"The village will be located on the scenic south side of NASA's highly toxic Moffett Field Hanger One."

Right alongside Hwy 101, then, and "toxins" from Hanger One, along with 100 years of misc. military toxic waste. THAT'll suit the greens no end. Come to think of it, are there 75 acres between the hanger and Bayshore? Maybe they are planning on annexing the golf course ... Surely they aren't planning on shortening the runway?

A project costing $1bn than houses a few thousand people at most ie. hundreds of thousands of dollars per person, and still does not generate their food, is hardly a blueprint for sustainable living.

Perhaps they will have a wind turbine that gets powered by Google take offs and landings. When their batteries start going flat they ask Google to do some circuits and bumps.

"Perhaps they will have a wind turbine that gets powered by Google take offs and landings. When their batteries start going flat they ask Google to do some circuits and bumps."

Better yet, they'll bring back the Navy's P3s ... Bummer that St. James Infirmary is gone ...

Sure, research costs a bit more, but not necessarily that much.

Research costs a lot more when you need to make multiple trials and prototypes to build one thing. ie multiple prototypes to test multiple variables, scrapping each prototype. That is a fine way to research building a setelite or whatever.

In this case though, they're building multiple buildings, so can design each one differently, with different materials, etc (ie each embodying different variables) so that they'd end up with a living experiment. There is no need to build one, test for a year, then demolish it and try another. Sure, that would cost more than cookie cutting the buildings off the same design, but not by factors of 10.

wtf is NASA doing this sort of research for? It is outside their brief. Surely there are other agencies which can do this experimentation more effectively (ie. more research per $).

I can smell the pork and mythical $16k toilet seats from here.

Isn't NASA the outfit that used to fly rockets and things into space? Seems to be an all-singing, all-dancing enviro-fest these days.

Eureka?

I mean, "Eureka" needs its sheriff. Otherwise, it's not good enough.

Is always fully cooked, but only ever half baked.