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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.

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  1. Gah! by Karganeth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparantly, taking over Earth isn't enough for Google...

    1. Re:Gah! by Ngarrang · · Score: 3, Funny

      I, for one, welcome our new search engine overlord.

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  2. Now I know... by Stanistani · · Score: 3, Funny

    The next flag on the moon will be Blue, Red, Yellow, and Green.

    1. Re:Now I know... by spellraiser · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, it's true. They were offering jobs on the Moon as early as April 1, 2004!

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    2. Re:Now I know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't you mean the moooooooooooooooon?

  3. Well... Duh! by smbarbour · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  4. Computronium Cloud ... by lysdexia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot - Space - December 2014

    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.

  5. Partnership with benefits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that anything like "Friends with benefits"? Because that would be hot in orbit.

  6. Google/NASA partner to change name... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...to Cyberdyne Systems.

    I, for one, welcome our new...

    Ah, nevermind.

  7. Megan or Meghan? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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"?

  8. Seems perfect to me by Kuukai · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  9. Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But will it ever get out of beta?

  10. budget by michaelvkim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe now NASA will have the budget to do some really cool stuff!

  11. Nerd Porn by derrickh · · Score: 2, Funny

    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."

    D

  12. Re:Google Earth improvement? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny
    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.
    I'd agree with you, except my town actually is a vaguely greenish-brown blur.
  13. Beware: probable phishing attempt by VeryProfessional · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  14. Re:The site is running on IIS 6.0 by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    You misread. It is ISS 6.0. However, it is still in beta. Google corporate culture taking over already.

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  15. The search for ET just got easier by blueZ3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    for NASA. Who knew you could just Google "alien lifeforms"? All that SETI CPU time was wasted

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  16. Sweet, Can't wait for Moon Ads! by WiiVault · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  17. The New Name by Cytlid · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm hoping for GASA and not Noogle.

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  18. Perfect match by Fujisawa+Sensei · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perfect match. Google makes money, NASA spends money.

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  19. Re:Land rush is on!!! by aelbric · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess NasGool.com is over the top then?

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  20. The chairs will be flying in Redmond today by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just wait until Ballmer hears that google has outmaneuvered Microsoft in courting NASA and all its data.

  21. Lofty ideas by LilGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one welcome our cybernetic space overlords.

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  22. Re:Mod parent up! by nametaken · · Score: 3, Funny

    Notice both chrisckemp.com and the Google/Nasa site are running DotNetNuke?