Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Houston, do we have a problem or not?

After receiving a budget cut of $4 million, NASA initially planned to shut down one of the two Mars Rovers, namely Spirit. Shortly after CNN.com published the story, NASA's spokesman Bob Jacobs said:

. . . shutting down of one of the rovers is not an option.


NASA should generate money by selling rover control time to Xbox users for $20/hr.

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Anonymous said...

Giving control to XBox Live is a great idea. Would more revenue be generated by an open web app for greater public access? Perhaps there would be too much overhead for that. Robot wars on a distant planet; watch out ESPN2...

March 25, 2008 at 1:07 PM

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