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.

Comments

Saw that coming

[fembots]

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.

Re:Saw that coming

[Zarquil]

10 more hours and they'll have a marriage with a couple of really rowdy kids running around the place...

Re:Saw that coming

[iotashan]

Look, ma... Duplicate comments for a duplicate post! :)

R E P O S T

[popo]

Fer crying out loud, its not only a repost, its *still* up on the /. front page!!!

Get it together CmdrTaco!

Re:R E P O S T

[Megane]

Zonk is so good that he's been posting dupes before the original article appears!

Re:R E P O S T

[Rahga]

Physics can explain this...

The article is moving is moving so fast that that while it appears to be in at the bottom of the page one second, then at the top of the page by the next second. However, the article has taken what would feel like days in our time to make the trip, and observes that we haven't moved at all.

Re:R E P O S T

[oGMo]

But this one features the Google icon on top, so we're getting both sides of the story.

Re:R E P O S T

[extrasolar]

Well, maybe the daddypants account is just a joke or something. Here, try the following email address because I'm *sure* it works: rootdevslashnull@slashdot.org .

Searching Space

[rsmith-mac]

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...

Re:Searching Space

[bhsx]

You can!

Re:Searching Space

[blackmonday]

I searched Google for your car keys, they're in between the cushions on your couch.

We all know the real reason behind this.

[Rude Turnip]

I think Google is just hoping to get discounted fares for trips to their lunar base.

Re:Duped in under 9 hours.

[Otter]

...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?

NASA twenty years from now

[totallygeek]

The head of NASA will be saying, "Looking back, working with Google was a mistake."

Next within 2 hours on news!

[TarrySingh]

Google's partnership with NASA confirmed! :-)

Could we get a finer detailed..

[FreshFunk510]

.. play-by-play of the growing relationship with Google and Nasa? Because 2 stories in 1 day is certainly not enough for me.

Re:Pete and Repeat

[spoonyfork]

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?

search engine

[ecumenical_40oz]

find: moon landing AND mars landing NOT 15 year wait NOT 10 Billion dollar price tag

It's a job; not a hobby

[Sun Tzu]

Evidently, Taco doesn't read /.

A Better Partnership

[eander315]

I wish they would partner with Slashdot so the editors can search the site before posting DUPES.

instant karma

[cobbaut]

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

Re:Pete and Repeat

[Karma_fucker_sucker]

How fucking dare you say "asterisk"!

I read a funny joke press release this morning

[Work Account]

GOOGLE/NASA TEAM UP
SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, USA
AP NEWS WIRE
One of the first fruits of the Google/NASA pairing will be the gShuttle. The existing space shuttle will be modified to store 10x the amount the previous shuttle could (though no details yet from NASA as to why they need that much space and if they'd actually use it). The new shuttle would also bring up paid advertisments based on various criteria, the formula for which Google has not made public. Another gShuttle innovation would be a radically simplier control and navigation system. The pilots will not simply type in their commands to the shuttle (e.g. "rearThrusters:fire burntime:10"). One particularly interesting feature is the "I feel lucky" button on the navigation console, no specifics as to the exact function of this button was put forth by the Google spokesdrone.

Coming Soon - NASOOGLE!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:In other news...

[WilliamSChips]

In other news, the "THIS IS A DUPE" whiners form a partnership with the /. editors--because the latter repeats itself less.

Re:Its time has come...my gift to the /. community

[SoCalChris]

[ ] Still no cure for cancer

I think your Slashdot EeziPost (TM) MK I is having a conflict with the Fark SquirrelNut Commentator 3000 (TM)

Re:Its time has come...my gift to the /. community

[Linker3000]

In other new: Drew claims code infringement and hires same lawyer as SCO, grabs another beer. His dog wants compensation.

FUCKING DUPE!!!!

[SoupIsGoodFood_42]

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.

fucking fucking dupe!!!! stupid slashdot!!! stupid invalid htmlcode!!!!!!! dupe stories crap editors!!!!!! fucking dupe fucking dupe!!!!!!!12!111M fucking fucking dupe!!!! stupid slashdot!!! stupid invalid htmlcode!!!!!!! dupe stories crap editors!!!!!! fucking dupe fucking dupe!!!!!!!12!111M fucking fucking dupe!!!! stupid slashdot!!! stupid invalid htmlcode!!!!!!! dupe stories crap editors!!!!!! fucking dupe fucking dupe!!!!!!!12!111M

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.

Re:That's wicked - wish I had mod points!!!

[jx100]

..don't you mean...

  Slashdot EeziPost (TM) MK I

#NB: For obvious reasons, the first option is ENABLED by default - remember to turn off if you are NOT responding to a dupe

[ ] Another: [ ] Dupe [ ] Slashvertisment [ ] WTF [ ] $editor is a dork

[ ] Frist psot [ ] link to GNAA [ ] Link to goatse [ ] $random_drivel

[ ] I Haven't RTFA, but... $random_opinionated_comment

[ ] Slashdotted already!. I bet their server runs on $topic_item too

[ ] Soul_sucking registration required

[X] Mod Parent [X] up [ ] Down

[ ] Fsck: [ ] SCO [ ] Micro$oft [ ] DMCA [ ] DRM [ ] MPAA [ ] RIAA [ ] Google [ ] Bush [ ] You all

[ ] I for one welcome our new $topic_item overlords

[ ] Imagine a beowulf cluster of those

[ ] In Soviet Russia, $topic_item owns you!

[ ] Meh!

[ ] Netcraft confirms $topic_item is: [ ] dead [ ] dying

[ ] But have the inventors thought of what will happen if $random_amateur_insight

[ ] Once again the USA is clamping down on my [ ] Amendment rights.

[X] You insensitive clod

[ ] But people who download music from P2P networks are more likely to buy the album

[ ] Cue DVD Jon-type crack in 3..2..1

[ ] Torrent, anyone?

[ ] Here's a link to a patch: $random_linux_distro_url

[ ] Profit!!

[ ] Still no cure for cancer

?