Google Founder Offer $33M For Use of NASA Airship Hangar 86
theodp writes "The Mercury News reports that NASA is considering an offer from Google's billionaire founders to provide '100 percent' funding to save Hangar One. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt have, through a company they control, proposed paying the full $33 million cost of revamping Hangar One, once home to the Navy's giant airships at Moffett Field, in return for use up to two-thirds of the floor space of the hangar to house their fleet of eight private jets. In October, the Googlers struck an agreement with NASA Ames calling for the use of their 'co-located' Alpha fighter jet to, among other things, help NASA mitigate wildfires and study global warming."
But but, think of the... (Score:5, Funny)
Mythbusters... Where are they going to perform their experiments if most of the hangar is full of planes?
I'm more concerned. (Score:3, Funny)
I'm more concerned that google effectively has a fighter jet.