Google backs private Moon landing, Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a |
Google backs private Moon landing, Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a |
Sep 14 2007, 08:02 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
FROM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6993373.stm
Firms interested in trying for the prize have until the end of 2012 to mount their Moonshot Anyone fancy a crack at this? Cheers Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Sep 15 2007, 05:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I think it's worth pointing out, here, that Google has some serious space exploration fans in its upper ranks. Google never fails to commemorate the date of July 20 each year, and at one point (I believe it was on a July 20 several years ago), Google announced it was accepting applications for positions at its new lunar facility which was to be located (IIRC) on the floor of Copernicus. (I actually sent in an application, all in fun, and got a very nice letter stating that they already had enough applications, but to keep them in mind when they begin hiring again for this facility, in about 35 years... *smile*...)
Google would be doing something like this, not for the PR value (although there is that), but just because it appears that the people who run Google *want* to do it! They think space is cool, and even if no one ever knew what they were doing, they'd love being involved in getting new, fresh-off-the-wire views from the lunar surface. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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