it?
Yeah. The cursor turns into the little hand when I click, but doesn’t open. If I right-click it, it shows up as the same stuff as any other part of the page- Back, Select All, Create Shortcut, all that. If I click on the _word_ quote, I get the link. Not so for the rest of the quote.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570/6 "2004-05-11T16:06:36Z")
Try clicking on the word “Quote” above the quoted section. Hey **Tucker** , how the hell did you do that anyway?
As to the OP…it’s just one more step towards corporate sponsorship of everything. If Microsoft puts a person on the Moon and they discover something while they’re up there, do they get naming rights?
The Microsoft Galaxy…where have I heard that one before?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-announces-centennial-challenges/244570/7 "2004-05-11T22:20:24Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#):
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> Try clicking on the word “Quote” above the quoted section. Hey **Tucker** , how the hell did you do that anyway?
Here’s how {url=“[www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com)”}{quote}Looks simple, don’t it?{/quote}{/url} Subbing brackets for the braces, of course.
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> As to the OP…it’s just one more step towards corporate sponsorship of everything. If Microsoft puts a person on the Moon and they discover something while they’re up there, do they get naming rights?
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> The Microsoft Galaxy…where have I heard that one before?
I know the answer to that, but I’m not allowed to talk about it. 😉