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Google NASA Partnership Announced
eldavojohn writes "Google & NASA announced their partnership today with many benefits. The director of a NASA site said 'Just a few examples are new sensors and materials from collaborations on bio-info-nano convergence, improved analysis of engineering problems, as well as Earth, life and space science discoveries from supercomputing and data mining, and bringing entrepreneurs into the space program.'" Update 23:51 by SM As pointed out by so many readers the GoogleNASA site originally linked was completely bogus.
Apparantly, taking over Earth isn't enough for Google...
The next flag on the moon will be Blue, Red, Yellow, and Green.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
All our base will belong to them.....
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How else will they get their employees to the Google Copernicus Center?!
They've got a lot of work to do though if they plan to open it in late spring, 2007.
www.gogglenasa.com
www.googelnasa.com
www.nasagoogle.com
www.googlnasa.com
i think i'd be pretty happy about this.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
A friend who works at Google took me on a tour of a few of their buildings a little over a year ago. It was the weekend and hardly anybody was there, but I did remember noticing a big whiteboard (Google has thousands of whiteboards, which seem to be the primary medium for communication and development of ideas) with the headline "Google And NASA in 2007" at the top. I remember thinking at the time how odd that seemed. But it looks like out of all the zany ideas at Google this was one that actually survived for over a year and came to fruition.
Google? IIS 6.0? Helllooooo?
Eww, so wrong, so many bad, bad jokes. It's not fair! How do I begin??? Damn you, slashdot for bringing this up on a Monday!
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GoogleNASA Announces Dissassembly of Mercury and Venus
GoogleNASA's strategic alliance with FungibleNano has pushed their disassembly of the "useless" innerplanets into a computronium cloud. The "Massively Massive Massive 4D Quantuum Processor Fog" will reportedly use 10 years of spam filtered from gmail users to train an AI to solve large N-Body problems and appreciate fine wine.
If I hadn't seen the announcement, I would have thought the page was a fake. Come on, it looks like a state-of-the-art website from '99.
Anyhow, interesting collaboration. I wonder how this will play out in the coming years.....
That's Dot Net Nuke, with an altered default blue theme. Good enough for Google, good enough for NASA, good enough for me.
Hey, it's at least mildly ontopic, and it proves I actually FOLLOWED A LINK!
-theGreater.
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Is that anything like "Friends with benefits"? Because that would be hot in orbit.
...to Cyberdyne Systems.
I, for one, welcome our new...
Ah, nevermind.
Hopefully we'll get decently up-to-date satellite photos for Google Earth now. I'm tired of seeing my town as some vaguely greenish-brown blur.
Does this mean we'll see the google space elevator anytime soon?
Anyone else notice that on http://www.googlenasa.com/, the Google Business Development contact is captioned as "Megan Smith" but her email address is "Meghan.Smith"?
I think this is a great idea for NASA to take on a corporate partner. Not only does it look promising from a financial viewpoint, but it greatly expands the knowledge base and brainpower from using brainiacs from both the govement and corporate pools that are generally kept separate. I think there are several government agencies that would benefit from a corporate viewpoint.
"Oh, say, can you see by the dawnzer lee light," sang Miss Binney
Yes, a search company teaming up with an agency that's always losing things! Maybe now they can find that Mars lander, those Moon photos, and what exactly Neil Armstrong said...
Sendou Wave Kick!!
But will it ever get out of beta?
"FEATURE - NASA Takes Google on a Journey into Space - 09.28.05 "
/. article was submitted last year and not approved till today or something. But that's impossible, no /. article is more than 5 min. old right? Right? Come on, where's my false hope going to be if /. isn't up to the minute!?
September 28th of last year? Either that's some horrible dating software (which I doubt because the information isn't in and of NASA's recent news area and has to be found by searching for google) or this
(I have found other evidence, the googlenasa site was created 09.29.05...it's a conspiracy I tell you!)
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
Maybe now NASA will have the budget to do some really cool stuff!
I was expecting an announcement about Hubble images. There must be millions of them by now, but there isn't a great way to access them. Sure, NASA announces a new image once in a while; they come out in dribs and drabs. It would be great to see Google's take on Hubble image accessibility.
To 99.5% of the population, the following sentence is pure gibberish. But for the chosen few, it's like porn and candy all rolled up into one.
"Just a few examples are new sensors and materials from collaborations on bio-info-nano convergence, improved analysis of engineering problems, as well as Earth, life and space science discoveries from supercomputing and data mining, and bringing entrepreneurs into the space program."
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The first, last, and only tech news site on the net
Googe and NASA announced a partnership to relocate Microsoft to a moon farm!
...and that was the last anyone heard out of a certain software company from Redmond, Washington...
Why... what do they plan to do with Nintendo of America?
