Google Barges; What Are They????

[SilentFeathers]

Like we don't have enough confusing things to speculate about now-a-days!?!?!

But......these Google Barges just seem really weird! really strange! Almost like another Philadelphia Experiment!

What do you think they are folk's?

Here's the MSM spin on them...."relax folk's, they're just learning centers!"


Google barges mystery solved! To be high-tech, high-seas learning centers
For weeks social media has been buzzing over the strange floating objects in San Francisco and Portland. Now all is revealed — The tech giant is ‘exploring using the barge as an interactive space where people can learn about new technology.’
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/google-barge-mystery-revealed-high-tech-learning-centers-article-1.1511635

This is what we are told to believe, perhaps that's all they are huh? (I personally doubt it).

Here's Wiki's take on them....

Google Barges @ wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges)

Enter the "conspiracy theory" spin.....

This video is a great compilation of information relating to these barges, but, I do not agree with some of the video makers own personal spin. Some information in this video is rather quite interesting IMO.

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Check this out.....from 2007

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Back to the barges, are they just data storage facilities? or something more?

This video is a bit funny, but the dude may be on to something....

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...and of course, no "conspiracy" is complete without Alex Jones's take on it!

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...and now my spin on these barges.....

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At the beginning of this post I mentioned the Philadelphia Experiment, well, these barges somehow make me think in this direction.....for what reason? well, I'm not quite sure yet.

At this point in time I do think they may be data storage centers, but I also think they may also be some type of supercomputer machines to project something and or manipulate something.....project or manipulate what? I don't know. (just speculating).

What ever they actually are being built for, I do think it's worth it to keep an eye on these things and pay attention to this topic/event....I'm going to, I think these barges are a major piece to the confusing puzzle that we have been seeing manifest in many degrees of weirdness lately.

ADDED:

This woman is connected with these barges.


Regina E. Dugan (born March 19, 1963) is an American inventor and businesswoman. She served as the 19th Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). She was appointed to that position on July 20, 2009 and was the first female DARPA director.[1] In March 2012, she left her position to take an executive role at Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan

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[Freed Fox]

I'd be much more inclined to accept your theory (data storage centers) than the alleged 'mainstream' explanation... 'Learning centers'? Housed in barges, placed just off the coast?? And they've gone this long without offering such an explanation? Too much about that simply doesn't add up.

Trying not to be too paranoid about this, but it does seem rather suspicious indeed.

For a somewhat lighter take;

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Though, even from a comedic stance it all seems somewhat unsettling.

[seleka]

I was in another forum that covered this extensively. I remember a few neat facts, like by and large is the same company from the movie wall-e (buy and largeH5GqwtuP-t4kZg-L9bGHYY), (and that spawns a whole long thing where lots of hints are hidden in those pixar films, and they are all connected). They did file a patent for this back in 2007 https://www.google.com/patents/US7525207. I am not sure if this info is in the videos you posted, if so sorry for repeating... will add more as I recall it.

edit: watching the first video (from OP)- he takes a long time to get around to it- but what he says makes sense. If there is a reason for the important people to think there is a catastrophe that would flood the coasts, it would make sense they are moving all their stuff out of those cities. the numbers assigned to the barges are binary code, the first four of that series I guess. If I remember more should I keep adding it here, or post new posts?

[RMorgan]

Hey folks,

Google is a huge company with a lot of money. They're famous for using unusual experimental techniques that eventually may improve their business.

I think these are simply mobile data-centers that use water to cool down their systems. They already use a sea water based cooling system in one of their data-centers in Finland or Iceland; I don't remember where exactly, but this method is much more efficient, sustainable and cost-effective.

So, it just makes sense...If you're going to use water to cool down a big data-center, why not put the whole thing on a boat, surrounded by water?

It's probably just another experimental/conceptual project...And why not? It could simply be an itinerant technology museum/learning center as well..Is there anything wrong with it? A lot of people would be interested to see and learn about the state-of-the-art technology behind the internet.

Honestly, I see no reason to see any conspiracy in this case.

Raf.

[seleka]

hey there is a wikipedia page about it now... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges edit: ps I do not know about code, I am parroting what I read elsewhere as I was very interested in the story also. So does 0011 correspond to a letter? there would be 4 letters then. like on this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) it shows the ascii code for wikipedia in a box on right... so if they are BAL0001, BAL0010, BAL0011, BAL0100, does that translate to anything? I might be too tired to do any valid research today... will be back later. My gut feeling is they are for survival of their employees in an emergency situation- I have heard they treat their employees well and value them.

edit again: ascii translate http://www.simotime.com/asc2ebc1.htm

[SilentFeathers]

Hey folks,

Google is a huge company with a lot of money. They're famous for using unusual experimental techniques that eventually may improve their business.

I think these are simply mobile data-centers that use water to cool down their systems. They already use a sea water based cooling system in one of their data-centers in Finland or Iceland; I don't remember where exactly, but this method is much more efficient, sustainable and cost-effective.

