Sir Richard Branson has announced on the Google Blog Virgle, a joint Google/ Virgin project to establish permanent human settlement on Mars.
Sir Richard writes:
Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it’s high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world…In the years to come, we’ll be sending up a series of spaceships carrying (along with the supplies and tools needed to build the new colony) what eventually will be hundreds of Mars colonists, or Virgle Pioneers — myself among them.
Virgle is currently taking applications on its site here. The official site also includes a 100 year plan for Mars Settlement and a statement explaining the benefits of the project being Open Source.
Update: there’s also a YouTube competition and official video channel. Page and Brin explain:
I love that Larry can’t even keep a straight face. Sergey’s the natural prankster.
Lame lame. Bad acting on Larry side.
This is too impossible to believe. Maybe better luck next year. Where are the pigeons?
Branson’s announcement video is better:
http://www.yout...h?v=gWCQYcPlUng
Check this link: http://www.goog...rgle/error.html
You’ll learn more about Virgle…
God knows I had been spaced-out enough in my life but this seemingly appears a tremendous opportunity for me to finally conquer my acrophobia which I recently acquired after scaling the Great Wall of China (blind-folded).
Sir Richard Branson is one of my mentors. Or is it progeny? Shoot, sometimes I don’t know if I’m coming or going!
Well, I better start packing a lunch. Somebody told me that the road trip to Mars doesn’t include stops at the local McDonald’s.
what dont they call it googin
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