To me, the site http://googlenasa.com/ seems extremely suspect. It looks like a targeted phishing scam to get the personal details of Google and NASA employees. Slashdot, you owe us better.
The news release is one year old. And the site is neither registered to NASA or to Google, but to INTERMEDIA.NET. It's basically PR, anyways.
It's just a BloJJ
Google is taking over the World! *Rubs his hands evily*
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I was always able to google NASA. Just add a "site:nasa.gov" to your search.
Let's see:
1. It's running IIS 6.0.
2. googlenasa.com registered to a Chris Kemp at 1942 Westlake Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
3. The aforementioned address is a high-rise apartment building.
4. The Web design, as you say, is horrible.
My blog
for NASA. Who knew you could just Google "alien lifeforms"? All that SETI CPU time was wasted
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Oh, yeah, and the site was registered in September 29, 2005
My blog
...we never made it to the moon, it was all done on earth, google's earth."
Maybe we can call it the Googleplex.
If only we can find it thru google/nasa earth search engine.
The simple logic question the above is based on is:
What does a web search engine and web based advertising company have in common with NASA?
Seek and ye shall find?
Yay now when I'm looking at the moon through the 'ole telescope with the kids I also get the latest deals from Amazon, Ebay, and whoever else uses their ad system.
I'm hoping for GASA and not Noogle.
FLR
Chris Kemp works for NASA in Business Development.
Perfect match. Google makes money, NASA spends money.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
No, it is by Google, the site's search engine is written in ASP.NET.
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Chris Kemp, director of business development, NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center is also the location mentioned in the press release on googlenasa.com
This would run afoul of the paintbrushed lunar base photos. "Google Moon plan your next alien abduction in advance." Sort of like mapquest only with real zoom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0a3BIknRLc http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/05/041424 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aep-U7IScRs&mode=re lated&search=
Have Tardis, will travel.
Just after Google Earth, Google Moon!
GoogleNasa is NOT an official Google site, and is just phishing for Google account information. What the fuck, Slashdot - do you EVER look at these links? Such incompetence...
Google and NASA are obviously teaming up together for the new "Fake Moon Station" program, similar to the fake Appollo landings.
The name in the Nasa news aren't the same
_ Ames_Google.html
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371
Michael Mewhinney
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-3937
Jon Murchinson
Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif.
650-253-4437
VS
http://googlenasa.com/
Megan Smith
Business Development
Meghan.Smith@google.com
Chris C. Kemp
Business Development
Chris.C.Kemp@nasa.gov
This sounds like shit to me
Wow, I glanced over the headline and thought I had read that Google was partnering with NASCAR. The vision of Jeff Gorgon with a Google logo next to the Pepsi/Coke/Pringles/Jiffy Lube/Dupont/Kwiki Mart/Kroger/Wal Mart/Coppertone/Bosch logos.
Here's a nasa link admitting the disclosure of the joint venture.
Your sig(k) has been stolen. There is a puff of smoke!
A few good points that were overlooked in the original article:
...This agreement between NASA and Google will soon allow every American to experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon or through the canyons of Mars," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin at Headquarters in Washington..." [source]
"...First, Google and Ames will focus on cataloguing NASA's "most useful" information and making it available on the Internet. This includes real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars, and real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle.
No, there was no mention of space-based contextual advertising...
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...as it's appearance is similar to many other professionally run sites. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine. Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off". Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
Checking whois leads to Chris C Kemp: (Notice website similarities)
http://www.chrisckemp.com/
This guy doesn't seem to have any connections to google or NASA, true, though I don't know if phishing is an accurate accusation.
But be careful, folks.
Users have complained that search results from pages originating in Mars have been artificially boosted over those from Venus thus creating a gender bias.
Cache date is December 1 of 2006. They registered google-nasa.com as well. Mentions Megan Smith and Chris Kemp on front page.
Did we really /. Google AND NASA?!?!
Server Error in '/' Application.
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Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
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"bio-info-nano convergence"
We have found your singularity, Mr Hawking, and it appears it is made out of meaningless buzzwords. They seem to have zero volume and an infinite density.
Server Error in '/' Application.
Along with other details as I went on to the site, just another sign to add to the growing list that the idea that google would actually make such a site is insane. Yes google does do the occasional server failure, but nothing quite like this, bad coding just isn't on google's list of things to release to the public, best look into it a bit more before jumping the boat.
Did someone say cake?
NASA is going to force Google to fix the bug in this page that occurs when it is zoomed in all the way?
Your search for "pioneer 1 probe" has returned approximately 3 objects.
Server Error in '/' Application.
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Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
was that sarcasm?
Just wait until Ballmer hears that google has outmaneuvered Microsoft in courting NASA and all its data.
zoom in to see what the moon is really made of.
