Would you like to live on Mars?

April 1st, 2008

Richard Branson and the Virgin Group have announced on their Virgin blog that they have joined forces with Google to launch a new ambitious business venture called Virgle.

Virgle’s aim is to set up a human settlement on Mars. Apparently, over the coming years, spaceships will leave earth to carry all sorts of supplies and tools to Mars and they are now looking for intrepid explorers with world-class skills to join them.

There is a quick questionnaire that needs to be completed by all those interested where you will be asked very intense and thought provoking questions about how you would deal with life on Mars. For example, how would you respond if you were ‘unexpectedly confronted with the emergence of a bewildering alien and frighteningly advanced Martian life form?’.

A question that we must all ask ourselves quite often!

Ok, so it is the 1st April but how many of us would try to escape earth for a new life on Mars. Would you?

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1. mike belgrove | April 1st, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Even my hip hop blog Highbrid Nation had to report on project Virgle. If it is indeed real, then it is huge and is major in the area of space exploration. However I fear that it is indeed and elaborate April Fool’s Day hoax. I guess we’ll know for sure if announcements continue after today. Personally I’d love to see the two companies team up considering what they already have done with the Lunar X Prize and Virgin Galactic.