X Prize and and Aces full of eights
August 6, 2004 11:59 PM   Subscribe

Canada's first manned space launch is to be sponsored by an online casino. The Canadian Da Vinci team who is vying for the X-prize gets a surprising boost by an online casino known for their creative marketing strategies. In exchange for the sponsorship, the casino asks that the astronaut-to-be play a game while in mid-flight. Jokes aside, this looks like the perfect partnering of marketing and private space exploration.
posted by phyrewerx (8 comments total)
 
Awesome. zUnless of course he falls to his fiery death because he was distracted by a noisy flashing casino program...
posted by Space Coyote at 12:16 AM on August 7, 2004


I hope he does that on a non-mission critical machine, since Golden Palace's adware will pretty much render his computer worthless. Creative marketing my ass, these people need to be treated as vandals. How to remove Golden Palace adware.
posted by swell at 12:41 AM on August 7, 2004


starbucks galaxy.
posted by Keyser Soze at 12:52 AM on August 7, 2004


What is doubly hilarious is the fact that online casinos aren't legal in Canada (clauses excluding the reserves running them notwithstanding).
posted by Salmonberry at 1:10 AM on August 7, 2004


So, are they giving odds on this thing turning into the Human Torch?
posted by trondant at 4:41 AM on August 7, 2004


Awesome. zUnless of course he falls to his fiery death because he was distracted by a noisy flashing casino program...

Or that he falls to his death after the casino program hijacks his computer causing a huge amount of pop-ups, rendering the spacecrafts computer system useless.
posted by Jase_B at 5:58 AM on August 7, 2004


starbucks galaxy.

Duh. Tim Horton's galaxy.

/hoser
posted by stonerose at 9:49 AM on August 7, 2004


They have had no test flights to date, and their method of launching the craft from a balloon is rather novel and unverified. I suspect this is more of a publicity stunt before Scaled Composites takes the X-Prize... or they may be nuts. By all means good luck if they do manage to fly it, though, but I hope they did their homework.
posted by Krrrlson at 7:25 PM on August 7, 2004


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