Earth to Virgle…Google and Virgin to colonize Mars

I’m not really sure how serious I should take this piece of information, but I think I’ll let you be the judge of it.

I’m also surprised I haven’t heard much fuzz regarding the new venture Google and Virgin have recently plotted ;-). The idea is to colonize Mars and actually reach a population of approx. 100.000 Martian civilians by the year 2108. Wow, impressive.

How are they planning on doing this, you ask? Richard Branson, Virgin’s founder, has already been experimenting a bit with the whole idea of launching suborbital flights into space for everyone, well, everyone with a cool $200.000 to spare on an unforgettable spaceflight, with his Virgin Galactic experience.

However, this time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Google, teamed up with Branson, for an even more ambitious project. The journey will start off by the scouting of Virgle Pioneers which will be the first explorers to establish themselves in Mars and start a new civilization.

“We feel that ensuring the survival of the human race by helping it colonize a new planet is both a moral good in and of itself and also the most likely method of ensuring the survival of our best – okay, fine, only — base of web search volume and advertising inventory,” Page added. “So, you know, it’s, like, win-win.”

The three venturers would like to create what they refer to as an “open source” human settlement. As they explain in their own words, ‘If the first economic revolution was agricultural, the second industrial and the third digital, the fourth will be Open Source — the birthing of a planetary civilization whose development is driven by the unbound human imagination.’ So knowledge and creativity are the key factors here, and I would also add- guts. Individuals who are interested in becoming a part of this adventure should submit a short video of themselves stating the reasons why they wish to live on Mars their remaining lifetime along with an online questionnaire(link) which, if answered adequately, will lead to a lengthy interview carried out directly by the Virgle Team itself.

Did you ever think Google would be the main contributor for the survival of the human race? Initial investments have been calculated to range between $10-15 billions in the first two decades. However, Virgle is more than convinced the proyect’s longterm earnings will mega surpass this sum since they are talking about a vast portion of land of around 143 million square km which could be perfectly claimed as real estate by the newly settled Martian civilians.

Seems like they’ve got it all under control. I would like to envision this New World, but I’d be more curious to see how the whole search engine industry will blast-off once Virgle City, internet and all devices linked to it are successfully up and running 50-100 years from now.

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