I doubt I will ever be able to explain to any of you why I like NASA Ames this much. Ofcourse, Ames is a big name in Space research. Also any fan of Braniac knows of its ultra big hangar. But if you would stand here next to me, looking at the buildings that make [...]

As a Google fan in many ways visiting Googleplex is like going to Disney World, but much, much better.
For those of you never having been here let me try to describe what it looks like.
Basically it looks like a modern university campus. With the same buzz, the same demographic even, minus the old established professors. [...]

SpaceX next to Hawthorne airport in Los Angeles, Ca. viewed from the air.
Visiting SpaceX turned out, for me, to be visiting my past. To be more precise, my early youth.
That, you will all say, is impossible. Whatever my age, there was no private space industry of this kind, when I could have been young. True, [...]