Google May be Going to Space!?

[Guest]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/10/7190057/nasa-leases-moffett-airfield-to-google-60-years

 

 

 

Google has sealed a deal to lease NASA's Moffett Airfield for the next 60 years after beginning negotiations for the land back in February. Under terms of the agreement, Google will pay NASA an estimated $1.16 billion in rent over the life of the agreement, with addition funds going toward the restoration of a more than 80-year-old hangar, known as Hangar One, that sits on the property. Google may use Hangar One, as well as two sequentially named hangars on the airfield, as a space for research, development, assembly, and testing of technology related to robotics, aviation, space exploration, and other new fields once it moves in....

 

 

 

 

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[totjup5]

Google+Nasa=Magic?

[XTankSlayerX]

They need to give the Astronauts Google fiber man!

[Spongy141]

YES, if any company can help advance our space exploration rate it is google!

[TheSLSAMG]

Nice comic sans m8.

 

But in a serious note, cool stuff. Maybe they can work with SpaceX?

[Swndlr]

such wow

[Jerakl]

I look forward to see what comes of this. Hopefully it's something good.

[dlf]

*Insert quotes from Space core of Portal 2*

• "What's your favorite thing about space? Mine is space."
• "Space going to space can't wait."
• "Space..."
• "Space. Trial. Puttin' the system on trial. In space. Space system. On trial. Guilty. Of being in space! Going to space jail!"
• "Dad! I'm in space! [low-pitched 'space' voice] I'm proud of you, son. [normal voice] Dad, are you space? [low-pitched 'space' voice] Yes. Now we are a family again."
• "Space space wanna go to space yes please space. Space space. Go to space."
• "Space space wanna go to space"
• "Space space going to space oh boy"
• "Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba! Space! Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba!"
• "Oh. Play it cool. Play it cool. Here come the space cops."
• "Help me, space cops. Space cops, help."
• "Going to space going there can't wait gotta go. Space. Going."
• "Better buy a telescope. Wanna see me. Buy a telescope. Gonna be in space."
• "Space. Space."
• "I'm going to space."
• "Oh boy."
• "Yeah yeah yeah okay okay."
• "Space. Space. Gonna go to space."
• "Space. Space. Go to space."
• "Yes. Please. Space."
• "Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba! Space!"
• "Ba! Ba! Ba ba ba! Space!"
• "Gonna be in space."
• "Space."
• "Space."
• "Ohhhh, space."
• "Wanna go to space. Space."
• "[humming]"
• "Let's go - let's go to space. Let's go to space."
• "I love space. Love space."
• "Atmosphere. Black holes. Astronauts. Nebulas. Jupiter. The Big Dipper."
• "Orbit. Space orbit. In my spacesuit."
• "Space..."
• "Ohhh, the Sun. I'm gonna meet the Sun. Oh no! What'll I say? 'Hi! Hi, Sun!' Oh, boy!"
• "Look, an eclipse! No. Don't look."
• "Come here, space. I have a secret for you. No, come closer."
• "Space space wanna go to space"
• "Wanna go to -- wanna go to space"
• "Space wanna go wanna go to space wanna go to space"
• "I'm going to space."
• "Space!"
• "Space!"
• "Hey hey hey hey hey!"
• "Hey."
• "Hey."
• "Hey."
• "Hey."
• "Hey."
• "Hey lady."
• "Lady."
• "Space!"
• "Lady."
• "Space."
• "Gotta go to space. Lady. Lady."
• "Oo. Oo. Oo. Lady. Oo. Lady. Oo. Let's go to space."
• "Oh I know! I know I know I know I know I know - let's go to space!"
• "Oooh! Ooh! Hi hi hi hi hi. Where we going? Where we going? Hey. Lady. Where we going? Where we going? Let's go to space!"
• "Lady. I love space. I know! Spell it! S P... AACE. Space. Space."
• "I love space."
• "Hey lady. Lady. I'm the best. I'm the best at space."
• "Oh oh oh oh. Wait wait. Wait I know. I know. I know wait. Space."
• "Wait wait wait wait. I know I know I know. Lady wait. Wait. I know. Wait. Space."
• "Gotta go to space."
• "Gonna be in space."
• "Oh oh oh ohohohoh oh. Gotta go to space."
• "Space. Space. Space. Space. Comets. Stars. Galaxies. Orion."
• "Are we in space yet? What's the hold-up? Gotta go to space. Gotta go to SPACE."
• "Going to space."
• "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going. Going to space."
• "Love space. Need to go to space."
• "Space space space. Going. Going there. Okay. I love you, space."
• "Space."
• "So much space. Need to see it all."
• "You are the farthest ever in space. Why me, space? Because you are the best. I'm the best at space? Yes."
• "Space Court. For people in space. Judge space sun presiding. Bam. Guilty. Of being in space. I'm in space."
• "Please go to space."
• "Space."
• "Wanna go to space."
• "(excited gasps)"
• "Gotta go to space. Yeah. Gotta go to space."
• "Hmmm. Hmmmmmm. Hmm. Hmmmmm. Space!"
• "Hey lady."
• "Hey."
• "Lady."
• "Hey lady. Lady."
• "Hey."
• "Lady."
• "Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! I'm in space!"
• "Space? SPACE!"
• "I'm in space."
• "I'm in space."
• "Where am I? Guess. Guess guess guess. I'm in space."
• "There's a star. There's another one. Star. Star star star. Star."
• "Getting bored of space."
• "Bam! Bam bam bam! Take that, space."
• "Are we in space?"
• "We are?"
• "Oh oh oh. This is space! I'm in space!"
• "We made it we made it we made it. Space!"
• "Earth."
• "Wanna go to earth."
• "Wanna go to earth wanna go to earth wanna go to earth wanna go to earth. Wanna go to earth."
• "Wanna go home."
• "Wanna go home wanna go home wanna go home wanna go home."
• "Earth earth earth."
• "Don't like space. Don't like space."
• "It's too big. Too big. Wanna go home. Wanna go to earth."
• "SPAAACCCCCE!"
• "SPAAACE!"
• "YEEEHAAAAAW!"
• "Ah!"

