TPD Podcast EP: 009
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This week was the Wirefly X-Prize competitions, rife of excitement to say the least. At the time of this publication, the results of the Tether Competition were largely disqualified, with no one picking up the $200k prize. More info on that can be found here courtesy of New Scientist magazine.

For this week, we covrered:

• Unidentified flying lunar orbiter contests - Analysis of the Wirefly X-Prize competition.
• Wirefly competition main webpage
  

• SETI's big suprise - Paul Allen funds a new multi-million dollar telescope array.
• ATA Fact sheet
• Seti@home

Special: Lunar Lust or Just Lunar Dust?


New analysis from Arecibo Observatory shows that frozen lunar deposits of water, which were a key instrument in the formation of a base on our nearest celestial neighbor may be a pipe-dream.

More on the moon's water problem can be found from Sciencenow and Space.com

Andrew's thought experiment for this week details how life from another world cannot possibly look similar to something we may find here on Earth.

-Scott