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Google Forms Partnership With NASA
jangobongo writes "Google said on Wednesday that it plans to partner with NASA on space research projects. The new partnership will involve R&D on biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology, as well as supercomputing. The news article notes some of the mutual benefits: "Google stands to gain from learning about NASA's supercomputers, which could come in handy as the Mountain View search engine compiles even bigger indexes of information and video. NASA leaders cited the benefits of getting access to Google's search expertise to pick out nuggets of information from the volumes of data streaming back from satellites and human space launches."" This story might seem familiar to you. Consider it a public service: if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment.
First they were collaborating on technology, so the next natural step is to form a partnership. All in all took less than 10 hours to decide.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Fer crying out loud, its not only a repost, its *still* up on the
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Google confirms Ames plan Search engine plans offices, partnership with space agency
Verne Kopytoff and Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Google Inc. confirmed Wednesday that it will build up to 1 million square feet of offices at NASA Ames Research Center and collaborate with the space agency on research surrounding topics such as supercomputing that could benefit everything from moon launches to online searches.
The partnership is intended to blend the expertise and huge resources of one of the leading Internet companies with an army of scientists focused on the stratosphere and beyond.
"Google and NASA share a common desire to bring the universe of information to people around the world," said Eric Schmidt, the company's chief executive officer, in a statement. "Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it."
The partnership, announced late Wednesday at a press conference at the NASA facility, will bring a marquee tenant to the Ames Research Center, located at Moffett Field, a former military airfield near Mountain View that has been struggling to find a new purpose since the military pulled out in the 1990s.
For Google, the new partnership comes at a time when the Internet search engine is expanding by leaps and bounds, hiring on average 10 people per day. Experts say the company, which now employs more than 4,000 people, has ambitions beyond Internet search and could pose a serious threat to Microsoft Corp. for supremacy in desktop consumer computing.
This collaboration with NASA could also portend a new intellectual center for Silicon Valley, one that has been sorely missed since the heyday of Palo Alto's Xerox PARC, a seminal research facility that helped foster much of today's technology.
The details of the real estate part of the deal were vague but was expected to cost Google in excess of $200,000. Schmidt said that the planning is still in the early stages and that the building on vacant land would take place over the course of many years.
In addition to supercomputing, the research and development between Google and NASA will involve biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology and development of excessively large vibrating butt plugs for TripMaster MonkeyCunt's anal stimulation.
Google stands to gain from learning about NASA's supercomputers, which could come in handy as the Mountain View search engine compiles even bigger indexes of information and video. NASA leaders cited the benefits of getting access to Google's search expertise to pick out nuggets of information from the volumes of data streaming back from satellites and human space launches.
"NASA is nothing but drowned in information when we come back from our missions," said Scott Pace, associate administrator for NASA.
Google's headquarters will remain nearby in Mountain View.
Some academics have expressed hope that the collaboration will foster innovation across the Bay Area. The partners said that while some of the research will be public, some may be kept private, in keeping with Google's reputation for secrecy.
Part of the mission behind the collaboration is to bring more private enterprise into the space field.
NASA officials were enthusiastic about the Google alliance, announced at a press event late Wednesday afternoon at the NASA Ames Center.
"Our planned partnership presents an enormous range of potential benefits to the space program," said NASA Ames Center Director Scott Hubbard. At 1400 square feet, the new campus would be larger than filmmaker George Lucas' garage and nearly as big as the executive washrooms in the Bank of America Center in San Francisco's Financial District.
The agreement would allow the company to design and develop a campus for whatever needs it envisions.
Google has been hoping to expand for at least a ye
Suck it bitches!!!!
Sign me up for G.C.H.E.E.S.E.
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
Before it was duped.
I thought they already did that.
Hmm... shows what I know.
put the what in the where?
Am I the only one that finds a certain sense of subtle irony in a search engine company searching space itself? Now if only I could use Google to find my car keys...
I think Google is just hoping to get discounted fares for trips to their lunar base.
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Really, what I am saying is, why is Google doing this, or more over, being allowed to do this? Seems to me to be a bunch of PR. When I first read it, I thought, "that's cool, good of them," but now I seem to find myself questioning what Google has to gain. It's not like they can make the data streaming from the satellites and other inputs available to the public.
