Google and Virgin Group reps released the following about their upcoming business partnership:
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.
I will admit, I hastily went through the online questionaire that determines if you are a suitable contender for such a daring job. Then it occured to me… Today is April Fools!
Way to go, Google! You just let down so many neo-republic, socrates reading geeks who were finally going to get laid!
haha
April 1st, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Yeah i read it too, filling out the questionnaire, and went on to read the whole 5 pages of future planning. Just as it dawned on me it was way too cool to be true i realized it was April Fools day. damn you google! *shakes fist*
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
I forgot it was April Fool’s Day, but I didn’t bother. Just by looking at that picture over there, I said to meself, “Gosh darn, thats an ugly planet. Looks like something outta counterstrike maps.”
and so, hahahah!