List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary Prizes

Re:List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary ... by ggchappell on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:21AM (#9539576)

This is an interesting mix.

> Google Lunar XPRIZE $20,000,000 Successfully launch, land, and operate a rover on the lunar surface.

That almost reads like a joke. It's going to take an awful lot more than $20,000,000 to accomplish that. The prize money is nearly irrelevant.

> ALS Treatment Prize $1,000,000 Develop a therapy that extends the life of ALS mice by 25%.

I surprised this one hasn't been taken yet.

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Re:List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary ... by ohitsdom on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:55PM (#9540261)

The Google Lunar XPRIZE already has a bunch of teams making decent progress. The $30 million[0] certainly won't fund the whole trip, but it seems to be a big enough supplement that it is encouraging institutions to give it a serious effort.

That being said, I would love to see the competition and effort if the prize was increased by a factor of at least 25.

[0] http://lunar.xprize.org/

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