{"id":2909,"date":"2007-09-14T06:03:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2007-09-14T06:04:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T12:04:31","slug":"google-moon-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/google-moon-goes-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Google moon goes live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/moon\">Google Moon<\/a> is live now &#8211; and if you can figure out a way to land a private spacecraft on that big ball of cheese &#8211; Google will pony up $30 million.<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/#stream\/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml\">Google<\/a> blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Great things can happen when you reach for the stars. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re thrilled to be sponsoring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprize.org\/\">Lunar X-PRIZE<\/a>, which will award a total of $30 million to teams competing around the world to land privately funded spacecraft on the Moon.<br \/>\nWhy does Google love space? Well, for one thing, we just think it&#8217;s cool. More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs, from ablative heat shields and asteroid mining to invisible braces and Tang; the X-PRIZE, too, could lead to important developments in robotic space exploration, a whole host of new space-age materials, precision landing control technology, and who knows what else.<br \/>\nFinally, we hope the contest will help renew public interest in fields like math, engineering and computer science, especially among the young people on whom we&#8217;ll all be depending to tackle tomorrow&#8217;s technical challenges, whether they&#8217;re on the web or among the stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So start getting out your schematics, and plans and lets see who can make it to the moon first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Moon is live now &#8211; and if you can figure out a way to land a private spacecraft on that big ball of cheese &#8211; Google will pony up $30 million. From the Google blog: Great things can happen when you reach for the stars. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re thrilled to be sponsoring the Lunar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/google-moon-goes-live\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google moon goes live<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-KV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}