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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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!
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Is that anything like "Friends with benefits"? Because that would be hot in orbit.
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 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.
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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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But will it ever get out of beta?
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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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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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
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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for NASA. Who knew you could just Google "alien lifeforms"? All that SETI CPU time was wasted
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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.
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Perfect match. Google makes money, NASA spends money.
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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
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.
Just wait until Ballmer hears that google has outmaneuvered Microsoft in courting NASA and all its data.
I for one welcome our cybernetic space overlords.
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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.