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>Nothing an X-Prize contest or two can't help address if things get truly desperate.

Yeah, because technology advances magically if you will it enough...




We have a number of commercial space-flight companies now and a dozen self-driving car platforms that work quite well. Neither of these really existed before their respective X-Prize type challenges.




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