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- justin22290, on 02/23/2008, -1/+48And we thought Google was only bent on world domination!
Solar system domination is imminent. - imaredsfan, on 02/23/2008, -3/+32Next step: Google ads on the moon
- TheAnomaly, on 02/23/2008, -1/+17Nice to see Google taking interest in this. :)
- aaroh, on 02/23/2008, -0/+15i don't get it, NASA spent more than the prize money being offered to get to the moon and that was 40 years ago, i'd assume it'll cost more than $30 million to build the aircraft
- belzoradon, on 02/23/2008, -0/+13because its the American mindset to assume that anyone with more money then you is inherently trying to do something bad. I'm glad SOMEONE has the balls to take our evolution into their hands, anyone know if google is hiring?
- dodgejon, on 02/23/2008, -1/+13I wouldnt be surprised if they put a google office on the moon...
- acdcfanbill, on 02/23/2008, -1/+12Maybe saw the Apollo 13 movie, and no one ever told them about 14 through 17. :)
- mikephimikephi, on 02/23/2008, -1/+9If a digger were to be the in mission control during the lunar approach, I would expect them to cry out:
"Thats no moon!" - *jooloop*, on 02/23/2008, -0/+8Even if you don't come out with a profit, at least you get a large reimbursement, and a huge chunk of bragging rights. Plus sponsors will be plastered on the craft for extra cash. NASA didn't have sponsors.
- belzoradon, on 02/23/2008, -0/+6then why didnt you digg it back then?!
- kuantan97, on 02/23/2008, -1/+7I'd rather have Google ruling the universe than the Pentagon.
- SubjectiveC, on 02/23/2008, -1/+6"The last spacecraft to land on the Moon was NASA's Apollo 12 mission, nearly 40 years ago."
Someone didn't use Google. - santaliqueur, on 02/23/2008, -0/+5Big Corporation does not necessarily mean evil. Take off your tin foil hat.
- KaiUno, on 02/23/2008, -0/+4Sighing over redundant information on the internet must really keep you busy.
- sanman, on 02/23/2008, -0/+4"... that's a Google Data Center!"
- hexydes, on 02/23/2008, -1/+5Hmm, too bad other companies (*cough*Microsoft*cough*Apple*cough*others*cough*) can't or won't encourage this as well.
- kkDonut, on 02/23/2008, -0/+4"The last spacecraft to land on the Moon was NASA's Apollo 12 mission, nearly 40 years ago. Nancy Conrad, the widow of Apollo 12 commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, attended the Google media briefing. "I'm stoked we're going back," she said."
What the hell! The last spacecraft on the moon was Apollo 17's lunar lander, not Apollo 12.
Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon, not Conrad. - Carlix, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3And I dugg it.
- hello2usir, on 02/24/2008, -0/+3It wasn't funny the first time. Nor the second or third.
- santaliqueur, on 02/23/2008, -1/+4They have tens of thousands of the most brilliant minds on the planet. I'd bet Google could accomplish just about anything.
- sanman, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3Hmm, I wonder if one of those Google datacenter-in-a-shipping-container things could be fit inside the payload bay of a launch vehicle. Then Google could put it on the Moon and have ultimate disaster-security, keeping its operations up and running even if all of planet Earth gets wiped out. Future alien visitors would then be able to google everything there is to know about us, instead of picking through the ruins of our dead civilization. Now that's what I call convenience.
- dmaclach, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/index.html
- capiCrimm, on 02/23/2008, -0/+3or perhaps it was a badly worded(or some editors correction of) "NASA's 12 Apollo missions"
- inactive, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2Wiped out != planet will explode
- harveywalbanger, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2Microsoft tried to go to the moon in 2005, but they got a Blue Screen of Death on Launch. I guess the drivers for the Lunar Module weren't compatible.
-HW - flarn2006, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2They did this years ago:
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html - haloddr, on 02/24/2008, -0/+2I'm on CMU's xprize team. We're gonna win!
- Adys, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2http://mars.google.com
- maxlightz, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2"Nancy Conrad, the widow of Apollo 12 commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, attended the Google media briefing. "I'm stoked we're going back," she said." ... Stoked? Clearly you don't have to be a rocket scientest to marry an astronaut.
- OrangeSoda31, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2They removed the cheese. Zooming in does nothing.
- OrangeSoda31, on 02/23/2008, -0/+2He said over, last I checked 4 is still greater than 1.
- JamesBond007, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1I believe the transmission will be made in the form of huge Photon Torpedoes
- inactive, on 02/23/2008, -2/+3Bwhahahahaha, 20mil? You gonna be kidding me, I guess the fuel alone to get there would come close to that tag in today's dollar standing. Nice try though, GOOG.
- frostfang, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1first it was google earth, now its google moon, what are they going to come up with next?
- viewofeverlast, on 02/25/2008, -0/+1Calling a company that removes controversial news articles from its search listings "evil" gets me dugg down :(
- ElbertF, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1Lies.
- diggpandit, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1Did I hear somebody barking "old"...."old" again?
- ApolloXLII, on 02/23/2008, -1/+2seriously, we all already know about Google's quest for world (and apparently solar) domination. it'd be better than the ***** that's going on now.
- xcrunner1422, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1first the environment, now the moon.. what's next?
- EdwardsNH, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1That's kinda' the point. We all know it can be done, but can it be done cheap enough to make business endeavors profitable.
These contest are all about innovation. Give people a target and a big enough incentive, and some amazing things can happen. - bariswheel, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ltUiKvNsgJ0
- ElbertF, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1One month ago? More like four.
http://elbertf.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-lunar-x ... - portos12, on 06/24/2008, -0/+1Yes that's the way to go.
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http://www.zzzn.org - ccheath, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1don't you think that if earth get's 'wiped out' then the moon will probably be in some trouble too?
- wytten, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1She used the word "stoked" right. You, on the other hand, spelled scientist wrong.
- diggpandit, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1I have already donated 10 dollar for that to google.
- Flashman, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1"One bold ambition of the project: using lunar materials to make solar power collectors that can generate carbon-free energy, which is then transmitted to the Earth."
Carbon-free? Somehow I don't think the moon is too worried about climate change. - SirCharge, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1By the time NASA gets back there, the moon will say GOOGLE in big, soothing, multicolored letters.
- inactive, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1I, for one....
- diggpandit, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1Nope! first step is to clean moon, with good paint so that people can see the ads properly.
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