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The Astronomical Event Search Engine
eldavojohn writes "Google has signed on with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project that will construct a powerful telescope in Chile by 2013. Google's part will be to 'develop a search engine that can process, organize, and analyze the voluminous amounts of data coming from the instrument's data streams in real time. The engine will create "movie-like windows" for scientists to view significant space events.' Google's been successful on turning its search technology on several different media and realms. Will they be successful with helping scientists tag and catalog events in our universe?" The telescope will generate 30 TB of data a night, for 10 years, from a 3-gigapixel CCD array.
Now Google will be serving up advertisements on Uranus.
Is arranging adwords to not get in the way of viewing planetary nebula.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Skynet?
So you see what had happened was....
Pffft, I sift through that much data every night on limewire looking for por... err, movies.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Funny, but CERN itself makes that same misspelling of 'hadron' here. "This is the underground tunnel of the Large Hardon (sic) Collider (LHC)..."
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
The telescope will generate 30 TB of data a night, for 10 years, from a 3-gigapixel CCD array.
I bet it makes dull viewing. Sort of like the recent Ashes Tests in Australia. If you're English.
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