I'm a sci-fi buff and a bit of a geek. I have always wanted to be an astronaut from the time I was 5 years old. I remember watching the Apollo missions and dreaming that I could go one day. I even went to the point of nailing two 2x4's together and a tin can on the back and filling it with news paper as the fuel. I went to school the next day and shared my dream to become an Astronaut with the class. When the teacher said "that's a nice dream.", I rebutted her and said, "No, you don't understand I'm going tomorrow." Needless to say her and the entire class just stared and me.
The GOOGLE prize of getting to the moon got me thinking about this dream again.
So I was thinking, you know if we organized a group of folks from all over the world, engineers, programmers, and rocketeers and If we used the same model that has been used for Linux development think about how easy it would be to send a probe to the moon on a budget?
Everyone worldwide would do their little part, and the cost and overhead that it takes NASA would be considerably reduced.
So I've registered a new website to further this idea. http://www.projectmoonshot.org/
The chance that this works is about a billion to 1 but I like those odds.
- Mike
The GOOGLE prize of getting to the moon got me thinking about this dream again.
So I was thinking, you know if we organized a group of folks from all over the world, engineers, programmers, and rocketeers and If we used the same model that has been used for Linux development think about how easy it would be to send a probe to the moon on a budget?
Everyone worldwide would do their little part, and the cost and overhead that it takes NASA would be considerably reduced.
So I've registered a new website to further this idea. http://www.projectmoonshot.org/
The chance that this works is about a billion to 1 but I like those odds.
- Mike
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