...and it's not like there's a high threshold here for Google stories. Haven't they changed their cafeteria prices or repainted their parking spaces or something since this morning?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Ive been saying this for the better part of two years now. Google will own the world! Its not MS you have to worry about. Maybe people should actually start putting in for their jobs on the lunar base as it might become a reality instead of a practicle joke :)
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"Google and NASA share a common desire to bring the universe of information to people around the world," said Eric Schmidt, the company's chief executive officer, in a statement. "Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it."
:)
What NASA need to do if they want more people watch their stuff is to get cameras that don't hold the same level of quality as the ones where UFO:s are caught on tape.
It will be very interesting to see what Google can do here. And check this quote:
"Experts say the company, which now employs more than 4,000 people, has ambitions beyond Internet search and could pose a serious threat to Microsoft Corp. for supremacy in desktop consumer computing."
That reminds me of the stories that were published a few years back about MS sats that were launched all over (and above) our planet. I wonder when we'll be seeing the next Google sat?
Full Tilt
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Google is pursuing outerspace now, when will they get around to "innerspace"?
"I see you're thinking about porn. Why not click on www.Playboy.com Google Ads (tm)."
One million square feet! is certainly a lots of real estate space (no pun intended) that in the South Bay Area has to be worth a not insignificant chunk of change. Granted, Moffett field sits on an amazing amount of land and although I have not been back to the base for years, I imagine it is still some pretty choice real estate that just so happens to be right up the road from Google.
It also might be of interest to note that Moffett is right next door to a former NIMA (NRO) facility and given Google's interest in mapping the surface of the Earth and other remote sensing activities, might be pretty convenient.
Click here or here.
Google's partnership with NASA confirmed! :-)
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Haven't you ever been to EPCOT?
...Following that, you ride through greenhouses where Disney Company, with NASA and the USDA (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture), is conducting some very successful and unique experiments."
http://www.123disney.com/epattractions/ep8.html
"Dining at the Land"
" For informal snacks and meals, Sunshine Season Food Fair offers an array of foods from barbecue to angel food cake topped with strawberries.
I'm sure the editors read /.
It's just that after working with so many computer components, the lead solder from the circuit boards is causing alzheimer's.
Its as if some terrific universal force has finally put 2 and 2 exclusive forces together. In that vein, I sure wish Nerf would get together with Louisville Slugger and produce a crotchbat that can handle my needs. As far as I'm concerned, the formula nerf + crotch hasn't yet equaled lots of fun.
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Now that google is working with NASA (Twice) does this mean that Ms will build the MS Spacestation in order to beat google?
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.. play-by-play of the growing relationship with Google and Nasa? Because 2 stories in 1 day is certainly not enough for me.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The government should only form alliances with industry where there are no other obvious partners. While Google may have a lead on search technology, opening up the partnership process to include Microsoft and Yahoo! would benefit the government more than sole sourcing.
Competition for government partnerships is always better than just selecting the current industry lead. The US government did that with office suites and is now paying a hefty price for that decision.
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Another dupe was pulled earlier this week. Let's pull this one too. Nothing to see here.
cheers
Wow, search engine technology really is Rocket Science!
At least it's not Brain Surgery.
Dupe, with an ass full of man juice.
So, it's a dupe.
As a subscriber, you'll see a note under unposted articles that says:
"See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor."
You know what... I know this was a dupe, and I didn't tell their on-duty editor!!!!
I'm feeling mischievous today.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left . . . ?
Repeat.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat. Pete jumps off. Who's left?
Speak truth to power.
dupe comment
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163763 &cid=13674815
I say, who would have thought? I know I couldn't have any prior knowledge of this. Not even if it had still be on the front page of Slashdot.
It’s supposed to read “Google Forms Partnership with NSA.”
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find: moon landing AND mars landing NOT 15 year wait NOT 10 Billion dollar price tag
Maybe I should've put this under my -1 redundant post.
Maybe we'll all get one.
Maybe I'll get -1:Troll
Maybe the bad mods have won
Is that OK? Rhyming one with won? Reminds me of the Pin Pals episode.
(throwing in an obscure Simpsons episode should win-over the mods)
I'm fiending for some attention. Please. Please look at me!
put the what in the where?
