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.

Saw that coming

First they were collaborating on technology [slashdot.org], so the next natural step is to form a partnership. All in all took less than 10 hours to decide.

Its time has come...my gift to the /. community...

Slashdot EeziPost (TM) MK I

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Re:Its time has come...my gift to the /. community

[ ] Still no cure for cancer

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

Don't forget

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R E P O S T

Fer crying out loud, its not only a repost, its *still* up on the /. front page!!!

Get it together CmdrTaco!

Re:R E P O S T

Zonk is so good that he's been posting dupes before the original article appears!

Re:R E P O S T

Physics can explain this...

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.

Re:R E P O S T

But this one features the Google icon on top, so we're getting both sides of the story.

Re:R E P O S T

Fer crying out loud, its not only a repost, its *still* up on the /. front page!!!

Once again, I saw this before it happened (subscribers see articles before they go "green") and reported it to the "If you see a serious problem with this article, report it to [e-mail]". I sent the email, with a link and everything to Zonk's post of the same thing.

Just like last time, nothing happened. No acknowledgement of the email (automated _or_ human), and the dupe went out.

Hey editors, does anyone read the daddypants emails? Am I wasting my time? I mean, if you're not going to do anything about it anyway, remove the mailto: link.

Annoyed,
djh101010

Re:R E P O S T

Well, maybe the daddypants account is just a joke or something. Here, try the following email address because I'm *sure* it works: [e-mail] .

Searching Space

Am I the only one that finds a certain sense of subtle irony in a search engine company searching space itself? Now if only I could use Google to find my car keys...

Re:Searching Space

You can! [bbspot.com]

Re:Searching Space

I searched Google for your car keys, they're in between the cushions on your couch.

We all know the real reason behind this.

I think Google is just hoping to get discounted fares for trips to their lunar base.

NASA twenty years from now

The head of NASA will be saying, "Looking back, working with Google was a mistake."

MS-Spacestation?

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

Could we get a finer detailed..

.. play-by-play of the growing relationship with Google and Nasa? Because 2 stories in 1 day is certainly not enough for me.

Should Be Open Bid

The government should only form alliances with industry where there are no other obvious partners. While Google may have a lead on search technology, opening up the partnership process to include Microsoft and Yahoo! would benefit the government more than sole sourcing.

Competition for government partnerships [bnl.gov] is always better than just selecting the current industry lead. The US government did that with office suites and is now paying a hefty price for that decision.

search engine

find: moon landing AND mars landing NOT 15 year wait NOT 10 Billion dollar price tag

A Better Partnership

I wish they would partner with Slashdot so the editors can search the site before posting DUPES.

Article has it backwards.

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.

instant karma

just copy all the +5 comments from http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/2 9/120241&tid=236&tid=217&tid=126&tid=14 [slashdot.org]

Re:Pete and Repeat

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?

Re:In other news...

In other news, the "THIS IS A DUPE" whiners form a partnership with the /. editors--because the latter repeats itself less.

Is it possible to mod down dupe complainers?

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.