google backs x-prize for moon landing

Okay, this is the coolest news I've heard all month.

Google is dropping $30 million to back an X-prize for a moon landing.

If you go back through my blog entries, you'll see that I've had several slobbering rants about the space program, and the fact that we've got all our eggs in one tiny little basket, and we haven't been back to the moon in my lifetime, and WHY THE FUCK ARE WE HERE IF NOT TO EXPLORE.

I mean, seriously. Imagine your petty problems. Then think about the fact that we've never left our solar system and not a single one of us knows if there's other life out there, or why we're here at all. Your problems don't mean shit. We should be spending all of our effort to get out there and see what's going on.

So yeah. Thanks, Google. Hell, if I find out about any attempts to claim the prize in the bay area, I'll donate my time for free to get the damn thing going. Apparently private enterprise is the only thing that's gonna get us off this rock, because governments don't seem to give a good goddamn.