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Post number 8614

zeoslap — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:06:31 -0800

Good Old British Ingenuity ;-) Nasa Schmasha, Steve Bennet is out to claim the X-Prize ($10M) in his cement mixer, i mean um rocket....

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:09:14 -0800

A converted cement mixer? Is this guy's name Harry Broderick by any chance?

By: Dick Paris

Dick Paris — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:58:21 -0800

I once saw a rock band (okay, just two members of the band) playing, in a parade, while mounted inside of a rotating clear acrylic drum, of the same size and shape of a cement mixer, mounted on a cement truck where the steel drum had been... err, off topic?

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:12:11 -0800

Someone alert "Trash Heap Challenge"! (Where's Cathy Rogers when we need her?)

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:22:45 -0800

Does the X-prize do anything but attract dangerous mavericks like this guy? Any company that can build a reusable spacecraft for a 2 person journey to space will scoff at 10 million. That'll just about pay for the paintjob on a *safe* spacecraft. If privatization of space happens, it won't be due to this gold-plated trophy.

By: Nick Jordan

Nick Jordan — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:49:21 -0800

I know Britain has a reputation for producing eccentrics, but this guy's not one of those, he's an out-and-out lunatic. Rather him than me, that's all I can say.

By: RylandDotNet

RylandDotNet — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:59:43 -0800

That's a Darwin Award winner just waiting to happen.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:05:43 -0800

That thing looks more like a dildo than rockets usually do. Fitting.