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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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  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. Land rush is on!!! by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    www.gogglenasa.com
    www.googelnasa.com
    www.nasagoogle.com
    www.googlnasa.com

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

      I guess NasGool.com is over the top then?

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  5. Well that's just funny... by pclminion · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  6. The site is running on IIS 6.0 by ranperry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google? IIS 6.0? Helllooooo?

    1. 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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  7. 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.

  8. Hey, I recognize that CMS! by theGreater · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

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

  11. Re:Wait...date confusion? by PerfectSmurf · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    I'm hoping for GASA and not Noogle.

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

    Perfect match. Google makes money, NASA spends money.

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  15. PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

    1. Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN by chrisckemp · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hi, sorry for the confusion, I am Chris C. Kemp, Director of Business Development at NASA Ames Research Center. I originally created the site as a "neutral ground" for NASA employees and Google employees to collaborate (we're trying to experiment with new ways of doing business). I paid for and set the site up myself which is why it is listed under my name to minimize the "bureaucracy" We were not ready to release/announce the site, and after getting slashdotted, Google requested that we take the site down, which I did.

  16. Mod parent up! by FhnuZoag · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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

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

  17. 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.