The Astronomical Event Search Engine 93
eldavojohn writes "Google has signed on with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project that will construct a powerful telescope in Chile by 2013. Google's part will be to 'develop a search engine that can process, organize, and analyze the voluminous amounts of data coming from the instrument's data streams in real time. The engine will create "movie-like windows" for scientists to view significant space events.' Google's been successful on turning its search technology on several different media and realms. Will they be successful with helping scientists tag and catalog events in our universe?" The telescope will generate 30 TB of data a night, for 10 years, from a 3-gigapixel CCD array.
Great news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great news (Score:2, Funny)
The only problem (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why Google? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:3/4 LoC a night (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Lots of data, but not as much as the LHC (Score:5, Funny)
Funny, but CERN itself makes that same misspelling of 'hadron' here [web.cern.ch]. "This is the underground tunnel of the Large Hardon (sic) Collider (LHC)..."
Dull viewing (Score:3, Funny)
I bet it makes dull viewing. Sort of like the recent Ashes Tests in Australia. If you're English.