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Google's Server Cooling Plan Produces 4ft Alligator
concealment writes "In addition to potentially keeping Google's search and email programs from overheating, the pond also has become home to plenty of algae, which meant Google had to stock it with fish. And since this is the Lowcountry, the food chain didn't stop there. 'So we now have a 4-foot alligator that has taken up residence in our pond as well,' Kava said, clearly amused. He added that government experts have said it'll have to be removed once it grows to six feet long."
Because it doesn't freeze in Berkeley during the winter.
Probably because deep water source cooling needs to be 217 feet deep to be effective or be a very large lake, or both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_lake_water_cooling
Kriston
Just take it with you to the next patent negotiation meeting, throw it on the table and walk out.
Is google hosting Gator or is gator hosting google?
Closely guard, I'll say. I live in Goose Creek, down the road, if you will, and the place is more or less sandwiched between the forest and the Cooper River. I've seen it on maps multiple times but it's not a place you simply bump into.
Have seen a few Google employees buying stuff in my store, though. They're alright, I guess. Kinda stuck-up people, considering most were security guards. Well, okay, all of them were security guards. I don't know where the regular employees are at, but they certainly don't get out much at night.
Look baby, I'm just visiting. I'm not *living* here. I thought we both understood that we were just having fun here. I'm a young gator, so let's not start talking commitment, okay?
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Fear not, you can declare it a beta and chop off its' tail when it reaches 5'11.
Problem solved.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
Chinese needle snakes?
Florida, eh? I've got two questions for the alligator.
... but it feels wrong to hire an alligator when we can get a much more ambitious and qualified crocodile.
First, is it legal to work in the state. Second, does it fit any of our affirmative action categories. I know it isn't easy being green
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
as alligators often times take up residence in unexpected places.
the real concern is the alligator mount for an Nd:YAG laser being developed by Google Labs while the lead is on vacation.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I'm sorry, but I'd definitely be afraid of a nearly 6 foot long betta! Probably moreso than an equivalent sized gator.
I am disappointed in you Slashdot, you have all missed the point. This is clearly part of an evil scheme from Google and you've let it pass as you normally do.
Work with me here. Think evil geniuses. What do they have in common? That's right, a secret lair. Any anyone who has a secret lair needs its defenses. Clearly Google is developing their secret lair RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN. My caps lock underscores the importance and urgency of what I am saying and is cruise control for cool.
So, they have their "cooling water". Only an idiot would believe that. It is clearly a moat. Yes, a medieval moat. The alligator is just the first in their armada of beasts to protect their new evil lair. I have it ON HIGHEST AUTHORITY that they will next be buying some SHARKS and LASERS (more caps locks to convince you of my authority on the subject). You can only imagine what they will do next.
An evil plot SO OBVIOUS BUT SLASHDOT IGNORES IT. Are you outraged? You should be. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be.Once I am back from taking my meds I will tell you more about Google and the trilateral commission. That is if "THEY" don't get me first.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
it'll have to be removed once it grows to six feet long."
Or translated, "It's belt length now, but we're going to wait till it's belt and a pair of shoes length"
The doubling crystal would add weight, and IR is more of a heat ray...but IR is invisible and a certain theatrical quality is lost.
Oh, design conundrums!
Did she swallow that fly?
TFA has annoying "you won somthing but uh err really didn't" on Android devices that can't be bypassed. Here is a better TFA:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google_gator/
Charisma is the measure of someone's ability to lie with a straight face.
Cover the pond and most algae problem disappears.
Or create Jurassic park, I guess that works too.
This story severely lacks evidence proving the existence of said alligator. I see a picture of a building.
There are something like 100,000 alligators living in the coastal sections of South Carolina. If there is a large, protected, and fish-stocked pond an alligator will find it.
Google bans it's employees from flushing Alligators down the toilets.
I hope that they hire Troy from Swamp People to catch it.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Google diversifying further? Might explain the Android codenames I suppose
Google needs to cools its data centers with a giant chocolate pond and a delicious cascading choco-falls. The whole thing operated by highly skilled Umpa-Lumpas.
How about some salt, a couple solar panels, water pump and salt water chlorine generator instead of all the algae, fish, gators and other whatnots...
No, not that one.
This one:
The feedings will continue until morale improves...
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
Many heavy industries have cooling ponds. The problems are routine and known.
I once worked for a company near Detroit which made heavy hydraulic equipment. The R&D operation had a building full of test cells in which locomotive transmissions and similar big stuff was exercised for months on end. The dummy loads for the machines dumped the energy into water. The water went to a cooling pond in front of the plant. The pond was made to look like a large decorative fountain with water sprays. But it was really a heat sink.
(It's gone; there's a mall there now.)
Google can now import swap people from florida to hunt the gators.
Who will sell gator meat, and gator skin products and add jobs to the economy.
30 per cent of Google developers now devoting their personal project time to breeding dwarf alligators. Because it's cool.
Wait, you don't want to work for 14 hours today. Before you make that decision let's take a walk to the lake around back.
An ex-google employee = a well fed gator.
When asked how breeding small alligators relates to Google's corporate goals, Veedaaz Awmetth, the former Galactic Senator who now serves as head of PR, responded, "We need more reptilian brains."
A really big stork, of course. Well trolled, Mr. Sadler. He continues:
Protip for budding Guy Fieris: a headshot from a .22 rifle is sufficient to bag a gator and gator meat is healthy and delicious. You're welcome.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Dibs on "Google 'Gator"
Google should stock the pond with Tilapia fish - a fast growing, very tasty fish that you can
find at most asian grocery store. Tilapia is a herbivore, so it can eat all that algea
Maybe Google can enter food (fish) production business.
To: Google.
From: Office of alligator regulations, algal pools division, eastern district office.
Please note that while currently in compliance, your alligator will have to be removed when it reaches the current standard alligator removal length of 6 feet. Attached is a copy of form 6-423-100001, alligator removal entrance authorization and indemnification application. Please review, sign, and submit in triplicate. An inspector will be out shortly. Please note that we cannot guarantee the inspector will show at the time(s) listed. For updates on your case please call 202-555-1337 between the hours of 2 and 4 PM, Eastern US time. Use extension 45. Thank-you.
Sincerely,
(name)
Field agent.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
of the Android operating system will be named "Gatormeat"
seriously. Combine this with the increased government surveillance and this could be Google's plan to ward off spies.
What's so special about an alligator with four feet?
So we have Google Glass... Next we need Google Boots. Google Aligator Boots.
Mr. Slate could not be reached for comment.
MSIE: The world's most standards-complaint web browser.
Google's cooling engineers ought to lay off their crack pipes a bit - like the average slashdotter really...