armjan Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 "Google has signed on with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project that will construct a powerful telescope in Chile by 2013. Google's part will be to 'develop a search engine that can process, organize, and analyze the voluminous amounts of data coming from the instrument's data streams in real time. The engine will create "movie-like windows" for scientists to view significant space events.' Google's been successful on turning its search technology on several different media and realms. Will they be successful with helping scientists tag and catalog events in our universe?" The telescope will generate 30 TB of data a night, for 10 years, from a 3-gigapixel CCD array. source: slashdot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armjan Posted January 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 (edited) 30 TB's a night by next 7 years, that's incredable. Edited January 19, 2007 by armjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neko Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Reminds me of that silly SciFi movie "Paycheck" - where they build a telescope that is so powerful they can see into the future. In reality they should have built a big enough search engine that could analyse all the data in the World and thus be able to predict the future. Is that perhaps Google's secret plan for World domination? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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