Sunday, April 10, 2005

Google Lunar Base

Google is a well known search engine in the cyberspace. Starting as a small research project in the University of Stanford, until becoming the world largest search company and offering a email service Gmail with more than 2GB of space, the word "G" has reached the mind of many.
However, the "G" ambition is no where reaching its limit. Google is planning to build a lunar base on our natural satelite. From capturing every TV programme in our planet, to recording the messages that were delivered by other intelligent beings from other planetery systems, Google intends to expand its information database to a whole new era.
Besides its searches business, Google trys to answer the following questions...
  • Exactly how far does the Worldwide web extend? Can it become an interplanetary utility? If so, will it replace Water Works on Monopoly®?
  • What are the likely effects of link attenuation over extreme distances? Is there a limit to link strength, or is it infinitely extensible like bubble gum that gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe?
  • What happens to PageRank in the proximity of a black hole? Is there distortion that might result in link relevancy reduction or popularity warping? Could this somehow be harnessed to generate more dates for engineers?
  • Does spam go on forever?
If you are interested in working on the moon, contact lunarjobs@google.com.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age by April 1, 2007 and have proof of earth residency. Google is an equal opportunity employer.
For more information on the Lunar Base visit http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

1 comment:

Ken Loong Looi said...

It sounds almost perfectly like an April Fool prank if not for the date. Too incredible to be true. I'll bite. What is the whole point of this actually?