posted 03-07-2007 10:04 PM               

The X PRIZE Foundation raised more than $2.5 million at the "Radical Benefit for Humanity" on Saturday evening. Hosted by Larry Page at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., luminaries from around the world attended including: Lawrence Bender, producer of "An Inconvenient Truth"; Tipper Gore; Sergey Brin, Google co-founder; Sir Richard Branson; Dr. Stuart Blusson, sponsor of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics; Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles Lindbergh; Robert K. Weiss, vice chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation and film producer; Anousheh Ansari, title sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE and the first private female space tourist; Arianna Huffington, opinion leader, Huffington Post; and Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway Computers. Robin Williams, actor/comedian, gave an impromptu performance for the crowd of more than 300.

...the live auction raised $1.9 million... Brian McClendon (creator of Google Earth) won one of the few U.S. flags that has made the trip to the moon, courtesy of a donation by Nancy Conrad, wife of Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad for $120,000.

Per the latter, Nancy Conrad had earlier offered for sale the U.S. flag from Pete's PLSS:

posted 03-08-2007 10:39 AM               

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Originally posted by divemaster:
Sure looks a might bit clean to have been on the PLSS.

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