Google just announced project Virgle, a project with the goal of establishing a permanent human settlement on Mars. According to their blog:
In the years to come, we'll be sending up a series of spaceships carrying (along with the supplies and tools needed to build the new colony) what eventually will be hundreds of Mars colonists, or Virgle Pioneers -- myself among them
Richard Branson is going to be there so make sure you'll be one of the first to apply. They seem to be receiving too many applications now, because I keep getting an error when trying to sign up.
Boy, isn't this a busy day for Google. Today it announced quite some new services: Google Dajare (organizing the world's laughter in Japan), gDay (search web pages 24 hours before they're created in Australia), Google Dialect Translation (translate to/from Standard Korean), Gmail Custom Time (stamp emails in the past), YouTube Rickrolled (featured videos link to Rick Astley's famous song), Google calendar with "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, Google Wake Up Kit (calendar notification option) and Google Docs Airplane (create paper airplanes). More about the entire list of Google April Fool's jokes in 2008.
3 comments:
9:41 AM
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.
2:13 PM
Well written - You told everything you needed to tell. Its a shame that sites with too many advertisements have trained readers visiting friendly sites like yours not to click through to the links you supplied.
Highbrid Nation, maybe you need to spend more time reading than promoting your own site.
4:11 AM
Agree with you musicunderfire, but I allowed the comment anyway because:
- each link in the comment has a rel="nofollow" attribute so search engines pay no attention to it
- a user wouldn't click on that link if he/she despises such practices
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