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Virgle's April Fool
Bored of life on Earth? Then you might be interested to know that Google and Virgin today announced the launch of Virgle, a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars. The plan: to boldly go where no internet content provider has gone before.
Prospective Virgle pioneers are encouraged to "submit a 30-second YouTube video". If successful, they will get to join Google co-founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Virgin founder Richard Branson on the planet Mars "sometime in the next 20 years". The recruitment literature goes on to say:
"Sure, the work will be hard, the broadband rates low, the commodes decidedly open source, and yes, your life might be extinguished in a fiery instant of catastrophic technological malfunction. But your enriched descendants will appreciate your sacrifice, which should render worthwhile your choice to spend the rest of your (perhaps radically foreshortened) life in deprivation and uncertainty."
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