[Shuttle Shucker]

What's wrong with the Senate though? Funding for the DOE's "H Prize" passed overwhelmingly in the House:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.05143:

but stalled in the Senate:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02796:

[Shuttle Shucker]

It's nice to see space activism groups pitching in to fight to fortify prizes at NASA:

http://www.space-frontier.org/PressReleases/2006/20061127savechallenges.html

How can we get a domino effect underway? Is it not obvious from our record high $9 trillion dollar national debt that one's needed?

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

[rellimpank]

--although I would find it hard to believe, maybe a greater percentage of the Senate took high-school physics--and perhaps know something about where hydrogen has to come from and how you get it.