You've sparked two thoughts in me: 1) "I truly wish I could answer that question." - Having recently re-kindled an interest in space left dormant since childho

You've sparked two thoughts in me: 1) "I truly wish I could answer that question." - Having recently re-kindled an interest in space left dormant since childhood, I'm thinking this is the kind of thing I could happily dedicate my life to. 2) "I wonder if a hybrid of Google Answers and Kickstarter to answer this kind of interesting question could thrive?" - Apparently, there have been a few attempts at the latter part at least[1][2], but the list of projects is pretty short. Crowd-funded research with open-access findings seems like potentially wonderful thing. 1: http://www.petridish.org/projects/all http://www.petridish.org/projects/all 2: http://www.iamscientist.com/projects http://www.iamscientist.com/projects