Posts: 23493 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted September 05, 2007 02:11 PM
The X Prize Foundation is preparing to announce its next challenge on September 13 as part of Wired NextFest in Los Angeles. The organizers have promised it will be "the largest international prize in history."
X Prize has released a promo video that sets the stage for the subject of this post:
If you click above or visit the YouTube page from which the promo originates, you can find a list of links that are sending viewers to that video.
Of the three currently listed, one is the X Prize website and another is the staging server for the X Prize website. The third appears as:
If you click on that IP address, you are prompted to enter a username and password for the "X PRIZE Foundation Restricted Area".
So, is the use of the directory name "lunar" just a name or is it a hint to the nature of the next X Prize?
E2M Lem Man Member
Posts: 757 From: Los Angeles CA. USA Registered: Jan 2005
posted September 06, 2007 02:35 PM
This has been talked about for over a year, a lunar lander X Prize. They just couldn't pull it all together in a year. Let's do this!!!
J. M. Busby
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 23493 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted September 05, 2007 02:11 PM
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