Yes, the moon. that moon. we're landing on it. we want you to leave your mark on the moon with us. Hey everyone. I'm currently helping my friends at Team Phoenicia land something on the moon and win the google X prize competition. This may sound crazy but...well its me remember? remember the last time I said I would pull off some insane funding?
full details at fundraising central:
www.melo3rd.com but the fun, simplified, just-so-you-know-I'm-not-completely-insane, version is as follows:
(p.s. spread the word as much as possible, we don't have much time!)
www.melo3rd.com
The Plan (simplified):
1.) Raise Entry Fee for Lunar X prize before Dec. 31st (Jan 1st deadline) by selling blank space on golden panels left on moon forever. (entry fee = $60,000, only 2x what it cost to send 19 mariachis to japan). anything you want to leave writing/printed on the moon...forever?
(more info below/on site)
2.) Testing landing here on earth with our current test lander and our awesome team of rocket scientists, programmers, machinists, etc.
3.) Use team ties to attach hollywood/record industry to project as well as silicon valley investors==> create amazing launch party/events which all who helped get invited to.
3.2) Win google lunar x prize...like a boss.
4.) launch aerospace company with new carbon composite we developed to cut weight on the lander (check out site)
5.) party. thank everyone. party. try and erase the fundraising video from the internet so posterity has no record of what a tool i was.
Full details at:
www.melo3rd.com
where I'm coordinating the fundraising blitz. check out the video...I look like a total tool (some of you will love it.)
How we are raising the entry fee:
-we put our project on kickstarter.com (an amazing site for funding projects, try getting your own funded) so that if we don't make the entry fee in time everyone keeps their money and if we do a trusted site monitors what we do with it. (kickstarter.com lauded by nytimes, npr, and wired magazine)
-we are leaving two golden panels on the moon forever, splayed out from the top of our lander. we are selling space on those panels. 1x1 inch space for $100. 4x4 inch space for $1000.
the plan is to find 60 (or more) small businesses, clubs, church groups, families, local bars, groups of friends, blogs, knitting circles...etc etc...who want to fill the 16 square inch spaces (4x4 is alot of space, try it yourself with a ruler) with art, memories, logos, photos, "we are here", history, etc. whatever they want to fill it with, it will be engraved in the gold plates and left on the moon forever....as well as recieve insane attention on earth for a long time (be featured in any museums that make copies of our lander, any press coverage we recieve, the book we write about the landing, etc. )
unfortunately I got pulled on this project late, but I believe in the internet. 15 days is more than enough time for the internet to find people interested in touching the moon/leaving their mark on it forever.
SO! Please please please invite your friends to this event, rsvp if you think its sweet, if you have 10 friends with 100 bucks or 20 with 50 bucks buy yourself space on the moon as well as an invite to the insane launch party (we're looking at serious hollywood/record industry artists for funding through our connections (updates at melo3rd.com))
if your family owns a small business, if you belong to a club and want all your names on the moon/in the world's museums, if you want your church to write words on the moon, if you want your bar to put their favorite dirty joke on the moon....ALL GOOD. THE FRICKEN ALIENS WILL AT LEAST BE LAUGHING BEFORE THEY LASER US WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MOON HERE.
Forever grateful to you all, again I apologize in advance for looking like a tool in the fundraising video...which some of you will find funny anyway and some of you will just find too long.
Mel
p.s. anyone who wants to see the project/hang with us can visit TechShop Menlo Park (
www.techshop.ws). Its an open to the public machine/fabrication shop. you can come in with an idea and our expert team can teach you how to make it, machine it, mass produce it, protect it and get it out there.