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left...?
Repeat.
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Evidently, Taco doesn't read /.
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As indicated on the brand-new slash-css website http://slashgisrs.org/ , this new "team" will probably have an impact on GIS.
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"Google's engineers will be able to pick NASA's brains for ideas on supercomputing design, which could help the company in its efforts to create products such as 3-D maps. "We already have Google Earth. We'd like to have Google Mars and Google Moon," quipped Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google."
Taken from http://appdomains.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=0
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...to other planets. Been too single platform, up to now.
Do you think this would stop if the Editors started reading the website they are posting to? I really think that this happens to often. I mean if it happened at like 4 in the morning, I can understand. Hell, I would be half asleep aswell. Well here is to hoping that things will continued to be improved.
So tired of hearing about Google. I want a new company to worship...
'nuff said.
I wish they would partner with Slashdot so the editors can search the site before posting DUPES.
what are you talking? if we were to direct our anger on you, then what is the-punch-bag-of-slashdot-dept CowboyNeal for?
More realistically, NASA's supercomputer guys stand to gain from learning how to build even bigger supercompuers than their for cheaper.
It seems all too often that the press seems to misrepresent the old stoggy has-beens as "teaching" teh upstarts (like the other story on slashdot that claimed "HP Propelling Linux Into Truly 'Big' Time", when IBM & Google have pretty much proven that Linux is leading HP if anything propelling HP into the big time).
I think the partnership's great, though -- I'd love to see what kinds of computing efforts could be pulled off with NASA's resources (billions are small to them (" as the average launch expenditures during its operations up to 2005 accumulates to $1.3 billion " from wikipedia); while it still makes news when Google raises 4-billion) and Google's knowledge.
just copy all the +5 comments from http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/2 9/120241&tid=236&tid=217&tid=126&tid=14
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Google and NASA in the same /. story! Will they be using linux or some other open source software? If so, then we may have the Perfect /. Story!!
Hey, if the editors can dupe, why cant I?
"In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
While I do not believe the common folks would care, there are a lot of geeks that would love to google for Mars info, etc. It is information paid for with taxpayer $$, and has no national security implications... Unless the Martians are massing the space ships for an attack. :^)
My wife doesn't listen to me either...
Thank God I took the time out of my day and bothered to email the fucking editor on duty.
Google forms dupe with Slashdot
There are some unconfirmed rumors that Slashdot is aware of the dupe:
"This story might seem familiar to you. Consider it a public service: if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment."
do {print "Mini-Geek Rules!\n";}
until ($TheEndOfTheWorld);
1. harvest the top comments from original 2. repost as own 3. ??? 4. Profit!!
Slashdot forms a partnership with a goldfish - because it has a longer memory.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left . . . ?
Repeat.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat.
Pete jumps off.
Who's left?
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
How fucking dare you say "asterisk"!
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
i wonder if this partnership will affect google earth's relationship with world wind. maybe they will collaborate? share satellite imagery? hopefully both products will stay out, they perform some different functions, this seems to be the only place where there is currently competition between google and nasa, and i wonder if this has anything to do with the partnership.
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...next, Google Space!
It should be NSA not NASA. ;)
They finally found use for their user behavior loging.
nobody, coz I just shot Repeat. Problem solved.
With a repeater?
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
We already have google moon. Check it out:
http://moon.google.com
There is no end to this, it is great. Glad to see stuff like this happening, this is the only company I have no problem with if they decide to monopolize the industry. Milton Bradley would be so proud they're following in the footsteps of his board game!
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We should attach electrodes to the genitals of all slashdot editors. And they are all automically shocked when one of them posts a dupe. Also they will then receive an email saying which one of them did it. The offender gets twice the voltage and twice the duration.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
I did
The really hard problems of the universe are clearly still way beyond us.
but now I seem to find myself questioning what Google has to gain.
Think about it. If you put some of the world's brightest minds in the same building and they all have a discussion among themselves, what would they conclude they would all like to do?
GET OFF THIS GOD FORSAKEN PLANET!
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Useless, overweight organisations - combine! Forming NASOOGLE! No wonder Google has managed to make their stock price defy gravity recently. :) I'm sure we'll soon see the other fruits of their work:
* The Space Shuttle "USS Beta", it sorta works but nobody can be held responsible because it's clearly still being tested. And you want a ride, you have to be invited by someone else who's already an astronaut.
