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Private Firm Plots Robotic Lunar Exploration
DeviceGuru writes "Astrobotic Technology has unveiled plans for a series of robotic expeditions to the Moon. The lunar rovers will explore high-interest areas of the Moon's surface and beam the data back to the Earth. The plan is to accumulate an extensive library of lunar data and sell it to governments and private corporations (PDF), much as Navteq's data forms the backbone of most terrestrial GPS services. Astrobotic's first goal is to win Google's $30 million Lunar X Prize, with a May, 2010 trip to the Apollo 11 landing site at Mare Tranquillitatis."
Translation: "I have a Level 74 Hermaphroditic Fighter/Mage/Sous Chef character in World of Elfcrap, why would I ever go outside?"
If someone can send a little robo-rover that can roll up to the site and take pictures, that in itself would be rather historic. (And probably still wouldn't satsify people who say that the moon landings were a hoax.) But if you want to take that to its illogical conclusion, imagine a train of rovers leading away from the site, each there to take a picture of the previous historic rover.
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
when they find the moon landing was a hoax and they're the first ones there.
Of course, maybe they're in bed with NASA, who'll let them use the same sound stage where they filmed the apollo landing, and it'll be a double hoax!
Do you have ESP?