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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. What would you use an observatory for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd look into Black Holes

  2. Universe the Game by LittleBigScript · · Score: -1, Troll

    I bought the game, Universe, but I had trouble playing...I kept dying.
    Wait...I died again.

    If the Universe is a product, can I endorse it? I'll do it for free. For example, my sales pitch could sound something like this

    "Hello, have I got a great product for you...
    It's vast, mysterious, and possess the wonders of all of creation.
    And now, it has a search engine like Google."

    If you would like to buy the universe, send me 100 dollars american to ...nevermind.
    Who'd want to buy a used Universe anyway?

    1. Re:Universe the Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Can I search for p0rn in the universe?

  3. Re:Challenge!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mods, he's right though...