[Inquisitive1]

“No matter how efficient your machine is, the criteria of the challenge makes it almost impossible,” contestant Jim Greenshaw said."

Translation: "I Quit! It's too hard."

[Shuttle Shucker]

Are you sure you’re not experiencing a knee-jerk reaction in favor of NASA? Notice how NASA doles out far, far more of our tax dollars to contractors who accomplish considerably less. Is it not hypocritical of NASA’s pork establishment to simultaneously offer so little for genuine potential breakthroughs?

[MistrX]

It may well be impossible, as the machines are restricted to 30 watts of power, which is quite low.