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National Virtual Observatory

Posted by michael on from the number-crunching dept.

scubacuda writes "According to this Technology Review article, U.S. astronomers (compliments of a $10M grant from the National Science Foundation) are building a National Virtual Observatory to make accessible terabytes of astrononomical data to a web browser. One interesting challenge is how the scientists are going to query so many *different* distributed databases (which they're leaving in their respective places to avoiding clogging network bandwidth)."

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  1. Wrong time scale by nniillss · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    understanding and exploration of space is one of the most important goals humans should have if they wish to survive longer 500 million years or so

    I would rather say people should look at environmental pollution and global warming if they wish to survive 500 years or so.