Google NASA Partnership Announced

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.

Gah!

[Karganeth]

Apparantly, taking over Earth isn't enough for Google...

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[pair-a-noyd]

Thank you. Someone please mod parent +5 insightful

I wonder if Google will patent image analisis.

[GR8_GRM_RPR]

This would run afoul of the paintbrushed lunar base photos. "Google Moon plan your next alien abduction in advance." Sort of like mapquest only with real zoom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0a3BIknRLc [youtube.com] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/05/041424 9 [slashdot.org] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aep-U7IScRs&mode=re lated&search= [youtube.com]

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[Ngarrang]

I, for one, welcome our new search engine overlord.

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[extern_void]

Everything started a long time ago, just look at one dollar sign "In Google we trust".

fear

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[FhnuZoag]

Well, I'm feeling lucky.

Now I know...

[Stanistani]

The next flag on the moon will be Blue, Red, Yellow, and Green.

Re:Now I know...

[spellraiser]

Yeah, it's true. They were offering jobs [google.com] on the Moon as early as April 1, 2004!

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[ZiakII]

I may be missing the joke... is this legit? I don't expect to be launched to the moon but is there something to this? Does anyone know? Am I about to be come the laughing stock of /.? Dag, better post AC... too scared of /back effect

Yes its a joke they had that as an April Fool's Joke.......

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[Anonymous Coward]

Don't you mean the moooooooooooooooon?

Overlords

[RMB2]

All our base will belong to them.....

Well... Duh!

[smbarbour]

How else will they get their employees to the Google Copernicus Center [google.com]?!

They've got a lot of work to do though if they plan to open it in late spring, 2007.

PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN

[Anonymous Coward]

GoogleNasa is NOT an official Google site, and is just phishing for Google account information. What the fuck, Slashdot - do you EVER look at these links? Such incompetence...

Mod parent up!

[FhnuZoag]

Checking whois leads to Chris C Kemp: (Notice website similarities)

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:Mod parent up!

[nametaken]

Notice both chrisckemp.com and the Google/Nasa site are running DotNetNuke?

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[smbarbour]

A: The site is only open to EMPLOYEES of Google and NASA. (Who would know better if it were a phishing attempt)
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.

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[Traa]

Still, it would be nice to see a direct link to googlenasa.com from either nasa.gov or google.com. Nasa might have announced cooperation with google, but that announcement didn't mention the googlenasa.com website.

Just because a site is registered under a well known name doesn't mean much now does it.

http://www.googlenasa.com/ [googlenasa.com] just went down. If it was slashdotted it seems that it was neither hosted by Google or Nasa.

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[smbarbour]

Based on the message that appears right now, it seems that the database used for logging usage has run out of space (The terminology used indicates Microsoft SQL Server, which based on an earlier comment that indicated the site is running on IIS, would make sense).

I too, find it unusual that googlenasa.com is not mentioned by either party. Also unusual is that it is not hosted by either Google (Who I'm sure acts as their own ISP) or NASA (who would show under IPs registered to either themselves or the US G

Update

[smbarbour]

NASA's Dec 2006 Press Release [nasa.gov]

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 acce

Re:PHISHING ATTEMPT, TAKE THAT DAMN LINK DOWN

[chrisckemp]

Hi, sorry for the confusion, I am Chris C. Kemp, Director of Business Development at NASA Ames Research Center. I originally created the site as a "neutral ground" for NASA employees and Google employees to collaborate (we're trying to experiment with new ways of doing business). I paid for and set the site up myself which is why it is listed under my name to minimize the "bureaucracy" We were not ready to release/announce the site, and after getting slashdotted, Google requested that we take the site down, which I did.

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[dch24]

Sorry that we barged in. I hope the Google/NASA collaboration goes well. They both contribute a great deal to the area, and attract some smart, smart people.

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[TapeCutter]

I was born the year after the first sputnik, I watched the moon landing, I saw the pale blue dot, and more recently man's impact on his tiny dot. Putting that stuff in front of people has already had a huge and positive impact on humanity's view of itself, making it available to Google is a great coup for the public interest everywhere.

Bork

[zobier]

The following sentence is true. The previous sentence is false.

Thanks a lot, I just had to reboot my brain!

BTW: http://slipperyfish.net/sfnet/articles-and-lists.h tml [slipperyfish.net]

Note: If you are running Firefox with NoScript, you are required to allow our site to run scripts in order to properly view this menu.

WTF!?

Land rush is on!!!

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

www.gogglenasa.com
www.googelnasa.com
www.nasagoogle.com
www.googlnasa.com

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[Turn-X Alphonse]

you missed Nasgel.com but maybe that's a little too "great things become twisted and evil" like.

