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Topic started on 13-9-2007 @ 09:21 PM by goosdawg

Google sponsors 30-million-dollar prize for moon shot


www.earthtimes.org

San Francisco - Internet giant Google announced a 30- million-dollar prize Thursday for a team that manages to send an unmanned buggy to the moon and beam back one gigabyte of images and video. The competition will be run by the X Prize Foundation,
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reply posted on 13-9-2007 @ 09:39 PM by goosdawg
And there's extra credit!!

source:
money.cnn

Bonus prizes will be won by successfully completing additional
mission tasks such as roving longer distances ( > 5,000 meters), imaging
man made artifacts
(e.g. Apollo hardware), discovering water ice, and/or
surviving through a frigid lunar night (approximately 14.5 Earth days).
The competing lunar spacecraft will be equipped with high-definition video
and still cameras, and will send images and data to Earth, which the public
will be able to view on the Google Lunar X PRIZE website.




Too bad there's no prize for artifacts of a non-man-made nature, eh, Mr. Lear?



reply posted on 13-9-2007 @ 10:02 PM by goosdawg
reply to post by Project_Silo



Or maybe some clear photographic evidence to back up John Lear's assertion that there's already a permanent presence on the moon.

Those doctored pics of NASA's are giving me fits!

Although it's hard to deny there's evidence of something BIG moving in these shots from his site "The Living Moon."

Movement On The Moon

The main menu link:

The Enigmas on the Moon


reply posted on 13-9-2007 @ 11:18 PM by goosdawg
reply to post by Project_Silo



Actually, we may find out sooner.

The Japanese just got their Selene probe launched after years of delays:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

And the Chinese have a lunar mission planned before the end of the year as well.
Space.com| Chang'e 1: China Gears Up for First Moon Mission

This was my first sponsored thread, looks like I wasn't the first...Sorry for the duplication.

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reply posted on 8-5-2008 @ 04:27 PM by ngchunter
reply to post by thesaint



Be a real pain if (more like when) something goes wrong with the camera. Would probably work great for the first couple weeks, but constant cosmic ray bombardment will take its toll eventually, especially if the equipment was off-the-shelf and not radiation hardened. Better have redundant everything; power supply, communications, camera, cooling, etc.
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