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VentureBeat: Google is funding the Lunar X Prize, a competition that will award $20 million to the first team that lands a private unmanned spacecraft on the moon, and then broadcasts a high-definition video back to earth. Additionally, it will award two other $5 million prizes for lesser missions. Watch the video to the left (RSS readers click here), where Google explains how one day the moon’s silicon soil could be used to create large solar satellites, which in turn can be used to provide electricity to earth. Each satellite would have … » Continue reading