A: A fighter jet.

Bits, the technology blog of the N.Y. Times, reports that H211 LLC, a “company controlled by Google’s top executives, including billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added a new plane to its well-equipped fleet: a fighter jet, or more precisely a Dornier Alpha Jet.”

The article says that they will load it up with instruments for NASA missions, but I’m not buying it. Now that they’ve entered the cell phone industry with Android, the next untapped market for Google is the heads-up display for fighter pilots. Just think of the possibilities. A pilot types in “Iran nuclear facility” and then clicks on “I’m feeling lucky.” 0.08 seconds later Google maps delivers a map of Achmadinajad’s back yard. That sounds extremely useful to me.

HT: /.

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