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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.
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Fer crying out loud, its not only a repost, its *still* up on the
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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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Google's partnership with NASA confirmed! :-)
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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.
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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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The data has been mined, and a month of posts has be reduced to 6 posts:
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2. Google vs. Microsoft!
3. IE vs. Firefox!
4. *AA coming after $P2P
5. Linux/Open source: is it spreading/becoming mainstream?
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I wish they would partner with Slashdot so the editors can search the site before posting DUPES.
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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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 other news, the "THIS IS A DUPE" whiners form a partnership with the /. editors--because the latter repeats itself less.
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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.
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[ ] 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
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