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	<title>Betabeat &#187; Google&#8217;s Mountain View Headquarters Are Under Attack From Toxic Vapors!</title>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Mountain View Headquarters Are Under Attack From Toxic Vapors!</title>

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<p>Google's <a href="http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/mountain-view/">Mountain View campus</a> is home to a beach volleyball court, a bowling alley, a climbing wall, seven fitness centers, "more than 100 micro-kitchens" and, it seems, toxic vapors.</p>
<p><a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/02/22/toxic-vapors-seeping-up-from-underneath-google-buildings/">CBS says</a> readings of <a href="http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/hlthef/tri-ethy.html">TCE</a>, or trichloroethylene vapors, as high as eight micrograms per cubic meter were found in Google buildings. Not to get too Erin Brokovich on you, but the normal range is five per cubic meter.</p>
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<p>CBS says the culprit are the ghosts of Silicon Valley's past. Buildings QD6, and QD7 are located on land once used by computer chip manufacturers like Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Raytheon and more, who "<a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/02/22/toxic-vapors-seeping-up-from-underneath-google-buildings/">dumped thousands of gallons</a> of the toxic solvent into the ground, contaminating the water."</p>
<p>But we think we know what dark forces <a href="http://betabeat.com/2013/01/ray-kurzweil-says-hell-get-unlimited-funds-to-work-on-ai-at-google/">tinkering in the basement</a> might <em>really</em> be at fault. RAYMOND KURZWEIL, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! REPORT TO THE SLIDE IMMEDIATELY.</p>
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<p>Google's <a href="http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/mountain-view/">Mountain View campus</a> is home to a beach volleyball court, a bowling alley, a climbing wall, seven fitness centers, "more than 100 micro-kitchens" and, it seems, toxic vapors.</p>
<p><a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/02/22/toxic-vapors-seeping-up-from-underneath-google-buildings/">CBS says</a> readings of <a href="http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/hlthef/tri-ethy.html">TCE</a>, or trichloroethylene vapors, as high as eight micrograms per cubic meter were found in Google buildings. Not to get too Erin Brokovich on you, but the normal range is five per cubic meter.</p>
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<p>CBS says the culprit are the ghosts of Silicon Valley's past. Buildings QD6, and QD7 are located on land once used by computer chip manufacturers like Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Raytheon and more, who "<a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/02/22/toxic-vapors-seeping-up-from-underneath-google-buildings/">dumped thousands of gallons</a> of the toxic solvent into the ground, contaminating the water."</p>
<p>But we think we know what dark forces <a href="http://betabeat.com/2013/01/ray-kurzweil-says-hell-get-unlimited-funds-to-work-on-ai-at-google/">tinkering in the basement</a> might <em>really</em> be at fault. RAYMOND KURZWEIL, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! REPORT TO THE SLIDE IMMEDIATELY.</p>
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