Monday, February 21, 2011

3441...Defining Canada

Hockey.

Most countries dream of sending astronauts to the moon. And then there's us.

CBC.ca reports that "A group of Canadian space buffs wants to make a hockey puck boldly go where no hockey puck has gone before: the surface of the moon. The Vancouver group is one of 29 teams from 17 countries competing in the latest race to the moon: the Google Lunar X Prize, an effort funded by the web giant to encourage commercial space development. Teams on four continents are trying to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface before the end of 2015 in order to win a chunk of the $30 million US in prize money."

The US sends Neil Armstrong, Russia sends Yuri Gagarin and we send a frozen chunk of rubber.

WFDS

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