Is Google the New NASA?

Well not really, but they are offering a $20 million dollar prize to the first private company to be able to land a robot on the moon by 2015.  A second-placed team could win $5m with bonus prizes for finding water and discovering any traces of man’s past on the moon.  Hey NASA, remember the 20th century?  Wasn’t that awesome?  Yeah.

Read more at bbc.co.uk.

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