"Jim Kingdon" wrote in message
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http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/

Yes, this is cool.

Interestingly, you just need to land by the deadline, not return the
whole gigabyte by the deadline (according to one of the news articles,
anyway).

I suspect returning the gigabyte is the least of the issues.



Looks winable to me. I wonder if Henry is going to be part of a
team...


You know, I'd love to see some sort of "time capsule" buried on the Moon.

Something with a solar/nuclear battery that could last say 10K years. Put a
radio beacon on it and store as much knowledge as possible in a few
different formats.

Radio updates to it every year and every 5-10 years add physical medium
updates.

Sort of an insurance against various forms of industrial collapse.

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