Re:Land rush is on!!!

[aelbric]

I guess NasGool.com is over the top then?

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[metlin]

Sounds way too evil to me [wikipedia.org].

if i had google stock

[stoolpigeon]

i think i'd be pretty happy about this.

Well that's just funny...

[pclminion]

A friend who works at Google took me on a tour of a few of their buildings a little over a year ago. It was the weekend and hardly anybody was there, but I did remember noticing a big whiteboard (Google has thousands of whiteboards, which seem to be the primary medium for communication and development of ideas) with the headline "Google And NASA in 2007" at the top. I remember thinking at the time how odd that seemed. But it looks like out of all the zany ideas at Google this was one that actually survived for over a year and came to fruition.

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[BSAtHome]

The coop with Nasa is to get the whiteboards imaged with satellites and then distrubute them with Google WhiteSearch [beta] (TM).

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[Will2k_is_here]

Did you see the board that said:

root
Saf3aD&p

Really, I'm quite surprised you were allowed to have such a tour.

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[Yakman]

I hope you're not breaking your NDA by telling everyone that. If you are, enjoy your cement shoes.

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[pclminion]

I hope you're not breaking your NDA by telling everyone that. If you are, enjoy your cement shoes.

I don't understand this mystical quality people want to attach to Google. It's nothing more than a really kickass place to work (from what I saw). It's not like they're cracking Nazi codes in there. If you want certain things to be secrets, you don't build your building primarily out of glass with a totally open floor plan, and write every random thought anybody has on whiteboards all over the place. If any

The site is running on IIS 6.0

[ranperry]

Google? IIS 6.0? Helllooooo?

Re:The site is running on IIS 6.0

[MyLongNickName]

You misread. It is ISS 6.0. However, it is still in beta. Google corporate culture taking over already.

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[CaymanIslandCarpedie]

Looks like they are running DotNetNuke [dotnetnuke.com]. If you can overlook its use of ASP.NET, it is a great (and open source) little web portal app.

Partners with benefits?!?

[IgLou]

Eww, so wrong, so many bad, bad jokes. It's not fair! How do I begin??? Damn you, slashdot for bringing this up on a Monday!

Computronium Cloud ...

[lysdexia]

Slashdot - Space - December 2014

GoogleNASA Announces Dissassembly of Mercury and Venus

GoogleNASA's strategic alliance with FungibleNano has pushed their disassembly of the "useless" innerplanets into a computronium cloud. The "Massively Massive Massive 4D Quantuum Processor Fog" will reportedly use 10 years of spam filtered from gmail users to train an AI to solve large N-Body problems and appreciate fine wine.

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[TapeCutter]

"Massively Massive Massive...."

Yep, after 10yrs of studing spam it would have to be hung like a donkey.

Hey, I recognize that CMS!

[theGreater]

That's Dot Net Nuke, with an altered default blue theme. Good enough for Google, good enough for NASA, good enough for me.

Hey, it's at least mildly ontopic, and it proves I actually FOLLOWED A LINK!

-theGreater.

captcha: outrages

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[Frosty Piss]

That's Dot Net Nuke, with an altered default blue theme. Good enough for Google, good enough for NASA, good enough for me.

GoogleNasa.com? It's running on Apache, with domain servers at InterMedia.net. The registrant is:

Kemp, Chris [e-mail]

Personal

1942 Westlake Ave

Seattle, WA 98101

US

[phone]

[phone]

Partnership with benefits?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that anything like "Friends with benefits"? Because that would be hot in orbit.

Google/NASA partner to change name...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to Cyberdyne Systems.

I, for one, welcome our new...

Ah, nevermind.

Google Earth improvement?

[tarlos25]

Hopefully we'll get decently up-to-date satellite photos for Google Earth now. I'm tired of seeing my town as some vaguely greenish-brown blur.

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[Rob T Firefly]

Hopefully we'll get decently up-to-date satellite photos for Google Earth now. I'm tired of seeing my town as some vaguely greenish-brown blur.

I'd agree with you, except my town actually is a vaguely greenish-brown blur.

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[Ngarrang]

Hopefully we'll get decently up-to-date satellite photos for Google Earth now. I'm tired of seeing my town as some vaguely greenish-brown blur.

I you certain that is not just a sad statement of the reality that is your hometown? It certainly is of mine.

Space Elevator?

[greyhill]

Does this mean we'll see the google space elevator anytime soon?

Megan or Meghan?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone else notice that on http://www.googlenasa.com/ [googlenasa.com], the Google Business Development contact is captioned as "Megan Smith" but her email address is "Meghan.Smith"?

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[aristotle-dude]

That is quite common in companies. They will often use the proper "legal" name for the email address and display the preferred spelling elsewhere.

