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The briefing participants are:
--Charlie Sobeck, Kepler project deputy manager, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
--Nick Gautier, Kepler project scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
--Laurance Doyle, lead author, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
--John Knoll, visual effects supervisor, ILM, San Francisco.
--Greg Laughlin, professor for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Still, the Inuit insist they see changes in the sun?s course and the position of the stars in the night sky. ?These elders, when they were growing up, they were told to go out every morning, before having anything to eat. They were told to go out at the age of 5 every morning to observe the weather,? Kunuk says. ?So when they started talking about the sun and the sunset, I was puzzled too. Everywhere I went, each community, I was getting the same answer: The sun does not settle where it used to. I mean, it [causes] alarm.?
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Perplexed, they contacted the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration for answers, but experts said this was impossible.
"The first collaboration between Google and NASA Ames will concern the availability of NASA information over the Internet."Does that mean NASA information will be made more readily available at the expense of alternate theories, like say, Zetetic Science?
http://news.cnet.com/NASA-Google-partnership-ready-for-liftoff/2100-11397_3-6144508.html
“Google and NASA share a common desire-to bring a universe of information to people around the world,” said Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive officer"If by "universe of information" you mean conspiratorial propaganda...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2005/05_50AR.html
NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together ...I'm sure there is no cause for concern, though right?
NASA and Google also are finalizing details for additional collaborations that include joint research, products, facilities, education and missions.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_Ames_Google.html
In the annals of perks enjoyed by America’s corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes’ drive from their offices... Larry Page and Sergey Brin get to park their customized wide-body Boeing 767-200, as well as two other jets used by top Google executives, on Moffett Field, an airport run by NASA that is generally closed to private aircraft.How much information did Google have to bury to get these kind of perks I wonder?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html
Several Googlers had ties with NASA long before the two organizations started working together. Clancy, who helps oversee the NASA agreement, once was director of information sciences at NASA Ames. Peter Norvig, Google's research director, was NASA's senior computer scientist and played a major role in the mission that placed rovers on Mars. More recently, Google hired Ed Lu, a veteran of three space missions who holds a doctorate in astrophysics.Why does Google need to employ a astrophysicist? I'd guess as an IOU to the BGMG. It's nice to see they're going to create "virtual flights across the moon and Mars." I'd hate to think they would waste all the data they created the first time.
-- The partners are talking about creating virtual flights across the moon and through canyons on Mars.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/15/BU85SK0QM.DTL
Global Connection is a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, Google, and National Geographic...
The team is motivated by the desire to encourage global citizenship
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/overview.html