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Why is every google story starting to sound like a segment from one of those documentaries about a lottery winner who blows it all?
by jraines 19y ago
Why is every google story starting to sound like a segment from one of those documentaries about a lottery winner who blows it all?
- ivankirigin 19y ago$30M prize that probably won't get paid till 2012? This doesn't sound like an expensive PR stunt.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoParticularly when you consider that: a) Most likely nobody will be able to claim the prize. b) $30M is like a rounding error to Google. c) Google will make $30M in ad revenue in the first two hours after they put up live HD movies from the moon.
- jraines 19y agoAll true. I meant more my comment more from a qualitative standpoint.
- HiggsBoson 19y ago> a) Most likely nobody will be able to claim the prize. I'm pretty sure that Armadillo could do it if they decided to. They've spent about $3M to date on their development, but they're attacking a very different problem of (eventually) manned VTVL. I'm still trying to get my head around how funding for this, and subcontracting / collaboration would work.