Virgle Asks Is Red Really Your Color?

A most remarkable announcement involves a collaboration with Richard Branson of Virgin Air and Google entitled Virgle, and they’re looking for volunteers to go to the red planet—Mars. Now it’s up to you to decide whether this story is filled with voracity, considering the announcement comes on a day usually suited for pulling pranks, April 1st. Here’s the project: the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world’s every last nook, cranny, and subdivision. Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, 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. They are asking for “interested parties” to submit a 30 second commercial to YouTube, and some are very clever and funny. Check Virgle out at www.google.com/virgle/index.html. Some succumb, some shan’t… good effort, truly!