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- Xnkuro, on 12/08/2007, -8/+69By 2014 30 million dollars will be about 7 euros.
- johnbell, on 12/08/2007, -3/+24not to be rude, but cmon... do you really think we could mine away a section of the moon SO large that it will affect tides? by the time we could manage to made a dent that large, global warming will have risen the seas to silly heights anyway.
- D3koy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+13I have also offically entered the race...I haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of winning..but I do have a bunch of Estes rocket engines....
- CrimsonBlur, on 12/08/2007, -1/+13Why not? It's a giant rock orbiting our planet that harbors no life. It's not like we'd be invading some delicate ecosystem up there, it's basically just a giant ball of precious resources.
- ohsin, on 12/08/2007, -0/+92020 digg story : GOOGLE STREETVIEW VAN SPOTTED ON MOON
- BlazinEurasian, on 12/08/2007, -1/+8I love Google.
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -2/+9It's already been lasting a decade.
- rumbl3r, on 12/08/2007, -1/+7At a time when even our own country is questioning space exploration's practicality and benefits, it's great to see true pioneers eager to push our race forward.
- goffy59, on 12/08/2007, -2/+7Thats really ***** cool.
- Aviatrixt, on 12/08/2007, -2/+6About damn time.
- mace2, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4/gigantic facepalm
- duruq, on 12/08/2007, -2/+6Well it is not the first contestant, really. Carnegie Mellon (disclaimer: I go there) is a private university and is also attempting this challenge.
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/global/2007/summer/to- ... - LightWeight83, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4i read your comment before i read the article and thought you were joking..
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4I wish we could beam power. I am ***** sick of batteries in my house.
- drakenlot, on 12/08/2007, -3/+6What Google? Owning the Earth isn't enough? You have to take over the moon too?
end silly joke.
To be honest, this is pretty ***** awesome. - Stonekeeper, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4There will be dollars in 2014?
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -5/+8id love to see a private party go to the moon, so they can tell us whats really up
- stklaw, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3Am I the only one that read "private team" as "pirate team"?
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2Considering the amount of miles travelling, losing 17 people is not a lot.
- sanman, on 12/08/2007, -1/+3Man, the only thing that MIGHT be worth bringing back from the Moon is 3He. Everything else would be pointless due to prohibitive cost. And last time I checked, He doesn't have a lot of mass.
- bigboy101011, on 12/08/2007, -4/+6they would leave the solar panels on the moon not bring them back, the only think it would do is change what a full moon looks like
- mishsquish, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2We mined entire mountains made out of precious minerals on Earth, yes. But we're also not carrying any of that to other planets, Earth does not lose any mass due to mining.
- redcitrus, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2"British archipelago"? I've never heard it called that before. To most of us Brits, the Isle of Man is a island of backward, inbred lunatics who only recently abandoned the punishment of "birching". Think "The Wicker Man" with tax breaks.
- AnthonyA7, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2Just don't post next time.
- Pritchard, on 12/08/2007, -1/+3...As if you're going to mine that much of the moon. Stuff hits the moon every day, just as stuff hits the Earth. We've mined out entire mountains here made out of precious minerals, not really having to worry much about the results.
- isunktheship, on 12/08/2007, -1/+3One of these days Alice...
- InfiniteNothing, on 12/08/2007, -1/+330M is pocket money
- mongoloidplease, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2Have a feeling there is going to be a lot of corpses orbiting between the earth and the moon before this competition yields a winner.
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2Not again!
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -2/+3You HAVE to be kidding. So, we shouldn't use resources on the moon to kelp solve our energy problems?
- dexedrine, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Well it is not the first contestant, really. Carnegie Mellon (disclaimer: I go there) is a private university and is also attempting this challenge.
Mellon has not officially entered yet.....I think the article said something about a 10,000 registration fee that hasn't been paid. - DesktopGeo, on 12/08/2007, -3/+4Prohibitive costs and current practicality aside, it sure is a hell of a lot better than mining around down here.
- Jason4000, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1OMG, you need physics
- blueRAP, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Maybe, but your boss says you are.
- stklaw, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2Yeah, it would look like a disco ball at night.
- drakenlot, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2Especially since that same amount of distance in a car will prolly end in a car accident.
- powers27, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Holy crap this is awesome. Now that 3rd party companies are getting into space travel - just imagine the amount of money that could be pumped into research and development. It'll probably do quite a bit more to advance space capabilities than the gov't could (because they've gotta divvy up their money to multiple agencies).
- Jason4000, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1Oh crap! We're going to be messing with the tides now. Armageddon. Do you really think that we could possibly remove enough material from the moon? We couldn't move a hair on your head in a thousand years like that. The moon moves into a higher orbit by 3.8 cm per year anyways that will decrease it's effect on us over the course of a million or billion years. Run to the hills.
- yow1, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1oblig: one MILLION dollars
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Who said anything about bring the stuff back?
- EuphopiaB, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2We can't even get all the ***** off of it that we put on it. Given that it has pretty much no fuel, anything we want to burn to get off of it would have to already have been brought up. Therefore the only thing we could really do is add mass to the moon. This is assuming we don't make a 3He rocket or anything.
- Ribbott, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1We seem to have been mining the ***** out of the earth for a while without affecting the moon's gravity.
I have no evidence for that statement. - MaybellineSP, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1The moon is responsible for a lot of Earth's climate conditions as it orbits around the planet. Theoretically, if they extract enough material from the moon or do anything else that could shift its orbit, we'd be drowned by tidal waves, and weird seasons with crazy weather. However, that's theoretically - the moon is really big. It would take a team of physicists to figure out exactly how much they can screw around with the moon safely.
- ucccft, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1British archipelago ??? WOW the brits are still stealing land and killing people all over the world. SHAMFUL!
- estacado, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1Yeah. Don't go messin' with the moon. We've already wreaked havoc with the atmosphere, now we're going to mess with sea tides, and who knows what else may go out of whack when the gravitational balance is messed with.
- brianjlowry, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1Arrrrrrgghh
- sporg, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1So Water World is real after all ?
LOL! - EuphopiaB, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1Well if you don't take it back then the moon won't be losing mass. When he said "the large loss of mass of the moon" it can be assumed that the mass would be leaving. Otherwise the question is pointless, as the moon wouldn't be losing any mass.
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1Well, on of the thoughts is to use the resources to make solar panels that would then be launched into space so that they can always be in sunlight.
However, it is ludicrous for the original commenter to think that we would be removing anywhere NEAR enough mass from the moon to make a difference. Anymore so than saying that by building a research facility there if we do go back in the next decade would do just the opposite. -
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