cavelamb himself wrote:
I figure there is enough expertise in this group to successfully tackle
this challenge...
Now all it takes is money!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceands...2/moon-20.html
The latest version of the X Prize is backed by Google: $20 million to
the first private enterprise that can land a robotic rover on the lunar
surface,
Um - has any private enterprise even gotten into orbit yet? I mean jeepers,
how many _nations_ have even managed to get an artificial satellite into
orbit - never mind get one to the moon? What gives with announcing prizes
that no one is likely to be able to collect on?