Google Forms Partnership With NASA

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.

MS-Spacestation?

[zappepcs]

Now that google is working with NASA (Twice) does this mean that Ms will build the MS Spacestation in order to beat google?

Re:New opportunity for a partnership!

[op12]

The data has been mined, and a month of posts has be reduced to 6 posts:

1. Google becoming evil!
2. Google vs. Microsoft!
3. IE vs. Firefox!
4. *AA coming after $P2P
5. Linux/Open source: is it spreading/becoming mainstream?
6. Slashvertisments


...I keed.......kind of...

Re:Saw that coming

[SoCalChris]

From everything I've heard, the editors never even respond to dupe reports.

And something tells me that he didn't have to spend more than a few seconds "hunting" for the dupe, considering it is still on the front page.

Article has it backwards.

[team99parody]

From TFA: "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."

More realistically, NASA's supercomputer guys stand to gain from learning how to build even bigger supercompuers than their for cheaper.

It seems all too often that the press seems to misrepresent the old stoggy has-beens as "teaching" teh upstarts (like the other story on slashdot that claimed "HP Propelling Linux Into Truly 'Big' Time", when IBM & Google have pretty much proven that Linux is leading HP if anything propelling HP into the big time). [slashdot.org]

I think the partnership's great, though -- I'd love to see what kinds of computing efforts could be pulled off with NASA's resources (billions are small to them (" as the average launch expenditures during its operations up to 2005 accumulates to $1.3 billion " from wikipedia); while it still makes news when Google raises 4-billion) and Google's knowledge.

Re:Searching Space

[NitsujTPU]

Ya I'm a girl - do you have a problem with it, bub?

No, I don't.

First Google Earth..

[Ryan Amos]

...next, Google Space!

Re:search engine

[A beautiful mind]

Empty set (0.0003 sec)

Re:R E P O S T

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell me sir, how does it feel to PAY for the privilege to see a post in advance, give a fair warning of DUPE-ness, and get modded redundant?
I'll get modded down too, but it won't cost me any :-)

But then again I'm going AC, to not spoilt the points the good people gave me.

Is it possible to mod down dupe complainers?

[yog]

I guess it's handy to know that a story is redundant, but when most of the ensuing discussion is focussed on that point, it gets kind of boring, not to mention that the postings are themselves dupes of each other. I wish that the user options provided a way to hide such postings so that those of us interested in the story can discuss it. Although, I do tend to browse at -1 since some decent comments do get modded down by ignorant moderators.

I think it's really cool that NASA is partnering with Google; there seems to be some real synergy there. Someone at Google or at NASA is thinking creatively. NASA has data, and Google has data-processing technologies. Makes sense.

I disagree with the guy who thinks Google should share the partnership with Yahoo and Microsoft. Think of the complexities that would be involved in such a 4-way collaboration, with the three competitors jockeying for a dominant role while publicly acting like friendly partners, while secretly trying to steal each other's technologies, and so forth. No, Google is the premier search engine in the world; no one else comes close, and it seems unlikely that MS/Yahoo will become household search terms any time soon. "Let's just MSN that recipe when we get home!" "Did you yahoo this or did you write yourself?" No I don't think so somehow.

It would be interesting to see if NASA opens up its space probe data streams to Google searches in the future. Perhaps this will spawn a whole new cottage industry of weekend warriors who try to interpret the gigabytes of information streaming back from Mars probes and the like.

Re:Is it possible to mod down dupe complainers?

[Thing 1]

Is it possible to mod down dupe complainers?

It should be fairly simple to add a regex text field with a modifier of your choice.

Like for Friends, Foes, Fans, and Freaks, you can choose different modifiers; this would open it up so you could, say, mod to -5 any post with "dupe" in it.

Several of those could be added: subject, comment, signature, and even name. Actually, do it the way Google does attachments, and have the type be a drop-down as well. Then you could have as many as you like, and the default view doesn't take a lot of screen real estate.

Me, I'd +5 any mention of Discworld or Douglas Adams. ;-)

Giving me the idea that, like your relationships, it might be nice to have the regexs be public. (It should be optional though.)