National Virtual Observatory 66
scubacuda writes "According to this Technology Review article, U.S. astronomers (compliments of a $10M grant from the National Science Foundation) are building a National Virtual Observatory to make accessible terabytes of astrononomical data to a web browser. One interesting challenge is how the scientists are going to query so many *different* distributed databases (which they're leaving in their respective places to avoiding clogging network bandwidth)."
virtually (Score:3, Funny)
"Dr. Quinn Medicine woman...Is there anything she can't do?"-Homer
National Virtual Observatory? (Score:5, Funny)
Walk around, talk to people, smell the flowwers (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks Ray for that endoursment of that (in)famous MS product.
This is offtopic, please mod it down.
Web Browser (Score:5, Funny)
So will the universe be viewable in the next point release or is it several years away.
Is it possible to look at the universe with, say, lynx?
Or if that is not possible with javascript turned off?
Re:Web Browser (Score:4, Funny)
Lynx users have to look out their window at night to see the universe.
Re:Universe the Game (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but it may affect your karma, depending on who you listen to.
Dilbert (Score:3, Funny)