Imminence of the Eschaton IX: Google iiinnnn Space!

NASA and Google announce a formal relationship (from NASAwatch)

Google is God.
Do no evil.

Best of all, Google is much prompter and more efficient about disbursing payment...

...hey, that gives me an idea.
Use google rank to allocated PI funds! Dood.
Entirely different ways to game the system!

...Among the details of this new cooperative project, Google will be contributing funding to support NASA employees - and not just at ARC - but at other NASA centers as well...

I wonder if Sergei likes Alien Life?

Maybe his cousin David could prevail upon him...

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