Did you know you can submit your own idea for an X Prize?  If you go the X Prize website, you can submit your prize idea and if you’re lucky, it can be as wildly successful as the Ansari X Prize that put a spacecraft in orbit.  There’s several other X Prize competitions now in progress including an Automotive X Prize.  So how about a Mass Transit X Prize?  With gas prices sky high, maybe we need to start competing to design a system that moves a lot of people short distances vs. a couple of people long distances? It may not be as thrilling to watch as Burt Rutan’s spacecraft but you never know…