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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.)

6 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Ebay Oportunity Awaits by Fractal+Dice · · Score: 5, Funny

    As he is someone who has made his fortune from people paying for virtual possessions, I doubt that physical possession of the item is really that important for the sale :)

    He should create an inventory of the parts of the rover and rent out custody of individual pieces on monthly subscription to those who want bragging rights to "having" something on the moon.

  2. 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

  3. Re:Proof he owns the moon. by KingOfTheMoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will suffer no claims to my throne.

  4. Re:Proof he owns the moon. by earlymon · · Score: 5, Informative

    At one point, Richard Garriott declared himself to be ruler of the moon, based on him being the only non-government entity to own anything physically on the moon.

    Oooooook.

    http://www.lunarembassy.com/

    http://www.lunarregistry.com/

    http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/11/20/lunar.land/

    One thing's clear: he's about to owe someone, somewhere, for parking.

    --
    Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
  5. 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?

  6. Re:Was that worth it? by iprefermuffins · · Score: 5, Informative

    He's been around since at least 2008.