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 16 2007, 01:12 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Believe it or not, I used to work with a contractor--a satcom guy!-- that subscribed to this, er, [insert polite term for what I'm thinking]. He believed in satellites, of course, but maintained that the logistics of getting to the Moon were patently impossible.
Another guy I knew a few years ago was an absolutely brilliant electronics technician who maintained, with utter solemnity, that Apollo proved that the Earth-Moon system was only 6000 years old because 'NASA's computers crashed every time they tried to reconstruct orbits' farther back than then. What's scary is that both of these men are extraordinarily good at what they do, and work in technically demanding fields. I took it as a lesson in the dangers of insufficient imagination combined with unrestrained credulity towards negative arguments. Keep on educating, UMSFers... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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