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Google NASA Partnership Announced

Posted by Hemos on from the word-hit-the-paper dept.

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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. 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.