* "Unintrusive" advertising on all Hubble images. Sure, you get a slightly less useful image (and hey, it's text, so it can't be bad.. right?) - but for some reason you can now never delete any data. Images of Uranus now all have links to toilet humor websites, due to advertisers for whom the joke never seem to get old.
* Thousands of junker PCs at mission control are running in a cluster - half of them have failed, but who knows which ones? The NASOOGLE Surveyor robots are sent on a 3 year mission to the server room to seek out dead machines. Bonus mission: second robot accidentally enters nerd founder's psyche, discovers their virginity, buried under pile of money and stock certificates. Core sample of founder's brain is unsucessful due to excessive ego field, boosted by recent purchase of a private Boeing 767.
* Google Maps now randomly delivers distances in Imperial or Metric, without telling you which. It'll crash (into another planet) when asked to be specific.
* Meanwhile, NASOOGLE tests a new type of spacecraft drive, powered by pure irony emminating from Slashdot posters asserting Google's "do no evil" policy. Point out that the only product Google sells is advertising (since when have advertising companies ever worked in the interest of you, their targets?), view lunatic Google zealots defending Google for being bastion of good, hook web browser up to irony detector, and voila! Sustained spaceflight is achieved, travelling at twice the speed of light.
I could go on, but I'm bored now. Google and NASA both seem to be waning organisations who haven't really done anything original, worthwhile or exciting in a while. They kind of deserve each other at this point.
In related news, the American Writers' Guild has filed a lawsuit to block Google from partnering with NASA.
A Guild Spokes-Weasel said, "We can't let them do NAYTHING until they resolve their issues with us. If they want to do anything, they have to pay us a licensing fee."
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I thought I hear about a deal with NASA already.
They must be doing two projects with NASA.
This is a confluence of intellectual monsters. No doubt, MIT students line up for Google recruting events. Damm it they got another revenue source and trust me this will be something big say atleast few 100 million dollars.
By the way are you using managed code to build your apps ? Trust MCPP.
You're gonna feel pretty dumb when Google ships you off to toil in the soylent green mines!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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AT&ROFLMAO
Wow the Slashdot editors didn't like that post...
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Tired of getting screwed by Congress? Tired of being forced to implement 30 year old obsolete and dangerous technology for political reasons? Tired of some pork barrel law that forces your Operation center to locate in hurricane-prone areas?
Privatize!
Coming soon: Google buys the education system! No more aguing about whether cavemen rode dinosaurs like horses!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Naaaaaasa?
No, Who's not on the boat, he's on first.
sheesh!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I know this. I guess Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, was meaning improving Google Moon. He wanted to fit Google Moon and Google Mars in the same sentence, with a confusing result!
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> Pete and Repeat are on a boat. Pete jumps off. Who's left?
Unfortunately, CmdrTaco.
See Subject - LOL
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Google moon doesn't have any of the Ranger sites, nor any of the Russian sites. I'm not sure, but I don't think the far side of the moon is even shown.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
[ ] Still no cure for cancer
I think your Slashdot EeziPost (TM) MK I is having a conflict with the Fark SquirrelNut Commentator 3000 (TM)
More like the head of Google will be saying, "Looking back, working with NASA was a mistake."
I guess the response to the April 1st ad to work at Google's Moon location was just to overwhelming to ignore.
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I guess it's handy to know that a story is redundant, but when most of the ensuing discussion is focussed on that point, it gets kind of boring, not to mention that the postings are themselves dupes of each other. I wish that the user options provided a way to hide such postings so that those of us interested in the story can discuss it. Although, I do tend to browse at -1 since some decent comments do get modded down by ignorant moderators.
I think it's really cool that NASA is partnering with Google; there seems to be some real synergy there. Someone at Google or at NASA is thinking creatively. NASA has data, and Google has data-processing technologies. Makes sense.
I disagree with the guy who thinks Google should share the partnership with Yahoo and Microsoft. Think of the complexities that would be involved in such a 4-way collaboration, with the three competitors jockeying for a dominant role while publicly acting like friendly partners, while secretly trying to steal each other's technologies, and so forth. No, Google is the premier search engine in the world; no one else comes close, and it seems unlikely that MS/Yahoo will become household search terms any time soon. "Let's just MSN that recipe when we get home!" "Did you yahoo this or did you write yourself?" No I don't think so somehow.
