$50M over 5 years is a &quot;moonshot&quot;?  Let&#x27;s hope Wired is to blame for such hype; Google surely knows better.  Even $50B is no moonshot.  Try $500B to $5T and a commitment of many thousands of man-years.  Now THAT&#x27;s a moonshot.  $50M is not even &quot;A War on Heart Disease&quot;.  At most it&#x27;s a skirmish.<p>To wit, $50M&#x2F;5 years is $10M per year.  In Silly Valley, that buys you up to 20 staff, with no lab.  So in 5 years, 20 Googlers armed only with whiteboards will succeed beyond the thousands and billions and decades of scientific research that have gone before?<p>Gotta love the reality distortion field that is SV.