Virgle

Virgle

Virgle is a joint April Fools' Day prank engineered by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and the Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson. The stated goal of the project is to establish the first permanent human colony Mars within the next 20 years. According to the hoax, Branson, Page and Brin, along with a number of volunteer "Pioneers," will set out for the red planet in hopes of setting up a thriving human community by the year 2108 in accordance with the five-stage "100 Year Plan."

Fast Facts:

Announced: April 1, 2008
Slogan: "The Adventure of Many Lifetimes"
Phases of The 100 Year Plan:

Quotes:

"You could win a coveted slot on the earliest, most uncomfortable and dangerously untested manned space flights to the new New World - or a fabulous prize!"
"All will be radically decentralized, non-hierarchical and, you know, perfect and cool and groundbreaking and innovative in every way."

Categories

Technology | Google | April Fools Day

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Virgle Info

Google: Virgle - The Adventure of Many Lifetimes
Virgle: The 100 Year Plan | Open Source Planet | Apply to Be a Pioneer
Official Google Blog: Announcing Project Virgle
YouTube: The Virgle Channel
YouTube: Larry Page and Sergey Brin on Virgle
YouTube: Richard Branson on Virgle

Virgle News

CNET: Google does April Fools': 'Custom time' and a Mars trip (April 1, 2008)
Time: April Fooled by Google and Virgin? (April 1, 2008)
Red Herring: Google, Virgin Launch Hoax Mars Settlement (April 1, 2008)
Planet Chiropractic: Project Virgle Launched by Google and Founder of Virgin Group (April 1, 2008)
Wired Science: Google and Virgin Team Up to Spell 'Virgle' (April 1, 2008)
The Next Web: Google + kite-surfing + environment + Virgin = Virgle January 4, 2008)
Topix.net: Virgle
Google News: Virgle

Virgle Blogs, Forums and Commentaries

Google Groups: Project Virgle: Mission Control
Eco Geek: Google Gives Up on Earth: Will Colonize Mars (April 1, 2008)
Neatorama: Virgle: Branson and Google Colonizes Mars (April 1, 2008)
Google Blog Search: Virgle

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Google | Virgin Galactic | Richard Branson | Sergey Brin and Larry Page

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