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    MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego

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    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    Clever vehiclebot, but not a good design. If it fell over, how would it right itself? The best design is to use treads on a flipable bot. If it rolls over something that flips it over, it can keep going without problems. For taking samples, pics, etc., all it will have to do is stop, raise its equipment from closed hatches and go to work.
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    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    I thought the idea for the original MoonBot contest was to send Hanson minifigures to the moon in advance of sending the brothers themselves?
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    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    So given the extremes of environment and radiation, how long would Legos survive on the surface of da moon?
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    08/09/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasAList: The plastic Lego parts themselves probably wouldn't fare too bad, but it's the electronics you have to worry about. Without the proper shielding, the radiation would probably screw with the memory. And since I doubt the system has any built-in safeguards/redundancies to protect against things like that, it means the electronics wouldn't last too long.
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    08/09/09

    @Deep-Blue: Well, I'm worried about photo-degradation of the Lego pieces. Shielding the electronics would be easy, but not the whole craft.
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    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    cool, I love Mindstorm NXT. I might get involved with this challenge.
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    08/09/09

    @aerospaceman:
    if I had kids I would, I just went to the site.
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    08/09/09


    @aerospaceman:
    "The new contest will challenge small teams comprised of children and adults" - I think I might know a way around that problem.
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    08/09/09


    @Scotland:
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    11/22/08

    In reply to X Prize's Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge
    Why not just smite down upon our enemies and process their bodies into a cheap and robust fuel source. Soylent Petrol!
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    11/20/08

    In reply to X Prize's Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge
    So,


    #1: Invent a useful, world changing technology

    #2: Not possible without inventing several world changing 'future technologies' and will probably result in more useless vapor-ware designs that rely on unrealized efficiencies. Any actual successful design will be to expensive for anyone but the uber-rich to afford.

    #3: Bribe people to temporarily change their way of life.


    Wow, hard choice.

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    11/20/08

    In reply to X Prize's Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge
    how about ' The Transporter Xprize ' First one to beam something across a distance wins.
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    11/20/08

    @chrispie: Too bad, Willy Wonka already won this prize.
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    11/20/08

    In reply to X Prize's Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge
    The ideas are good, but is it just me, or do these guys have no taste in making videos?
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    11/20/08

    @Migo: If you think that's bad, check out HP video on server blades. *shudder*
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    11/20/08

    In reply to X Prize's Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge
    I have an idea, lets throw all our crops in a big pile and burn them, use the heat to create energy.

    people might be a bit hungry though.
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    11/20/08

    @thedarkhorse: How does a big fire help w/global warming? Unless you plan on focusing that energy and move our orbit.
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    11/20/08

    @thedarkhorse: Let's just convert all those plants from a carbon sink to something that creates carbon. That's a brilliant idea.
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