So, it just makes sense...If you're going to use water to cool down a big data-center, why not put the whole thing on a boat, surrounded by water?

It's probably just another experimental/conceptual project...And why not? It could simply be an itinerant technology museum/learning center as well..Is there anything wrong with it? A lot of people would be interested to see and learn about the state-of-the-art technology behind the internet.

Honestly, I see no reason to see any conspiracy in this case.

Raf.

You may be correct Raf that they are nothing more than exactly what they are telling us they are.....BUT, if this is the case, it would be the first time in modern history that the MSM actually told us the truth! LOL!

[noprophet]

This article was pretty good:

m.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1344005/speculation-aplenty-about-googles-barge-san-francisco-bay-area

How badly does Google want to keep under wraps a mysterious project taking shape on a barge in San Francisco Bay? Badly enough to require some US government officials to sign confidentiality agreements.

At least one coastguard employee has had to sign a non-disclosure agreement with the internet giant, said Barry Bena, a US coastguard spokesman. Another person who would only identify himself as an inspector for a California government agency had to do the same.

Moored in the shadow of the Bay Bridge off Treasure Island, a former military base, the nondescript barge is stacked several storeys high with white shipping containers, and sprouts what appear to be antennas on top. The hulking structure, half shrouded in scaffolding, has stirred intense speculation in the Bay Area since reports of its existence surfaced late last week.

Technology website CNET theorised it might be a floating data centre that would house banks of computers. Local TV station KPIX said the barge was intended to serve as a floating retail store for Google's "Glass" wearable computer device.

Adding to the mystery, a second similar barge was recently spotted in Portland, in the US state of Maine. Both are reported to be registered to the same firm, By and Large. The company refused even to acknowledge its affiliation with the vessels.

Secrecy is a standard business practice in Silicon Valley, where technology companies such as Apple go to great lengths to keep their latest gadgets under wraps and a constellation of blogs compete to reveal highly prized details. But the concealment effort surrounding the barge is in another league. Chain-link fences and security guards encircle a pier and a couple of nearby buildings on the island, which sits between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland.

A California state inspector said he had to surrender his mobile phone and sign a confidentiality agreement in order to enter.

Bob Jessup, a construction company superintendent who works in a building across the street, said Google had spent the past year working on the project.

He said they fenced off a wide area and brought in at least 40 welders a day, who worked around the clock and refused to say a word.

"They wouldn't give up any of the information. It was a phenomenal production. None of them would tell us anything."

He said they worked on the inside and the outside of the shipping containers, outfitting them with electronics - "very hush hush" - and then loaded them onto the barge with a crane.

Larry Goldzband, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, said his agency had had several meetings with Google officials about the barge in recent months. Yet the company provided little information other than telling him that the vessel would be used for "general technology purposes", he said.

Google "could not give us a specific plan of any kind", Goldzband said.

[sheme]

Nano triangulation to takeout/locate incoming meteors WHY. The barges are not exactly sea worthy are they. Perhaps we know they must teleport to safety, could this be why the Philadelphia experiment comes to mind.

Human location, total control ? The mark of the beast at it's conception. We must reject this, lead bracelet any one?

Why on Earth don't they tell us the truth.

Thanks for this thread.

[SilentFeathers]

hey there is a wikipedia page about it now... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges edit: ps I do not know about code, I am parroting what I read elsewhere as I was very interested in the story also. So does 0011 correspond to a letter? there would be 4 letters then. like on this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) it shows the ascii code for wikipedia in a box on right... so if they are BAL0001, BAL0010, BAL0011, BAL0100, does that translate to anything? I might be too tired to do any valid research today... will be back later. My gut feeling is they are for survival of their employees in an emergency situation- I have heard they treat their employees well and value them.

edit again: ascii translate http://www.simotime.com/asc2ebc1.htm

Binary Numbers: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/courses/CSCI1200-96/binary.html

0001=1
0010=2
0011=3
0100=4

Googles way to number the barges

[seleka]

my keyboard keys not worng rght. ths s from the trnslte pge.
SOH 0000 0001= southern Ohio?
STX 0000 0010= s tx?
ETX 0000 0011= e tx?
EOT 0000 0100= eastern ontario?

hey I am sick in bed and this mystery is a good one.

[ghostrider]

All the antenna's on the roof , hmmmm wireless electricity ??? floating on water , hmmm , No one can sneak on board , and it makes it mobile ...why post security guards ??? if the power grid goes down , these floating barges could run government computers on wireless technology while the rest of the world is in the dark ... and they can be moved out to sea , making it impossible for the public to acess them at all ... these things are creapy for sure ...

[raregem]

MY MY MY ....Midway through first video..sure is fascinating. I wonder what part the powers behind the governments play in this company, Google.?
Thank you for posting. I have homework NOW- thanks to you, Silent Feathers !

PS Are these typical shipping containers made from metal? If so, wouldn't the frequency waves become exponential within the area? With all those antennas and other types of metal(?) structures (antennas, too?) on top of roof just seems like a DNA time bomb -regardless.

