Thursday, April 01, 2004

If you believe...Google put a man on the moon (man on the mooon)

I was looking at the Google April Fool's article about there being a job vacancy on the moon. I especially liked their explanation on why you would need to use a different programming language:

"The rules of coding will literally be stood on their head at the Copernicus Center, as the absence of gravity plays havoc with the normal ordering of data. Search results lacking in substance may rise to positions of prominence while those possessed of a desirable gravitas may become negatively buoyant. Simple computing exercises, such as building a list inverter become problematic when "up" or "down" are not clearly defined, and subroutines are disrupted when values increment six times faster than in Earth gravity."

Yes, values increment six times faster indeed! How amusing!

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