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By the Betanews Staff | Published August 22, 2007, 5:28 PM
Google turned its eyes to the stars on Wednesday, introducing Sky, its complement to the Google Earth ground mapping product. The new feature, to be made available in 13 languages, will allow the navigation of the 100 million known stars and 200 million known galaxies through the application's interface. The search company has provided a YouTube video to help users get started with the application.
To help promote the new feature, the company invited former astronaut Sally Ride to promote it in the company's official blog. As part of the promotion, Ride developed a KML showcase featuring her favorite extra-solar places. "Sky in Google Earth is great, and we plan on using it in some of our programs," she said. Ride now runs Sally Ride Science, a company that specializes in creating science materials for elementary and middle school students.
The real question is how long until M$ clones this like they do everything else Google does.
Any guesses?
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|I wonder if someone will stumble upon a remote planet whilst zooming around and find a Starbucks on it.
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|I live in Manhattan, and I can't even see star at night.
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|If you live in Manhattan, there's nothing remotely as interesting up in the sky as what you typically see around you anyway.
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|Saw a demo on G4. Looks cool!
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|oh crap now i gotta hide the death ray im building on uranus
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|"on" uranus? or "in" uranus? :)
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|Now that Google has completed its domination of Earth, it is looking for worlds to conquer in the heavens.
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|The YouTube link should be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbiQBeDPT5U
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|Not bad, but I still prefer Stellarium.
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|The YouTube link does not work.
EDIT: fixed now.
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|Sky Cloud OS FTW?
/obscure, maybe?
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