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Well, part of the competition was finding the money and assembling the right team. Just because there was one standout winner and a whole lot of losers doesn't mean there was no competition.I don't think that their success now--or, actually, potentially a few years from now--proves that they could have won six years ago. Did they have the right personnel and resources back then?One of the criticisms that I've heard of the X-Prize was that there was no prize for second place. So once it was won, there was no possibility of anybody getting investment money to try and win second place. Now I actually don't blame the X-Prize organizers (Diamandis), because it was a pretty amazing feat to get any money to fund it at all. I actually heard a good critique of the project around 2001 or so that made me think that the prize would never be fully funded, but obviously it was. However, without a second place reward, everybody just packed up and quit, which wasn't good for the industry as a whole.
Well, part of the competition was finding the money and assembling the right team. Just because there was one standout winner and a whole lot of losers doesn't mean there was no competition.
I don't think that their success now--or, actually, potentially a few years from now--proves that they could have won six years ago. Did they have the right personnel and resources back then?
One of the criticisms that I've heard of the X-Prize was that there was no prize for second place. So once it was won, there was no possibility of anybody getting investment money to try and win second place. Now I actually don't blame the X-Prize organizers (Diamandis), because it was a pretty amazing feat to get any money to fund it at all. I actually heard a good critique of the project around 2001 or so that made me think that the prize would never be fully funded, but obviously it was. However, without a second place reward, everybody just packed up and quit, which wasn't good for the industry as a whole.
