Google... Moon?

[giza]

http://moon.google.com/

In honor of the first Moon landing, which took place 36 years ago today, Google has used their mapping technology to make a map of the moon's surface available. It includes the landing locations of Apollo 11, 12, and 14 through 17.

Comments

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

have you zoomed all the way in yet for a closer look?

[antimon.livejournal.com]

damnit you beat me to telling him:)

[giza.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. :-)

[xydexx.livejournal.com]

This is why Google's stock is up to $300. Because they keep doing awesome stuff like this.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.

I do web development for a living, and I was totally blown away when Gmail came out. They used Javascript in ways that it had never been used before, and did a damn good job at it too.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

I wish the images were of sufficient quality to see the equipment we left behind.

[giza.livejournal.com]

I think that would take some really powerful telescopes. :-/

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the images that Hubble has produced of things light-years away? C'mon, the moon's not -that- far away. I suspect no one has felt it was necessary to point the Hubble at the moon. :-/

[giza.livejournal.com]

I'm talking out of my arse here, but maybe the optics in Hubble are calibrated to focus on stuff that's thousands of light years away and not stuff that's only thousands of miles away.

If the two sets of optics were interchangable, I imagine that the NSA's spy satellites could be turned around and used to look at the stars instead of Hubble. ;-)

Ahem. =)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/14/content/9914z.jpg

Re: Ahem. =)

[giza.livejournal.com]

I'll be damned!

[thraxarious.livejournal.com]

I think its mostly time, as there are so many people who want to get some time on hubble before its 86'ed. One Telescope, tens of thousands of researchers.

Hrm...

[lionman.livejournal.com]

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1999/14/

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Drat!

http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.php.cat=hst&id=77

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

The reason they don't is because nothing is there. All just conspiracy. ;x) *laughs*

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah..my mother commented just that when I spoke to her this morning about the moon landing.

:-)

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they happened, but damn we need some new pictures to slam them in the face. Even if to see 'what does 30 year old stuff on the moon look like today?'
Probably pretty good.

[giza.livejournal.com]

There's a great episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit on conspiracies, including the moon landings.

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

I love Bullshit ;x)
My favorite is The Bible, and The End of the World ones.
People are absoultely nuts.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

I -totally- agree. :-)

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

The best place to put non spoiling stuff woud be the moon. Store it till we need it. ;x) Like a giant refrigerator.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But, I think you'd have other things you'd have to deal with then. But, it's an interesting idea, nonetheless.

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

*stores his transformers on the dark side of the moon*

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Lionman is old school TF. None of this new crap. Die-cast...a lost art. ;-)

[xoagray.livejournal.com]

This is officially some pretty cool shit! Then again, so is Gmail. I don't really know What's going on with Google, but they've been coming up with some really neat stuff, so it's cool to keep an eye on. Funny, when I first heard of Google, all it was was a search engine. But honestly, I'd not be too surprised if it was the next Yahoo.

*wags tail*
Xoa

[giza.livejournal.com]

Google hires some amazingly smart people. Check out The Google File System (http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html) sometime. The way they implement it is pretty impressive, and some of the design decisions made in it show that the people there really know their stuff.

Google will never be another Yahoo, because Yahoo tries to do everything. Google, on the other hand, is much more conservative about areas that it goes into, but it tries to be the best product in the areas that it does enter.

[xoagray.livejournal.com]

That's for sure, they do have some smart folks working for Google, but honstely, I could see Google getting into a lot more things and ending up similar to Yahoo. Not the same, but similar.

*wags tail*
Xoa