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- rivalius13, on 05/27/2008, -5/+59***** the moon, I'm going to Mars, who's with me?
- gamerzfuse, on 05/27/2008, -2/+43One time I saw a movie about a farmer who went to space. It's possible.
- Rivfader, on 05/27/2008, -3/+36Aww man 2012. Isn't that when the world ends?
- UnstableMind, on 05/27/2008, -4/+18When I was a kid, I thought we had moonbases and *****. I grew up and found that we were still pretty primitive. Sucks.
- TheConman, on 05/27/2008, -0/+13Oooh, Ooh, PICK ME PICK ME!!!!!!
- ausfahrt, on 05/27/2008, -1/+121. Build space ship
2. Win prize
3. PROFIT!
See how that actually does work. - mal1964, on 05/27/2008, -2/+13NASA., Been there and done that.
- rivalius13, on 05/27/2008, -1/+11Wait....you mean there might be oil on the moon? WE MUST LIBERATE THE MOON MEN!!
- DougieD, on 05/27/2008, -0/+9It's the year the Mayan calender ends, and the point of singularity in which mankind will go through a great shift in consciousness; incorrectly interpreted as the apocalypse. Duh.
/acid trip - topace3000, on 05/27/2008, -0/+8It would be pretty awesome if like a half dozen companies all had attempts in the same year. How crazy would that be.
- listrophy, on 05/27/2008, -0/+7Yes, because that 0.5% of your taxes going to NASA is really killing Google's bottom line. Averaged over all 300 million US residents, we're each tossing a whopping $5 a month to do stuff like "build a space station" and "land a high-tech autonomous science lab on Mars."
- pyrotix, on 05/27/2008, -0/+7The moon is loaded with mineral wealth and is basically a part of the earth. The fact that there is nobody on the moon right now is ridiculous!
- Kenzan, on 05/27/2008, -2/+8Anyone feel a bit strange that perhaps the first thing that will be seen by aliens during a historic encounter will be a funny sounding name of a Corporate logo?
- juliankauai, on 05/27/2008, -1/+7can you win the google lundar x prize and the progressive automotive x prize by landing a plug in prius on the moon and getting over 100 mpg?
- UrinalPooper, on 05/28/2008, -0/+6They didn't tell us how many balloons I'd need to tie to my lawn chair. Nor did they tell me how many bottle-rockets I'd need in order to launch my lunar orbiter. I already have a RC car I could use as a rover.
(these contests should have at least one entry that's like those awful auditions from American Idol, sponsored by Golden Palace or whatever...) - Drahkar, on 05/27/2008, -0/+5Exactly. The point here is to prove to financiers that you can make it there and have a fully functional system. If you could make an automated fully functional system land, do the stuff, take samples and come back. I think you could probably lock in all the financing you'd need.
I've wanted to do this for years but its hard to do a project of this size on your own and a lot of the people I know are bite by the 'Oh its too big for us normal people to do' bug. I hate that mindset so much because its so untrue. - venuspcs, on 05/27/2008, -0/+5If you and me and a few others got together and successfully built, launched and landed a vehicle/rover on the moon and won the prize money it would go along way to securing the funding needed to put humans on Mars, privately....now imagine if we managed to get the vehicle/rover back to Earth (in one piece) and could then reuse it. We would have a ***** plethora of financing pour into our coffers.
- charlietuna, on 05/27/2008, -0/+520 million? That's a house in the Hamptons, or ~40 minutes in Iraq (at $720 million / day).
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/23/404 ... - Patori, on 05/27/2008, -0/+4That would be more expensive, and more risky.
- Onyxblaze, on 05/27/2008, -0/+4It is also the end of the world in the first book ever written (Ancient china)
- AndrewDB, on 05/27/2008, -1/+5Popular Mechanics offering help as to how to build an X-Prize rocket is like .. Rolling Stone offering music advice now days.
- areyouserious, on 05/28/2008, -0/+3Ya...Next they'll say we should do something crazy like fly non stop across the Atlantic..
