Project Virgle
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Project Virgle is Google and Sir Richard Branson's plan to colonize the planet Mars.
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Become a Pioneer
Google is now accepting applications to be a Virgle Pioneer. To apply, the victim goes to the Virgle website and fills out a questionnaire. Following that, you submit a video explaining why you want to live on Mars. You could win a coveted slot on the earliest, most uncomfortable and dangerously untested manned space flights to the new New World.
The 100 Year Plan
2010: Choosing a Site
After much research into, discussion about and outright arguing over water and mineral availability, morphological priorities and the like, the Virgle team has selected the Lunae planum area of the north side of Kasei Valles as the Plymouth Rock of the new New World.
2014: Low Earth Orbit
If a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, then our 550-million-mile journey to Mars will begin with 550,000 1/500th-of-a-mile steps, as the LSE3, a multi-stage heavy lifter now under construction using the World War II-era Liberty Ship philosophy ("Make them fast, ugly and in large numbers"), launches our staging components into low earth orbit.
2015: Virgle Base 1
If you're like us, and deep down you aren't all that interested in going to Mars in the first place unless it means setting loose a swarm of super-cool robots -- well, rest easy. When the Virgle 1 lands, teams of autonomous rovers and assembly platforms will leap into action:
2016: Flying to Mars
Following confirmation of the unmanned flights' successful staging on the Martian surface, the program will begin a synchronized semiannual schedule with human crews. What will a Virgle Pioneer's life be like on the five-month voyage to Mars? Let's take a look.
2108: Virgle City
One hundred years after the launch of Project Virgle, we see the emergence of an enduring human community, with its own economy, ecology and social customs and mores.
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