Google Moon

Google, who has brought us probably the most used search engine on the web, the very tool by which this weblog is published, and the surprisingly versatile Google Maps has recently "added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor." It's called "Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites," and it was conceived "in honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969."

But what makes it of special interest to us is not revealed until you examine the moon map in extreme close-up. I daren't say anything more, lest I spoil the thrill available to those who zoom to the max. Though I would be remiss were I not to mention that this effort is a first step towards a much larger initiative, called "Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering" a.k.a. "G.C.H.E.E.S.E.," a "fully integrated research, development and technology facility at which Google will be conducting experiments in entropized information filtering, high-density high-delivery hosting (HiDeHiDeHo) and de-oxygenated cubicle dwelling."

All blessed be Google, and the playfulness therein manifest.