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Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope
esocid writes "WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and others. Windows users (only) can browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics. The application allows viewing from different wavelengths such as X-ray, visible light, and hydrogen-alpha radiation. Business Week has a review and some background on the project, which has been in development for years. Google Sky beat them to the punch but Business Week opines that WWT's interface is superior."
Telescopes!?
Imagine if you had a Beowulf cluster of..
oh...
yeah, I'll show myself out.
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Don't like these programs, who tells me that they won't create a reality that isn't there, but what they want to make me believe. The reality is that they have killed Sadam Hussein for not paying a percent of oil income to compensate the national debt of the US of A, they will attack Iran for not paying a percent of oil income to compensate the national debt of the US of A as ordered by Henry Kissinger to let the arab oil sjeiks make a lot of money (oil needed to be paid in dollars and a percentage of their income compensate the national debt of the US of A) In 1990 went a special agent of the US of A to Sadam Hussein to tel him that the US of A won't interfere when they attack Kuwait (a former provence of Iraq), we have seen what hapend, the daughter of the Saudi embassador testified as Kuwaiti that the Iraq soldiers killed babies, even George Bush (the warmonger) said that Iraq soldiers did it, because no one was interested in Kuwait, when the babies came around the corner, the public reacted, the US of A was in war with Iraq, his son G.W. Buch jr. finished the job, Iran is now compensating the national debt of the US of A. Iran is the 2nd country who don't for the national debt of the US of A, why should they!!! The president of the US of A and his ministers will shit in their pants when Iran will distribute freely oil and get paid in another currency the dollars, they will shit in their pants because the whole american economy will collapse when this happens. That's why Iran is attacked lately, now with words, soon with military intervention, don't be happy when it happens. You will pay about 10 us dollars or more for a gallon fuel for your, and you have to work 5 days in the month only to pay for your transport to get to work, your family won't have much comfort as they used to have. The reason for this, the president of the US of A don't want to shit in his pants, so you must suffer and have a lot of american citizens killed for it. Have fun in the near future and see that this will happen.
Why, you ask, would MS research be building a worldwide telescope? Well, they realized that hunting viruses one by one is a futile way to secure an operating system. Once the WWT finds the metavirus, they'll be able to patch that and live happily every after(assuming The Raft comes ashore well south of Redmond).