John Carmack does have an entrant for the X-prize: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home

He has a sense of humor but is taken quite seriously by the space people.
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"If they can't picture me with a knife, forcing them to strip in an alley, I don't want any part of it. It's humiliating." - windsock