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[eln]

She probably just got tired of people over-pronouncing the H.

Corporate partner

[dawnzer]

I think this is a great idea for NASA to take on a corporate partner. Not only does it look promising from a financial viewpoint, but it greatly expands the knowledge base and brainpower from using brainiacs from both the govement and corporate pools that are generally kept separate. I think there are several government agencies that would benefit from a corporate viewpoint.

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[Mr. Hankey]

NASA has plenty of corporate partners, including several large players in the aerospace industry. Lockheed Martin has a facility right next to Ames. The NASA/Google partnership is old news though, we were joking about GAmes (Google/Ames) maybe a year ago. This is just some guy setting up a website for publicity purposes, which is definitely not NASA-sponsored. There's no responsible official named at the bottom.

Seems perfect to me

[Kuukai]

Yes, a search company teaming up with an agency that's always losing things! Maybe now they can find that Mars lander, those Moon photos, and what exactly Neil Armstrong said...

Interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

But will it ever get out of beta?

Wait...date confusion?

[Jarjarthejedi]

"FEATURE - NASA Takes Google on a Journey into Space - 09.28.05 "

September 28th of last year? Either that's some horrible dating software (which I doubt because the information isn't in and of NASA's recent news area and has to be found by searching for google) or this /. article was submitted last year and not approved till today or something. But that's impossible, no /. article is more than 5 min. old right? Right? Come on, where's my false hope going to be if /. isn't up to the minute!?

(I have found

Re:Wait...date confusion?

[PerfectSmurf]

I noticed that too. Seems someone posted the url for a year old announcement instead of the current one http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html [nasa.gov]

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[Jarjarthejedi]

Ahh...that's much better, though it still doesn't explain the site being registered last year after the announcement...maybe it wasn't noticed so NASA decided to repeat it or something...or maybe it's a dupe :P

budget

[michaelvkim]

Maybe now NASA will have the budget to do some really cool stuff!

Disappointing

[Anonymous Cowdog]

I was expecting an announcement about Hubble images. There must be millions of them by now, but there isn't a great way to access them. Sure, NASA announces a new image once in a while; they come out in dribs and drabs. It would be great to see Google's take on Hubble image accessibility.

Nerd Porn

[derrickh]

To 99.5% of the population, the following sentence is pure gibberish. But for the chosen few, it's like porn and candy all rolled up into one.

"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."

D

Beware: probable phishing attempt

[VeryProfessional]

To me, the site http://googlenasa.com/ [googlenasa.com] seems extremely suspect. It looks like a targeted phishing scam to get the personal details of Google and NASA employees. Slashdot, you owe us better.

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[psililisp]

Whois shows a personal registration to a Chris Kemp - http://chrisckemp.com/ [chrisckemp.com] .
Good for him, I guess.

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[ajdlinux]

"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 maybe this Chris C Kemp is actually a NASA guy?

it's genuine

[Fanther]

No, it is by Google, the site's search engine is written in ASP.NET.
--
Friskr - Multi Search [friskr.com]

Am I missing something?

[jmerelo]

The news release is one year old [nasa.gov]. And the site is neither registered to NASA or to Google, but to INTERMEDIA.NET [intermedia.net]. It's basically PR, anyways.

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[PerfectSmurf]

Yep, you're missing out on the actual announcment made today - http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html [nasa.gov]

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[silentounce]

This [slashdot.org] is one year old, too.

World

[certel]

Google is taking over the World! *Rubs his hands evily*

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[sonamchauhan]

As long as they do not take over Nasa WorldWind. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ [nasa.gov]

The search for ET just got easier

[blueZ3]

for NASA. Who knew you could just Google "alien lifeforms"? All that SETI CPU time was wasted

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[ScrewMaster]

Who knew you could just Google "alien lifeforms"? All that SETI CPU time was wasted

Nah, that just results in links to the personal Web pages of intelligent slime pools and self-aware motile shrubs. On the other hand, by entering the search term "Orion Slave Girl" one can easily get a date for next Saturday.

I can hear it now. "They were right.....

[3seas]

...we never made it to the moon, it was all done on earth, google's earth."

Maybe we can call it the Googleplex.

If only we can find it thru google/nasa earth search engine.

The simple logic question the above is based on is:
What does a web search engine and web based advertising company have in common with NASA?

Seek and ye shall find?

Sweet, Can't wait for Moon Ads!

[WiiVault]

Yay now when I'm looking at the moon through the 'ole telescope with the kids I also get the latest deals from Amazon, Ebay, and whoever else uses their ad system.

The New Name

[Cytlid]

I'm hoping for GASA and not Noogle.

