Agreed. I like it.<div><br></div><div>Reading the associated links, it gave me these gems:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>"The Government Is Broke Because It Takes These Idiotic Flying Cars Seriously"</div>
<div>"<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,'Liberation Serif',serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">It's easy to just mock and dismiss something this loony—but Darpa has a budget of $3 billion. That's $3 billion of our dollars. And part of those $3 billion are being spent to take this seriously, giving Boeing and AAI a chance to compete in this clown college food fight of a design competition.</span>"</div>
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5853290/the-government-is-broke-because-it-takes-these-idiotic-flying-cars-seriously">http://gizmodo.com/5853290/the-government-is-broke-because-it-takes-these-idiotic-flying-cars-seriously</a></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just highlighted for me for me that we might need to be diligent about how we spend the DARPA grant funds, and the projects we support with funding: otherwise we'll have the joyous experience of being mocked and ridiculed in the press.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Paul<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 July 2012 08:12, Alex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexcg@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexcg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Interesting idea, and DARPA involved too</div><div><br><strong>US Military Wants Space Zombies to Feed on Dead Satellites</strong><br><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5925522/" target="_blank">http://gizmodo.com/5925522/</a><br>
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