Remember the Google Lunar X Prize competition? The contest ran from 2007 to 2018 and concluded without a winner. ~ What's up with the obsession over the letter X? What's the meaning of their logo, with a swoosh in the X?

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[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It is strange how Google offered so little. The grand prize was only $20 million for a moon mission. But they are willing to pay $60 million per year to Reddit to have the right to crawl their pages???

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

A company allegedly just landed on the moon, guess they're too late to get this prize. It's good to give prizes like this, it encouraged aviators like Lindbergh to fly.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The private company received another prize: US tax dollars.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's true. This x prize was going to just be a way to funnel money to foreign companies, since for NASA to give taxpayer money it'd be illegal unless it's a USA company. I think they also put the requirement for hd pics and video because certain people involved didn't know moon landings were hoaxes, and that's also why no one collected the prize. Since they couldn't.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

moon landings were hoaxes

You and disagree with me on many things, including this. I think calling all the successful moon landings a hoax is itself a false rumor. The gullible worldlings would rather believe that UFOs contain aliens from other stars. People are forgetting that men have been making experimental spacecraft for decades.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They also might not have wanted to show good pics or video because they thought Russia or some other govt could use that to reverse engineer the rockets and landers. Pics aren't everything but they help. But I'm not going to trust it without proof so I have to assume hoax otherwise.