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Google's $30,000,000 Lunar X PRIZE

Posted by Zonk on from the space-is-the-final-search-field dept.

chroma writes "It's been a long time since anyone has explored the surface of the moon. But now Google has teamed up with the X PRIZE Foundation to offer a $30,000,000 bounty to the first privately funded organization to land a robotic rover on the moon. Google, of course, has offered the free Google Moon mapping service for a few years now. Looks like the other search engines have some catching up to do in the space exploration department."

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  1. Presidential Memo To Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I, President George W. Bush, do hereby prohibit any non-military U.S. landings on The Moon until we have spread freedom and democracy
    to Canada.

    Meanwhile, please bear with me while I destroy the U.S. Treasury.

    PatRIOTically From The White House,
    President George W. Bush