Would you like $30 Million?

[Mhurron]

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar

[Feba]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

yeah, if $30 million dollars was a reasonable reward for going to the fucking moon I'm sure this would work.

Seriously, if $30 million was all it took we'd already have lunar hotels.

[Kuro]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

An additional $5 million in bonus prizes can be won by successfully completing additional mission tasks such as roving longer distances (> 5,000 meters), imaging man made artifacts (e.g. Apollo hardware), discovering water ice, and/or surviving through a frigid lunar night (approximately 14.5 Earth days).

That made me chuckle. Photographing man made stuff on the moon. . . thats like trying to hit a bullseye taped to Feba in the middle of Navada from the Nasa space station... too much? I need to cut dows my witty remarks size.

And make them witty...

[WovenDarkness]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

COMPETITION GUIDELINES: To win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a team must successfully land a privately funded craft on the lunar surface and survive long enough to complete the mission goals of roaming about the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending a defined data package, called a “Mooncast”, back to Earth.

....for $30M?

....oh look, free giggles for everyone.


There's thinking outside the box, and then there's not thinking outside the box. :wtf :

Somewhere, someone is offering a course in Economics101. ...but hey, that's just my opinion on the matter.

[Rain_Blade]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

COMPETITION GUIDELINES: To win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a team must successfully land a privately funded craft on the lunar surface and survive long enough to complete the mission goals of roaming about the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending a defined data package, called a “Mooncast”, back to Earth.

[Jarre]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

The reality is it would cost more than $30m to build such a craft NASA's shuttles cost billions!!

[Kuro]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

Shuttles cost billions because they're fat ass things that need to be repaired loads and carry people.

I'm sure someone somewhere has an old satun rocket around, crash that into the moon and have a pre crash fuse to eject a small ball out the side with a camera in it, ball will roll atleast 50 miles on the moon =P

[Sevv]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

I so thought I was opening a thread that was one of those spam bots lol.

[Mhurron]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

No one who would participate in this would be doing it to make money of the $30 million prize. The winners of the original X-Prize spent more then the prize money but they did it anyway. Winning the X-Prize is a stepping stone to getting an assload of venture capital.

As someone else said, you don't try and win a Nobel Prize for the money.

I'm sure someone somewhere has an old satun rocket around

There is one and it is broken. NASA is not in the habbit of keeping old things just laying around in workable condition just for the hell of it. Oh and crashing it into the moon would destroy any rover in it so that plan isn't going to win.

[Shadowneko]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

Actually I think there are two but they are nowhere near working condition. In fact one of them sat as an outdoor dispaly for so many years it had to be restored just to make it a good musem piece again!(lots and lots of rusted stuff)


As for this someone may just try it for the heck of it...but 3 days in a spaceship just to get ther plus your own space suit once you mange to land sounds like a mess to me!

[Mhurron]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

Currently there are three Saturn Vs on display, all displayed horizontally:


A Saturn V on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
At the Johnson Space Center made up of first stage of SA-514, the second stage from SA-515 and the third stage from SA-513.
At the Kennedy Space Center made up of S-IC-T (test stage) and the second and third stages from SA-514.
At the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, made up of S-IC-D, S-II-F/D and S-IVB-D (all test stages not meant for actual flight)(soon to be moved to a new visitor's center).


Of these three, only the one at the Johnson Space Center consists entirely of stages meant to be launched.

I win

The one at Johnson Space Center is the on that was left outside for like 25 years and was painted to look nice again.

The blueprints to make a Saturn V are still available on microfilm, but would be unneeded as the knowledge to make a 3 stage ICBM is easily attainable.

[Taskmage]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

I nearly deleted this thread by reflex ...

And what Mhurron said. Making it a contest and providing a prize is just to get people's attention. The real rewards are going to come from the win itself.

[Mhurron]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

I so thought I was opening a thread that was one of those spam bots lol.

I nearly deleted this thread by reflex ...

[Sevv]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

can we temp ban mhurron till he gets a joyeuse? >.>

[Mhurron]

Re: Would you like $30 Million?

Dude, that would be like a damn permaban.