Dubai has US beat now: Giant Levitating Monster Trucks and a Moon Program

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Here is a pic of the levitating monster truck at Festival City Mall:




With this kind of tech going on, you knew it was just a matter of time before:

Investors fly to moon as space race goes private

A private-sector bid to explore the moon is looking for UAE investors, its chairman said yesterday while outlining a vision to extend Earth’s economic sphere of influence to its largest satellite.

Odyssey Moon is one of a number of ventures competing to win the US$20 million (Dh73.4m) Lunar X prize, which has been offered to the first private company to land a robotic rover on the moon, explore lunar territory and beam its findings back to Earth.

“The first era of aviation took us to 40km into the atmosphere and the era of satellite communications has taken us to 40,000,” said Ramin Khadem, the chairman of Odyssey Moon. “My view, a lot of people’s view, is that we are now going to get to 400,000km, to lunar orbit and beyond.”... http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/BUSINESS/703019916/1005

And you guys thought I kidding when I said the UAE would get back to the moon before the U.S. did!


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