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Google NASA Partnership Announced

Posted by Hemos on Mon Dec 18, 2006 01:29 PM
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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Gah! (Score:5, Funny)

by Karganeth (1017580) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:31PM (#17288444)

Apparantly, taking over Earth isn't enough for Google...
Now I know... (Score:4, Funny)

by Stanistani (808333) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:32PM (#17288448) Homepage Journal

The next flag on the moon will be Blue, Red, Yellow, and Green.
- Re:Now I know... (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by spellraiser (764337) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:38PM (#17288564) Journal
  
  Yeah, it's true. They were offering jobs [google.com] on the Moon as early as April 1, 2004!
  
  Parent
Well... Duh! (Score:4, Funny)

by smbarbour (893880) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:36PM (#17288512)

How else will they get their employees to the Google Copernicus Center [google.com]?!

They've got a lot of work to do though if they plan to open it in late spring, 2007.
- PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2006, @02:38PM (#17289560)
  
  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...
  
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  - Mod parent up! (Score:4, Informative)
    
    by FhnuZoag (875558) on Monday December 18 2006, @02:58PM (#17289836)
    
    Checking whois leads to Chris C Kemp: (Notice website similarities)
    
    http://www.chrisckemp.com/ [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.
    
    Parent
    - Re:Mod parent up! (Score:4, Funny)
      
      by nametaken (610866) on Monday December 18 2006, @04:19PM (#17291004)
      
      Notice both chrisckemp.com and the Google/Nasa site are running DotNetNuke?
      
      Parent
  - Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)
    
    by chrisckemp (257820) on Monday December 18 2006, @06:49PM (#17293472) Homepage
    
    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.
    
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Land rush is on!!! (Score:4, Insightful)

by Average_Joe_Sixpack (534373) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:36PM (#17288532)

www.gogglenasa.com
www.googelnasa.com
www.nasagoogle.com
www.googlnasa.com
- - Re:Land rush is on!!! (Score:4, Funny)
    
    by aelbric (145391) on Monday December 18 2006, @03:10PM (#17290000)
    
    I guess NasGool.com is over the top then?
    
    Parent
Well that's just funny... (Score:4, Informative)

by pclminion (145572) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:37PM (#17288538)

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.
The site is running on IIS 6.0 (Score:3, Informative)

by ranperry (757673) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:37PM (#17288546)

Google? IIS 6.0? Helllooooo?
- Re:The site is running on IIS 6.0 (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by MyLongNickName (822545) on Monday December 18 2006, @02:02PM (#17288980) Journal
  
  You misread. It is ISS 6.0. However, it is still in beta. Google corporate culture taking over already.
  
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Computronium Cloud ... (Score:5, Funny)

by lysdexia (897) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:38PM (#17288562) Homepage

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.
Hey, I recognize that CMS! (Score:5, Interesting)

by theGreater (596196) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:40PM (#17288604) Homepage

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.

captcha: outrages
Seems perfect to me (Score:5, Funny)

by Kuukai (865890) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:44PM (#17288678) Journal

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...
budget (Score:4, Funny)

by michaelvkim (981938) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:47PM (#17288720)

Maybe now NASA will have the budget to do some really cool stuff!
Nerd Porn (Score:3, Funny)

by derrickh (157646) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:49PM (#17288744) Homepage

To 99.5% of the population, the following sentence is pure gibberish. But for the chosen few, it's like porn and candy all rolled up into one.

"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."

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Beware: probable phishing attempt (Score:3, Funny)

by VeryProfessional (805174) on Monday December 18 2006, @02:00PM (#17288926)

To me, the site http://googlenasa.com/ [googlenasa.com] seems extremely suspect. It looks like a targeted phishing scam to get the personal details of Google and NASA employees. Slashdot, you owe us better.
The search for ET just got easier (Score:4, Funny)

by blueZ3 (744446) on Monday December 18 2006, @02:05PM (#17289034) Homepage

for NASA. Who knew you could just Google "alien lifeforms"? All that SETI CPU time was wasted
The New Name (Score:4, Funny)

by Cytlid (95255) on Monday December 18 2006, @02:14PM (#17289166) Homepage

I'm hoping for GASA and not Noogle.
Perfect match (Score:5, Funny)

by Fujisawa Sensei (207127) on Monday December 18 2006, @02:21PM (#17289274)

Perfect match. Google makes money, NASA spends money.
The chairs will be flying in Redmond today (Score:4, Funny)

by QuietLagoon (813062) on Monday December 18 2006, @03:24PM (#17290208)

Just wait until Ballmer hears that google has outmaneuvered Microsoft in courting NASA and all its data.
- Re:Wait...date confusion? (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by PerfectSmurf (882935) on Monday December 18 2006, @01:55PM (#17288846)
  
  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 [nasa.gov]
  
  Parent
- Re: (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by Rob T Firefly (844560)
  
  Hopefully we'll get decently up-to-date satellite photos for Google Earth now. I'm tired of seeing my town as some vaguely greenish-brown blur.
  I'd agree with you, except my town actually is a vaguely greenish-brown blur.

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Gah! (Score:5, Funny)

Now I know... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Now I know... (Score:4, Funny)

Well... Duh! (Score:4, Funny)

PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)

Mod parent up! (Score:4, Informative)

Re:Mod parent up! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)

Land rush is on!!! (Score:4, Insightful)

Re:Land rush is on!!! (Score:4, Funny)

Well that's just funny... (Score:4, Informative)

The site is running on IIS 6.0 (Score:3, Informative)

Re:The site is running on IIS 6.0 (Score:5, Funny)

Computronium Cloud ... (Score:5, Funny)

Hey, I recognize that CMS! (Score:5, Interesting)

Seems perfect to me (Score:5, Funny)

budget (Score:4, Funny)

Nerd Porn (Score:3, Funny)

Beware: probable phishing attempt (Score:3, Funny)

The search for ET just got easier (Score:4, Funny)

The New Name (Score:4, Funny)

Perfect match (Score:5, Funny)

The chairs will be flying in Redmond today (Score:4, Funny)

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Gah! (Score:5, Funny)

Now I know... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Now I know... (Score:4, Funny)

Well... Duh! (Score:4, Funny)

PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)

Mod parent up! (Score:4, Informative)

Re:Mod parent up! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)

Land rush is on!!! (Score:4, Insightful)

Re:Land rush is on!!! (Score:4, Funny)

Well that's just funny... (Score:4, Informative)

The site is running on IIS 6.0 (Score:3, Informative)

Re:The site is running on IIS 6.0 (Score:5, Funny)

Computronium Cloud ... (Score:5, Funny)

Hey, I recognize that CMS! (Score:5, Interesting)

Seems perfect to me (Score:5, Funny)

budget (Score:4, Funny)

Nerd Porn (Score:3, Funny)

Beware: probable phishing attempt (Score:3, Funny)

The search for ET just got easier (Score:4, Funny)

The New Name (Score:4, Funny)

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