rant whine 'splain espouse: Google's going to the moon

Monday, September 17, 2007

Google's going to the moon

Google is sponsoring a new X Prize challenge — the first commercial lunar landing. Most of the $30 million prize will go to the first private company that can land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth.

Can you imagine? It's been over 30 years since we went to the moon, and we haven't been back. Think about it. That was last century. At this point, there are two or three generations of children who have no memory of the first lunar landing taking place during their lifetime. Including me, by the way. I was one month old.

I met X Prize founder Peter H. Diamandis at the Heinlein Centennial in July. His talk was simply amazing.

X Prize site:
www.googlelunarxprize.org

Boston.com/AP article:
www.boston.com/news/science/