<div>Incidentally, Scientific American profiled Whittaker's team for the April edition (paywalled). There's a restriction on sharing large file attachments, which is why I didn't attach the article here.</div><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bound-for-the-moon">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bound-for-the-moon</a> <div>

<br clear="all">Warmest regards,<br>Huei Ming<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Máté Ravasz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravaszmeister@gmail.com">ravaszmeister@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Tell me about it... I am also on one of the teams ( <a href="http://www.pulispace.com" target="_blank">www.pulispace.com</a> ), and we have long ago realized that this competition is not about building a moon rover, its about getting a wad of cash.<br>


<br>40 year old technology is pretty much sufficient to do the job (except maybe for the HD videos), you just need to raise a few million $ to build and launch your construct. While many teams focus on engineering and creating cool machines, actually none of them is even close to buying a ticket for a rocket. To be honest, a group of investors probably would have succeeded sooner than a group of engineers in this challenge.<br>


<br>Still, We'll get there eventually :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 19 April 2012 22:55, Jerry Isdale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com" target="_blank">isdale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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Article interviewing some of the people behind XPrize teams and difficulties they are having raising $, etc....<br><br><a href="http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/04/18/in-googles-moon-race-teams-and-x-prize-foundation-face-a-reckoning/?single_page=true" target="_blank">http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/04/18/in-googles-moon-race-teams-and-x-prize-foundation-face-a-reckoning/?single_page=true</a>

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Jerry Isdale</div><div><a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com" target="_blank">isdale@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></span><br>
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