SoCal Selene Group Drops Google Lunar X Prize Bid

anzha writes "On Saturday, after the vaunted First Team Summit was completed in Strasbourg, The Southern California Selene Group announced publicly that they are dropping out of the Google Lunar X Prize. Citing very strong differences in opinions over how the X Prize was being run, the team felt they could no longer participate. On the flip side, the X Prize Foundation announced at the team summit that there are four new teams. With the drop out, there are now thirteen official competitive teams. Assuredly, there are more to come."

Effort doesn't mean it's a good idea

[RoastingHeart]

"HUH? Do they know how hard we have worked on this? " (Their Camera Design) and the denying of the "ARCA guys (who had lugged across Europe a full-scale mockup of their craft to ISU for display!)"

I could drag hot dogs through shag carpet all day to the point of exhaustion. Doesn't mean that's productive science.

"really, really hard" to get to moon

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I know my team dropped because after reviewing the objective of getting to the moon, we concluded that it would be "really, really hard" to get there.

Re:Its sad

[FleaPlus]

Did you know that if a solar flare had occurred during the original Lunar Landing, everyone would've died?

Did you know that a rogue wave [wikipedia.org] can strike without warning, rapidly sinking an ocean-going vessel and killing everybody on it? It's happened many times already. Clearly, for safety's sake we must put an end to putting humans on ocean-going craft, regardless of whether or not they volunteer for it.