The world is not enough: All of Google's heavy petting with NASA will pay off when the two hop into bed.

Google's opening a Houston office, where it will continue its work with NASA, according to a secondhand source.

Hopefully this will be more substantial than Google Mars (as cool as that is). Think of the possibilities — a Googleplex moonbase, Adsense among the stars, Google-branded von Neumann probes (seeking out strange civilizations and charging 5 cents per click to sell to them)...

Earlier: Google Earth plays with VR at NASA [Valleywag]

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