So as far X Prizes (suborbital plane, tricorder, lunar, etc.) go, I'm pretty sure I've already intimated they were all cool.
I have been following GLXP - my favourite - for a while now and talked/planned how to participate with Lunar Numbat as part of White Label Space (now "Hakuto") team.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is to point out and critique shoddy reporting which doesn't verify its sources as two outlets say Google is offering $420 million in prizes. Since the first prize is $20 million, I'm assuming someone accidentally pressed another '4' after pressing 'shift-4' which is '$' on US keyboards. Then it got thru QA and was published as $420 million instead of $20. Well there is a total of $40 million in prizes, but not even NASA is spending that kind of money in 'prizes' unless you go through all milestones of a CCDev1&2.
I have been following GLXP - my favourite - for a while now and talked/planned how to participate with Lunar Numbat as part of White Label Space (now "Hakuto") team.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is to point out and critique shoddy reporting which doesn't verify its sources as two outlets say Google is offering $420 million in prizes. Since the first prize is $20 million, I'm assuming someone accidentally pressed another '4' after pressing 'shift-4' which is '$' on US keyboards. Then it got thru QA and was published as $420 million instead of $20. Well there is a total of $40 million in prizes, but not even NASA is spending that kind of money in 'prizes' unless you go through all milestones of a CCDev1&2.
