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NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust
DoubleWhopper writes "Break out the duct tape and paper clips. NASA has announced a $250,000 reward to the "first team of scientists to invent a way to extract breathable oxygen from lunar soil". Wired reports, "Inventors who attempt the Moon Regolith Oxygen (or MoonROx) challenge will have just eight hours to extract at least 11 pounds of breathable oxygen from a simulated form of lunar soil.""
Dear NASA
I have a small team, and I do mean small team that is quite good at extracting things from the ground. Does it matter if they are not scientists?
Yours etc.
Snow White
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Maiden offers first child for someone to spin gold from straw.
Don't worry...
I've already applied for all the necessary patents.
It really doesn't matter who wins the contest... I'm already the winner.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
I guess it's back to square one for me.
That's 11 pounds in British currency, I presume.
The sad thing about that is that the new gold is so fantastically radioactive. And when it stops being radioactive?
Actually, the real downer is the fact that it costs more to make the gold then it is worth.
...don't spend it on the moon. There your prize is only worth about $41.6k dollars.