[SilentFeathers]

All the antenna's on the roof , hmmmm wireless electricity ??? floating on water , hmmm , No one can sneak on board , and it makes it mobile ...why post security guards ??? if the power grid goes down , these floating barges could run government computers on wireless technology while the rest of the world is in the dark ... and they can be moved out to sea , making it impossible for the public to acess them at all ... these things are creapy for sure ...

Seems they would have to be wireless/satellite.....I'm wondering how they are going to generate enough power to run and cool everything? A group of diesel engines doesn't make sense to me to do everything needed. I imagine that the huge sails that I read about that will be installed on them will be some form of advanced technology relating to solar power?????

They almost are sounding like a prototype borg ship! lol!

I personally think they are more than just backup data storage buildings or VIP tech schools.....or here's a good one, floating google walmarts!

[SilentFeathers]

MY MY MY ....Midway through first video..sure is fascinating. I wonder what part the powers behind the governments play in this company, Google.?
Thank you for posting. I have homework NOW- thanks to you, Silent Feathers !

PS Are these typical shipping containers made from metal? If so, wouldn't the frequency waves become exponential within the area? With all those antennas and other types of metal(?) structures (antennas, too?) on top of roof just seems like a DNA time bomb -regardless.

It appears to be storage containers....or some type of cubes fabricated like storage containers.

You mention DNA time bomb....IMO that is not an outrageous comment considering DARPA and the Gov/Military is connected to Google in many ways.

[SilentFeathers]

This is "interesting"....


Search engine giant Google announced today (May 16) it was teaming with NASA Ames Research Center and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to create the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, to be housed later this year at the NASA Ames facility in Moffett Field, Calif., northwest of San Jose.

Their new computing system, dubbed D-Wave Two, is D-Wave's second quantum computer and the second to be installed in California. Lockheed Martin, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, purchased a D-Wave quantum computer in 2011 and installed it at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, according to Nature.com.

Though D-Wave reportedly doesn't release any price information on its computers, the BBC states the D-Wave Two cost about $15 million and will be housed in a box the size of a garden shed that will cool the computer's quantum chip to temperatures approaching absolute zero.
http://www.livescience.com/32080-google-nasa-quantum-computer-d-wave.html

D-Wave Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems)

Speculation? perhaps

Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines (http://www.dailypaul.com/290052/skynet-rising-google-acquires-512-qubit-quantum-computer-nsa-surveillance-to-be-turned-over-to-ai-machines)

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[SilentFeathers]

Here's an interesting title to an article:


Google’s Showroom Barge Will Look Like A Dimensional Portal, Play Host To Thousands Daily
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/08/google-barge-showroom-design/

They just have to use these strange words to describe these things huh? Especially after I initially thought of the Philadelphia Experiment when I first heard of these barges!

[Pink Rabbit]

If they are a backup system then what disaster are they a backup for? Flooding events could damage machines housed on land but would spare those floating. Maybe earthquakes also would affect land based machines more than those floating. Other disasters such as radiation, EMP, would affect anything nearby including these. Those antennae might mean they could route a Google node or whatever you call their data centers into one of these wirelessly. They do look like either a first phase of a longer plan or a rapid build on urgent basis as they are coarse exteriors.

[seleka]

new article
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-barges-floating-retail-stores-20131202,0,1922028.story#axzz2mSd7GhPu
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By Salvador Rodriguez

December 2, 2013, 2:30 p.m.

Exactly what Google wants to do with the barges being built on both coasts are becoming a bit clearer.

According to a new report, there will actually be three barges and they will be used as floating retail stores for Google's new Glass eyewear.

They will cost a total of $35 million, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which attributed the information to a budget report by Turner Construction Co., which is building the barges.

The barges will be stationed in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, the Chronicle says. Each barge will be built out of 80 shipping containers and they'll each feature large sails.

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The project has been code-named Hangar 3, a reference to the location where one of the barges is currently being built at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, the Chronicle says.

Treasure Island Development Authority Director of Operations Mirian Saez told the Chronicle that Google representatives have said the barges will "be an important opportunity for the launching" of Google Glass in 2014.

Google has been cagey about the purpose of the barges, saying only that they will be used as "interactive space" for learning about technology.

"While we have explored many ideas in the past around the barges, our current plan, as we've stated before, is to use them as an interactive space where people can learn about new technology," the Silicon Valley company told the Chronicle.

But the floating Google Glass retail stores may not come to be if Google does not obtain the necessary permits. The Chronicle says Google needs a permit from the regional Bay Conservation and Development Commission if it wants to keep a barge in San Francisco Bay for a lengthy period of time, and that may not come easy.

"A floating retail store that is not a bay-oriented enterprise would probably make a lot of jaws drop at a commission meeting," Larry Goldzband, commission executive, told the Chronicle."

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-barges-floating-retail-stores-20131202,0,1922028.story#ixzz2mSdW7Pik