[bob345]

Google did this well over a year ago. Not sure why this is news just now.

disregard, i was only paying attention to the part about the hanger restoration

[Syntaxvgm]

We all know that Bing is better for flights

/s

[VincentC]

Maybe it's for the preparation for the free Google satellite internet or an orbital server? 

[ImBleu]

Time to build a google fiber neighbourhood on the moon. 

 

Finally them ISS people can get good frames.

[StingBull]

Google to nuke Earth from orbit confirmed.

[Mooshi]

It took a giant search engine to push America forward while its own government is desperately trying to hold its people back as the rest of the world advances. Let that sink in.

[Scheer]

So the company that has all of our personal details and knows exactly where we are located at all times will now be building rockets and robots.

 

You guys realize how screwed we are when one of the execs snaps and decides he wants to rule the world right?

[Trik'Stari]

"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks...."

[Misanthrope]

I thought the title was "Google may be going out of space" and thought well shit that's what happens when you collect all of the data ever.

[Thony]

Hangar One = Skynet HQ.

[Tech_Dreamer]

They might be planning to build The Death star..

 

 

Google death star, come to the dark side ,we got fibre...

[Maslofski]

the first ones to delliver 1GB/s hotspots on the moon and soon mars

[Dingus]

I'm optimistic-ish. Google has brought some cool new takes on existing technology, and SCOTUS has determined that corporations are people.

 

And the 2024 Nobel Prize in Astrophysics goes to Google

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

the first ones to delliver 1GB/s hotspots on the moon and soon mars

That's going to be a hell of a ping. Light takes several minutes to travel from earth to Mars...

[Maslofski]

That's going to be a hell of a ping. Light takes several minutes to travel from earth to Mars...

thats why google is setting up mirror servers for people on mars to use

[Nallown]

I'm not entirely sure whether just because you're restoring a hanger in help with NASA would exactly mean that you'd be going to space.

 

So Hangar One is an extremely old structure which has been around for decades. If you look up the history of the Hangar One you can see that there was some back and forward going on with the structure whether to strip it apart or not and finally NASA was given responsibility to restore the structure.

 

After this Google has chosen to help them out with the restoration, in return they'd want 2/3 of the space but eventually (now) they have chosen to sign a lease for this structure.

 

Assuming that Google will be going to space just because it has signed a 60 year lease with NASA for a hangar I think is wrong. Google has done this many times before where they end up partnering or signing agreements with NASA but so far, never have they actually went out to space.

 

The origin of the hangar isn't to be used for launching space rockets out or whatever, it's a hangar. I'm guessing that NASA's intention to was to use it for possibly developing their technology to push their way up to space even better but so far Google has shown no sign of wanting to go to space.

 

My guesses is that Google has chosen to sign a 60 year lease with NASA for this hangar for its size and research they'd be able to hold in this and not exactly to launch a rocket in space.

If any other institute were to be responsible for this hangar and Google would of been responsible for it then I don't believe that "going to space" would of been mentioned.

 

I think that it's silly to assume that Google will be going to space just because they have signed a lease with NASA who was in fact given responsibility for this hangar later on in 2008.

Just because you're singing a contract with NASA doesn't mean that you're going to space. NASA provides much more then just space research and they in fact end up passing on their posses to other institutes over time and so far not many of these institutes have used those possessions for launching rockets into space.

 

Just saying that we shouldn't get our hopes up and believe that Google will be going to space just because it has signed a 60 year lease for a hangar. There's much more you can do with a hangar.