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Crowdfund a Moon Monolith Mission?
Jamie found a somewhat amusing little essay on putting together a crowd-sourced mission to
put a monolith on the moon. The author estimates it would cost half a billion dollars, which is a sum he thinks could be raised. Although personally, I think a half a billion dollars could be put to better use, it's a fun thought exercise.
Although personally, I think a half a billion dollars could be put to better use
You can play that game forever though. Did you east breakfast this morning? That food could have been put to better use, as could the water from your shower, or the resources it took to make the shoes you put on your feet.
In fact I can think of no better use for a tiny drop in the total sum of money floating around the planet, than a mass exercise in artistic expression. It's kind of the ultimate way of saying, here we are.
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Yeah, but you only have to buy this monolith once. The hungry will just be hungry again tomorrow... Unless you stop feeding them, then it eventually solves itself.
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Then get out there, raise it, and put it to that "better use".
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Some people loosely connected to the Lunar X Prize want to place a Christian cross on the moon.
http://crossonthemoon.com/
Religious Zeal-sourcing?
Why does the moon need two?
Well, lots of people seem to enjoy masturbating. But I am sure you don't. You spend every penny towards bettering the world and helping your fellow man, right?
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Let me make a few comments here...
1. I'm neither under paid as an IT worker.
2. A student (in our out of debt)
I do have extra money to spend, but I wouldn't waste it on this.
I don't consider myself a guru, just a mediocre linux/windows sysadmin, and a passable LAMP programmer.
Oh, and I don't know if it helps or hurts that my UID is only 4 digits. For reference for all you 7digit peeps, I'm 34, and I'm guessing I got this UID somewhere around '98 or 99.
Here's some news from that era
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?threshold=0&op=stories&sort=1&start=105690
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Let's waste half a billion. Why not crowdfund for something meaningful and useful to the world? There are people dying and these jerks, anyone who supports this with effort or funding, are masturbating.
This sort of project would provide a fair number of jobs and is voluntarily financed, what's non-meaningful and useless about that? The government isn't confiscating the money from you so why are you complaining? Start your own crowd sourced project to halt death or whatever it is you think is more meaningful and useful.
Well, lots of people seem to enjoy masturbating. But I am sure you don't. You spend every penny towards bettering the world and helping your fellow man, right?
What do pennies have to do with... wait... it isn't free? I'm supposed to be paying a licensing fee or something to someone?
Well, that explains about half of the national debt... sorry guys.
With telemetry back to Earth. Seriously... NASA could do that with their eyes closed.
Lunar Cam 2011. That's MY crowd source mission.