[Ads-l] Moonshot and Moonshot Solution

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

This use of "moon shot" may have evolved from phrases like "moonshot
approach". I think "Manhattan Project" is sometimes used analogously.

Date: 1975 October 30
Periodical: New Scientist
Volume 68, Number 973
Quote Page 288
Database: Google Books Full View

https://books.google.com/books?id=w1bp8jnrbecC&q=moonshot#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
At a time when the desire to cure cancer has developed into an useemly
scramble for research money, epitomised by the "moonshot approach" in
the US. Fairley brought some cool sanity into it all.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From an e-mail I received today:
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> What is a moonshot?
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> Huge problem + Radical Thinking + Breakthrough Technology
> A moonshot addresses a complex, global problem with an outlier solution /
> perspective / approach, enabled by a novel application of existing science
> or technology, or a game-changing breakthrough.
>
> (Source: https://www.solveforx.com/about)
>
> Apparently the term was reintroduced by author Steven Levy.
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> http://www.wired.com/2013/01/ff-qa-larry-page/
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> who had previously used in Whole Earth Catalog in the Summer 1990 issue.
>
> Not in OED, that I can see.
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> DanG
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