Google NASA Partnership Announced 154
eldavojohn writes "Google & NASA announced their partnership today with many benefits. The director of a NASA site said 'Just a few examples are new sensors and materials from collaborations on bio-info-nano convergence, improved analysis of engineering problems, as well as Earth, life and space science discoveries from supercomputing and data mining, and bringing entrepreneurs into the space program.'" Update 23:51 by SM As pointed out by so many readers the GoogleNASA site originally linked was completely bogus.
Well that's just funny... (Score:4, Informative)
The site is running on IIS 6.0 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Wait...date confusion? (Score:5, Informative)
Am I missing something? (Score:3, Informative)
Yep! It's a fake. (Score:3, Informative)
1. It's running IIS 6.0.
2. googlenasa.com registered to a Chris Kemp at 1942 Westlake Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
3. The aforementioned address is a high-rise apartment building [google.com].
4. The Web design, as you say, is horrible.
Re:Now I know... (Score:3, Informative)
Yes its a joke they had that as an April Fool's Joke.......
Re:Yep! It's a fake. (Score:3, Informative)
NASA Ames Research Center is also the location mentioned in the press release on googlenasa.com
PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)
Not fake. (Score:3, Informative)
Mod parent up! (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.chrisckemp.com/ [chrisckemp.com]
This guy doesn't seem to have any connections to google or NASA, true, though I don't know if phishing is an accurate accusation.
But be careful, folks.
Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:3, Informative)
B: The partnership was announced by NASA in September of 2005.
Not only is this old news, but the registered "owner" of the site is a well-respected member of the tech community.
Update (Score:3, Informative)
Excerpt of interest (as was shown under other links found within the other threads):
"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," said Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames. "Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand.
So yes, it is highly likely that the googlenasa.com site is the real deal, considering that Chris C. Kemp is actually a NASA employee.
Also, since the site was really not meant for the public, it is not particularly surprising that it was not mentioned in the announcement or that the server couldn't handle a Slashdotting.
Re:Beware: probable phishing attempt (Score:3, Informative)
So maybe this Chris C Kemp is actually a NASA guy?
Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN (Score:5, Informative)