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Interplanetary Reporting Comes To Google Analytics
At Google we like to create solutions for the future. And we imagine a future where web use won’t be restricted simply to Earth. Rather, people will want to visit their favorite sites while cruising around the rings of Saturn with friends or relaxing at the (inevitable) Mercury tanning facility.
When the galaxy is our playground, marketers, analysts and webmasters will want to understand location use beyond Earth. For example, if you had a chain of taco stands and noticed many users visiting your website from the Mars outpost, well, that might help you make a business case to begin expanding your business to serve Mars colonists.
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The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the Common heritage of mankind.
[Article II] of the Treaty states that ‘outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.’
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The Outer Space Treaty, of which the United States is a signatory. Sorry, Newt Gingrich, looks like your moon colony idea won’t be happening anytime soon.
[Full treaty by the US State Department here]
(via producermatthew)
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Atlantis currently traveling at 12,000 miles per hour, four miles a second
Nothing cooler.
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This is from NASA.
Really.
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Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun
But wait, there’s more!
This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.
This is where the article used to be. It is now gone.
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Hello, new background.
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Spacelog.org
This is fascinating. Original NASA transcripts from early space exploration. The transcript formatting reads like blog comments or a Twitter conversation. Every comment has a permanent URI — here’s the original “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Additional controls at the bottom of each page reveal the original transcript and a map showing where the crew was during the conversation.
If this isn’t making content meaningful, accessible (in a traditional sense), and enjoyable to consume, I don’t know what is.
I’m inspired to start a space club. Meetings on Sundays at my place. Bring wine and pictures and stuff like this on your iPhones.
This might be the coolest website I’ve seen in a while.
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Just chillin’ in space.
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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity points its Panoramic Camera at the soil, seeing a bit of itself and a closer view of its tracks on June 23rd, 2010.
OPINION: This is one of the most beautiful and almost literally fantastic images ever created by our species. This image says so much; it captures the sheer analytic and romantic power of humanity, as well as our relative insignificance - our potential and the fact of our limits. It is at once hopeful, epochal, and even heartbreaking. I’ve probably looked at this image for upwards of an hour over the last week and sufficed to say it makes me feel a lot of things indeed.
(via mikehudack)
