[tim cook]Stephen Lam / Getty Apple has quietly bought and leased a bunch of buildings and named them after Greek deities, according to a report today in the Silicon Valley Business Journal based on documents filed with city governments. A lot of the buildings seemingly relate to Apple's reported plans to build an electric, possibly self-driving, car. We had already heard about a building in Sunnyvale where neighbors were complaining about "motor noises" emerging late at night. That building is reportedly code-named "RHEA," which could be a reference to its reported car project code-named "Titan" (Rhea was one of the titans in Greek mythology.) Building plans include obvious automotive references like a "lube bay" and "wheel balancer," the Business Journal reports. Other buildings in the report include: * MEDUSA, a former manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale. Rooms in the building plans are marked for purposes like "eye tracking" and "vision lab." * MAGNOLIA, a former FedEx facility that's marked to include a giant machine called a "regenerative thermal oxidizer" that can reduce pollution and is used in manufacturing. * ZEUS, a massive former research facility in San Jose that is slated for an "interim lab" with a handful of researchers. It's going to be surrounded by a fence that onlookers can't see through. * ATHENA, which used to be a Maxim chip-making facility. It's not clear what Apple is going to do with it. * CORVINUS, a building in Santa Clara slated for unknown "industrial use." These facilities are in addition to the new spaceship-like circular office building Apple is building in Cupertino, which will be done early next year. Read more here>> NOW WATCH: A green comet is appearing this week that’s 100 times brighter than astronomers predicted — here’s how to see it
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