Lunar X

I should have done my research before posting stupid lies about some $40 million dollar prize. Turns out, there is some good news and some bad news for all of you that have already signed up  for team Redneck Rocketry. The bad news is the prize is actually only $30 million. Bubba, I'm sorry. I know you had your heart set on that life-time-supply of corndogs, but we are going to have to rethink some things. The good news is we have until 2010. We can procrastinate all we want on this one and then swoop up to that white rock in the sky for our cash money. Smile Polly-Ann, we gonna get you some new teeth, eventually.

You see it turns out, this Google goes a little something like this (I just copied and pasted this from a "website") and I quote:

"The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface and send images and data back to Earth. Teams must be at least 90% privately funded and must be registered to compete by December 31, 2010. The first team to land on the Moon and complete the mission objectives will be awarded $20 million; the full first prize is available until December 31, 2012. After that date, the first prize will drop to $15 million. The second team to do so will be awarded $5 million. Another $5 million will awarded in bonus prizes. The final deadline for winning the prize is December 31, 2014."

Plenty of time to steal a shopping cart spaceship, strap in a microwave and light the biggest illegal firework a man can get by trading some live chickens and some cow milk. 

Space, the stuff between my ears.