- TrevorPace, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3$20M is a bit low...seeing as it would cost about that to get there anyway.
- brianjlowry, on 05/27/2008, -1/+4Could you take Hillary with you?
- stuffradio, on 05/28/2008, -0/+3Well... I'm pretty sure I saw muppets in space as well. So I think that confirms your fact to be true.
- fotbr, on 05/28/2008, -0/+3As opposed to a funny sounding name with a goofy colored rectangle next to it? Since, you know, flags are just corporate logos for countries.
- erkokite, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3I think PM seriously underestimates the difficulty in traveling to the moon.
- psevium, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3Off you go! With a rocksolid plan like that I'm sure you'd be able to get investors. Can't wait to see you accepting the prize!
On a serious note, there's a reason the deadline is about 4-6 years away - it's not an easy task - DougieD, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2Dear god, get this man a medal.
- venvision.org, on 05/27/2008, -3/+5Yeah, because I forgot all aliens speak english...
- scotticus, on 05/27/2008, -0/+2You want to check that it's a return mission first?
- xBDVx, on 05/28/2008, -0/+2It's probably when Web 3.0 comes out.
- funkyjunk3, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Remember the original Ansari X prize? I'm sure all the R & D, manufacturing costs, salaries, etc. that Scaled Composites put into their SpaceShipOne cost a LOT more than the $10 million prize.
- geneticlone, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Well I think it would be a great idea. It would be wonderful for small companies and young entrepreneurs to do something wonderful and maybe pilot the next generation of humanity to outer space. I mean it beats cleaning toilets at McDonalds.
- leerayIG88, on 05/27/2008, -3/+4Seriously, why do people keep saying that? Where did that type of stuff come from? A movie?
- hmunkey, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1Usually technical universities with huge budgets take part in these however. Expect MIT, Caltech, and Harvard teams. People like you and I have a harder time.
- Torx, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1I'm going to steal Jeremy Cook's idea.
- xBDVx, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1Assuming they can see in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Leadman584, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1How much money did NASA spend to get there the first time? My guess would be, that as with most things, private enterprise can do it cheaper and faster.
- peleken, on 05/28/2008, -1/+2How to beat NASA to the moon?
step1; set time machine to pre 1969 - cschoeps, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1Yea, odds are that most attempts will be trying for prestige rather than the cash prizes. The best chance of hitting under 20 or 25 million is to use the Falcon 1e, which will get you to orbit for under 8 million. Add up everything else you need to build (not counting R&D), transport, fuel costs , and you can get very close to 25 million.
Then again, you don't get any trial-and-error with this X-Prize, so cutting corners for the sake of low costs could cause problems. - photohunter, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1If Lance Bass can do it, I can do it.
- lonegunuk2k7, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1i would love to be involed with this not just for the money but just to do it i'm sure someone could do it in less than 4 years
- jasdf, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1I tinker in engineering and have come up with an interesting proposal for a X Prize moon mission. Too bad I have neither the funding nor the actual talent.
- Hockey13, on 05/27/2008, -2/+2Isn't it amazing how awesome ***** happens despite the presence of a heavy-handed, money-sucking government? Imagine how much quicker this would all happen if we got rid of the space agency and let Google set this prize higher due to lower taxes.
- bts8blader, on 05/27/2008, -5/+5There's an open source competitor for the X Prize here: http://www.frednet.com.
- cughin, on 05/28/2008, -0/+0dude... start a project team and im in on it ... get about 100+ ppl in it and we all contribute by building the little parts needed, the cost would be spread out thus making it financially possible for all those involved... i so would be in this and im pretty sure a ***** of other ppl would be to.. if ur interested in doing something about it, for the comp or private sector .. add me as friend and ill shout ya my email for further thoughts
- Prescottonian, on 05/27/2008, -2/+1No. Google = Lunar, XCOR = Racer
- scrappapervlog, on 05/27/2008, -5/+4Wow, this really makes me think I can enter!
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