Like everyone else at first, I thought the NASA/Google announcement yesterday would just be a real estate transaction: NASA has lots of empty land at Moffett Field, and Google wants to build a showcase office complex relatively near their current headquarters. No big deal.

Boy, was I wrong.

In what will likely go down in history as the moment when the Google executive staff proved once and for all that they had completely lost touch with reality, Google announced they are going to collaborate with NASA on "sensors, new materials, bio-info-nanotechnology, and recruiting entrepreneurs into the space program."

No. I am not making this up. A company which to this date has made 99.99% of all its revenue by selling advertising is now planning to branch out into nanotechnology and spaceflight. Because as we all know, running a business selling tiny classified ads on people's blogs translates perfectly into orbital mechanics and life sciences. WHAT. THE. FUCK.? Methinks some people did a few too many drugs at Burning Man this year..