I'm surprised by how many downvotes this post is getting
I downvoted this. It's a feel-good marketing exercise with zero consequences, as far as I can see. In the best case your email will be read by a bored intern who'll forget it five seconds later.
It's a feel-good marketing exercise with zero consequences, as far as I can see. In the best case your email will be read by a bored intern who'll forget it five seconds later.
I don't think that's the case. With hiring Musk to transport astronauts to the ISS the NSA has shown openness to outside ideas.
"The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is planning ahead — way ahead. The agency wants you to email ideas for how "the Administration, the private sector, philanthropists, the research community and storytellers" can develop "massless" space exploration and a robust civilization beyond Earth."
This is beautiful.
"We are running out of adventures [...] the mountains have all been climbed, the continents explored, and the romance of sailing away on a tall ship to undiscovered islands is no more. What will fire the imaginations of the next generation?"
http://io9.com/white-house-seeks-advice-on-bootstrapping-a-solar-syst-1647619795