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Flint · 04-01-2008, 09:18 AM

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...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.

Test your pioneering potential. Read the 100 year plan.

SteveDallas · 04-01-2008, 10:03 AM

Dammit. I was going to sign up, but now I'm afraid it'll conflict with my plans to go to work at Google's new office on the Moon.

Decisions, Decisions.

BigV · 04-01-2008, 11:30 AM

Actually, this looks pretty good. People and organizations like this will lead the way forward into space. Relying on governments alone will leave us waiting and paying for a long time. I especially like the way they've cast a wide net with their plan and survey. Leveraging the transportation expertise of Virgin with the information management expertise of Google seems like a potent combination. Futuristic visions like this are very exciting, it feels like science fiction is becoming science fact. Our destiny as a species lies beyond cradle Earth. Out there! Life's (as we know it) next great diaspora!

HungLikeJesus · 04-01-2008, 12:57 PM

What is today's date?

lookout123 · 04-01-2008, 02:35 PM

Isn't Google pretty well known for their 4/1 jokes?

BigV · 04-01-2008, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

What is today's date?

01 Apr 2008, of course. Why do you ask?

shina · 04-01-2008, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

Isn't Google pretty well known for their 4/1 jokes?

Yep. They have one going.

Flint · 04-01-2008, 02:55 PM

I heard they have a big one planned for this year; can't wait to see what it is!

lookout123 · 04-01-2008, 02:58 PM

Let me know when it happens, please?

BigV · 04-01-2008, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

Let me know when it happens, please?

Oh! Me too! I *love* a good joke.

BigV · 04-01-2008, 06:04 PM

WTF?!?

I feel so... used.

lumberjim · 04-01-2008, 06:56 PM

this is april 1st, mind.

and i thought it was gonna be galled project Googin?

SteveDallas · 04-01-2008, 11:23 PM

Screw them. The bastards never responded to my application to go work on the moon. I won't give them the satisfaction twice.

tw · 04-01-2008, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Screw them. The bastards never responded to my application to go work on the moon.

Probably for the better. No jobs on the moon. You would have ended up on welfare.

BigV · 04-02-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

this is april 1st, mind.

and i thought it was gonna be galled project Googin?

I know that. I *knew* that. All along.

04-01-2008, 11:30 AM	#3
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Actually, this looks pretty good. People and organizations like this will lead the way forward into space. Relying on governments alone will leave us waiting and paying for a long time. I especially like the way they've cast a wide net with their plan and survey. Leveraging the transportation expertise of Virgin with the information management expertise of Google seems like a potent combination. Futuristic visions like this are very exciting, it feels like science fiction is becoming science fact. Our destiny as a species lies beyond cradle Earth. Out there! Life's (as we know it) next great diaspora! __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

04-01-2008, 12:57 PM	#4
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	What is today's date? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

04-01-2008, 02:35 PM	#5
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Isn't Google pretty well known for their 4/1 jokes? __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

04-01-2008, 02:55 PM	#8
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I heard they have a big one planned for this year; can't wait to see what it is! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

04-01-2008, 02:58 PM	#9
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Let me know when it happens, please? __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

04-01-2008, 10:03 AM	#2
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Dammit. I was going to sign up, but now I'm afraid it'll conflict with my plans to go to work at Google's new office on the Moon. Decisions, Decisions.

04-01-2008, 06:04 PM	#11
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	WTF?!? I feel so... used. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

04-01-2008, 06:56 PM	#12
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	this is april 1st, mind. and i thought it was gonna be galled project Googin? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

04-01-2008, 11:23 PM	#13
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Screw them. The bastards never responded to my application to go work on the moon. I won't give them the satisfaction twice.

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