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Google has clinched a $146m lease with NASA's research park in Mountain View, California to develop a 42-acre technology campus on the space agency's land. Perhaps jet-setting Googlers were tired of driving the extra two miles to the company's own headquarters after they touchdown on the NASA-run airfield, where Google already …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Really?

    "As many of you know, Google now inhabits SGI's old headquarters"

    Really? The old SGI HQ is now the Computer History Museum. (http://www.computerhistory.org/) how appropriate.

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  2. Ashlee Vance (Written by Reg staff)

    Re: Really?

    Mmm, they're both old SGI compounds. Like we say in the story, SGI bought up a ton of properties in that area off Shoreline.

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  3. Matthew Barker

    Re: Really?

    In the years I was at SGI, that was only ever known as a sales building.

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  4. CTG
    Happy

    Re: Re: Really?

    If only there was a book describing the history of Silicon Valley, we'd know the real story...

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  5. Hrishikesh
    Dead Vulture

    All your base can please belong to us?

    Last I checked we were in 2008 not 2002! I thought the latest hawtness would be along the lines of "I can haz your baes?"

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  6. Marc Lawrence

    Space port

    Perhaps Google will want it as their space port for the global advertising campaign which we will see by then...

    GoogleAds posted to the stars...

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