[BRIEF NOTE] How can we get to Mars?
Apr. 4th, 2008 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldVirgle has an answer.
It's an April Fool's Joke, yes. It's still slightly unnerving as all Google-takes-over-the-planet scenarios tend to be, this one only more so since it's on Mars (Virgle City is to be located in the "Lunae planum area of the north side of Kasei Valles," to be exact, as illustrated by Google Mars) and since its plan for a Mars that's nearly shritsleeves-habitable in a century's time fits so many science-fiction scenarios (Transhuman Space, say). Google could certainly do a good job organizing a planet, and wanting a really cool off-world backup site is probably as good a reason for extraterrestrial colonization as any.
For thousands of years,
the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising
skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and subdivision.
An invitation. Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
The question is, do you want to join us?
Ever yearned to journey to the stars? You can learn how to become a Virgle Pioneer, test your Pioneering potential, or join the Mission Control community that will help develop the 100 Year Plan we've outlined here.
It's an April Fool's Joke, yes. It's still slightly unnerving as all Google-takes-over-the-planet scenarios tend to be, this one only more so since it's on Mars (Virgle City is to be located in the "Lunae planum area of the north side of Kasei Valles," to be exact, as illustrated by Google Mars) and since its plan for a Mars that's nearly shritsleeves-habitable in a century's time fits so many science-fiction scenarios (Transhuman Space, say). Google could certainly do a good job organizing a planet, and wanting a really cool off-world backup site is probably as good a reason for extraterrestrial colonization as any.