Yes, all of the previous is based on old or bogus. Here is the actual release from about 30 minutes ago: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
Yep, that's definitely Dot Net Nuke
I don't know what it was but it's broken now. Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
La vida no es una pastafrola.
Not sure how an internet startup is going to improve materials with revolutionary finite element analysis. Sounds like the only thing Google can do for NASA is either organize their data or improve their image by being affiliated with a corporate hero.
Oooh, I got a different error. Collect the lot? :)
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Error Could not allocate space for object 'DNN1_EventLog' in database 'DNN_chrisckemp' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full.
I'm not trying to troll...or maybe I am, but I can't understand why something like this gets on the frontpage of Slashdot. What do the editors do? I mean really?
Brad
Here are the real links that refer to today's media briefing:
ZDnet blog posting by Garett Rogers.
NASA's media advisory about today's media briefing (link via Gregg's blog post).
Article in New Scientist about Google and NASA's iEarth software (link via Gregg's blog post).
Start rant
The press release submitted by eldavojohn was issued on September 28, 2005! The media briefing hadn't even started when this posting was approved!
Attention slashdot "editors" -- the reason why you're losing mindshare to digg and other sites is for editing like this -- only a novice or clueless "editor" would get taken in by a bogus submission about a real event ocurring because they didn't trivally check its contents.
It's far too easy to slip things past slashdot's "editors", since a single "editor" can have the wool pulled over his eyes. Thus the surge in popularity of sites like digg, since (to build on esr's quote) Given enough eyeballs, all scams are transparent.
-- An unhappy long-time reader.
End rant
I for one welcome our cybernetic space overlords.
You're nothing; like me.
That's why everyone should have friends with benefits ^^
The link goes to a slashdotted dot net nuke website. Don't tell me that Google and NASA pooled their resources to produce this. I guess a Google-Homeland Security team-up would use Frontpage 2000, and a cool perl-cgi login page.
Chairs are flying today at Redmond as Balmer loses it Screaming the question at his staff "Why didnt we Innovate this?" and Can we Innovate the Russian or Euro Space Administrations..
Google to partner with Nasa in a five year program to explore MySpace
Chris Kemp was CEO/CTO of Escapia.
.NET application for managing rental properties. It got lots of investors excited in Seattle and Chris left after burning through its VC money.
Escapia is a hosted,
This is probably why the website was built with IIS 6.0 and DotNetNuke.
Now i believe that we are in real trouble!
Maybe Goosa?
"If your parents never had children, chances are you wonât either." -Dick Cavett
NASA's Dec 2006 Press Release
Excerpt of interest (as was shown under other links found within the other threads):
"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," said Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames. "Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand.
So yes, it is highly likely that the googlenasa.com site is the real deal, considering that Chris C. Kemp is actually a NASA employee.
Also, since the site was really not meant for the public, it is not particularly surprising that it was not mentioned in the announcement or that the server couldn't handle a Slashdotting.
Isn't this how Jar Jar Binks says Google?
Don't go to a brothel if you want to buy broth
And am i the only one who has been on their site trying to get the iPod nano in the treasure hunt all day?
Real or not, the GoogleNasa site is FUBARed:
Unhandled Error
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Error Could not allocate space for object 'DNN1_EventLog' in database 'DNN_chrisckemp' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full.
haha... Thanks for pointing that out! I love that Google has a sense of humor. :)
Nobody mentioned NASA World Wind yet. But read this insightful entry from a NASA WW enthusiast. A part of it: "This is for a new joint NASA / Google application to bring data to the masses.. I guess NASA forgot there is NASA World Wind already to do this." Two other entries are interesting, one from Ogle Earth and the other from the Google Earth blog.
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The chairs will probably fly so fast that they'll enter the jurisdiction of NASA.
The view was horrible and the smell was even worse; Julie severely regretted becoming a proctologist.
Maybe now they'll have a bit more success searching for that missing moon landing footage.
If you bother to read http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=212400 &cid=17293472 that post, you'll know it's not phishing!
Really? Wow, that's such a helpful link on learning more about the Google aspect of this deal: a blank search engine interface!
Thanks, NASA, you bloody typical government agency.
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WTF!?Me lost me cookie at the disco.
lol, trying to be a funny, witty poster and YOU FAILED IT
"Google buys DejaNews"
"Google buys YouTube for 1.65 billion"
"Google buys Endexon"
"Google buys NASA"
If you check the writeup here of the announcement... everything they want to do.. NASA has already DONE with World Wind.
Many may remember this hour-and-a-half video of Bussard speaking at Google under this Slashdot story "Should Google Go Nuclear?"
/ 18/0616205
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11
(This may be a too-short summation of the talk but...) Bussard was a bit cynical of larger governmental organizations which weren't into funding his fusion research ideas.
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