Chapter 21 Searching for Intelligence in the Stars
Someone new to this area could drive the Bayshore Freeway from Palo Alto to San Jose and never be aware that he or she had just driven through the Silicon Valley. There aren’t a lot of distinguishing signs. In fact, the most extraordinary sight along that stretch of U.S. 101 has nothing to do with Silicon Valley at all. It’s the astonishing sweep of open field and gigantic blimp hangars that make up Moffett Field Naval Air Station in Mountain View.
Yet adjacent to Moffett and only slightly visible from the highway, at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s 360-acre Ames Research Center, scientific and technical work goes on that is very much in the exploratory spirit of Silicon ...
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