It would be interesting to see if NASA opens up its space probe data streams to Google searches in the future. Perhaps this will spawn a whole new cottage industry of weekend warriors who try to interpret the gigabytes of information streaming back from Mars probes and the like.
it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.
Taco is just f***ing with us - read the intro. It can't be one of /.'s core competencies yet, they haven't registered the domain:
...
Get it while it's hot:
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No match for domain "SLASHDUP.COM".
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
In other new: Drew claims code infringement and hires same lawyer as SCO, grabs another beer. His dog wants compensation.
AT&ROFLMAO
nobody, coz I just shot Repeat. Problem solved.
Problem solved.
This brings a whole new meaning to Google Earth.
;)
I mean we all know their main business is adverts
What was your username again? -BOFH
A place with a scary database (search engine) mating with a place with scary (Cray YMP) computers. How scary can that be.Hmmmmmmmmm
I for one praise our beloved Google overlords.
The earlier story had a Nasa logo, this one has a Google logo. That makes them completely different stories.
Google outta partner with SETI.
+ from+alpha+centauri&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=space+aliens
Seems a lot simpler than the way we search now.
[ ] Degrading(sometimes funny, sometimes just plain stupid--parent is the former) comment about the /. community
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Will this mean all future NASA projects will be in a near-permanent Beta release? Oh wait, nothing new there...
What was your username again? -BOFH
This will enable Slashdot editors to google articles on Slashdot, so they can guarantee a steady flow of dupes.
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Don't forget
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In my own opinion...
But for those of you who think google !=gov, PUUUUUUUUHLEASE.
>if I didn't screw up occasionally,
For large values of "occasionally"?
Oddly enough, put enough of my friends high on pot in the same room and they'll conclude the same thing. :)
"When does this occur in the movie"
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"so what happen to then?"
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Hey, you're right! I feel much better, now. I just wish the lameness filter would let me post in all-caps... I could really let loose then.
Wanna find the shortest route from your house to Titan? Or where to order pizza on Pluto? :-).
Now you'll be able to
--
Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
Naturally, this is right in line with Google's Copernicus initiative. I'm sure it will also help their mapping of the moon. A big win for Google!
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
Yes, that's right, now you can search GoogleSpace all day long in search for God. I bet some Russian astrologer will sue NASA again because aligning Google and Nasa is madness!
http://maps.google.com/moon
and
http://maps.google.com/mars
Well you got modded redundant, you're obviously qualified!
Maybe CmdrTaco, like me, has Zonk's stories blocked. This story's new to me!
rooooar
Anyone?
if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment.
Replace "readers" with "citizens" and this sounds like an awesome way to start out the next State of the Union speech...
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For christ sakes, its still on the front page. Perhaps the only words our mods can read are "cut" and "paste".
All these uber-geeks, and yet the Slashdot site code still has no way to detect and at least *warn* someone before a post is repeated. My faith in nerd-kind has forever failed.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has reportedly launched a chair in to orbit and vowed to "fucking kill NASA." In a press conference, Ballmer announced Microsoft's new space program claiming it was the next logical step, closing the gap between itself and rival companies such as Google and Yahoo! Launch.
Although one chair doesnt seem like much of a threat, Microsoft plans to launch one million chairs and provide an innovative software solutions to track space seats through MSN's search portal.
I want this account deleted.
Google might wish to improve their "Google Earth" project with elements of Nasa's World Wind (and visa versa).
"I have but one asterisk for my country." - Nathan Hale (sic)
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Haha, you lose. :P
And this is very odd, because without that fairly simple and obvious piece of knowledge, nothing that ever happened on the Earth could possibly make the slightest bit of sense.
Does this mean we can get a spaceship up now without it blowing up or confusing cm and inches... Or is this like another Google whim like Groups or talk... Decide Now!!!
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Ho hum. Anyone would think Google paid advertising money to Slashdot for the amount of Google stories around here lately!
Actually, this came up in a fark PS contest some time ago... Now that'd be neat!
What? No obvious Skynet reference?