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Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years

Posted by timothy on from the where-did-you-put-it-down? dept.

Lanxon writes "The guy behind Ultima Online once bought an old Russian rover, despite it being lost on the moon somewhere. And now, using images released by NASA, it has been located on the moon's surface after nearly four decades of being MIA, reports Wired. Richard Garriott, who created the Ultima Online multiplayer game, bought the Lunokhod 2 in a Sotheby's auction in New York in 1998. And so new was the discovery of his lost possession, he hadn't even heard that the craft had been discovered when Wired spoke to him." (Richard Garriott is also well known as Lord British.)

2 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Proof he owns the moon. by shogun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wouldn't that then make him a government hence annulling his claim?

    Which would then mean he isn't a government and then can validly make such a claim? /rinse and repeat /divide by zero

  2. Re:...what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Lord British"? Seriously? I thought Yahtzee was joking.

    And now we have people who just know Lord British as "a guy that Yahtzee has once mentioned". *sigh* Where is this world going to?