Google Forms Partnership With NASA 237
jangobongo writes "Google said on Wednesday that it plans to partner with NASA on space research projects. The new partnership will involve R&D on biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology, as well as supercomputing. The news article notes some of the mutual benefits: "Google stands to gain from learning about NASA's supercomputers, which could come in handy as the Mountain View search engine compiles even bigger indexes of information and video. NASA leaders cited the benefits of getting access to Google's search expertise to pick out nuggets of information from the volumes of data streaming back from satellites and human space launches."" This story might seem familiar to you. Consider it a public service: if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment.
Saw that coming (Score:5, Funny)
R E P O S T (Score:5, Funny)
Fer crying out loud, its not only a repost, its *still* up on the
Get it together CmdrTaco!
Searching Space (Score:5, Funny)
We all know the real reason behind this. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Duped in under 9 hours. (Score:2, Funny)
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NASA twenty years from now (Score:5, Funny)
Next within 2 hours on news! (Score:2, Funny)
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Could we get a finer detailed.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Pete and Repeat (Score:5, Funny)
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left . . . ?
Repeat.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat. Pete jumps off. Who's left?
search engine (Score:5, Funny)
It's a job; not a hobby (Score:2, Funny)
A Better Partnership (Score:5, Funny)
instant karma (Score:5, Funny)
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The article is moving is moving so fast that that while it appears to be in at the bottom of the page one second, then at the top of the page by the next second. However, the article has taken what would feel like days in our time to make the trip, and observes that we haven't moved at all.
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I read a funny joke press release this morning (Score:2, Funny)
Coming Soon - NASOOGLE! (Score:3, Funny)
* The Space Shuttle "USS Beta", it sorta works but nobody can be held responsible because it's clearly still being tested. And you want a ride, you have to be invited by someone else who's already an astronaut.
* "Unintrusive" advertising on all Hubble images. Sure, you get a slightly less useful image (and hey, it's text, so it can't be bad.. right?) - but for some reason you can now never delete any data. Images of Uranus now all have links to toilet humor websites, due to advertisers for whom the joke never seem to get old.
* Thousands of junker PCs at mission control are running in a cluster - half of them have failed, but who knows which ones? The NASOOGLE Surveyor robots are sent on a 3 year mission to the server room to seek out dead machines. Bonus mission: second robot accidentally enters nerd founder's psyche, discovers their virginity, buried under pile of money and stock certificates. Core sample of founder's brain is unsucessful due to excessive ego field, boosted by recent purchase of a private Boeing 767.
* Google Maps now randomly delivers distances in Imperial or Metric, without telling you which. It'll crash (into another planet) when asked to be specific.
* Meanwhile, NASOOGLE tests a new type of spacecraft drive, powered by pure irony emminating from Slashdot posters asserting Google's "do no evil" policy. Point out that the only product Google sells is advertising (since when have advertising companies ever worked in the interest of you, their targets?), view lunatic Google zealots defending Google for being bastion of good, hook web browser up to irony detector, and voila! Sustained spaceflight is achieved, travelling at twice the speed of light.
I could go on, but I'm bored now. Google and NASA both seem to be waning organisations who haven't really done anything original, worthwhile or exciting in a while. They kind of deserve each other at this point.
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Re:Its time has come...my gift to the /. community (Score:4, Funny)
I think your Slashdot EeziPost (TM) MK I is having a conflict with the Fark SquirrelNut Commentator 3000 (TM)
Re:Its time has come...my gift to the /. community (Score:3, Funny)
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Hey, you're right! I feel much better, now. I just wish the lameness filter would let me post in all-caps... I could really let loose then.
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Re:That's wicked - wish I had mod points!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot EeziPost (TM) MK I
#NB: For obvious reasons, the first option is ENABLED by default - remember to turn off if you are NOT responding to a dupe
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[ ] I for one welcome our new $topic_item overlords
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[ ] Once again the USA is clamping down on my [ ] Amendment rights.
[X] You insensitive clod
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[ ] Still no cure for cancer
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