Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon

[Analog]

Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon, the company and the X Prize Foundation announced at Wired NextFest in Los Angeles Thursday. Members of the public will also get the chance to send digital mementos to the moon. In this advance from the October issue of Wired magazine, contributing editor Spencer Reiss explains what's behind the Google Lunar X Prize, and what it will take to win it.

http://www.wired.com/science/s...magazine/15-10/ff_moon

 

[dug777]

Just trying to get the spotlight away from recent bad press

 

[Analog]

Anyone else figure that it'll take a lot more than $20 Mil to put something on the moon like this????????????

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: Analog
Anyone else figure that it'll take a lot more than $20 Mil to put something on the moon like this????????????

That why this publicity stunt is so ingenious... they'll probably never need to pay the money!

 

[Gunslinger08]

Wouldn't be that difficult, as long as the robot didn't have to function. Just crash land.

 

[nakedfrog]

*starts building a megalithic trebuchet*

 

[feralkid]

Fools. Why give robots the strategic high-ground from which to kill all humans?

 

[sierrita]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
*starts building a megalithic trebuchet*

I don't think making a trebuchet out of stone is technically plausible.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: Analog
Anyone else figure that it'll take a lot more than $20 Mil to put something on the moon like this????????????

That why this publicity stunt is so ingenious... they'll probably never need to pay the money!

yea because nobody would even try.

 

[Linflas]

Since NASA is now working on landing there again they should just take a robot with them so they can pocket and easy $20 Mil from Google.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: feralkid
Fools. Why give robots the strategic high-ground from which to kill all humans?

No worries. We'll melt that ball of cheese at the first indications of an uprising.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: sierrita

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
*starts building a megalithic trebuchet*

I don't think making a trebuchet out of stone is technically plausible.

They already took away the dinosaur bones that I was using to build mine.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: sierrita

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
*starts building a megalithic trebuchet*

I don't think making a trebuchet out of stone is technically plausible.

I suppose you're going to mock my robot made out of hamburger as well?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Linflas
Since NASA is now working on landing there again they should just take a robot with them so they can pocket and easy $20 Mil from Google.

But the OP said "private organization." I didn't think NASA counted as one since it's a government organization.

That's weird though, because DailyTech lists the prize as $30 million.

http://www.dailytech.com/Googl...llenge/article8873.htm

and according to the website:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.o...e-for-a-new-generation

it is $30 million.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: dug777
Just trying to get the spotlight away from recent bad press

what bad press?

 

[ElFenix]

boeing could do it tomorrow if they wanted.

 

[Doctor Nyse]

Originally posted by: feralkid
Fools. Why give robots the strategic high-ground from which to kill all humans?

Hahahahah. This had me rolling

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Linflas
Since NASA is now working on landing there again they should just take a robot with them so they can pocket and easy $20 Mil from Google.

But the OP said "private organization." I didn't think NASA counted as one since it's a government organization.

That's weird though, because DailyTech lists the prize as $30 million.

http://www.dailytech.com/Googl...llenge/article8873.htm

and according to the website:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.o...e-for-a-new-generation

it is $30 million.

I was going to say the same thing, but after reading the $30 million sum isn't completely for the winner. Second place also gets a cut, as well as for certain bonus tasks.