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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.
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?
I noticed that too. Seems someone posted the url for a year old announcement instead of the current one http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html
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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
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.
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I may be missing the joke... is this legit? I don't expect to be launched to the moon but is there something to this? Does anyone know? Am I about to be come the laughing stock of /.? Dag, better post AC... too scared of /back effect
Yes its a joke they had that as an April Fool's Joke.......
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
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...
Here's a nasa link admitting the disclosure of the joint venture.
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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.
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.
So maybe this Chris C Kemp is actually a NASA guy?