Perfect match

[Fujisawa Sensei]

Perfect match. Google makes money, NASA spends money.

New Google gooddie

[extern_void]

Just after Google Earth, Google Moon!

Re: New Google goodie

[fgb]

was that sarcasm? [google.com]

NASA, not NASCAR - whew!

[twocents]

Wow, I glanced over the headline and thought I had read that Google was partnering with NASCAR. The vision of Jeff Gorgon with a Google logo next to the Pepsi/Coke/Pringles/Jiffy Lube/Dupont/Kwiki Mart/Kroger/Wal Mart/Coppertone/Bosch logos.

Space-based Contextual Advertising

[writerjosh]

A few good points that were overlooked in the original article:

"...First, Google and Ames will focus on cataloguing NASA's "most useful" information and making it available on the Internet. This includes real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars, and real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle.

No, there was no mention of space-based contextual advertising...

...This agreement between NASA and Google will soon allow

NASA has found a black hole of buzzwords?

[Mr. Underbridge]

"bio-info-nano convergence"

We have found your singularity, Mr Hawking, and it appears it is made out of meaningless buzzwords. They seem to have zero volume and an infinite density.

Obvious use

[ari_j]

Your search for "pioneer 1 probe" has returned approximately 3 objects.

The chairs will be flying in Redmond today

[QuietLagoon]

Just wait until Ballmer hears that google has outmaneuvered Microsoft in courting NASA and all its data.

How does a soft company matter in a hard industry?

[heroine]

Not sure how an internet startup is going to improve materials with revolutionary finite element analysis. Sounds like the only thing Google can do for NASA is either organize their data or improve their image by being affiliated with a corporate hero.

Re:How does a soft company matter in a hard indust

[Kaemaril]

Oooh, I got a different error. Collect the lot? :)

Unhandled Error
Error Details
File
Error Could not allocate space for object 'DNN1_EventLog' in database 'DNN_chrisckemp' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full.

Lofty ideas

[LilGuy]

I for one welcome our cybernetic space overlords.

is this a joke?

[sorak]

The link goes to a slashdotted dot net nuke website. Don't tell me that Google and NASA pooled their resources to produce this. I guess a Google-Homeland Security team-up would use Frontpage 2000, and a cool perl-cgi login page.

Googlenasa

[I don't want to spen]

Isn't this how Jar Jar Binks says Google?

Impact on NASA World Wind and Google Earth?

[Lord Satri]

Nobody mentioned NASA World Wind yet. But read this insightful entry from a NASA WW enthusiast [earthissquare.com]. A part of it: "This is for a new joint NASA / Google application to bring data to the masses.. I guess NASA forgot there is NASA World Wind already to do this." Two other entries are interesting, one from Ogle Earth [ogleearth.com] and the other from the Google Earth blog [gearthblog.com].

Searching

[atomicstrawberry]

Maybe now they'll have a bit more success searching for that missing moon landing footage.

They just described World Wind

[AnswerIs42]

If you check the writeup here [earthissquare.com] of the announcement... everything they want to do.. NASA has already DONE with World Wind.

What does Dr. Bussard think of this?

[antispam_ben]

Many may remember this hour-and-a-half video of Bussard speaking at Google under this Slashdot story "Should Google Go Nuclear?"

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/ 18/0616205 [slashdot.org]

(This may be a too-short summation of the talk but...) Bussard was a bit cynical of larger governmental organizations which weren't into funding his fusion research ideas.

Yep! It's a fake.

[morgan_greywolf]

Let's see:

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.

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[morgan_greywolf]

Oh, yeah, and the site was registered in September 29, 2005

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[ps_inkling]

Google cache link: cache [google.com]

Cache date is December 1 of 2006. They registered google-nasa.com as well. Mentions Megan Smith and Chris Kemp on front page.

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[michaelvkim]

Chris Kemp works for NASA in Business Development.

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[ben there...]

Chris Kemp, director of business development, NASA Ames Research Center [nasa.gov]

NASA Ames Research Center is also the location mentioned in the press release on googlenasa.com

Re:Sounds like shit...

[iknowwhatismyname]

The name in the Nasa news aren't the same

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_ Ames_Google.html [nasa.gov]
Michael Mewhinney
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-3937

Jon Murchinson
Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif.
650-253-4437

VS

http://googlenasa.com/ [googlenasa.com]
Megan Smith
Business Development
[e-mail]

Chris C. Kemp
Business Development
[e-mail]

This sounds like shit to me

Not fake.

[farker haiku]

Here's a nasa link [nasa.gov] admitting the disclosure of the joint venture.

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[morgan_greywolf]

They don't!

That's why I'm *still* not convinced.

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[Fizzl]

Here, have a <pre> :P