Virtual Astronomy

DarkKnightRadick writes: "In this day and age, data sharing, data mining and distributed computing are words most of us know well enough, but until recently, those phrases were connected with such projects as DNET, and more recently with SETI@Home. Now we should all welcome the newcomer, Virtual Astronomy. With the framework being developed by three different groups (one in the UK, one in the US, and one in Australia), one would expect this to be a very competitive field, but alas, this is not the case. The three groups are working together so that they can have it all up in running the in the projected 15 years that it will take to put all this data into an electronic format."

Comments

oh boy

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

How hard is it to verify the URL's in a one paragraph submission?

Re:it's 3 AM

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:That's been the trend in recent years

[Anonymous Coward]

Stupid troll, stop using racisim disguised as a NASA employee, your a shame. Why do you want us to be more paranoid? It's people like you who decay the core of our nation.

Re:That's been the trend in recent years

[Anonymous Coward]

"intimidate" ? Your insecure? Little penis^H^H^H^Hshuttle syndrome? Dang, I bet your supervisor would love hearing what you wrote on /. Infact, I just e-mailed him a copy ;)

Re:That's been the trend in recent years

[Anonymous Coward]

That was an awful quick reply. Do you follow me around all day or something?

~wally

ASCII art mystery?

[Anonymous Coward]

What happened to all the magnificent ASCII art that used to grace the pages of slashdot regulary?

Re:ASCII art mystery?

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we don't post any, because we're all too busy trying to get the

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virtual..

[Anonymous Coward]

Jon Katz like to suck on virtually every little boys. Why does he like to place their tiny developing peckers in his filthy cumhole of his mouth? Why, oh why?

Virtually first post.

Re:That's been the trend in recent years

[Anonymous Coward]

nope ... i'm just smart enough to spot trolls faster than everyone else ...

i had even tried to post that comment via three proxies (i hate using my real ip), and the GiZ crapflooders seem to have gotten them all banned ...

as much as i like well crafted, intelligent trolls, this one didnt seem to impress me much, so i figured i'd point it out, since i'm such a nice, caring person (and you can afford the one or two point karma hit, apparently)

Re:That's been the trend in recent years

[Anonymous Coward]

swallow it then. stop following me around.

~wally

Linux sucks like your mamma's ass.

[Anonymous Coward]

l like linux because I am a big dumb fater mofo from the county of ass county I like linux too because I am a big fat ass with no jobs and have nothing better to do.

Re:Linux sucks like your mamma's ass.

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, you really have a point there. I was recently going to suggest that my workplace switch over to Linux from Windows NT, but your thoughts give me pause. The "ass county" aspect certainly piques my professional interest. Do you have a website where I can read some more of your insightful ideas?

Re:Linux sucks like your mamma's ass.

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody mod this bozo -1 troll, please! Since he likes spam so much, here's the return address: kawaichan@msn.com

Re:That's been the trend in recent years

[Anonymous Coward]

but i love you wally!

please wont you post another blatant troll so i can point that one out too?

please?

pretty pretty please?

what if i widen the page to make room?

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does that help, "wally" ?

Re:That's been the trend in recent years

[Anonymous Coward]

Cut me some slack dogg, I'm just a novice.

Can you give me some pointers on how to craft a better troll?

~wally

Intimidate?

[Anonymous Coward]

If I can be living in the United States and not be aware of that recent space shuttle launch despite being a space enthusiast, I doubt that third-world nations with filtered news coverage and other preoccupations even noticed. You're biased because you're working at NASA, just like a Pizza Hut employee will know about the latest Pepperoni shipment, but that hardly makes it universal knowledge. Either that or you're trolling.

Re:SLASHDOT WAS HACKED

[Anonymous Coward]

It was probably the database going down again. The crappy combination of MySQL and Linux sucks more dick than JonKatz

Re:That's been the trend in recent years

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am i asleep yet? oh, AND DONT USE SO MANY CAPS IN YOUR COMMENTS, ITS LIKE YELLING.

Is it just me . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

or has someone taken it upon himself to post some idiotic, off-topic trollings. btw this is a cool subject, and i'm sure many people will find it interesting. i know i will.

Here's a poll I can't wait to see

[Anonymous Coward]

Which will happen first?

a) CowboyNeal will stop eating so damn much.

b) CowboyNeal will die from overeating.

c) CowboyNeal will eat a Beowulf cluster of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Re:Here's a poll I can't wait to see

[Anonymous Coward]

By the way, I know this will be modded down by some fatso. Admit it, tubby, you're repulsive! Lose some weight already, and stop taking out your fat fury on people who have self-control!

Re:Here's a poll I can't wait to see

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree with this troll completely. stop chucking all those fucking cheese into your already balloon like stomach.

Re:SLASHDOT WAS HACKED

[Anonymous Coward]

If you continue to talk like that about Linux your IP address is going to get banned.

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Virtual Asstronomy ay?

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth

[Anonymous Coward]

Troll or no troll .. this is damn funny.

GIVE CREDIT TO THE SOURCE (Karma Whore)

[Anonymous Coward]

Here , the original post

Oh, please!

[Anonymous Coward]

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