Friday, November 1, 2013
Google Mystery Barge.
If you are falling for the "Party Barge" or the "VIP Demonstration" barge you are severely lacking in cognitive sufficiency.
1.) It has very small windows. The purpose of having a party BARGE is to enjoy the scenery from every place on the boat which is why real party barges have giant WINDOWS.
2.) It's supposed to be glitzy and glamorous. It's VERY difficult to turn shipping containers with their limited height and width in to anything considered close to glamorous.
3.) Since it's modular, why build it on a barge to begin with if the intention is to reconstruct it anywhere in the country? Why bother with the regulations and permit processes?
4.) Why didn't Google just BUY one of any party barges or for that matter A FLEET OF YACHTS. Oh yeah, you wouldn't be able to reconstruct the barge at the Four Seasons.
5.) Why would you even want to re-construct that ugly POS at an exclusive resort where executive would be entertained?
6.) Why did work stop during the Government shutdown?
Pure and simple, the barge was going to be moved to international waters, beyond the reach of American law and used for surveillance. It will be funny to see Google try and continue the charade and make a real party barge out of it. Meanwhile, they will have to start over on their construction in some Banana Republic.
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Yeah, I have been waiting for this to develop.... apparently a second one is in waters off of main..... don't it make you want to go hummm.....
ReplyDelete(CNN) -- The mystery barge in San Francisco Bay is indeed a Google project, and houses a fancy, floating showroom for Google Glass and other products, a CNN affiliate is reporting.
ReplyDeleteAccording to KPIX-TV in San Francisco, the barge structure will become one of a small fleet of luxury event spaces, complete with a party deck for invitation-only visitors.
The station cited "multiple sources" including at least one who has been aboard the barge, and said it was dreamed up at Google X, the company's secret facility where engineers have cooked up projects like Google Glass and a self-driving car.
The facility is constructed from interchangeable shipping containers and is designed to be disassembled and transported via barge or train to other locations, a source said.
The mystery barge sits in Clipper Cove off Treasure Island, just east of San Francisco.
At least two other similar barges, including one in the Portland, Maine, harbor, also have been spotted since the "mystery barge" -- docked at a pier on Treasure Island, just east of San Francisco -- first made headlines earlier this week. All of them are marked by the letters "BAL" and four numbers. An unnamed tenant that moved into a hangar on Treasure Island on August 1 goes by the handle, "By And Large" -- possibly a playful reference to the corporation in the Pixar movie "Wall-E."
The fancy barges will be an effort by Google to upstage rival Apple's stylized retail stores, a source said.
In a statement, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed it is working with the barges' owners to make sure the floating structures have the proper permits and permissions to operate in the bay. But it didn't say much else.
"Regardless of the company or entity involved, the Coast Guard has an obligation to protect sensitive proprietary information, as a company's competitive posture and business interests depend on it," said the branch of the U.S. military in the brief statement.
Google Glass, worn like regular glasses, has a high-resolution display and lets wearers use voice commands to shoot photos or videos and access features like e-mail, text messaging, Google Maps, Google search and a handful of other apps.
It is currently being tested by about 10,000 "Explorers," who paid $1,500 for the glasses. That program is being expanded. This week, Google announced current testers may invite up to three friends, as well as a planned rollout of a new version of Google Glass.
If the reports about the barges are true, it may take some time before the project is officially confirmed.
Google has declined to comment on the reports. And a shroud of secrecy has cloaked the entire proceedings.
A sign outside the By And Large hangar on Treasure Island has a sign saying that all visitors must hand over their cellphones, cameras, and other recording devices.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is also among those in the dark.
"They've kept a secret from me as well," he told KPIX.
Another conspiracy theory. What ever happened to the face on Mars or the Bat Boy? We can do better than this.
ReplyDeleteConspiracy theory?..... theories; one must postulate otherwise being surprised is almost certian..... Cynical; without a doubt (believe non you hear and half you see).... but conspiracy?...... Tthey would actually have to be in collusion with someone else for it to be a conspiracy..... someone like.... hell, I don't know.... The NSA maybe?
DeleteOne of the things that has always been a high water mark for me is honesty..... Trust does not return quickly when I find out that I have been lied to.... the government is not to be trusted at all and all of these companies that have been known co-conspirators (Oh shit.. I used the conspiracy word) with the NSA and other departments of the government are to be held in suspicion until such time as they actually stand up and refuse to cooperate.... but, as the old saying goes, 'They know which side their bread is buttered on'.....
Google is chucking high tech and opening a welders training school.
ReplyDeletePass it on.