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Story: Google signs R&D alliance with NASA

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One thing at a time, boys

It'll be interesting, and certainly very "cool", to have Google Moon and Google Mars. But they might consider putting their resources into Earth for a while longer. I live on the outskirts of a European capital city and yet the image resolution and out-of-date map data for my area is woeful to the point of being utterly useless.

Google Mars may well be vaguely useful as an educational tool, or to a handful of planetary scientists. Google Earth, on the other hand, is useful to anyone with a PC. Or at least, it would be if they actually finished the thing.

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