Save Earth from asteroidal doom and win $50k

Save Earth from asteroidal doom and win $50k.
www.theregister.co.uk...

I sure hope they have a better plan than starting a competition to save the planet. I mean geez where the heck is all of our tax dollars going to.
I just don't see the logic in building a billion dollar plane for war and offering $50k to some random person to figure out how to stop earths doom from an asteroid.

Come on people i'm sure someone on these forums can win this $50k and save Earth.

50 thousand bucks for saving the world? Bump it up to 50 Billion dollars and that would be about par for Saving the Freaking Race.

EDIT: Oh yeah, almost forgot. I would also want complete exemption from Taxes For Life for me and my immediate family and anyone else I deem "part of my family".

[edit on 14-12-2006 by sardion2000]

I'll enter my idea, but it will take a lot of research first lol, I can't believe they are running out of ideas and need to do this.

$50,000 does seem a bit low, but maybe you'll get a nice large bonus if your idea is ever used (and works).... yeah right... but still, this sounds like a fun thing to work on. Maybe I'll give it a shot just for the heck of it.

Originally posted by jra
$50,000 does seem a bit low, but maybe you'll get a nice large bonus if your idea is ever used (and works).... yeah right... but still, this sounds like a fun thing to work on. Maybe I'll give it a shot just for the heck of it.

I would insist they name the system after me as well.

Of course if you do come up with a winning solution (and it's successfully used) there is that little Pulitzer Prize that's worth a cool $million