Google's Glomar Explorer?
Announced this week a Google subsidiary ~ Planetary Ventures LLC ~ will take ownership and operation of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Googling Planetary Ventures returns stories ranging from Space exploration, mining of asteroids, or simply maintaining Google’s fleet of executive aircraft. Their real story who knows?
It rings familiar to the story of eccentric businessman and 1%er of the day Howard Hughes and his Glomar Explorer. The story put forward to the public was the “outside the box” thinking Hughes was going to explore the deep water seeking to mine minerals, gems and metals from the sea floor. The public dismissed it as yet another Hughes adventure not probing the offiical version any deeper than what was put forward. Behind the scenes the ship was tasked by the CIA Special Activities Division with raising a sunken Soviet submarine – laden with Nuclear Missiles, code machines, and other “gems” valuable at that time. Hiding in plain sight they stumbled through the execution losing 2/3rds of the bounty to mechanical issues while raising the sunken tube. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
undeniable that when it comes to Google~ there is much more to the story than meets the eye ~ Google’s barges, data centers, trips to North Korea, collecting data harvesting search results and personal emails of everyone from foreign leaders to the man on the street in Oklahoma.
By privatizing Ames we won’t know the true mission of the facility ~ mining asteroids? Or something else? A space port to be used for ETs? knocking out inbound man killer asteroids, meterors, or comets? We may never know ~
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/10/asteroid-mining-company-negotiating-with-nasa-to-restore-and-operate-historic-airport/
