Submitted on Tuesday 6th September 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
THE £265 MILLION GIVEN TO THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY SHOULD BE 100 TIMES BETTER SPENT ON A BRITISH X-PRIZE TRUST
A Space X-Prize of $10m produced the first private enterprise spaceship and kickstarted Virgin Galactic.
An American authority says
"the technology exists to build a reusable orbiter for under a billion dollars; probably far less than
This could be done by prizes"
The evidence is that prizes, where they work are from 33 to 100 rimes more effective than conventional government spending.
If they don't work they are obviously infinitely more effective since a government grant that produces nothing is all spent whereas a prize that isn't won pays nothing.
It has been proposed that the £265 million we annually give to the European Space Agency, an organisation which, with half as much money as NASA has yet to achieve much, bee instead put into a UK X-Prize Trust authorised to offer prizes up to its income 4 years ahead. This enable it to offer prizes totaling £1325, twice what is needed to produce a commercial British space shuttle.
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