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Originally Posted by www.news.com
The Lunar Prize will be broken into segments: a $20 million grand prize, a $5 million second prize and another $5 million in bonuses. To win the $20 million, a team must land its rover on the moon by December 2012; thereafter, the prize drops to $15 million until December 2014, when the contest will end.
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(Highlight is mine.)
Even still, this was an very generous donation from Google to fund this X Prize initiative. It's a great to see companies take a short break from capitalism every once in a while, and donate millions (or if you're Bill Gates, billions) to charities and initiatives that strive to advance science and technology, or make our world a better place.
But I can't seem to get this thought out of my mind: why does Google seem to be so
interested in the moon? =)